The Council of American Ambassadors (CAA) recently bid farewell to its 2023 class of Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fellows at its graduation dinner on July 26 hosted at the DACOR Bacon House. The seven Fellows -- all rising college seniors – were the first group of the U.S. Department of State interns to receive compensation as GS-04 employees and to be provided housing. To ensure that the Fellows continued to receive excellent academic instruction, CAA partnered with the Institute of World Politics (IWP) to design a 10-week course that enabled our Fellows to meet and learn from scholars and practitioners of statecraft and intelligence. Through the Annenberg Fellows Alumni Association and its presidents, Donna Faye Imadi (an associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and 2018 Fellow), and Luke Zaro (Senior Counsel at the House Judiciary Committee and 2015 Fellow), we also were able to connect the seven 2023 Fellows with their predecessor fellows. The Alumni Association held its inaugural event -- a Jefferson-style dinner discussion focused on Artificial Intelligence -- for which Dr. Marc Rotenberg of the Center for A.I. and Digital Policy gave the keynote address. The 2023 Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fellows are: Rosa Barrera (Yale University), Julia Buckner (Wellesley College), Claire Chang (Pomona College), Benjamin Crabb (University of South Florida), Amanda Drake (University of Minnesota - Duluth), Ava Klink (Pennsylvania State University), and Charlotte Messaris (Georgetown University). CAA is appreciative to the following ambassadors who served as mentors to the 2023 Fellows: Ambassadors Julia Chang Bloch, Timothy A. Chorba, Laurie Fulton, Philip Hughes, John Maisto, and Tom Siebert. We thank them for their tireless support and guidance. | 
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