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Meghan Armistead completed graduate school at John Hopkins University in 2003 and is now working at The Forum for Youth Investment, which focuses on children and youth issues. She is living in Baltimore and is getting married in September 2004. Her fiancée, High Ivory, is the Associate Director for Africa at Lutheran World Relief, a small relief and development organization in Baltimore.

Matt Cammack conducted research on the reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Bosnia Herzegovina and assisted Mercy Corps International/Scottish Engineering in its efforts to bring towns into compliance with the Dayton Peace Accords to receive reconstruction aid in 1996. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University and is currently working in corporate law at a New York City firm. (Updated 9/2006)

Carol Chouchane Cherfane worked with EPIIC on a project related to Intolerant Cities while completing her MA at the Fletcher School. She is still in the process of completing her PhD for Fletcher, the subject of which focuses on trade and environment issues in the Mediterranean region. She also worked for Harvard University managing a Trade and Environment project funded by the World Bank. She is currently managing the same project from Beirut via the United Nations' Economic and Social Mission for Western Asia("ESCWA"), as well as serving as Association Economic Affairs Officer in the Economic Development Issues and Policy Division at ESCWA.

Krista Desgranges works at the US Agency for International Development.

Hooman Ehsani is the Director of New Developments at The Village Market in Nairobi, Kenya.

Eric Garnier is teaching English in Japan.

Sally (Sarah) Gindre is responsible for all communications aspects (internal, external and publications) for IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas housed within The World Conservation Union. She lives in Switzerland. She previously graduated from Duke University with a Masters in Environmental Management. (Updated 10/2006)

Omer Hiziroglu works at Inovent, an intellectual property transfer and licensing company with an emphasis in commercialization of University research output. Inovent has a large intellectual property portfolio and a large network of international investors and venture capitalists. He is based in Turkey. He obtained his LLM in European Law from Lusanne University in Switzerland and graduated from Suffolk Law School in May 2003. (Updated 10/2006)

Rebekah Irving is living in London, working towards a master's in anthropology and cultural politics at Goldsmiths College at the University of London.

Sarah Jordan is working for a real estate development company in San Francisco as a project manager.

Maria L. Kamin is working as an analyst at KLD Research & Analytics in Boston. (Updated 10/2006)

Lucas Kello worked on the Sarajevo Library Project with the Harvard University and Oriental Institute in Sarajevo, where he conducted research on reconstruction and reconciliation efforts. He also assisted Mercy Corps International/Scottish Engineering in its efforts to bring towns into compliance with the Dayton Peace Accords to receive reconstruction aid in 1996. Since then, Mr. Kello received his BA in Government from Harvard in 2000 and his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford in 2002. He has postponed his Ph.D. candidacy in International Relations at Oxford and is currently working with the Spanish government on issues of national security. (Updated 10/2005)

Sharon Kivenko is pursuing a PhD at Harvard University in Social Anthropology looking at transnational engagements with nationalized West African dance forms. (Updated 10/2006)

Claire Knight is still writing- am now working on a project on my AFS year in Malaysia, the story of a 15 year old Vermont girl who spends a year in a rapidly developing Moslem country, and encounters worldviews very different from those at home. She is also still doing and selling artwork, and hopes to have show in NYC in the next year. She's also coordinating the NYC chapter of COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere).

Danielle Lazore is entering the LLM Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program at the University of Arizona's law school.

Daniel Makoski is a Senior Experience Design Architect with Sapient, a leading business and technology consulting firm. He has been married since '96, and he and his wife have two sons.

Zachariah Mampilly finished his Ph.D. in the the Department of Political Science at UCLA. His dissertation was based on fieldwork in eastern Congo, southern Sudan and northern Sri Lanka and looks at relations between local communities, rebel movements, and transnational actors. He has published a variety of journalistic and academic pieces in the Journal of Modern African Studies, UFAHAMU, Africana.com, Inthefray.com, Shabhash and other venues. He is also the coordinator of the Yatra Collective, a progressive South Asian collective based in Southern California. He was married in 2006. He received his master's in political science from Columbia University. (Updated 10/2006)

Jonathan Mann received his master's at Stanford University in product design and is now heading up product strategy for Casio's U.S. Research and Development Center.

Juan Miguel Marin is pursuing a Doctorate of Theology at Harvard University. He is currently researching popular religion and mystical theology, especially in Hispanic cultures. (Updated 10/2006)

Damon Matlon left the Truis Corporation and is moving back to Colorado.

Dave McNally, after graduating from Tufts in 1997, attended Villanova University where he received a JD degree and his MBA degree at night. Last summer he took and passed the New York and Massachusetts bar exams and is working as associate counsel at a software company in Lexington, Massachusetts hoping against hope that this will be the year the Red Sox will win the World Series.

Micah Meisel is an Associate at Mercer Manadement Consulting , a leading strategy and management consulting firm in New York City. He earned his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. (Updated 10/2006)

Kavita Pillay is in India working on a Project As part of a Fulbright fellowship, which will culminate in a verite style archive of audio and written narrative interviews with the founding members of the Chiltralekha Film Cooperative to mark the 40 year anniversary of the Kerala's independent film movement and the 50 year anniversary of the film that served as a bellwether of humanist cinema in India, Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali'. She has a few small documentary projects on the side, including one about hijras, one about Malayalees with Russian first names and an audio piece on the musical ways in which Delhi street vendors go about selling their wares. (Updated 10/2006)

Jonathan Polon is Senior Manager of Partnerships at American Express in New York City. Previously, he spent four years in the Navy and graduated from Business School at the University of Michigan. (Updated 10/2006)

Heather Rieman is a student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University working towards a master's degree in public policy.

Pippa Reist is a web developer and currently lives in New York.

Dan Rosen is currently working at the National Defense University in their Near East- South Asia Center for Strategic Studies.

Kerri Sherlock is the Managing Attorney for Break the Chain Campaign of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. She represents immigrant victims of human trafficking and labor exploitation in their civil, criminal and immigration proceedings. She also serves as a legislative advocate for the Freedom Network, a national network of 22 anti-trafficking organizations. Previously, she was the Program Coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights, where she assisted with PHR's investigations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo, 1997-99. Upon graduation, Ms. Sherlock worked as a legal intern for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002. She has also served as the Attorney for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (Updated 10/2006)

Jake Sherman is a Consultant on peace-building and conflict resolution, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has been working with the American Friends Service Committee, and will be joining Oxfam after his contract with AFSC is over. He was a Voices from the Field Participant in 2006. Formerly, he was a documentation specialist for Physicians for Human Rights in Vukovar covering the exhumation of mass graves. He also acted as the photographer, computer specialist, and the assistant for the Senior Forensic Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, (ICTY); as such, he assisted in the compilation of the final report presented to the ICTY, 1996- 98. In 2000, he obtained his Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University. (Updated 10/2006)

Daniel Sonder is Executive Director of a special purpose state-owned company dedicated to establishing public private partnerships in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The mandate is to find ways to attract private finance and operating expertise to leverage public infrastructure projects in the State. In 2003, he co-authored Fiscal Adjustment and Federalism in Brazil, an article on Fiscal Policy in Brazil, which was published by the International Monetary Fund. (Updated 10/2006)