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Jonah Leff, MPA 2007, is now working as a Consultant for the Small Arms Survey in Geneva, Switzerland. He is conducting research on all aspects of small arms and light weapons, armed violence, and armed groups. Currently, Jonah is working on a UNICEF funded project examining the direct and indirect impacts of small arms and light weapons on children in four case countries: Occupied Palestinian Territories, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, and Yemen. Jonah was offered this position upon completing his IPSS fellowship with the Small Arms Survey.
Tina Lee, MAIPS 2006, is now a researcher for Jantzi Research Inc. in Toronto, Canada. Her firm focuses on socially responsible investing. Tina helps monitor the environmental, social, and governance performance of Canadian and global investments.
Claire M. Trivedi, MAIPS 2006, is currently a Presidential Management Fellow for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As a PMF fellow, she has a wide range of training and rotational opportunities. Claire says she is learning more than she ever thought she would know about the legislative process, internal policy-making and management strategies, and working with a domestic mandate that often has international implications. She has had the opportunity to work on the subprime lending crisis, energy use in housing development, and sharing development/lending strategies with other countries in information sharing delegations.
C. Ross van Horn, MAIPS 2004, is currently a Management Consultant for Skopos Consulting in Nairobi, Kenya. He helps serve private sector clients in the Middle East and Africa by providing strategic change management and organizational culture consulting.
Jennifer Machado, MAIPS 2005, has joined the ORION Center for Homeland Security (HLS) business unit in April 2006 as an Analyst in the HLS division working on the California Office of Homeland Security - Contract Analysts project.
Jean Pinner, MAIPS 2006, sent in this photo from his US Department of State internship last fall in Portugal. He is pictured on the left, with another intern and General Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Khaleda Atta, MAIPS 2005, writes, "…My first 10 months in Washington, DC have been quite amazing. Since beginning my work at the Embassy of Afghanistan, I’ve moved from Investment Promotion Officer to Trade & Investment Officer to Acting Commercial Attaché in this short time. I was just confirmed in my latest position... as the official Attaché from our Ministry of Commerce in Kabul!
Jess Paulson, MAIPS 05, and wife Mami welcomed their first child Ami (Japanese for "Asian Beauty") in the summer of 2005. They have relocated to the Washington, DC area, where Jess is pursuing a career in commercial diplomacy with the US Department of Justice, Office of Budgetary Analysis, as a PMF (Presidential Management Fellow).
Kasey Moctezuma, MAITP 2005, “… Recently I was officially named as the certifier representative on the CAAQ Board of Directors. (The CAAQ is the Quebec agency that controls Canada's only current mandated organic standard. The rest of Canada will be getting their own standard later this year.)
I can't believe last year at this time I was getting ready to graduate! Being the only person at Quality Assurance International (based in San Diego, CA) that speaks French has definitely opened a lot of doors and broadened my opportunities. I am really grateful to the great education that I had at the Monterey Institute and all the career help and support!"
Kasey also sent in a recent photo of herself and Former Secretary of State Colin Powell! Kasey is on the far right.
Tamara Shie, MAIPS 2004, is celebrating a publication! Check out her latest work, "The Internet and Single-Party Rule in China", in Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization, Suisheng Zhao, ed, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp. 215-229.
Garvey McIntosh, MAIPS 2003, and Melanie Eltz, MAIPS 2004, sent in their photo with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who recently flew on the Space Shuttle (STS-114) Discovery. This picture was taken at a reception for Mr. Noguchi at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC. Garvey works for NASA and Melanie is with the World Bank, both in Washington, DC.
Wendy Sinek, MAIPS 2002, who is completing her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, recently won a university-wide teaching award. This prestigious award goes to only 2% of all UC Berkeley Teaching Assistants and includes a monetary award.
Margherita Serafini, MAIPS 2000, (as seen in the middle-wearing gray suit), while working for the UN in Eritrea, had the opportunity to meet with Kofi Annan. Margherita is now in Indonesia with the UNDP.
James Golsen, MACD 1998, writes "...I would like to highlight that as a result of the excellent Commercial Diplomacy program at the Institute* I am now a Commercial Diplomat. I had the honor of being the first ever MACD graduate in the winter of '97 (although my official graduation was with my fellow first year MACD class mates in the spring of 1998). I entered the Foreign Service in 2002 and have been working at the American Consulate (in China) as the Commercial Consul for the past year. I would not be here today if it weren't for the Monterey Institute and the MACD program. The Institute did an excellent job of not only preparing me for my trade policy related work in Washington, DC after graduation but particularly for my commercial diplomacy career today.
*The MA in Commercial Diplomacy (MACD) program is now called the MA in International Trade Policy (MAITP)
Jennifer Topping and Mike Gallardo, both MAIPS 1997, recently sent in the good news that they were married in 2004, and are enjoying their lives in Washington, DC, including time with Biscuit, their pug.
