Johns Hopkins University

JHU is a Baltimore school. Yes, but it also has a significant footprint in the DC area– Montgomery County and DC itself. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is Hopkins’ grad school for people looking to go into professional careers in government, journalism, international organizations, academia and nonprofits. It’s a very political Washington DC kinda thing. The campus is out by Dupont Circle near a bunch of embassies on 16^th Street.
I went to Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray’s celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month that was being hosted at JHU. Classy event with a lot of big-​wigs in the DC API scene. Facilities were very nice and you could sense there was a lot of networking and coalition building going on. Very sophisticated, very political, very DC.