EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

1993

David Belin was working as a Research Associate at environmental strategy firm in Oregon . Currently he is married and living in France, helping manage the bed and breakfast that his parents own. He will be in France until at least September of 2001.

Lewis Briggs received his LLM in international trade from Georgetown and is currently working in the litigation Department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York City.

Julie Chang, after graduating from MIT's Sloan business school, is currently working as an economist with an environmental consulting firm. Her first project has been to review solid waste infrastructure plans for the City of Shanghai in preparation for a World Bank loan.

Beth Criswell, after receiving her JD from Boston College, clerked for a judge in the Southern District of Georgia Bankruptcy Court then went to work for the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker LLC. She is currently a stay at home mother with her three children. (Updated 10/2006)

Maria Figueroa Kupcu, is the co-director of the "Privatization of Foreign Policy" project at the World Policy Institute (The New School), an inquiry into the influence of non-state actors in foreign policy. She is also Managing Partner of Medius360, a strategic communications consultancy specializing in stakeholder engagement at the global policy level. She owns a rug gallery in Tribeca called Double-Knot. She and her husband had a baby in February 2005. (Updated 10/2006)

Teny Oded Gross is the executive director of The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence in Providence, RI. It is an aggressively caring group of outreach workers who prevent violence and give second chances to youth. The group is expanding its Nonviolence trainings into many RI schools and organizations. He and his wife Julia have two sons, John and Julian. In 2001 Teny graduated from Harvard Divinity School. (Updated 10/2006)

Danielle Kaynor Gryskiewicz is a Senior Consultant at Creative Realities, a business innovation consulting company in Boston. (Updated 10/2006)

Kevin Luke is pursuing an MBA at the Harvard Business School.

Betsy Noyes is graduating this year from the Bank Street College of Education with a Masters in Education. She will be certified to teach through 6th grade. She and her husband are expecting their first baby in July.

Anna Shapiro is the director of Firehouse NO.13, a forward thinking urban project appealing to experimental artists and creative innovators. FH 13 is dedicated to sheltering exciting, innovative and contemporary creative works. Check out her website. (Updated 10/2006)

Adam Shore is working on energy issues in California with Calpine, which focuses on natural gas and renewable geothermal energy.

Eric R. Staal has held positions in business, government and academia. He advised companies on market-entry strategies at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, and worked on trade negotiations as an International Economist in the U.S. International Trade Administration. Eric has taught graduate courses on European political economy and has publications on German foreign policy and European Monetary Union. He also volunteers as the UK Director of CENSA. (Updated 10/2006)

Rosalina M. Thomas Yap is Vice President of Media at Reuters in New York City. She heads up the North American media account management and sales teams at Reuters. She married Justin Thomas (A'92) in August 2003. (Updated 10/2006)

Gretchen M. Torres moved with Phil Torres to Chicago where she completed graduate school at the University of Chicago. She and Phil have two children. (Updated 10/2006)

Phillip A. Torres is founding a new firm in Chicago. He and Gretchen have two children. (Updated 10/2006)

Sonja Lichtenstein Wolfe has worked at Development Alternatives, Inc, an international development consulting firm in the metro-Washington DC area for the last two years. She has two sons, 3 years old and 4 months. (Updated 10/2006)