EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

1992

Christine Barnes earned her MBA at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She married Douglas Reiner (EPIIC '91) in 2001, and they had son Max in 2004 (Updated 10/2006)

David Belin and his wife, Delphine, have two boys, Augustin, 3, and Theo, who was born in February 2004. They live in France.

Jennifer Blanchard Sayed is working as an administrative assistant at Community Works in Boston, and has two children.

Alec Ewald completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, and is in his second visiting year at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He has two children. (Updated 10/2006)

Melissa L. Hammel had a baby in 2005 and founded Becoming Pictures, an artist-owned film production company whose projects explore the individual with the aim of revealing the complexities of society. She and her family live in the New York area. (Updated 10/2006)

John Horowitz works at Cinetic Media in Brooklyn,NY, a company involved in the financing and sales of independent films. He is responsible for helping to grow the business, primarily through finding new consulting work. (Updated 10/2006)

Alexandra Isaievych Mason , besides pursuing her lifelong passion for art, Alexandra has been working on public policy issues facing Eastern Europe during the transition from planned economy. She holds a master's degree in economics and public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and has worked on several economic policy assistance programs in Ukraine. She recently relocated to Los Angeles.

Rich Jankowsky returned to Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in the Music Department. Formerly, he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago. He recently returned from a research trip to Tunisia on a grant from the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, following up on his dissertation research performed there last year as a Fulbright Fellow. His dissertation is entitled "'The Other People': Music, Modernity, and Spirit Possession in the Stambeli of Tunis". It's about a trance and possession music around which the black community of Tunis continues to define itself as both part of, and distinct from, local Arab identities and Sufi practices. (Updated 10/2006)

Brian S. Kaplan is a Partner at Lewis and Kaplan, LLP in Boston. (Updated 10/2006)

Mouna Khabbaz and her husband moved to Oregon and purchased a franchise kitchen counter top business - they love being out of corporate America. Rena Kittredge is a new additional to their family as of June 2004, which includes twin older sisters.

Fares Khalidi is the managing director of Navigator, an international development consulting firm based in Athens, Greece.

Samia M. Kirmani is an employment attorney at Jackson Lewis LLP in Boston. She was married in September 2004. (Updated 10/2006)

Katherine C. Konschnik is an Environmental Enforcement Trial Attorney at the US Department of Justice. She is helping to litigate one of the big Clean Air Act cases against an electric utility company. (Updated 10/2006)

Kasey Langley is currently traveling through Greece. Upon return to the United States, she and her husband Nathan Grothe plan to settle in Seattle, Washington.

Ben Macklowe is working in his family's art business in New York. He married Hillary Gallay in September of 2001.

Maria Marquez is a consultant with the multilateral investment fund at the InterAmerican Development Bank.

Jennifer Murphy left her job as an International Affairs Specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. She began law school at the Vermont Law School in September 2004. During the summer of 2005 she was a Judicial Intern for the Vermont Supreme Court. (Updated 10/2006)

Maria Elena Nawar and her husband, Eric Nawar (E'92) have two boys, Marcelo, 4, and Mateo, 1.

Sol P. Nasisi recently launched a website called TheNextBigWriter that provides aspiring and published writers with a place to receive helpful feedback on their writing - short stories, novels, poetry, and non-fiction. Their list of members include published authors, movie producers, editors, retirees, and host of other writers Formerly, he worked at FleetBoston Financial in the Online Financial Services Group where he is responsible for marketing the company's online banking product - HomeLink. He and his wife, Alison, and have a son. (Updated 10/2006)

Ann Riley is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of the LCV Education Fund. She works with state based environmental organizations, throughout the Mid-Atlantic, to get them more involved in the political process, by giving them tools and training. She is involved in voter education, advocacy and most importantly, she works with colleagues to educate and motivate candidates to run on the environment. She helps them to make the environment a salient issue in campaigns, the political arena, and in state legislatures.

Jehane Sedky-Lavandero is the author of Children of War for UNICEF, covering issues ranging from child soldiers to child labor. She is currently a press officer for UNICEF in New York. (Updated 10/2006)

Sohinaz Sotoudeh is working at Moore, Clayton, and Co. as Senior Managing Director of Investment Management. She completed an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1999 and is formerly was an Assistant Vice President at GE Equity, Tech and Telecom Group, the Venture Capital arm of GE Capital. She lives in California. (Updated 10/2006)

Lara Staub Savas recently gave birth to a baby girl. She is currently working on her dissertation towards a PhD in epidemiology at the University of Texas-Houston's School of Public Health.

Sara E. Woodring and her husband recently returned from 2 years in Ghana where they worked with the US State Department; they will soon be heading to Istanbul. They had a baby girl in 2005. She completed her Masters Degree in nutrition and international policy and a MALD through Tufts School of Nutrition and The Fletcher School. (Updated 10/2006)

Brad Yuan has been living in London for over a year and is working for Organic, a new media consulting firm.