In Grammar School, I Was the One Selected to Greet the Dignitaries Melanne Verveer at an event promoting her book, Fast Forward, in Chicago in 2015. Courtesy of Barry Brecheisen/Invision for Fast Forward/AP Images. March 2, 2021 Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the co-founder of Seneca Women. Appointed to be the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues by President Obama in 2009, she also co-founded the international nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership and served as assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady during the Clinton Administration. Before joining a Zócalo/Scripps College event, “What Does a Feminist Foreign Policy Look Like?,” Verveer spoke in our green room about surviving “back-to-back-to-back” Zooms, watching the