EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

1994

Karen Ahlborn Crocker is an associate at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. She has two children. (Updated 10/2006)

Gregory Bedward is working at Venable, Baetjer and Howard in Baltimore Maryland.

Geoff Chalmers graduated from SAIS at the Johns Hopkins. He is currently a Microenterprise Specialist at USAID's Office of Microenteprise Development.

Jason Friedland works at Westrock Development investing in commercial real estate in the NY Tri State area . He and his wife, Jackie, had their first child, Abraham Max Friedland, in August 2004. (Updated 10/2006)

Eric Giordano is a full-time Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Marathon County, and is working on book related to how the US military educates, organizes and trains soldiers to engage in stability operations and counterinsurgency. He is also conducting a study on voting behavior and political involvement of the Hmong community in Central Wisconsin. (Updated 10/2006)

Kristen Hicks gave birth to her second child, on September 20, 2002. She also has a son.

Mehlika Ozden Hoodbhoy teaches, consults and writes on human rights, gender and health issues. She is a consultant for Doctors of the World-USA in New York City. (Updated 10/2006)

Sameera Kapasi Mahendru is an attorney working in Houston on annexation and tax law and policy for the City. (Updated 9/2005)

Gregory Karpinski Sultan is an independent energy & finance consultant working and living in Hong Kong. He provides development, financing and M&A advisory services for IPPs, Oil & Gas Companies and Private Equity Firms evaluating energy projects in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. (Updated 10/2006)

Darren R. Kew is a Professor in the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts. He completed a Ph.D. at The Fletcher School. His dissertation was entitled "Pillars of Democracy? The Role of Civil Society Groups in Democratization and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria." He has one daughter and a new son, Daniel, as of July 2003. (Updated 10/2006)

Kate Konschnik graduated with honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, took the bar, and became a member of the California Bar. She's an Honors Attorney at the US Department of Justice, doing environmental enforcement litigation. She's helping to litigate one of the big Clean Air Act cases against an electric utility company.

Julia Koo married Harold Kim and recently had a son. They are living in Hong Kong.

Maura Lynch is the Inter-agency liaison at the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery at UNDP Headquarters. From 1997 to 1999, Ms. Lynch served as the Assistant Country Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina and in 2000 as the Assistant Zonal Representative in Prizren, Kosovo for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). She has also done project development for CRS in Macedonia and Croatia. After her work in the Former Yugoslavia, Ms. Lynch was the Head of Office in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2001-03, for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, working primarily on internally displaced peoples issues and overall humanitarian analysis. Beginning in February 2004, Ms. Lynch continued her international work as the Special Assistant to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq, responsible for humanitarian, reconstruction and political activities. (Updated 10/2006)

Allison McDermott is the deputy director of Pro Bono Net. (Updated 9/2005)

Heather Mills is European Affairs Manager for Parliamentary Communications Ltd. (www.epolitix.com) in London. She is got married in August.

Randi Pallan currently does graphic design for a small publishing company in Hailey, Idaho and has her own graphic design business.

Nathalie Rey was the Administrator of a subsidiary community health care corporation for Columbia University. Prior to that she worked in Haiti as Country Director of the Step by Step Program of the Soros Foundation-Haiti. She is now attending the International Career Advancement Program (ICAP) of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) of the University of Denver, which is being held at the Aspen institute in Colorado.

Richard A. Sollom is pursuing his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently conducting research on treating refugees with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder using acupuncture in Uganda. Formerly, Rick worked with two different organizations in the Former Yugoslavia, with the OSCE as an elections monitor and with Physicians for Human Rights as its Senior Program Director, overseeing the organization's on-going efforts in the region. He was awarded a 2004-05 Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. His Schweitzer community service project is for treating recently arrived refugees and immigrants suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. (Updated 10/2006)

Suzanne A. Spears is an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York. She is a litigator in the International Disputes practice. (Updated 10/2006)

Kurt Tjossem was the Director of International Rescue Committee Office in Tuzla , 1994-96, during which he assisted the refugees from the Srebrenica massacre. Mr. Tjossem was recently the director of the IRC's East Timor office and is currently the country director for the IRC in Uganda.

Samantha Wallack married Craig Meklir in March, 2004. She is working at the Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Chicago. Previously, she received a master's from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. (Updated 10/2006)

Iva Zoric is the producer all news related, policy and foreign policy segment on the nightly interview program "Charlie Rose" which airs on 228 PBS affiliates across the United States. (Updated 10/2006)