In Photos: A Visit With the GTDC Cohort, October 2024

In October, Ivan Allen College faculty joined colleagues across campus to visit the GTDC: Pathways to Policy student cohort in Washington. Students and faculty enjoyed a panel discussion, presentations, a special lecture, a visit to the White House, and more!

GTDC Panel Discussion

The interdisciplinary panel, moderated by Cassidy Sugimoto, Tom and Marie Patton Professor and School Chair of the School of Public Policy, featured Dene Sheheane, president of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association; Devesh Ranjan, the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; Ellen Bassett, John Portman Chair and dean of the Georgia Tech College of Design; and Richard Utz, professor and interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

Panelist Ellen Bassett speaks into a microphone while fellow panelists Richard Utz, Devesh Ranjan, Cassidy Sugimoto, and Dene Sheheane look on attentively

Panelists Ellen Bassett, Richard Utz, Devesh Ranjan, Cassidy Sugimoto, and Dene Sheheane speak in front of a room full of GTDC students and Georgia Tech faculty.

Members of the audience listen to the panel.

Audience members at the panel listen.

Two audience members discuss the panel.

Members of the audience listen to the panel

Panelists Ellen Bassett, Richard Utz, Devesh Ranjan, Cassidy Sugimoto, and Dene Sheheane speak in front of a room full of GTDC students and Georgia Tech faculty.

Dene Sheheane gestures while speaking with a student in the audience.

Interim Dean Richard Utz speaks into a microphone

Audience members talk after the panel discussion.

A speaker talks into a microphone

faculty members chat after the panel discussion

A member of the audience reacts, laughing.

Participant stands next to a "Pathways to Policy" banner.

Audience members socialize after the panel.

Participants socialize after the panel.

Audience members socialize after the panel discussion.

Flyers and program materials for the GTDC program.

A group of students socialize after the panel discussion.

Students socialize after the panel discussion.

Discussions and Presentations

An instructor presents to the class with writing on a flip chart.

An instructor presents to the class, with Gen. Philip Breedlove on the screen adjacent to him.

An instructor talks to a group of students.

"Navigating the US-China Relationship" With Professor Fei-Ling Wang

Fei-Ling Wang presents to a group of faculty and students.

Fei-Ling Wang presents to a group at the "Navigating the US-China Relationship" presentation on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. The event also featured Adm. (ret.) Sandy Winnefeld, Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the Nunn School.

Visit to the White House

A group of visitors pose together outside the front door to the White House

A visitor to Washington, DC poses beside a potted tree inside the White House

Washington, D.C. trip

The White House front lawn.

A group of Georgia Tech visitors to Washington, D.C. are gathered around a kiosk picturing Dr. Jill Biden saying "Welcome to the White House."

Washington visitors pose in front of the door to the White House

Visitors to Washington stand together in front of the door to the Oval Office

A view from one of the White House windows.

Evening GTDC Celebration

Participants talking at the door of the building.

Cassidy Sugimoto and Meenu Mukherji pose together at the evening celebration.

Two students look at a document.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

Richard Barke speaks with a group of students.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

Mugs that say "GTDC"

A group of participants laughing together.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

A group at the GTDC celebration.

Cassidy Sugimoto gets ready to shoot a basketball into an arcade game hoop.

Cassidy Sugimoto celebrates after making a basket.