[4][5] She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
[9][10] In 2009, Babbitt led President Obama’s delegation to Timor-Leste’s 10-year celebration of its UN-supervised referendum in favor of independence from Indonesia.
[12][13] While a student at ASU in 1968, she married Bruce Babbitt, who served as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
After a series of floods in February 1980 damaged many bridges crossing the Salt River, traffic was in a state of gridlock.
The line was cancelled as soon as bridges were restored, but it was credited with creating more interest in public transit for the Phoenix area.