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Six months into her job as WHITE HOUSE PRESS<br />
ASSISTANT—the third post she’s held at 1600<br />
Pennsylvania Avenue—Hannah Hankins still has to PINCH<br />
HERSELF. “This is why I came to AU: a school with a<br />
tradition of public service, just miles from the seats of<br />
power,” says the native Minnesotan, one of five AU alumni<br />
in the communications office.<br />
Though the hours are long (14-hour shifts aren’t unusual)<br />
and the work is demanding (army-crawling on the ground<br />
to wrangle photojournalists while President Barack Obama<br />
delivers a speech is also surprisingly common), she thrives<br />
on the 0-TO-60 PACE.<br />
Hankins, who interned at the White House her<br />
senior year, taking 8:40 p.m. classes to finish her public<br />
communications degree, also relishes being A WITNESS<br />
TO HISTORY. “There are moments every week when I<br />
think, I can’t believe I’m here to see this.”<br />
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18<br />
Meet CAS alumna<br />
Alice Denney, doyenne<br />
of D.C. art<br />
22<br />
Professors share<br />
objects that arouse<br />
their intellectual<br />
curiosity<br />
26<br />
Six who decided<br />
permanent residency<br />
wasn’t enough<br />
32<br />
Ryan Kuehl, Kogod ’07,<br />
goes from locker room<br />
to boardroom
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