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Stephen Krupin, WCAS Political Science & Medill Class of 2004

- Senior Speechwriter to President Barack Obama
- Chief Speechwriter to Secretary of State John Kerry
- Chief Speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
- Director of Speechwriting on Obama re-election campaign
- Senior Vice President & Director of Executive Communications at SKDKnickerbocker
- Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Each spring quarter the Department of Political Science welcomes a distinguished visitor to deliver a lecture supported by funding from R. Barry Farrell's gift to the department. Professor Farrell taught in the political science department from 1966 until his death in 1991. In both his research and teaching, Professor Farrell sought to forge closer links between theories of politics and the experience of making foreign policy. The Farrell Lecture gives students and faculty the opportunity to learn from and interact with scholars and practitioners who bridge the worlds of political science and foreign policy practice.