The Point and the Pushback

Episode 10: Introducing Ms. Jenny Town

March 06, 2021 Dewardric McNeal Season 1 Episode 10
Episode 10: Introducing Ms. Jenny Town
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The Point and the Pushback
Episode 10: Introducing Ms. Jenny Town
Mar 06, 2021 Season 1 Episode 10
Dewardric McNeal
On this week's show we are joined by my profile of the week, Ms. Jenny Town. Jenny is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security.Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project; an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National Committee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars.Ms. Town (Jenny) is a friend of the host and also his "go to" on all things North Korea, and a long time Washington "Korea hand" who takes us on a journey from a small town in rural Minnesota to small town Iowa, to Seoul, to graduate school in New York, and eventually to Washington DC.  In this episode, Jenny offers us an inside look at her determination and hustle to succeed here in Washington DC.Please tune in to learn more about The Point and the Pushback's profile of the week -- Ms. Jenny Town. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dewardric-mcneal/support
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On this week's show we are joined by my profile of the week, Ms. Jenny Town. Jenny is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security.Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project; an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National Committee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars.Ms. Town (Jenny) is a friend of the host and also his "go to" on all things North Korea, and a long time Washington "Korea hand" who takes us on a journey from a small town in rural Minnesota to small town Iowa, to Seoul, to graduate school in New York, and eventually to Washington DC.  In this episode, Jenny offers us an inside look at her determination and hustle to succeed here in Washington DC.Please tune in to learn more about The Point and the Pushback's profile of the week -- Ms. Jenny Town. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dewardric-mcneal/support