DC Campus
- Makayla Newvine
- Melissa Morton
The Maxwell in Washington program operates out of two locations in our nation’s capital.
Our headquarters at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in midtown Washington, DC, is the perfect launching point for your academic and career goals.
With offices for our faculty, leadership and academic and career advisors, as well as a dedicated student space, our DC headquarters at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is also home to an array of lectures, alumni events, classrooms and a media lab.
CSIS is top-ranked, bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges. The center hosts more than 500 speaking events annually, including foreign cabinet ministers, heads of state, civil society representatives, journalists and business executives.
Maxwell-in-Washington | Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1616 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036
+1.202.800.6580
The Center, located at 1333 New Hampshire Ave. in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, serves students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Washington DC Center houses programs offered by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Newhouse School of Public Communications and College of Law, through which hundreds of students live, learn and work in the city every year and serves as a home base for study away. Washington is home to more than 15,000 alumni, many of whom connect with students as teachers, mentors and internship supervisors.
The center also houses the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship , a nonpartisan research, teaching and public dialogue institute aimed at strengthening trust in news media, governance and society.
The center includes classrooms, student lounges, conference and interview rooms and a multipurpose space, as well as satellite offices for the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), Office of Government and Community Relations and the Division of Advancement and External Affairs. It features the Greenberg Welcome Center, named for alumnus and Life Trustee Paul Greenberg ’65, whose philanthropy supported the 1990 opening of Greenberg House, the University’s first outpost in Washington.