GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL STUDIES

Friday, May 5, 2023, Gregory Gym

Daniel Brinks, Professor and Chair

Processional

Welcome And Introductions

Dan Brinks Professor and Chair

Commencement Address

Abby Livingston writer, Almanac of American Politics

Special Recognitions

Michael Anderson Director, International Relations & Global Studies

PH.D. HOODING

Presentation Of Certificates To Graduates

Announced by Amy Liu

Associate Professor and Admissions & Placement Director, Department of Government

Raul Madrid Professor, Department of Government

Wendy Wang

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Government, International Relations & Global Studies

Closing Remarks

Recessional

Abby Livingston is a political writer, third generation Longhorn, native of Fort Worth and most recently, a New Yorker. Currently, she is a writer for the Almanac of American Politics, the political bible of Washington. After graduating from the University of Texas in 2005, she spent 16 years as a Washington journalist. From 2014-2022, she was the Texas Tribune’s first Washington bureau chief. In this role, she covered members in the Texas congressional delegation and campaigns back in the home state. A seventh-generation Texan, Abby grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to the Tribune, Abby worked for NBC, CNN, National Journal and Roll Call. At the Tribune, she won the 2017 National Press Club Award for Washington regional reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence. Abby frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN, and Sirius XM radio. She also had a role on an episode of “The Bold and The Beautiful.” Abby spent ten years volunteering and playing in the Congressional Women’s Softball Game, an annual breast cancer charity softball game pitting female members of Congress against female members of the Washington press corps. In 2022, she was in the first class inducted into the game’s hall of fame.