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Contact: Ryan McKenna
Phone: (202) 691-4217
ryan.mckenna@wilsoncenter.org
WASHINGTON –The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announces a transformational gift from Kenneth Slater and the Slater Family. This generous $1 million contribution will enable the Wilson Center to enhance its nonpartisan research and provide funding for the Slater Family Fellow. Anya Prusa, Senior Associate with the Brazil Institute, has been named the Slater Family Fellowship's first recipient. Prusa will be studying Brazilian public policy and U.S.-Brazil relations.
The Slater Family Fellowship is funded by Kenneth Slater, Principal of Tremont Partners, and the Slater Family. As Co-Chair of the Wilson National Cabinet and a Member of the Global Advisory Council, Slater has provided critical leadership to The Wilson Center.
“I am honored to be involved with the Wilson Center which provides pragmatic advice and insight into geopolitical issues of great significance to the United States. The Center's growth in terms of intellectual prowess and influence has been striking under the decade-long leadership of Jane Harman. It is a personal pleasure and privilege for me to be affiliated with and to learn from the Wilson Center.” This generous investment will support an annual Slater Family Fellow from one of the Wilson Center's fourteen programs. The gift will also provide flexible resources, allowing The Wilson Center to respond quickly to global developments as they arise.
“Ken and his family have become personal friends and their thought leadership and generosity to the Center are so meaningful to all of us,” said Jane Harman, Wilson Center President and CEO.
Prusa holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from the George Washington University, and a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Florida.
"It’s an honor to be selected as the inaugural Slater Family Fellow, and with it receive the freedom and support to focus on key public policy questions for Brazil and Brazil-U.S. relations at such a consequential moment.”
Before joining the Brazil Institute, Anya was at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic consulting firm, and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs. While at the State Department, among other roles, she assisted in preparations for President Obama's 2011 trip to Brazil and Chile and covered regional security issues, including coordinating State's participation in the 2011 Latin American follow-up to the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit, held in Santiago, Chile. She lived in São Paulo, Brazil for several years.
