ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trustee Lisa Barry ’77. (Tony Powell)

Lisa Barry ’77, a veteran of 35 years of international government relations work, has joined the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Board of Trustees. She attended her first trustee meeting in late January.

Barry, known as a leader in global policymaking for major corporations, had a nine-year career at Boeing, where she served as vice president for commercial international operations and international trade policy.

She is credited with positioning Boeing as a U.S. company synonymous with exports and international trade, and played a leading role in the overall business community’s effort to normalize U.S.-China commercial relations.

Barry went from Boeing to Time Warner Inc., where she was senior vice president for international public policy in the communications giant’s Global Policy Group.

Among many achievements there, she was a key member of a team working to establish foreign Internet service in China, and managed the Global Business Dialogue on E-Commerce, a CEO organization that shaped the global policy and regulatory regime for the Internet.

Barry has served most recently as senior adviser at Chevron, a position from which she retired on Jan. 31, 2014. At Chevron, Barry previously served as vice president and general manager for government affairs and her achievements included broadening recognition of energy as a major source of economic, foreign policy and security leadership for the U.S.

Barry began her career on the staff of the late U.S. Rep. Silvio O. Conte, of Massachusetts. From 1980 to 1986, she worked in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and later served as principal deputy assistant secretary for import administration at the Department of Commerce. Between 1987 and 1989, Barry worked in the private sector as vice president of the Council on Competitiveness.

Barry was a government major at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, where she was a dean’s list student and graduated cum laude with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and the College Key. She holds a master’s degree in foreign service with high honors from Georgetown University.

Barry has stayed involved with ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ as a donor and a volunteer. She has been an active fundraiser on behalf of the college, served on the Alumni Council and hosted numerous ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ interns in her office at Chevron. As a Distinguished Alumna in Residence in 2011, she addressed economics and sociology classes, met individually with students interested in energy-related careers, and delivered a keynote address in Muskie Archives.

Barry currently serves on the Board of Refugees International and the Advisory Board of Argol America, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Barry resides in Chevy Chase, Md., and is married to James E. Gale. They have two sons: James R. Gale, who works in Washington, D.C., and William B. Gale, a sophomore at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Layli Miller, who argued a landmark legal case establishing female genital mutilation (FGM) as a basis for U.S. asylum, discusses violence against women at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College’s Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Avenue. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Miller is executive director of the Virginia-based, non-profit Tahirih Justice Center, which provides legal aid and social services to protect human rights for women. She co-wrote Do They Hear You When You Cry (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1998), the story of Fauziya Kassindja, who fled her native Togo as a teenager rather than undergo ritual genital mutilation.

Kassindja spent more than a year imprisoned in this country before her refugee status was legally established. A summer intern for Kassindja’s lawyer, Miller became Kassindja’s friend and champion. Despite early setbacks, in 1996 Kassindja’s legal team won a Board of Immigration Appeals decision establishing FGM as grounds for asylum.

Miller’s talk at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is titled The Global Impact of Violence Against Women: Is International Peace Attainable Without the Eradication of Violence Against Women? She will relate violence against women to the treatment of refugees and U.S. immigration and asylum law, issues increasingly relevant in the aftermath of Sept. 11.

For more information about the lecture, please call 207 786-6330.

An Old Town native who now lives in Lewiston, Costello served overseas as a U.S. foreign-aid officer, responding to political and humanitarian crises in Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia. Between 1989 and 1994, he was a top aide to Maine Secretary of State Bill Diamond and assisted in expanding voter participation, improving motor vehicle safety laws and regulations, promoting campaign finance reform and facilitating Maine business incorporations.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College presentation is part of a series of candidate talks sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Democrats. In addition to his experiences abroad, Costello will discuss the events of Sept. 11 and subsequent U.S. military action in Afghanistan, and the goal of reaching a new understanding concerning collective security.

In his run for Congress, Costello advocates guaranteeing our nation’s physical and economic security through responsible engagement in world affairs and the refinement of the defense, trade, and foreign policy establishments; providing affordable, quality health care through a comprehensive single-payer national health insurance system; and bolstering Social Security by, among other things, establishing government-subsidized savings accounts that supplement Social Security rather than supplanting it.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elise Bjorn-Hansen Boulding will discuss how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks might affect prospects for world peace in a lecture at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in Chase Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Part of the Muskie Archives Lecture Series, the event is open to the public free of charge.

Boulding will examine the September attacks in light of the United Nations Decade for Peace and Nonviolence, which began this year. Titled “The United Nations Decade for Peace and Nonviolence: What Do We Do?” Boulding’s lecture at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ will offer a vision, she says, of “how we can respond to the events of Sept. 11 in a way that will break the cycle of violence, begin to deal with the underlying issues that caused it and create more peaceful relations in the future.”

“The United States has been emphasizing unilateralism,” Boulding says. “Now what we’re learning is that we have to listen to the rest of the world, and to learn more about cooperation among states and communities in order to achieve common goals.”

A professor emerita of sociology at Dartmouth College, Boulding is an activist well-known in the international peace movement. She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association, has held leadership positions in a variety of other prominent peace organizations, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.

Boulding’s long list of publications includes the books Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (Syracuse University Press, 2000), Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World (Syracuse, 1990) and One Small Plot of Heaven: Reflections on Family Life by a Quaker Sociologist (Pendle Hill Publications, 1989). She was born in Norway and lives in Massachusetts.

The Edmund S. Muskie Archives constitute the largest U.S. collection of research materials involving a politician who was not president of the United States. The archive offers a vibrant series of public programs that relate to issues in which Muskie, a former U.S. senator and secretary of state, was influential.