Zoë Watkins is the Digital Communications and Content Manager at the Institute of Politics and Public Service at the McCourt School of Public Policy. She is responsible for writing website content, producing promotional materials for events, creating video products, and overseeing student-run communications platforms such as podcasts and On the Record, GU Politics’ digital journal. She plays an essential role in “telling the story” of GU Politics. 

Prior to this role, she worked as a contributing writer for Teen Vogue where she wrote a story about how members of the Afro-Latinx community deal with colorism in their communities while protesting the death of George Floyd. She was also a research intern at the Investigative Reporting Workshop where she covered immigration for a year. 

Zoë served as a press intern in the Office of U.S. Senator Catherine-Cortez Masto where she assisted the press team in fact-checking, editing speeches, and working on foreign policy projects. After, she worked in Madrid as a public diplomacy intern in the U.S. Embassy, through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs where she provided press assistance to the U.S. Ambassador and the Press, Cultural, and Agricultural Attachés. 

In 2019, she was one of 15 people competitively chosen to participate in Politico’s Journalism Institute where she reported a story on environmental groups pushing House Democrats to stop the USMCA trade deal over climate change. 

Zoë received her master’s degree in International Journalism and Public Affairs from American University. She also holds a Bachelors in International Affairs and Politics with a minor in Spanish from Lenoir-Rhyne University.