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Alexis Acevedo is currently living in New York.

Farid Azfar started a PhD program at Brown University where he is studying the history of human rights and globalization in the Atlantic World in the later part of the early modern period.

Lauren Kadi Bellon is the Assistant Director of gift planning at Tufts University. (Updated 11/2006)

Matthew Bruce works for the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services, which is part of Boston's Redevelopment Authority and Economic Development and Industrial Corporation. He recently finished his Masters in Public Policy at the University of Chicago's Harris School. (Updated 11/2006)

Ryan Centner is in the final stages of his PhD dissertation in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His topic is comparative urban redevelopment amid economic restructuring in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He will be entering the academic job market in Fall 2006, seeking employment beginning Fall 2007, in the fields of sociology, geography, urban studies, Latin American studies, city planning, or international development. (Updated 11/2006)

Allison Cohen is the International Human Rights Officer at the Blaustein Institute for the Advancement for Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee. She does human rights advocacy related to international institutions, particularly the United Nations. (Updated 10/2005)

Carole Corm is pursuing a master's in Middle East Studies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Traci Craig Green is currently working on a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Yale University. She previously received her Master's at McGill University in epidemiology. Her thesis was on the acceptability of safe injecting facilities in Montreal for drug users. She got married this summer.

Sarah Finn is teaching freshmen writing at Framingham State College. She's starting a PhD program in Composition and Rhetoric at UMass Amherst, and is looking forward to continuing her career as a writing professor. (Updated 11/2006)

Geir Gaseidnes is an information architect for New Tilt, a small consulting company in Somerville, Massachusetts. He leads the user-centered design of web solutions to meet our clients' business requirements in a variety of vertical markets and performs audience analysis, business analysis, information architecture and information and content design. He previously was employed as an information architect for Netnumina. (Updated 11/2006)

Stephen Gonah is living in eastern Ethiopia working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Anke Kernkamp received a Masters in European Social Policy from London School of Economics in 2000, and will received her JD from Brooklyn Law School 2003. Anke is currently an associate at the lawfirm Winget, Spadafora, and Schwartzberg LLP.

Jesse Lainer-Vos is a Client Advocate at The Bronx Defenders, an innovative public defender office that brings together interdisciplinary work groups combining criminal defense and civil lawyers, client advocates, investigators, and family court advocates in order to address not just the immediate criminal case, but the host of issues that drive clients into the system. She obtained her MSW from Columbia School of Social Work in May 2004 and is currently living in New York City. (Updated 11/2006)

Sandrine Levallois is an Account Director at the Brunswick Group, a company that advises retained clients in their financial and corporate communication strategy. She lives in Paris after spending three years in London. (Updated 11/2006)

Bernardo Monzani is interning for an NGO called the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) for the summer in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Updated 11/2006)

Michael "Mookie" Margolis lives in New York City and is the founder of GetStoried.com. He recently published his first book, Believe Me: Why Your Vision, Brand, and Leadership Need a Bigger Story. His storytelling manifesto is available in several formats including a free digital download (www.believemethebook.com).  (Updated 01/2010)

Bree Mawhorter spent summer 2002 in Mexico conducting research on economic development. She will receive a Master's in Urban Planning from McGill University in Spring 2003. She will begin a Master's in Public Policy at Berkeley in the fall.

Bernardo Monzani went on to work in Afghanistan and Liberia after graduating from Johns Hopkins-SAIS in May 2004, with a concentration in Conflict Management. In Afghanistan, Bernardo was hired as a Reporting Officer for the Tribal Liaison Office, a local NGO sponsored by the Berne-based Swisspeace Foundation. In November 2004, Bernardo moved to Liberia, where he spent six months as a Civil Affairs Officer with the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). He recently left Liberia on sabbatical for a few months.

Trisha Nakano worked for the Aidekman Art Gallery at Tufts as the education coordinator for the Hiroshima/Nagasaki exhibit. She is now teaching English in Japan.

Katherine Newel (Thurston) was working with underprivileged high schoolers for the last five years, and took a sabbatical in 2004 to consider a career change. She was married in August 2000. (Updated 11/2006)

Austin Putman is the lead developer for Radical Designs, a cooperative focused on enabling social change movements through technology. (Updated 11/2006)

Angela Reese began business school at the University of Texas-Austin in the fall of 2005, with a focus in global management and microfinance. Previously, she was employed at the Inter-American Development Bank working specifically at the Multilateral Investment Fund to promote private sector development in Latin American. (Updated 11/2006)

Joanne Rosenthal is currently working as a naturalist for Earth Force, in addition to working for the American Red Cross. She will be getting married next June.

Gabriel Safar is teaching English in France.

Mauricio Senties moved to Mexico City to work for a pharmaceutical company while he does work on his masters in business from the IPADE in Mexico City.

Jessica Salomon took a leave from the Canadian Department of Justice to work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She is in The Hague working as an Associate Legal Officer in the Office of the President. Following McGill Law School, Ms. Salomon spent three months as a clerk to the Vice-President of the ICTY, Judge Fausto Pocar, in the Tribunal's Appeals Chamber. (Updated 11/2006)

Mauricio Senties has been working for his current company, Seroptix, Inc., for about a year, where he is a staff scientist on the team that is working on devising an instrument for real-time infectious disease (i.e. HIV, HCV, etc) detection in blood samples.

Mark Slezak began work in 2004 as an Operations Officer with the International Organization for Migration assisting refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Cote d'Ivoire. He subsequently transferred to Liberia and worked as the Head of Operations for International Organization for Migration in Liberia conducting IDP return operations. He was a Voices from the Field Participant, in 2006. (Updated 11/2006)

Jeff Treichel, while in school, Mr. Treichel was a freelance travel journalist in Croatia and Bosnia during the summers of 1997 and 1998. He then conducted research in Zagreb from 1999-2000. After graduation he continued to work in the Former Yugoslavia, as a Marketing Assistant and then Brand Manager for LURA in Zagreb, and he is currently the Marketing Manager for Somboled in Belgrade.

Katherine Thurston is currently working with high school students in Palo Alto through a church, building bridges between two communities that are economically, culturally, racially, linguistically very different from one another.

Tomoko Yokoi is currently working for Berlitz International.