Columbia SIPA Institute of Global Politics

Skills Workshops

Skills Workshops

IGP helps prepare students for careers in policy through hands-on training sessions and Skills Workshops designed to build on essential practices seldom taught in the classroom, such as legislative negotiation, speechwriting, and campaign management.

 

Zayn Siddique, former principal deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Betsy Ankney, former political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, held a workshop focused on the ins and outs of political campaign work.

The award-winning journalist Kim Ghattas convened a workshop on April 26 to discuss the process of writing a book with students who aspire to do the same.

On March 27, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted a skills workshop with the World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law team, giving students the opportunity to dive deeper into the process of developing indicators.

In today’s deeply polarized political climate, training policymakers in strategies and providing them tools to negotiate across the aisle is critical. 

One speech can change a career — consider the unknown state senator from Chicago whose oratory at the 2004 Democratic National Convention set him on a glide path toward the Oval Office.