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Tracy L. Adcox (BA '97) received an MBA from GWU (2001) and has started a company, K3 Solutions. It is an IT consulting company which specializes in software solutions and managed support services. Tracy is married and has three children.
Samantha N Akins (BA '97) is currently living in London studying for a Msc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries at the London School of Economics.
Jennifer Arangio (BA '92) was a partner at McCabe, Flynn & Arangio, a small Wall Street law firm, where she practiced corporate and securities regulation law for 10 years. She recently moved from New York City back to DC with her husband and two small daughters to take a position as counsel to the House Homeland Security Committee, majority staff.
Jennifer Arangio (BA '92) was a partner at McCabe, Flynn & Arangio, a small Wall Street law firm, where she practiced corporate and securities regulation law for 10 years. Jennifer recently moved from New York City back to DC with her husband and two small daughters to take a position as Counsel to the House Homeland Security Committee, majority staff.
Michael Arcati (BA '98) is a graduate of New York Law School and member of the New York Bar, 1st District, he has been serving as a prosecutor with the JAG Corps of the U.S. Navy since October 2001. He currently works in Port Hueneme, CA.
Joseph Ayoub (BA '93) has been promoted to Director of the Energy Division at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration.
Molly L. Bach (Van Buskirk) (BA '99) is working in Baghdad for KBR.
Alissa Baker (BA '93) and George Baker (BA '94) welcomed their first child, Jackson Charles, on November 22, 2005. Alissa is a Senior Manager of Purchasing Systems for HSBC Bank, NA in Mount Prospect, IL. George is a Senior Security Architect for Exostar LLC in Herndon, VA. The family resides in Naperville, IL.
Marilyn Bayona (BA '96) is the National Director of Communications for America SCORES.
Sergio Beas (MA '98) has been appointed Director Legal Affairs Latin American Region, Vice-President, Legal, Eastman Kodak Company. He lives in Guadalajara. Sergio and his wife Katy had their first child, Sergio Jr., in July 2005.
Sergio Beas (MA '98) has been appointed Director Legal Affairs, Latin American Region, Vice-President, Legal, Eastman Kodak Company. He lives in Guadalajara. Sergio and his wife Katy had their first child, Sergio Jr., in July 2005.
Darcy Bellerjeau (MA '94) is married to Andre Bellerjeau.
Tracy J. BeMent (BA '97) is an Assistant Court Administrator for the Las Vegas Justice Court.
C. Danielle Bennett (BA '99) recently became the China Desk Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, Asia and Pacific Affairs. Stationed at the Pentagon, she works with international security issues relating to China/Taiwan and the U.S. military.
Jason Berger (BA '96) graduated with High Honors from The Tobin School of Business at St. John's University with an MBA in May 2006.
Harold Bollaci (BA '97) was recently elected to the position of Executive Committeeman for Locust Valley, New York by the Executive Committee of the Nassau County Republican Committee. Bollaci has served as a Republican Committeeman since 1998. Bollaci holds a law degree from New York Law School. He is currently a lawyer with the Mineola firm of Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino and Cohn, LLP, where he practices in the areas of real estate and zoning.
Kristin Bruun- Andersen (BA '95) has moved to California, where she obtained an MBA from the University of Southern California. She is currently employed as a management consultant for Gartner, Inc., a technology advisory and research firm.
John Buda (MA '99) works for a Japanese multinational shipping company, NYK Line. He is also a student at Loyola Law School and plans to pursue a career in international law after graduation.
W. Edmond Busby (BA '94) has been at the Boston Consulting Group's NY office since graduating from Columbia Business School in 2000. Since then he has spent a year on BCG's Ambassador Program to Mexico in NYC and was recently promoted to Manager.
Michael J. Butler (MA '96) is the director of Worldwide Customer Support for Photon Dynamics Inc. He is married to Samantha Pierce, with whom he has two children.
Christopher Cahillane, Esq. (BA '90) graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1995 and is currently a shareholder in the Pittsburgh law firm of Tucker Arensberg, P.C., where he practices general commercial litigation.
Christopher Mark Caltabiano (MA '95) married Melinda Jane Camp in April 2003 in Norwich, Conn. They reside in New York City.
Emily (Willis) Campbell (BA '96) is currently working on a master's degree in education from Regis University. She is the owner of an event planning business called Bella Design & Planning.
Capt. Christian Capece (BA '94) is a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and Senior Defense Counsel at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.
Sarah Carlson (MA '95) is employed with Financial Services Authority in London as an Asia Economist.
Simone Cecchini (MA '98) left his position as research analyst with the World Bank Poverty Reduction Group and joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile as a result of passing the UN National Competitive Recruitment Examination for economics. He is married to Paulina Bocaz.
Leah Chan (BA '98) is currently an attorney practicing in San Diego, CA, with Clifford Chance US LLP. She graduated from New York University's Law School in 2001.
Laura Chapman Rubbo (MA '95) has joined Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) in San Francisco as a Senior Program Manager for the Business and Human Rights Program. BSR provides advisory services to companies globally to create a more socially responsible world.
Yii-Lih Charng (MA '97) has been in Toronto for three years. He is married with two boys, Charles (17) & John (15).
Yii-lih Charng (MA '97) moved to New Delhi, India last February and is now the Deputy Representative of Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi.
Amy Feldman Chmar (BA '95) and her husband Michael, welcomed Gabriel Henry Chmar on April 28, 2006. Gabriel's big sister, Deborah Pearl (nicknamed Evie) is 17 months old.
Svetlana (Perlamutrov) Colby (BA '93) writes that she and her husband, Neil Colby, "are the proud and ecstatic new parents of a beautiful baby girl. Our daughter, Ashley Megan, was born on August 22, 2000 in Boca Raton, FL."
Thomas F. Corcoran (BA '91) is the Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Jim Core (MA '96) is a program analyst in the Office of Strategic and Performance Planning at the U.S. Department of State. He is married to Wendy Kabele Core (MA '94).
Roy C. Dajalos (BA '98) was Married on June 17, 2006.
Roy C. Dajalos (BA '98) married Jessica Dajalos on 6-17-06.
Emily D. Danyluk (BA '94) recently completed her M.S. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On March 3rd, she left with the Peace Corps for Kazakhstan.
Katrina Davis (BA '97) gave birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth Marie, in January 2002. Elizabeth's big sister, Lindsy Morgan, is five years old. Davis was employed in August 2002 by Primrose School Franchising Company as the Assistant to the Senior Director of Education.
Fatima K. De Almeida-Kennedy (MA '99) is married with two boys. Fatima moved to the UK and is self-employed.
Fatima K. De Almeida-Kennedy (MA '99) is married with two boys and has moved to the UK. She is now self-employed.
Eugene Demaitre (MA '93) works as a copy editor at Computerworld, a weekly information technology magazine. He and his wife, Janice Manwiller, live near Boston.
Todd Dennet (BA '96) graduated from the MBA program at the University of Washington in March 2005. Following graduation, he accepted a position in global health advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, WA. He has moved to Utah, where he is working on protocol issues in the International Client Services department of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games.
Colleen DiLiddo (BA '97) is currently in the Peace Corps Masters Internationalist Program in the Dominican Republic, where she trains youth to educate their peers on HIV/AIDS.
Patrick Dine (MA '96) and his wife Paula are expecting the birth of their second child this Christmas. He continues to consult with various IT firms on their global strategies and recently established the European offices of a leading wireless software firm. He and his family reside in Arlington, VA.
Hung-bin Ding (MA '97) moved to Baltimore to accept an assistant professorship in the Department of Management and International Business at Loyola College. He currently teaches an undergraduate-level business policy course.
Holly Dobbins (MA '90) writes: "Since the fall of 2001 I have been pursuing my Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Syracuse University in New York. I am combining International Relations and Indigenous Studies and focusing on the transnational organizations that indigenous peoples use to effect the policies of nation-states." She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Syracuse's Maxwell School.
Ryan M. Dooley (BA '96) is currently the Assistant Regional Director of the Miami Passport Agency, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Prior State Department assignments include Acting Political/Economic Chief at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba; Special Assistant to Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and several consular assignments in Washington, D.C. and TDY assignments overseas.
Tammy Duckworth (MA '92) lost both her legs when the Blackhawk helicopter she was piloting was struck down in Iraq. She is now running for congress as a democrat in the 6th district of Illinois. While at the Elliott School, she was in ROTC and in the International Affairs Masters program. She was pursuing her Ph.D. when she was called up for service in Iraq. Her full biography can be read here: http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/my_story.html.
Jorge Duran (MA '94) works as a senior advisor to the director general of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development at the Organization of American States.
Kenneth J. Egan (BA '94) is currently serving in the Foreign Service as a political officer in Rabat, Morocco.
George Ehrhardt (MA '96) is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University and is spending the year at Kobe University in Japan.
Mark Daryl Erickson (BA, MA '94) is a Foreign Service Officer currently studying Mandarin Chinese at the State Department's language school in Taipei in preparation for being posted to Shanghai, PRC in July 2006. He lives in Taiwan with his wife and two children.
Leigh Ann Evanson (MA '94) has been working in Uganda since September 2000 as the East African Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the American Red Cross. Leigh was recently promoted to Director in the International Health Group at Chemonics International.
Scott Fagan (BA '99) Recently began his tour as a Foreign Service Officer in Bogota Colombia, as the Human Rights Officer for 2-3 yrs.
Stefka Czarnecki Fanchi (B.A. '94) was appointed executive director for Habitat for Humanity of Colorado, a statewide organization dedicated to eliminating poverty housing in Colorado. Stefka and her husband Jeff had their second child, Naomi Felicitas, in September 2004, who joins her sister Isabella Marie.
John Farnsworth (MA '94) went on Active Duty with the U.S. Army as an Intelligence Officer after graduating in 1994. In 1997, he joined the Army Reserves and moved to North Carolina to work at a start-up computer games company, Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. He then joined IBM in 2000 and has worked there since as a Project Manager, making ThinkPad laptop computers. John and his wife Stacey now have four children.
Hannah Feinberg (BA '99) has been living in Angola for the last six months as a member of the MBA Enterprise Corps. She is a business advisor to local Angolan businesses in expanding the local supply chain.
Amy Feldman Chmar (BA '95) and her husband Michael welcomed Gabriel Henry Chmar on April 28, 2006. Gabriel's big sister, Deborah Pearl (nicknamed Evie) is 17 months old.
Julie L. Felgar (MA '97) is a Senior Manager of Government Relations and Licensing for The Boeing Company in Arlington, VA. She is married and has two little boys.
Deanna (Glickman) Ferrante (BA '92) is the Assistant Dean for External Affairs and Strategic Planning at Douglass College, a women's college at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Lara Fisher (BA '98) presented a paper entitled, "Economic Empowerment of Low-Wage Workers" at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Centennial Conference in Philadelphia.
She works for the International Rescue Committee in San Francisco.
Holly Flood (MA '98) is employed with USAID/Angola as a Team Leader.
Meraiah Foley (BA '97) lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband. She is working toward an MA in journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney.
K. Anne- Rivers Forcke (BA, MA '90) returned to the U.S. from the U.K. in 2002. She is currently working for IBM Research and teaches a course on business communications at the Elliott School.
Elizabeth Fowler (BA '97) has recently completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Minnesota and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design History at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Believe it or not, she uses her background in international affairs quite a lot in art history!
Elizabeth Fowler (BA '97) recently completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Minnesota and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design History at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
Mimi Geerges (MA '98) has been broadcasting a talk show called Focal Point on Fairfax Public Access for the past year and a half. Since the show began, she has interviewed President Jimmy Carter, fashion designer Kenneth Cole, and Whitewater figure Susan McDougal.
Eleni Giazikis (BA '97) has received her MBA from the University of Louisville and just ended a four-year stay in Athens, Greece. She was the advertising manager for Ethnos newspaper.
Colleen N. Gibney (MA '95) has been working in university-industry technology collaboration/commercialization for CUNY, and will finish an MSIS in Information Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in 2006.
Leslie Gigliotti (BA '97) is a research analyst at Bigdough.com, a business to business financial database.
Patrick A. Gorman (MA '94) has joined the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as a Senior Advisor for Strategic Integration and Transformation in the Senior National Intelligence Service (SNIS)
Richard Granson (MA '93) has been a Defense Policy Analyst at SAIC since May 2000. He provides on-site treaty compliance support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Richard and his wife, Michelle, live in Owings, MD.
Samantha Besecker Gray (MA '96) September 30, 2006, Samantha, Dan, Camille and Luke welcomed Zaiah Thomas Besecker Gray to the family. Samantha continues to consult for nonprofit organizations and work in children's and youth ministries. She lives in Bluff City, Tennessee with her husband Dan Gray and their children, Camille, 5, and Luke, 1. Samantha specializes in business consulting and grant writing for development and aid organizations worldwide.
Jennifer L. Groff (MA '97) and her husband Jeremy Rowland announced the birth of their son who was born on May 11, 2002, at the George Washington University Hospital. His name is Tristan Alexander Rowland-Groff.
Elizabeth Gromada (BA '94) received an MEd. from Xavier University in 2004 in Secondary Education and now works for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati schools. She has two children, Konrad age 9 and Karenna age 2.
Elizabeth Gromada (BA '94) received an MEd. from Xavier University in 2004 in Secondary Education and now works for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati schools. She has two children, Konrad age 9, and Karenna age 2.
Diane Grzyb-Soper (BA '92) served as a non-governmental observer at the United Nations' 47th Commission on Women in New York last March. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in public policy at George Mason University and directs the United Way of America's national governance activities.
Brian Harris (BA '92) has been a Costa Rica-based freelance journalist and has recently begun work as the Central America Comodities reporter for Reuters newswire. Brian continues to be the Miami Herald's special correspondent in Costa Rica and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Central America Correspondent.
Jill M. Hasegawa (BA '99) recently joined the law firm of Ashford & Wriston, LLP as an Associate.
Bradely Ryan Hicks (BA '97) joined the Mayor's staff this July as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice following the completion of a two-year Capital City Fellowship with the District of Columbia government.
Justin Higgins (MA '97) joined the Foreign Service in 2000 after three years as a defense contractor with SAIC. He was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and moved there in June. He is currently serving as the executive officer for the U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.
Janelle Hironimus (MA '97) currently serves as the non-immigrant visa unit chief at the U.S. Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, Cuba.
Tareen Hossain (BA '97) recently got married this past March and moved to New York. Since graduation, she has worked in Bangladesh for two years and then returned to Washington, D.C. to receive her master's from Georgetown University. She most recently worked with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a program associate.
Julie Hulstein (BA '94) received her master's degree in nonprofit management from Regis University in May 2003. She was awarded the Karen A. Patterson Award for Community/Organizational Change. She is the Executive Director of Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS), a nonprofit regional primary care association headquartered in Denver, CO. CHAMPS represents community, migrant, and homeless health centers in CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, and WY.
Andante (Arundhati) Indradi (MA '97) returned to her native Indonesia after graduating from the Elliott School and worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the Southeast Asian section. In January 2000, Indradi went to her first posting at the Indonesian Consulate General in Houston, Texas. Indradi will be serving there until 2003. She is married and has two sons.
Taku Ishikawa (MA '94) is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Social Sciences at Toyo Eiwa University in Japan.
David John Jea (BA '97) served in the Peace Corps in Russia. He has joined the Foreign Service and will leave for an assignment in Madagascar next July.
Pam Jenoff (BA '92) was previously a Foreign Service Officer and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. She is presently an attorney at Morgan, Leiws & Bockius LLP in Philadelphia. Her first novel "A Fine Crack of Light" (set in World War II Poland) is being published later this year.
Craig M. Johnson (MA '98) recently accepted a new position as a Foreign Affairs Specialist with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Stewardship Administration's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.
Jeff W. Johnson (MA '91) is a Senior Intelligence Analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia, supports the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy, Plans and Policy.
Vernon D. Jones (MA '90) is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the National Homeland Security Project at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Nino A. Kader (BA '93) "currently lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a senior communications manager in the Office
of the Chief Operating Officer at Fannie Mae. Nino has recently published a
book called ""To the Prince of Pers
Marni Karlin (BA '98) received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in June 2001 and is currently an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of O'Melveny & Myers.
Mark Kashar (MA '96) married Jennifer Alyse Falk on January 19, 2002, at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, where they currently live. Mark works as an equity trader for SWS Securities and Jennifer is a medical malpractice defense lawyer for Schell, Mitchell, Quillan, and Cooley.
Dan Kaszeta (MA '95) was recently presented with the Secretary of Defense's Exceptional Civilian Service Medal. The award was directed by Secretary of Defense William Cohen and presented by the Director of the White House Military Office, Jake Simmons IV, at a ceremony at the White House. Kaszeta has been employed since 1996 as the Disaster Preparedness Advisor for the White House Military Office. He lives in Oakton, Virginia.
John Kavanagh (BA '93) served in the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps after graduating from a joint degree program from The Fletcher School at Tufts and Boston College Law School. He is now an associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP here in DC.
Yuko Kawashima (BA, MA '98) works at Credit Suisse First Boston's Tokyo office. She is an analyst in the Fixed Income Research division, which deals with analysis of Japanese government bonds.
Brian Kedersha (BA '93) is a senior analyst with Tessada and Associates, Inc., a Springfield, VA-based consulting firm for government and private firms.
Robin L. Keeley (BA '97) just returned from serving as a Peace Corps Life Skills and Health Education Volunteer in the Republic of Moldova.
Peter Kim (BA '97) works for the General Services Administration Fleet in Arlington (Crystal City), VA. He is responsible for assisting in the acquisition of ambulances, legislative analysis, and customer service for alternative fuel vehicles. He can be reached at peterkim0920@yahoo.com or peter.kim@gsa.gov.
Saul Korin (BA '95) completed the MBA program in Nonprofit Management at the University of Judaism in May 2003 and has accepted a position as the director of graduate admissions at the university.
Roshani Kothari (MA '97) manages partnership activities, including the Peer Learning Exchange, OneWorld U.S. Community Update, Nonprofit Networking Happy Hour and the OneWorld DC/NY Lists.
Matthew D. Langenkamp (BA '90) is a financial analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions for HSBC Bank in Hong Kong. He specializes in mergers of the food and beverage industries traveling frequently to Manila, Taiwan, Bankok, Tokyo and Seoul. He is married with two children.
Ainars Latkovskis (MA '95) was elected to the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia in 2002. From 2004-2006 he served as a Minister for Social Integration in the Government of Latvia. Last year, he was reelected to the Parliament. He is married with 3 kids (9, 6, and 1 year old). He as been to Washington, DC once as a minister and once as MP, but did not have time to visit the University. He misses his study friends, and wishes them all the best!
Adam Levine (BA '98) ia a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corp and recently joined the Black Knights of VMFA-314 tactical squadron and is now flying a F/A-18 based in San Diego, Calif.
Marika Luiso (MA '93) moved to Wellington, New Zealand in 2003, and is currently employed as a Senior Strategic Policy Analyst by the New Zealand Customs Service.
Jacquelyn S. Lynch (MA '98) recently became a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service, after working as an intelligence research specialist with Customs at the World Trade Center. She now lives in Queens, NY and works out of John F. Kennedy Airport as a federal agent.
James Macinko (MA '93) has completed a year as Fulbright scholar and Visiting Professor at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. He has accepted a position as assistant professor of public health at New York University.
Lindsay R. Marsh (BA '99) has received her Master's in
Political Management from the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University.
Major Leonard Martin (BA '93) was recently promoted to major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his wife, Amy Frederickson Martin (BA '93) had their second child, Zachary William Martin, in June 2003.
Brandon Mason (BA '97) bought a townhouse in December 2000 and is currently pursuing a master's degree from the Joint Military Intelligence College.
Benjamin Mastaitis (BA '99) is an Assistant District Attorney in Queens, living in Manhattan. His new wife is an attorney for Children's Services for the City of New York.
Yoshi Matsuura (MA '99) studies Chinese advertisments and media at Shanghai Tongji University as a senior scholar. He still works for Hakuhodo, Inc., one of the largest advertising firms in Japan.
Yoshi Matsuura (MA '99) has been working at Hakuhodo, Inc., a large advertising firm in Japan, since last April. He is a strategic planner, mainly specializing in the marketing field. In addition, he married last year.
Capt. Scott McDonald (BA '95) has returned from Iraq, where he served as commanding officer of the Headquarters & Service Company. Currently a captain, McDonald has taken over Company D, 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division. He is engaged to Yuen Liang of Chicago and plans to marry next summer.
Jason C. McKellar (BA '99) Mr. McKellar has recently received an International Masters of Business Administration (IMBA) from the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. He has taken a position with the Program Management Office of Citigroup's Technology Infrastructure Division in New York.
Ford P.R. McLain (BA '90) is married to Mrs. Cafarelli.
Adriano Meloni (BA '90) was named a Personality of the Month by GO! Online Internet Magazine, an Italian computer magazine. Meloni is the CEO of Allafollia.com, the first online company for the comprehensive organization of weddings.
Kirk Merritt (BA '98) & Lien Lea (Cox) Merritt (BA '98) are living in Irving, TX. They were married in Stamford, TX on January 5, 2002. Kirk is a 1st Lt. in the Marine Corps and is the Operations Officer for Recruiting Station Dallas, TX. Lien Lea received an MA in economics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2000. She works as an economic modeler in the Credit Card Division for Citigroup in Las Colinas, TX.
Deborah W. Meyers (MA '97) is working as a policy analyst at a new think tank based in Washington, D.C. called the Migration Policy Institute. Meyers is the co-editor of Caught in the Middle: Border Communities in an Era of Globalization, a book just published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Corinna Meyr (BA '96) is now living and working in Trinidad & Tobago. She works as a business development manager for the region's largest financial conglomerate, CL Financial.
Natalia Midcap (BA '97) has been living for the past 5 years in the Netherlands, working in Finance and doing well. Her partner is Czech and they are planning on starting a family soon.
Gregory Miller (MA '97) is working toward his Ph.D. in International Relations at Ohio State University. In December 2001, he married Cindy Mays on a beach in Kauai, Hawaii.
Wesley T. Milner (MA '93) was recently appointed Director of International Studies at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. Milner received his Ph.D. at the University of North Texas and has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations for the past three years. He will be teaching classes this summer at Tokoha Gakuen University in Shizuoka, Japan.
Noelle R. Minto (BA '99) graduated from law school in 2003 and is now an attorney at Hess, Verdon, & Associates in Newport Beach, CA. She practices in the areas of corporate transactions, business litigation and trust administration.
Ishmael-Renard Mitchell (BA '99) is licened and ordained in the ministry. He completed a Masters in Theology from Howard University in 2004 and began a Doctor of Education program in Argosy University in fall 2005. In June of 2006 he was married to the former DeEtte Monique Pickett. I am scheduled to defend my dissertation in the summer of 2009.
Stephanie Mogg (BA '96) is getting married and moving to Japan. Mogg worked most recently for the Washington bureau of TV Asahi, a Japanese broadcasting company.
Jonathan Moore (MA '90) has been serving as Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Namibia since July 2002. He currently lives with his wife and 2 daughters in Windhoek, Namibia.
Molly Loraine Munson (MA '93) married William Murray Dryer in Bloomington, Ill., in June 2003. Munson is the director of student teaching at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
Tal Muscal (BA '97) with wife Kate, are happy to announce the birth of their first child Yoav, who was born on February 12, 2006 in Jerusalem. Tal is the country spokesperson for Lufthansa German Airlines in Israel, a position he accepted in January 2005, following five great years as senior business correpondent at the Jerusalem Post.
Haig Najarian (BA '90) is married to Taline Najarian and has two children, Tamar-7, and Adrine-5
Rahaleh Z. Nassri (BA '94) is currently an Artistic Partner with Rorschach Theatre and works as an actress with various other theatres in the DC area.
Max Nelson (MA '91) has been named the vice president of public policy and strategic business planning for OFS, a former division of Lucent Technologies and the world's largest manufacturer of advanced technology fibers.
Katja Newman (MA '97) observed the elections in Bolivia with the OAS in December, and has posted a policy paper on her web site: www.ksnconsulting.com. It has received some press interest. Please let her know if you have any interest or questions.
Heather Roark Nodelman (BA '98) lives in San Francisco with her husband. She works in public relations for Text 100 International.
Sarah. E. Nugent (MA '97) is the Director of Chemonics International.
Jennifer (Wass) Oese (BA '93) married Charles H. Oese, Jr., in June 2003. She is a paramedic supervisor for Summit County Ambulance Service in Breckenridge, CO.
Naomi Okamoto (BA '97) has opened an American style coffeehouse in the Hiro district of Tokyo called Ima, which means "living room" in Japanese. She invites all alumns to stop by when in Tokyo.
Eric Olson (MA '98) moved to Seoul, Korea in May 2006, and began his first assignment at the U.S. Embassy as a Commercial Attache in the Foreign Commercial Service. He works with the U.S. and Korean business communities to promote U.S. exports.
Keith O'Neil (BA '99) is working as a webmaster for the Democratic staff of the House Committee on International Relations.
Alan D. Orquiza (BA '92) currently works for the federal government.
Sandi C. Padgett (MA '97) is the Economic Development Manager for the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments.
Frank Pape (MA '96) and Anouk Arreygue (MA '95) were married on September 21, 1996 and are living in Kirkland, WA. Pape writes: "We bought a new home last April. It is our first home and it is exciting. I am the Director of Business and Product Development for Electronic Arts. I am responsible for finding, evaluating, and negotiating deals for externally developed videogame properties on all platforms. Anouk is the Product Planner for Corbis Productions, a Bill Gates company that purchases and sells digital images to professionals and consumers. She is responsible for evaluating Corbis' sales performance, as well as guiding the development of their website."
Christopher Parent (MA '95) is working as a commercial litigation attorney for the Denver, Colo., law firm of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C.
Chirag Patel (BA '92) recently completed a criminal trial in Baltimore, Maryland involving a Canadian citizen and issues dealing with the Vienna Convention, extradition, international criminal procedure, constitutional law, and cultural and gender issues. The case received national and international media attention.
Darel E. Paul (MA '94) received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in July and is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Tina M. Pedersen (BA '93) joined the staff of the Copenhagen Business School in March 2002, where she currently manages the B.Sc. and M.Sc. International Business programs. She also is the proud mother of two boys.
Michelle Pellegri (BA '97) is a pastry chef in Atlanta, GA. She is married to Mark Pellegri with whom she has one son.
Rose Polyakova (BA '94) was recently promoted to director of the Riggs Banking Center in Chevy Chase. In this roll, she will implement a new business strategy for the 168-year old, Washington, D.C.-based bank.
Milena (Baptista) Popp (BA, MA '98) and her husband William Popp (MA '97) completed a two-year tour in Nicaragua and are on their way to a second tour in Luanda, Angola. William Popp is in the Foriegn Service.
Igor Porchazka (MA '99) was married in April 2003 to Barbora Prochazkova. Since 2002, he has worked for the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Cathryn J. Prince ( '91) has her second book coming out this October. It is called "Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: Confederates Attack Vermont!" and is published by Carroll & Graf.
Cathryn Prince (BA '91) has a second book coming out this October. It's called "Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: Confederates Attack Vermont!" It's published by Carroll & Graf.
Kathleen W. Quinn (BA '91) and husband, Aaron, welcomed their first child, Holland Grace Whelan Quinn, to the world on January 10, 2003.
Monica R. Ramford (BA '96) I have been employed with the Department of Defense for more than ten years now. Once I realised I was here to stay I bought a townhouse in Alexandria and am settling in, in between business travel. I have mentored many young graduates from GWU, and look forward to the growing number of bright, well-qualified graduates who want to work for the Federal Government and are dedicated to serving this country.
Elvira K. Ramos (BA '99) is currently pursuing a master's degree at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin.
Scott Relyea (MA '97) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chinese history at the University of Chicago.
Sandi Riddle (MA '97) married Charlie Riddle in August 2006 and is a 13-year veteran firefighter. She continues to manage economic development activities for the local Council of Governments in Charleston, SC
James L. Rogers (BA '90) is married to Mrs. Ellen Rogers and is the Secretary for Communications for the Jesuit Conference of the United States.
S. Patricia Rubacky (BA '94) has announced that she will run for Onondaga County District Attorney (Onondaga, NY). Ms. Rubacky, a Democrat, is running for elected office for the first time. She has argued cases before the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals and is currently arguing a case before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Cathryn Saldinger (BA '91) a journalist and author, wrote "Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland" (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2003).
Jennifer Elizabeth (Kerfut) Saleh (BA '93) received a Master's in Organizational Development from Marymount University in May 2002. She is currently working as a senior consultant for Deloitte Consulting.
Rodney Jay C. Salinas (BA, MA '97) was appointed by the Alexandria (VA) Mayor and City Council to serve a three-year term on the Human Rights Commission. As President of Rainmaker Political Group LLC in Alexandria, VA, he recently launched PoliticalCircus.com, an online source for political news and information affecting the Asian-Pacific-American community.
Erica L. Salmon (BA '94) received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002, and is an associate in the International Commerce and Litigation practice group at Piper Rudnick LLP.
Jared M. Samos (BA '98) was recently promoted to Senior Vice President-Wealth Management at Citigroup Smith Barney in New York City.
Vatche Sarkisian (BA '97) with wife Kate, are happy to announce the birth of their first child Yoav, who was born on February 12, 2006 in Jerusalem. Tal is the country spokesperson for Lufthansa German Airlines in Israel, a position he accepted in January 2005, following five great years as senior business correpondent at the Jerusalem Post.
Jennifer Saxe (MA '91) and her husband welcomed their first child, Spencer Saxe Fletcher, in March. She currently works as the director of development for the Zurich International School in Zurich, Switzerland.
Jeffrey Schoenfeldt (BA '97) is the policy analyst for Representative John Gard, the Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Jeffrey has worked for Gard since 1999, previously serving as his communications director.
Robert Schreiber (BA '93) passed his three-year anniversary as the lead Technical Writer for NetVendor, an Internet collaboration software provider. He has personally developed and maintained all online help and other technical documentation for multiple software applications within their product suite. He also celebrated his engagement to Julia Vaughn. They will be married this June in Atlanta.
Lisa M. Schroeter (BA '92) is now the U.S. Executive Director of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), working for the U.S. Chair company PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Adina R. Schyman (BA '99) and Dave Adler (BA '98) will be married in June 2002 and will reside in the DC area. Adina, who has an MA in international economics and international law from Johns Hopkins SAIS, is an International Trade Specialist working on trade policy for South Asia at the Department of Commerce. Dave, who has an MA in Journalism from Northeastern University, works in public and government affairs for the American Health Quality Association.
Donna Sears (BA '99) works for a venture capital firm and is completing her graduate degree at Boston University.
Victor Shih (BA '97) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in the government department at Harvard University.
Tameshiah A. Shipley (BA '98) is expecting her first baby boy in June 2006. She is doing extremely well as a Loan Officer and husband is a Registered Representative/Licensed Agent for New York Life Insurance Company.
Michelle Sidwell (BA '92) writes: "My company just went IPO: Call Center Alliance, Euro New Market in Paris... the stock went from 14.53 to over 25 Euro, a 60% increase in eight weeks!"
Barbara Hellmann Singer (MA '93) is currently working as a conference liaison officer with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria.
Christopher M. Slattery (MA '94) was appointed Vice President of the Structured Securities Group, Global Derivative Products, Bank of America, in San Francisco. The group specializes in fixed income derivative structuring and trading for Bank of America.
Nicole Speulda (BA '99) recently completed an MA in Politics at Queen's University in Belfast, North Ireland.
David R. Squires (BA '91) has two boys, Nathan 2 and David 1. He now lives in Austin, TX.
David R. Squires (BA '91) has two boys Nathan (2) and David (1), and now lives in Austin, TX.
Eric Sterner (MA '93) recently left his position as Staff Director for the House Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics to join the Defense Department as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.
Paul Stetler (MA '91) is an editor at the Bureau of National Affairs and is a freelance music columnist for the Washington Times.
Michael J. Struett (MA '98) recently completed a Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Politics of Constructing the International Criminal Court" at the University of California, Irvine and accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.
Matt Stumpf (BA '99) received his Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in June. Matt is back in the Washington area and is now working with the State Department's Bureau of Arms Control in the Office of Strategic Negotiations and Implementation. Email Matt at mstumpf77@yahoo.com.
Brian Sullivan (MA '97) was named Vice President of U.S. Investor Relations at Vivendi Environnement following its recent listing on the NYSE. With approximately $25 billion in revenues, Paris-based Vivendi Environment is the world's largest environmental services company.
Nicole Suveges (MA '98) is finishing her second year of a Ph.D. program in political science, with a focus on international relations, at Johns Hopkins. Suveges entered the Ph.D. program upon her return from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she was an Army Reservist in support of the multinational SFOR/ NATO Combined Joint Psychological Operations Task Force. Suveges recently married David Clark Iverson, an Explosives Ordnance Disposal Expert of the U.S. Army presently serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan as part of the chem-bio inspection element. She has been named Managing Editor of the Review of International Political Economy.
Tim Swanson (BA '96) recently passed the Foreign Service exam. He began orientation at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, VA in July. Swanson received his JD from the University of Nebraska in 2000 and is licensed to practice law in the state of Nebraska.
Agnieszka Swierzowska-Twarog (BA '99) recently competed in the 2001 Jessup International Moot Court Competition (Atlantic Region) as a member of the New York Law School team. Her team won best memorial/brief and advanced to the Semi-Final Rounds.
Soraya Tabibi (BA '98) is an attorney with the law firm of Hale Lane in Reno
Clyde A. Taylor (MA '97) was a former captain at the Defense Intelligence Agency for the U.S. Air Force. He recently joined the staff of U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) as key advisor on military and armed services policy.
Vince Tuss (BA '94) and his wife, Dana, have adopted a boy from Guatemala in March 2006. Alexander Javier Tuss was born in July 2005. The Tusses now live in Minneapolis, where Vince works as a copy editor at the Star Tribune newspaper.
Agnieszka Twarog (BA '99) graduated from New York Law School in May 2002. Twarog is currently pursuing her LL.M. in Transnational Business Law from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.
Jennifer Walsh (BA '95) recently completed master's degrees in public health and African area studies at UCLA. She has accepted a position with the International Rescue Committee as the field health manager in Tabou, Ivory Coast, coordinating health programs and services for Liberian refugees.
Kathleen Walsh (BA '90) is a Professor of National Security Affairs on the Naval War College's National Security Decision Making Faculty in Newport, RI as of January 2006.
Busby Walter (BA '94) currently is on a one- to two-year assignment in Mexico with the Boston Consulting Group, under the company's Ambassador Program.
Desmond Walton (MA '99) currently manages security assistance programs in Southeast Asia from PACOM, after an 18-month exchange in Indonesia.
Lt. Col. Desmond Walton (MIPP '99) has been posted to the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group in Bangkok, Thailand. He will be there for three years, along with his wife, Sue, and son, William. For the last two years, Walton was assigned to U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, managing U.S. security assistance grants to the Philippines.
Koko Warner (MA '96) was a guest professor of economics at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She was invited to teach a course on the World Trade Organization and during her semester in China will also complete a two-week speaking tour with the State Department on the WTO. Warner is an associate professor of economics in Vienna, Austria, where she also researches at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Michael G. Watters (BA '95) lives with his wife Daisy Yan Dong in Shanghai, China and works on rotation as a logistics and procurement advisor for Exxon Neftegas Ltd in the Russia Far East.
Michael Watters (BA, MA '95) is currently in Korea and the Russian Far East acting as consulting logistics advisor to Exxon Neftegas Ltd Sakhalin I Dekastri Marine Terminal project.
Katherine M. Weil-Dennis (BA '99) recently moved to Puerto Rico with her husband, and works at the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau as the Electronic Marketing Coordinator for the Bureau and the new Puerto Rico Convention Center.
Michael Wert (BA '97) began a PhD program in Japanese history at UC Irvine in 2001 after working in Japan for four years. He is currently finishing a dissertation and teaching in the History Department and East Asian Studies program at Oberlin College.
Karen Wesley (MA '97) recently completed a DC Teaching Fellowship, a two-year alternative teaching certification program.Ms. Wesley is a 4th-year ESL elementary school teacher for DCPS. She is also an adjunct adult ESL instructor at Northern Virginia Community College.
Lorianne Woodrow (BA '98) has been working as a foreign policy legislative assistant for Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) since May 2003. She is engaged and planning a spring wedding to Robert Moss (JD '94), a Washington, D.C. attorney.
Jennifer A. Wurzbacher (BA '97) is currently a second-year law student at American University's Washington College of Law. She is a journal member of the American University Law Review and is working for the Department of Justice's Tax Division Civil Trial Section.
Ren Xiao (BA '99) is the Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.
Natalia Xiomara (BA '94) lived and worked in Eastern and Western Europe for a major international law firm for almost a decade. Now she is back in the U.S. working for another firm as a litigation legal assistant in white collar crime.
Natalia Xiomara (BA '94) lived and worked in Eastern and Western Europe for a major international law firm for almost a decade. Now she is back in the U.S. working for another firm as a litigation legal assistant in white collar crime.
Jerry C. Yoon (BA '97) is the Vice President of Merrill Lynch.
Matthew C. Zierler (BA '97) received his PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a visiting assistant professor of international relations at Michigan State University's James Madison College in East Lansing, MI.
William B. Zuccareno (MA '96) was hired in January 2006 as the Chief International Officer of the Northern Vermont-Quebec Trade Coalition, the first cross-border, regionalized international trade development organization of its kind in U.S. history. William is currently working on developing a trade corridor between Montreal and Boston and improving the trade capabilities of US and Canadian firms.
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