EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

1997

Shamael Al-Sharikh is working with a petroleum company in Kuwait after attending the SOAS school in London.

Aparna Basnyat works for the United Nations Development Program in Sri Lanka with the Tsunami Recovery Unit. She participated in the 2006 Voices from the Field program. After finishing her Master's in Development Studies from LSE in 2003, she has been working on the Asia Pacific Access to Justice Initiative from Kathmandu and is now based in Thailand. (Updated 10/2006)

Ching-In (Elizabeth) Chen left her position as the Director of Programs at Asian American Resource Workshop to pursue independent creative and writing projects. The Asian American resource Workshop is a grassroots community organization based in Boston Chinatown. She is a spoken word artist/poet and is a part Freedom Uprising, a group of people of color who came together to do direct action against the war. (Updated 10/2006)

Allison Cohen is the International Human Rights Officer at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. She spoke on the Necessity of Torture panel at the 2006 EPIIC symposium. (Updated 10/2006)

Maja Denic-Munk received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Bulgaria. She currently is located in Monrovia, Liberia.

Tomas Dinges is a freelance journalist working in Chile. (Updated 10/2006)

Tamara Doi is an executive coach and is currently the President of Fierce First Step, a company whose mission is to establish and develop a person's sense of purpose, voice and passion. (Updated 10/2006)

Alexandra Haddad is a Release Planning Coordinator for Columbia Records. Her department schedules new releases across all configurations (CD's, Vinyl, DVD's etc.).

Yonni Harif moved back to Israel after living in the Washington DC area. (Updated 9/2005)

Carolyn Hunt currently runs two programs, both related to HIV prevention. At the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, she works with people living with HIV/AIDS to develop strategies for safer individual behaviors and more positive community and social norms. She is also the training coordinator for the County of San Diego's HIV, STD and Hepatitis Branch of Public Health Services. (Updated 10/2006)

Stephanie Jowers-Margolis is Director of Membership and Strategic Relations at the National Peace Corps Association. Previously, she was a Peace Corps volunteer (2002-2004), serving in the Small Business Development Program, and working for the Moroccan Government's Ministry of Artisinal Development. She married fellow EPIIC alum, Michael Margolis on May 27, 2006 at Tryall Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica. (Updated 10/2006)

Maria Kamin is an analyst for KLD Research & Analytics. (Updated 9/2005)

Korn (Kirt) Kiatfuengfoo finished law school and practiced law in New York and Asia for a couple of years. He is now a News Anchor and TV Host. (updated 10/2006)

Joshua Pariente Koehler graduated from the University of Florida, College of Law in May 2006. He will begin his career with the City of West Palm Beach as a local government attorney. In April 2006, Josh married Jill A. Mahler. (Updated 10/2006)

Julie Leimbach works on Conservation Policy and Watershed Issues for the Sierra Nevada Alliance, whose mission is to protect and restore the natural resources of the Sierra Nevada while promoting sustainable communities. On behalf of the Alliance, Julie participated in the formation of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy as well as sitting on the Steering Committee of the California Urban Water Conservation Council. In addition, she is the Coordinator of the Foothills Water Network Coordinator, whose mission is to provide a forum that increases the effectiveness of conservation organizations to achieve river and watershed restoration and protection benefits for the Yuba, Bear, and American. This includes an immediate focus on the upcoming hydropower relicensing processes. Recently, she and her husband moved into the 'green' straw bale home they built. (Updated 10/2006)

Thomas (Tom) Limongello recently received his MBA from the University of Chicago. Previously he studied at Johns Hopkins SAIS and at the Nanjing University Center, and worked for Unilever Foodsolutions. (Updated 10/2006)

Anthony Lin edits News and ShanghaiBeat for the Shanghai Business Review, a monthly English magazine covering issues, news and activities of interest to the business community in Shanghai. He also writes features whose subjects have ranged from IT outsourcing to corporate social responsibility (CSR) to sports marketing. (Updated 10/2006)

Chen-I Lin is pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. Previously she obtained her M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science under Singapore Stanford Partnership (SSP) program in July 2004. She was a part-time teaching assistant (hydro-dynamics) for students in the same program. (Updated 10/2006)

Michelle Luttman is currently working at Pfizer Inc. and living in Whitestone, New York.

Mallika Mathur is an Assistant Vice President and Relationship Manager for HSBC in corporate finance covering a portfolio of multinational corporations in the industrials, media, healthcare, and energy sectors. Prior to her current stint at HSBC in Toronto, Mallika lived in New York for 6 years working in corporate finance for Banc of America Securities and The Royal Bank of Scotland. She continues to travel extensively in her spare time, volunteers with the Junior League of Toronto, sits on the Business Advisory Board of Seneca College for the Advancement of Canadian Entrepeneurship network, and co-founded "Sistering" - a mentoring program for at-risk South Asian teens.

Elizabeth Murphy-Garcia is currently doing an on the job qualification for teaching. This past summer she and her partner Marianne had a beautiful wedding in England. In the near future she hopes to start a school for Autistic children practicing Applied Behavioral Analysis.

Mariko Nakanishi worked as a paralegal for an immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, in Los Angeles for 4 years before going to law school at UC Hastings in SF, CA in Fall 2001. This summer she received the National Lawyers Guild Hayward Burns Memorial Fellowship to work at the Georgia Resource Center in Atlanta, GA, where she works on habeas corpus petitions and investigations challenging the conviction and sentencing of death row inmates in Georgia.

Michael Poulshock was the Program Coordinator for a variety of psych-social programs as well as minority relief programs in Kosovo (Roma and Ashkali enclaves) with the American Friends Service Committee, 1999-2001. He coordinated a variety of relief, reconstruction, and peace building programs involving multinational communities. Since then, Mr. Poulshock has worked in Jiapur, India with an NGO conducting research on international trade law and policy and the WTO. He is now attending law school at Temple University.

Rohit Reddy is the Advertising Manager for the Foreign Affairs Magazine at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Updated 10/2006)

Courtney Reed is a Senior Analyst at Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc. (HR&A), is a full service financial, public policy and management consulting firm. In this role, Courtney administers and develops policy for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's Assisted Multifamily Program, which provides technical and financial assistance to owners of affordable housing seeking to use energy more efficiently. Courtney completed her dual Masters degree in Public Affairs & Urban and Regional Planning at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs of Princeton University. (Updated 10/2006)

Samar Shaheryar is a High Yield Bond Trader at JP Morgan Chase in NewYork. Ouside of work, he is the President of YOUR DIL, a fundraising arm of DIL, a small NGO that builds and runs schools for impoverished children in the most rural parts of Pakistan. YOUR DIL currently has chapters in NYC, Chicago, DC and LA. (Updated 10/2006)

Noah Smith was a correspondent in the China General Bureau for Kyodo News in Beijing. In September 2003, Noah moved to Washington DC to serve as editor of International Environment Reporter, a fortnightly publication covering worldwide environmental policy published by BNA Inc.

Serge Todorovich is an attorney practicing in the area of international corporate finance. Previously,he was an observer at the Bosnia-Herzegovina Reconciliation Project on Transitional Justice, held at the Royal Academy of Strategic Studies in London in 1997. He also interned at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, studying the integration/ repatriation of Serbian refugees in Bijeljina, and at the United Nations Civil Affairs Office in Zvornik, Serb Republic. After graduation, Mr. Todorovich worked in the Office of the Legal Advisor in the U.S. Department of State. In 2002, he received his master's from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and subsequently his J.D. from the University of Virginia. At present, Mr. Todorovich is in Project Development and Finance at Shearman & Sterling LLP. (Updated 10/2006)

Audrey Tomason worked as Americorps*VISTA and Associate at ACCION International after Tufts. She is attending the Kennedy School's master's in public policy program and is scheduled to graduate in 2003.