From advocacy at Razom for Ukraine, to research at the Atlantic Council, to now shaping policy from inside a congressional office — Doug Klain has seen U.S. support for Ukraine from every angle. Join us for a conversation about where real influence actually lives in Washington: the NGO, the think tank, or the Hill, and what changes when you move from pushing on the institution to being inside it.

Doug Klain is a Military and Foreign Affairs Advisor in the U.S. House of Representatives, working in Rep. Marcy Kaptur's office. Before joining the Hill, he was a policy analyst at Razom for Ukraine and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, focusing on U.S. support for Ukraine, democratic resilience, and Euro-Atlantic integration.

We'll talk about why Ukraine's victory matters for America's own interests, whether NATO membership is still "the single best way to safeguard the peace," and what it's really like to move from outside advocacy to inside institutional work.

Thursday, July 30th 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
University of Chicago Office of Federal Relations (1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20006)

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