Alumni Update

2005

Cynthia Abulafia is completed her teacher training in yoga and is becoming a yoga instructor. She is living in California (Updated 11/2006)

Adina Allen is the assistant to Rabbi Michael Lerner, head of the Tikkun Community and co-founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. (Updated 11/2006)

Karen Alroy is working part-time in a Marine Biology Conservation Genetics Lab and applying to Veterinary Schools. (Updated 11/2006)

Jason Bauer spent the summer in Italy, working as an area supervisor on the excavations at Poggio Civitate. (Updated 11/2006)

Casey Beck was an intern in the Marketing Department of FRONTLINE in Boston. (Updated 11/2006)

Daniel Becker worked at JumpStart this summer. (Updated 11/2006)

Jessica Berlin conducted Research in Rwanda this past January. (Updated 11/2006)

Jake Berliner spent the first half of his summer in New Mexico working on Governor Bill Richardson's reelection campaign. He is a 2006 CCCLP Fellow at the IGL. (Updated 11/2006)

Catherine Caicedo is a Paralegal at Lehman Brothers. (Updated 11/2006)

Lauren Clark is currently working for Finca International in Washington, DC. (Updated 11/2006)

Katherine Conway Gaffney had a summer internship with the International Institute for Justice and Development. (Updated 11/2006)

Walter DeSimoni spent the summer interning with Banco Federal in Treasury. (Updated 11/2006)

Kelly Douglas has been working at Penn, Schoen, and Berland as an Analyst. (Updated 11/2006)

Michael Doyle interned for the Clinton Foundation in their HIV/AIDS Initiative for a year, and recently began working at the Aspen Institute in their Justice and Society Program. (Updated 11/2006)

Alex Duncan is working at ExchangeMonitor Publications in Washington, DC. (Updated 11/2006)

Emily Estrada is the Internship Program Coordinator at the Environmental Careers Organization in Boston. (Updated 11/2006)

Chelsea Feerer is a Trading Assistant at Winslow Green in Boston. (Updated 11/2006)

Amanda Fencl is an IR Research Scholar and TIE Undergraduate Research Fellow conducting research on her independent thesis, "Analyzing the Sustainability of Microfinance in Tulear, Madagascar, through social, economic and gendered indicators." (Updated 11/2006)

Katharine Ferguson went to Kosovo for an EXPOSURE photojournalism workshop right after graduation. She then toured Central Asia with fellow EPIIC alum Sam Barzilay. (Updated 11/2006)

Nicolas Gortzounian conducted research in Rwanda in January 2006. (Updated 11/2006)

Rachael Hereford is a Label Organizer at the Service Employees International Union. (Updated 11/2006)

Unaza Khan interned at the Embassy of Pakistan in DC in the Summer of 2005. (Updated 11/2006)

Gabriel Koehler-Derrick is a Program Coordinator with Soliya in New York. (Updated 11/2006)

Adam Koeppel is working as a Consultant and Energy Efficiency Engineer at Navigant Consulting. (Updated 11/2006)

Dora Levinson had an internship this summer at John Snow Inc. in Boston. She will be part of a delegation from Tufts to the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August. (Updated 11/2006)

Daniel Mandell is a call-time manager for the Tim Mahoney for Florida campaign. Tim is the Democratic candidate running for Congress in Florida's 16th District, his home district. (Updated 11/2006)

Everett Peachey is working as the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Regional Program Manager based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.   He is working with IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board). (Updated 11/2006)

Sajid Pothiawala is a Legal Assistant at Flemming, Zulack, Williamson, Zauderer, LLP in NYC. (Updated 11/2006)

Christopher Quirk works as a freelance journalist and photographer in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   After graduation he taught English for one year in Japan. (Updated 11/2006)

Lisa Reitman is entering her second year at McGill Law School. (Updated 11/2006)

Diane Rish worked as an Immigration Intern after graduation, and was recently awarded an Ambassadorial Rotary Scholarship. (Updated 11/2006)

Shanti Sattler interned this summer at the International Institute for Mediation and Historical Conciliation. (Updated 11/2006)

Kat Schmidt spent a semester abroad in Chile, and spent this summer at the College Editors' Conference at Columbia School of Journalism. She then worked at Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. (Updated 11/2006)

Margaret Senese is conducting research on ""Social Structure, Epidemiology, and Evolution"" as a summer scholar. (Updated 11/2006)

Sinan Seyhun graduated from Tufts Department of Urban and Economic Planning. His thesis title was "Green Electricity in Massachusetts: A Market Assessment." (Updated 11/2006)

Rana Shabb is working at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, DC. (Updated 11/2006)

Ariela Summit just returned from Gujarat, India where she was working with Utthan, an NGO specializing in resource management and community organizing.   She is working in Boston for an organic landscaping company. (Updated 11/2006)

Oleg Svet spent the summer as a summer research scholar in Washington, DC on Public Diplomacy and the War on Terror. (Updated 11/2006)

Julia Tong traveled around China for two months this summer. Julia is a 2006-07 CCCLP Fellow at the Institute for Global Leadership. (Updated 11/2006)

Valerie Wood graduated from Tufts School of Public Health with an MPH. (Updated 11/2006)

Alexandra Wright conducted research this summer on A Comparison of Municipal Renewable Energy Policy, Southern California.   She had an internship at Energy Independence International, and is spending the 2006-2007 year at London's SOAS. (Updated 11/2006)