PrintLaurie Schultz Heim
Director of Congressional Relations
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Laurie Schultz Heim joined the Institute after more than twenty years in the legislative process on Capitol Hill. Most recently, she served as senior policy adviser to Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), from 1989 to 2006. Her areas of responsibility included foreign policy, defense, arms control, veterans affairs and trade policy. Heim was Senator Jeffords’ personal representative to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1991 to 1994 and staffed him on the Senate Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee from 1995 to 1996 and the Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1999 to 2006. Heim joined the staff of Congressman Jim Jeffords in 1983 and served as his legislative director from 1985 to 1988. She was employed by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from September 1979 to May 1980.
Heim holds a B.A. from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She also earned a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a certificate from the Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union.
Publications & Tools
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In an age of international conflict and crisis, active peacebuilding is underway in America to advance national security and find alternatives to violence around the world. That includes Vermont, where last week USIP’s Special Assistant to the President for Grants and Middle East specialist Steve Riskin led the USIP New England Regional Grants Development Workshop and a public discussion on developments in the Middle East. |
Events
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October 5, 2011
Hosted by Congressman Russ Carnahan, and co-hosted by the Office of Senator John Kerry and the Office of Senator Barbara Boxer, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Fork Films, the Institute for Inclusive Security, and Vital Voices, collaborated on the pre-screening and panel discussion of the new film, "Peace Unveiled" on October 5, 2011 at the Congressional Visitors Center Theater in Washington, DC. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Political Reform, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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September 8, 2011
Please join us for a special event featuring Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), who will discuss her August 2011 trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. As a member of both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Shaheen will offer a unique congressional perspective on diplomatic and security conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as insights on the policy challenges facing the United States. Webcast: This event will be webcast live beginning at 9:00am EDT on September 8, 2011 at www.usip.org/webcast. Countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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November 4, 2009
Thirty years to the day after the taking of the U.S. hostages in Iran, in the wake of their controversial June 2009 presidential election, the regime's ensuing crackdown against peaceful demonstrators, and recent news of U.S. funding cuts for Iran democracy programs, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) offered his views on how the U.S. should approach Iran on the issues of human rights and democracy. Countries: Iran
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