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Wesley Carter, IDSC (U.S) received his B.A. in political science from Central Washington University. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda from '07-'09 working with a coalition of organizations focusing on health and wellness projects, fish farming, women's empowerment, and orphan support. Carter helped promote capacity building, program development, and sustainable wellness. Development interests include malaria policy, family planning, roads and infrastructure, microfinance, and small business development. |
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Brianne Casey, IDSC (U.S.) received a B.A. in Spanish and English as a second language (ESL) education from James Madison University in 2004. First as an AmeriCorps volunteer and then for three years as a co-sponsorship developer, Casey coordinated community resources and volunteer support at a refugee resettlement office in Raleigh, NC. She also worked in a global education program for educators at the University of North Carolina and as a high school ESL teacher. Her areas of interest include community organizing, refugees and immigration, and resource management. |
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Heidi Charlebois, IDSC (U.S.) received a B.S. in motor development therapy from Bridgewater State College. After graduation she established the Integration Initiative at the North Attleboro YMCA, integrating children with special needs into typical classes. Charlebois then joined the Peace Corps and served in Kenya’s Nyanza Province, helping women with psycho-social self-esteem building and income generating activities. She also started a health club with the class eight girls where they would play soccer, talk about health, and raise money for school fees. Charlebois taught local young women who were working in the hospitals about health safety, sanitation, and patient care. Since returning from the Peace Corps, she has been working in Attleboro, Mass. with children suffering from mental illnesses. |
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Samuel Leek Chol, IDSC (Sudan) graduated with B.S. in criminal justice and a minor in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 2009. While at school, he interned as a public safety dispatcher for Lowell Police Department to learn more about law enforcement. He is currently working with students with autism as a counselor at New England Center for Children in Southborough, Mass. His research interests include economic development and food security. He is also volunteering as a board of directors for Sudanese Education Fund (SEF) where he help raise funds to help pay for education for Southern Sudanese in Boston area. |
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Hoi Dao, IDSC (Vietnam) |
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Maria-Elvira de Bolos i Julia, IDSC (Spain) |
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Modeste Deffo Tatsing, IDSC (Cameroon) received his bachelor's degree in International Law from the University of Paris X Nanterre, France. As an undergraduate, Tatsing volunteered with the Red Cross- France where he helped refugees to complete applications and documentation to fully integrate them into the French society. He also worked in a Law Office of Paris aiding with legal analysis, and study of client cases. Modeste's research interests include infrastructure, education, and human equality/rights. He is working towards becoming an International Development Researcher and Activist. |
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Cassie DeFillipo, IDSC (U.S.) received her B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon Honors College in 2007. While in school, she studied abroad in South Korea, Italy, and Ghana. She returned to Ghana in 2008 to volunteer at a microfinance organization along with two Ghanaian-based nonprofit organizations that focused on access to education. Most recently, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Lewiston, Maine, where she worked at a housing development with Somali immigrants and refugee families by coordinating aspirations programs for the youth along with parental education opportunities with the goals of empowerment and acculturation. Her current research interests include education, sustainable resource development, refugee and immigration issues, and Africa.
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Thanh Thuy Do, IDSC (Vietnam) |
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Paola Echeverry, IDSC (Colombia) received a bachelor's degree in international relations and finances from the Externado University in Colombia and received a master's degree in international cooperation and projects for development from the same institution. She worked as an intern at the Organization of American States in Bogota, Colombia, and later went for another internship at the United Nations Development Program in Nicaragua during the transitional government of Violeta Barrios Chamorro. She worked in her native country with public organizations at the international development offices designing projects and building institutional alliances with private and public institutions. Subsequently, she immigrated to the U.S. and worked for several years at The Learning Center for Families, a nonprofit in Southern Utah that strived to empower families in structural poverty. |
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Zeinab Elamin, IDSC (Tanzania) |
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Ashley Hanneken, IDSC (U.S) earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice & Social Work from Elizabethtown College and a Master's in Global Social Work from Boston College. She has spent time volunteering abroad in several locations, most recently as an intern in the Gender-Based Violence department of the IRC's Uganda program. Her academic interests include the relationships among cultural traditions, established societal gender roles, and gender-based violence as well as criminal justice systems throughout the world, specifically prison conditions and psychosocial support options. |
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Kimberly Hanson, IDSC (U.S.) received her B.A. in international development and social change with a minor in government and international relations and a concentration in peace studies from Clark University in 2010. She served for AmeriCorps in 2008 as a summer community development intern and in 2009 worked at a day program for children with disabilities in Windhoek, Namibia. Her research interests include Track II diplomacy, conflict resolution, community development, youth leadership, NGO collaboration, and African development. She volunteers with a youth leadership organization known as HOBY and is the co-founder and American coordinator for an Iraqi-American pen pal program. |
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Jixian He, IDSC (China) has many years experiences in technical interpreter and coordination, Administration and Human Resource, Sales and Marketing Management, project consulting, working in a major joint venture in China; Volunteering and working in the Nature Conservancy's China's program, World Version International, ICRC and local NGOs, and assisting with a few Yunnan provincial water conservation projects in collaboration with international organizations. He is Interested in water conservation, health, cultural program and ecotourism development. |
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Timothy Hutchinson, IDSC (U.S.) is a graduate of Clark where he majored in government and international relations with a concentration in peace studies. Hutchinson was accepted into the CET Academic Tours Beijing Intensive Language study abroad program that demanded full immersion in Beijing, mastery of the Mandarin language, and the preparation of a field study using Chinese. As such, he is proficient in the Mandarin language. Hutchinson also works for the Center for Nonviolent Solutions as a member of the organization's Board of Directors. Areas of specialty include: mandarin Chinese, indigenous issues, far-east policy, and the military-industrial complex.
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Anh Huynh, IDSC (Vietnam) |
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Jamyel Jenifer, IDSC (U.S.) served as Peace Corps Volunteer in a small village located near San, Mali of West Africa. As a community health educator, Jenifer worked at a rural health care clinic that served 29 villages, a total population of over 18,000. She completed several projects that focused mainly on women's health and empowerment as well as child malnutrition. She is a 2006 graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she majored in French with a concentration in pre-medicine. As an undergraduate, she participated in a domestic exchange program at Wellesley College and in a French immersion program in Martinique. She was very active in her sorority, Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority, Inc., whose chapter at Spelman she helped establish. She also served as its first chapter president. Before entering Clark, she worked at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. |
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Stephanie Johnson, IDSC (U.S) |
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Sonal Kanabar, IDSC (Tanzania) |
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Laura Kummer, IDSC (U.S) received her B.A. in Clinical Sociology and Business Administration from Spring Arbor University in Michigan. After college, Laura served as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Michigan Campus Compact to foster service, service-learning and civic engagement among colleges and universities in Michigan. Laura has also worked on community development projects in East Africa, South America and in the United States. Most recently, she is studying in Clark's Graduate School of Management with research interests in social enterprise, ICT, remittances and microfinance.
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Alemseged Lemma, IDSC (Ethiopia) |
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Christian Ludwell, IDSC (U.S.) |
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Jenkins Macedo, IDSC (Liberia) has served as program coordinator for RESPECT Ghana, and an associate of RESPECT International in Canada creating awareness and education about refugee issues. He earned his associate degree in agriculture education from the West African College for Sustainable Development in Accra, Ghana in 2006. He graduated from Worcester State College in 2010 with a B.S. in sociology and geography with a concentration in environmental science. He was awarded the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Worcester State College 2010 Community Engagement Awards for volunteering at the African Community Education Program (ACE). In 2008, he worked as a RA forthe Bridging Barriers Research Project. He also has conducted quantitative research on the integration of Liberian refugees and also environmental impacts of warehoused refugees in Ghana, geocoding the locations of students of the ACE program in the City of Worcester and a research project on the human impacts of the war in Iraq. |
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Verah Mdai, IDSC (Tanzania) received her BA in Sociology at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2002. She has worked with governmental and non-governmental Institutions dealing with communities and vulnerable groups at National and Community levels within Tanzania. Her interests include widening her development skills to support vulnerable groups starting at International, national to community levels; and to conduct research on the priorities of developmental programs at different levels and to study how these programs consider expectations and engagements of vulnerable people.
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Erin Morrell, IDSC (U.S.) received her B.A. in nonwestern studies from Ithaca College. Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, Morrell spent two years in Jordan, where she served as a epecial education volunteer in the Peace Corps, working with resource development and teacher training. She is currently working as a teaching assistant for the National Autism Center in Randolph, Mass. as well as volunteering at the Cambridge based Dance Complex and studying Horton technique modern dance and West African dance. Her current interests in the field of development include internally displaced persons and refugees and international nutrition and food security. |
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Emanuel Moss, IDSC (U.S.) received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since then he has worked as an archaeologist and GIS specialist throughout the U.S. in Cultural Resource Management. He has worked on diverse development projects for various environmental consulting firms, as well as state and local agencies. His interests include globalization and development, environmental and cultural sustainability, and economic geography. |
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Alexandria Najduch, IDSC (U.S.) recently graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in political science and German. She had the honor of interning at Opportunity International, a nonprofit microfinance organization. Her academic interests focus on sustainable solutions to combat global poverty while providing people a chance to work their way out of poverty with dignity and respect. She had the opportunity to study at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; sparking an interest in the economic development of former Soviet bloc countries.
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Chandra Nepali, IDSC (Nepal) completed his B.Ed in English and environment from Butwal Multiple Campus, Nepal in 2003 and has more than ten years of experience in the field of education and development. He worked as a program coordinator for Karmali Development and Research Center (KIRDARC) in partnership with Save the Children Norway, where he worked with government agencies to design, implement and assess Karmali Quality Education program. He also worked for Intensive International Academy, Kathmandu as academic coordinator and as extracurricular activities coordinator and teacher. He is the founder member of Dhorpatan Development Forum, Baglung and Nepal Youth Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal. He received an award for his outstanding role in increasing the access and quality of education in the district conferred by the Government of Nepal, District Education Office, Jumla. |
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Louisa Okechukwu-Odjegba, IDSC (Nigeria) received a B.S. in economics from the University of Abuja Nigeria and took some courses in international human resource management from Thames Valley University in London. After this, she interned with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in Lokoja, Kogi State of Nigeria. As the planning and research officer, Okechukwu-Odjegba collated statistical data's which involved departmental budgeting, welfares and statistical data on the ratio of those under the ministry who are physically-challenged to those not challenged to aid decision making. She initiated regular seminars for women and female children in the states as she discovered that within the culture, female education is not encouraged. She encouraged and taught handicrafts, hair dressing, sowing, and petty trade, which they can use to earn a living. Her academic interest is in resource management and community-based development. |
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Adrienne Perez, IDSC (U.S) received dual degrees in international relations and Spanish from University of California, Davis. After graduation, she taught English to elementary school children in China, interned with an international development consulting firm in Sacramento, and has worked and lived in Spain, Italy, and Mexico. She currently resides in San Francisco, Calif. working for a private consulting company aiding foreign consulates and embassies in the U.S. Her research interests include innovation and implementation of sustainable products to improve water sanitation, health, and development in communities. |
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Heather Rice, IDSC (U.S.) is a Mass. native who graduated from Colorado College in 2002 with a B.A. in anthropology and a minor in environmental issues. In her current position as the programming director for the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program, she works to enhance their environmental education curriculum and align it with innovative education standards. Her other responsibilities include oversight of peer mentoring, outreach initiatives, and program management and development. She has worked and volunteered on projects designed to promote sustainable choices, including a bike ride from San Francisco to San Diego educating and inspiring students, teachers, and the public through personal action. |
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Brad Romans, IDSC (U.S.) received his B.S. in political science at Northeastern University. Upon graduation, he enlisted the Mass. National Guard as a paralegal, serving one tour in Baghdad, Iraq. On his deployment he was responsible for providing legal assistance for the soldiers of U.S. Division-Central, as well as paying foreign claims to Iraqi civilians. His research interests include looking at how military commanders, using CERP/Commander's Emergency Response Program and non-governmental and foreign governmental development organizations in conjunction with tribal leaders, provisional, and national governments can create large scale, sustainable work projects to both increase occupied countries' labor power and welfare but also decrease insurgency groups' grasps on populations. |
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Colin Seger, IDSC (U.S.) |
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Thuonn So, IDSC (Vietnam) |
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Larissa Soares, IDSC (Brazil) graduated from University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a B.A. in International Studies, and from Universidade de Fortaleza (Brazil) with a Bachelors of Foreign Trade. She started her career as a Foreign Trade Trainee at a local Trade Co called Emitrade Intl, and as Researcher Assistant in internationalization of small companies in Brazil. In Wisconsin, she worked with the Center for Community Partnerships at UWP, with Non-profit Development, researching non-profit needs, matching, tracking, supporting and evaluating course projects for nonprofits and community organizations, and promoting professional development programs. Recent research experience has expanded her interest in self-sustainable communities and fair-trade companies in Northeast Brazil. |
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Kevin Taylor, IDSC (U.S.) graduated from Fitchburg State College with a B.S. in political science. He is primarily interested in the globalized economy and the consequences of American policy, and has worked and interned at the local level with economic justice organization Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts. |
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Heather Tomlins, IDSC (U.S.) spent five years in and around Missoula, Montana, as an AmeriCorps member, nonprofit organization development consultant, HIV/AIDS prevention program manager, and professional trainer and facilitator for community-based organizations and AmeriCorps programs. Her professional and academic interests revolve around linking organizational development practices, project evaluation, and non-traditional education and training methods. She is a very recently returned Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in the NGO development sector in the Republic of Macedonia (2007-2010). She received her B.A. in sociology from Vassar College in 2002. |
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Natalya Umrikhina, IDSC (Uzbekistan) |
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Ene Christabel Unobe, IDSC (Nigeria) a lawyer and sexuality educator has been in the field of Development since age fourteen when she enrolled for the Girls' Power Initiative three year's Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Leadership Development program after which she interned with the organisation and was subsequently retained as a youth facilitator. As a facilitator with GPI she was involved in the drafting and implementation of sexuality education curriculum for young people from a gender perspective. Unobe is passionate about change and has advocated for young peoples' reproductive health rights on the international scene as a then member of the Youth Coalition. Presently, she volunteers for Gabasawa Women and Children Initiative (GWCI) an NGO in Nigeria that reintegrates indigent northern Nigerian women into society and empowers young people.
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Naomi Vinbury, IDSC (U.S) did her undergrad at Clark in the IDSC department as well as a Studio Art degree focused in Painting. She's interested in old mill building renovations and how these spaces could be utilized to benefit the needs of the community. Because of Vinbury's arts background, she is am curious about arts integration programs and community public art projects. She's interested to learn about how projects such as these receive funding and the rules and regulations around inner city renovation. |
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Danielle Walls, IDSC (U.S./U.K.) earned a B.A. in international relations, political science and French from Lehigh University. She received a M.A. in political science from Ohio State University and has worked in the market research industry for the past few years. Her research interests are broad and include gender issues and sustainable development. |
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Duo Wang, IDSC (China) |
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Jing Wang, IDSC (China) graduated from Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao with a major in English. Having been a translator for five years, Wang travelled many cities across China, witnessing merits and negative influences brought along by the economic development. Wang believes the improvement of living standards could be achieved through more environmental friendly measurements and less sacrifices of lower social stratum. |
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Zhinuo Wang, IDSC (China) received his B. A. in international politics from Beijing International Studies University in 2010. He worked as a secretary of Model United Nations. He is now an editor of Multilateral in his university and an associate editor of American Review of China Studies. He published his article, which name was Diplomatic Culture of the Korean Peninsula, in American Review of China Studies and joined the writing of Chinese Military Affairs Cyclopedia and New Historiography in the Contemporary West. His interests include the development of the relations between China and the U. S. and the change of East Asia society. |
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Taylore Wilson, IDSC (U.S.) received her BA in Communications from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2005. Since graduating, she has spent the majority of her time working for organizations that focus on community development through the education of technology and engineering both domestically and internationally. Her research interests focus on the preservation and application of indigenous knowledge. |
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Esayas Wureta, IDSC (Eritrean-American born in Sudan) received his B.A. in International studies with a concentration in globalization and culture, and minor in Business Administration from Frostburg State University in 2006. Shortly after graduation, Wureta studied Arabic in Egypt. Upon his return, he worked with the Choice Program as an Americorps fellow, working as a caseworker for juveniles involved in the probation system in Montgomery County, Maryland. In addition, he served as a Peace Corps community and youth development volunteer in Mongolia from 2008-2010. He worked with schools; implementing UNICEF's convention for the rights of children, developed a children-friendly education system, training school social workers, and implementing various other community initiated programs. |
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Hanna Yatskevich, IDSC (Russia) graduated with a B.A. in economics from Purchase College. Her undergraduate work focused on the political economy of development and the impact of neoliberal globalization on women in developing world. She presented a research paper on neoliberalism and gender inequality in Thailand at NWSA conference in Ohio. In addition, she participated in a U.N. Practicum organized by the WILPF which allowed her to get an insider's perspective on the challenges facing NGOs within the U.N. system and beyond. Yatskevich was born in Far East Russian and subsequently lived in Egypt, Syria, Belarus, and Hungary. She began her education in Minsk, Belarus but when the government closed down the university, she was forced to abandon her studies and after overcoming a number of obstacles was able to continue her intellectual pursuits at Purchase College. |
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Huiqin Zhou, IDSC (China) |
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Shreya Basu, GISDE (India) completed her B.A. in geography from Kirorimal College, University of Delhi. Then she completed her M.A. in geography from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. In the final semester of her graduate studies, she completed a project report (dissertation) entitled "Landslides and Landuse/Landcover changes in Chamoli Region, Uttarakhand." After completing her degree, she worked as a project assistant to Dr. A. K. Saha on the project Remote Sensing – GIS based Landslide Inventory Mapping and Susceptibility Zonation using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in a Himalayan Terrain (2008-10), which was funded by University of Delhi. |
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Dan Cheng, GISDE (China) received her B.S. in GIS from Suzhou University of Science and Technology. Cheng's final paper researched the bus transportation by using GPS data to conduct tracking analysis, to better serve for the public transportation. She is also participating in the 7th National University GIS SuperMap Competition with a system she and her classmates developed. |
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Devin Dworkin, GISDE (U.S.) |
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David Eitelberg, GISDE (U.S.) graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with B.A. in environmental studies and geography. While at UNC he was a decathlete on the track and field team, spent a summer abroad in Siberia, another in Ecuador and a semester at a biological research station in Highlands, North Carolina where he held an internship with the U.S. Forest Service studying upland peat bogs. After graduating he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua working on sustainable agriculture and food security projects, including integrated pest management and nontraditional sources of nutrition, through a rural coffee cooperative. His research interests include GIS applications for the social ecology of climate change and water resources. |
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Megan Ewert, GISDE (U.S.) |
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Qiqi Jiang, GISDE (China) long-term goals include either entering a GIS company or governmental office as a consultant or continuing her research and earning a Ph.D. If Jiang continues to pursue a doctorate, she would be most interested in a program that allows her to conduct field research in wetlands around the world. |
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Lori Johnson, GISDE (U.S.) received a B.S. in biology from SUNY Albany and an M.S. in conservation biology from Antioch University. Recently she has worked closely with the MA Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program doing research for the protection of rare reptiles, amphibians, and dragonflies. Prior to this she worked as a vegan chef for several years. Throughout these experiences her focus has been on advocating environmental sustainability. She is currently interested in integrating GIS and remote sensing techniques with her experience as a field biologist to promote biodiversity conservation. |
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Guanying Li, GISDE (China) receive my B.S. in Geographical Information system from ChongQing Normal University where she won 1st prize of the scholarship for comprehensive performance. Guanying did some research about GIS software development and won the Encourage Award in ESRI's GIS software development competition for national college students. Guanyings interests include urban and rural planning, and environmental protection. |
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William Merry, GISDE (U.S.) |
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Anders Olson, GISDE (U.S.) graduated from the University of Denver in 2008 with a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish. He recently worked as an intern with a non-profit organization called El Porvenir, which specializes in water sanitation issues in rural Nicaragua. To further insure the sustainability of projects, El Porvenir is actively involved in reforestation projects, eco-stove projects, and health education projects to improve the standard of living for rural populations. He was responsible for Spanish/English translation, web development, data management and occasional fundraising. His research interests are water policy, resource management, food security and urban geography. |
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Joshua S. Plisinski, GISDE (U.S.) graduated from Clark in 2009 with a major in geography and a minor in history. Since graduation, Plisinski has worked in UMASS Medical's Geography Health Lab in Worcester Mass., and at the International Livestock Research Institutes (ILRI), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His most recent work has focused on the estimation of livestock feed deficits through the remote sensing of pasture growth. His current research interests include: the development of Livestock Early Warning Systems (LEWS) to mitigate the effects of drought, the use of GIS to assist in the clearing of landmines from conflict zones, and the analysis of local crime patterns around Clark University. |
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Michael Towle, GISDE (U.S.) has kept himself busy. This year he aimed to take the GREs, apply to Clark, obtain GIS certificate from Cape Cod Community College, find a GIS based internship for the summer, learn basic Spanish, bake bread, and run either two half marathons or just one whole one. Both his Spanish and baking is poor but he does have the GIS certificate on its way and he ran not only two half marathons but completed the Boston Marathon this year as well! While reaching all these goals he is also completing up to 1,700 hours of community service assisting in energy efficiency programs for low income residents on Cape Cod with AmeriCorps. So while he is in this upbeat and productive time in his life he plans on learning as much as he can in GIS methods and environmental problem solving during his time at Clark. |
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Elias Vidal, GISDE (U.S.) |
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Jitka Vinduskova, GISDE (Czech Republic) |
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Hong Xia, GISDE (China) |
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Hao Xin, GISDE (China) |
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Chia-Rung Yang, GISDE (Taiwan) |
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Sainan Zhang, GISDE (China) will receive a B.E. in GIS from the school of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China in July. During her studies, she took part in the project of Three Dimension Modeling of Hawaii using Virtuozo in 2008. She believes that GIS can be used in practical problems, especially in social issues, politics, economic environments, and cultural processes. |
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Elizabeth Allen, ES&P (U.S.) graduated from the University of Oregon in 2006 with dual degrees in biology and anthropology. She monitored wetland restoration projects in Oregon and collected marine fisheries data in the Bering Sea. She has traveled and volunteered in Tanzania and Nepal. For the past two years she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at a school in rural Armenia where she worked to establish a community-led environmental monitoring project. Her primary research interests are fisheries and water resource conservation. |
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Phong Bui, ES&P (Vietnam) |
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Yiren Chen, ES&P (China) |
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Marcella Comerford, ES&P (U.S.) received her B.S. in Sustainable Development through UMASS, Amherst. After several years of running a portrait business, her passion for sustainability brought her back to pursue further education in the subject. She has been volunteering with her hometown's recycling program and currently runs the local farmer's market. Her interests include ecological design, eco-friendly apparel production and design, organic farming, and systems management. She is looking forward to learning more about melding the areas of business and environmental welfare. |
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Salvatore DeCarli, ES&P (U.S.) |
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Tsewang Dolma, ES&P (India) |
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Katherine Gross, ES&P (U.S.) graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in environmental studies. From there she worked for an environmental restoration consulting company in the Lake Tahoe, Calif. area. Gross is currently working for a company in Worcester, Mass. that provides environmental consultation, project management, and oversight throughout the oil spill remediation process. Her current research interests include climate change and renewable energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, and urban ecological restoration. |
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Faustina Gyabaah, ES&P (Ghana) obtained her degree in civil engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. During her undergraduate years, she was an intern at the Ghana Water Company Limited at Takoradi and the Engineering and Architectural Services Limited in Bolga. At Takoradi she worked with Royal Haskoning, the consulting engineer for the rehabilitation of second-takoradi pipeline project. At Bolgatanga, she visited construction sites to supervise the projects. After her undergraduate education, she took an internship with the department of urban roads in the Bolgatatnga municipality, where she worked with engineers to design drains, lay-byes and supervised the works of contractors. Currently, she is working with Knight Piesold Ghana Limited as a project engineer. |
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Ashley Howard, ES&P (U.S) |
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Tung Huynh, ES&P (Vietnam) graduated from Stetson University (DeLand, Florida) this past May with a double major in environmental science (B.A.) and geography (B.S.) and a minor in international studies. As an undergraduate, his research interests included international environmental policy and sustainable development in economically marginalized countries. His senior research project assessed the sustainable development contribution aspect of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism through an analysis of registered CDM projects in Vietnam. Huynh has interned at the Volusia County Environmental Management (DeLand, Florida) and the Lyonia Environmental Center (Deltona, Florida). He was a member of Stetson University's Greenhouse Gas Audit team and the co-author of the university's 2009 GHG Audit. In addition, he's a member of the Bonner Scholar Program, Phi Beta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa. |
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Suela John, ES&P (Albania) completed her B.A. in environmental science and policy from Clark. Over the past four years, she has had the opportunity to get involved in a variety of internships and directed study projects. She has worked as a research assistant on the Worcester Environmental Justice Project and on the Southbridge Project. Currently, she is working at UMass Medical School, participating in the Nutrition Environment Availability Data Survey, examining how food availability in grocery stores and convenience stores can correlate to obesity rates in Worcester County. Her main research interests include environmental law, public health, and environmental justice.
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Melissa Joyce, ES&P (U.S) |
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Brett Luongo, ES&P (U.S.) was born and still resides in North Attleboro, Mass. Over the past four years he has spent his days in Fairfield, Conn. where he attended Sacred Heart University. This past May he graduated with a B.A. in biology with a concentration in ecology and conservation. This past summer he worked at AmeriSci, an environmental lab in Boston where he has worked for over five years during school breaks. His research experience includes work on the Estuary Project at UMASS Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Project Limulus with Sacred Heart University. His current research interests include environmental policy, spatial analysis, and sustainable development. On a more personal level he enjoys sports and was a member of the football and track teams at Sacred Heart. |
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Zhonghui Lv, ES&P (China) |
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Nagendra Mallik, ES&P (India) |
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Brad McNamara, ES&P (U.S.) received his B.A. in organizational communications from Northeastern University where he focused his studies on sustainable food production technology. He is the founder and vice president of United Hydroponics, Inc. which develops urban rooftop hydroponic food production systems and business integration strategies. He is a technical advisor of BLS Youth CAN rooftop learning laboratory, in addition to a former founder and president of BMTK Entertainment and Impakt Marketing Solutions, Inc. |
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Leah Melnick, ES&P (U.S.) |
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Erin Miller, ES&P (U.S.) received her B.A. in environmental and conservation biology from Clark in 2010. Miller is interested in freshwater ecology, particularly the effects of development and urbanization on freshwater ecosystems and the issues of invasive and endangered species in these environments. She has worked as an intern for the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program of Mass Wildlife conducting surveys of stream systems in western Massachusetts for endangered fish species. She has also worked as a SCUBA diver assisting in the eradication of an invasive aquatic plant from lakes in New England. Miller's master's research involves evaluating the impacts of urbanization on the retention of organic matter in stream systems. |
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Nontobeko Mlangeni, ES&P (Swaziland) currently works for the Renewable Energy Association of Swaziland as senior programs officer. Mlangeni graduated from the University of Swaziland with a B.A. in social sciences, with majors on geography, environmental science and planning, as well as public administration. Her main research interest is in the area of energy especially with regards to the poor in developing countries. The most recent projects she has successfully delivered include; the National Energy Policy Implementation Strategy (NEPIS) project which aims to translate the National Energy Policy into concrete actions that will facilitate its implementation; and The Renewable and Efficient Energy for Poverty Alleviation (REEPASA) project which looks at the development of appropriate policy and finance tools to increase the deployment of Renewable Energy technologies and to promote the rational use of energy for poverty alleviation. |
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Toai Nguyen, ES&P (Vietnam) |
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Anna Rosofsky, ES&P (U.S.) received her B.A. in environmental studies, with a minor in biology from Clark. Her research interests include environmental health, specifically epidemiology and environmental justice issues. This summer she is working with the Regional Environmental Council in Worcester on ensuring healthy homes in high-risk areas. During her time at Clark, she spent a semester abroad in Ecuador on a conservation and ecology program, worked in the Admissions offices and was an active member of the Ultimate Frisbee team. |
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Maria Runggeary, ES&P (Indonesia) received her B.S in environmental engineering at the National Institute of Technology at Bandung. Her final paper is related to the air quality impacts to human mortality. After graduating, she began working at the copper and gold mining company, Freeport-McMoRan, in the heart of Papua province as an inspector for safety and environmental. Her most current position of employment is chief coordinator of compliance, and the responsibilities are to conduct internal environmental compliance audit and to deal with hazardous waste management. She loves travelling and enjoys listening to music. She thinks life has to be balance in everything. |
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Graham Twibell, ES&P (U.S.) |
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Lechuan Wang, ES&P (China) |
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Hilla Benzaken, CDP (U.S.) recently received her B.A. in international development and social change with a concentration in Sustainable Development from Clark. Previous research projects have included studying community-based tourism in Costa Rica, and working alongside Aids Project Worcester to determine HIV/AIDS risk factors and best practice methods in Worcester, Mass. |
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Margaret Broad, CDP (U.S.) |
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Lindsay Carpenter, CDP (U.S.) |
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Hari Dhakal, CDP (Bhutan) is originally from Bhutan and came to U.S. as a refugee in 2009 after staying in the confirmed refugee camp for 20 years. He graduated with a degree in English from T. U Nepal. He is working to help newly arrived refugees (like himself) get adjusted to the main stream American society so that they become respected and contributing self sufficient members of this society. |
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Roberto Diaz, CDP (U.S.) |
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Sara Dupere, CDP (U.S.), received her B.A. from Vassar College in English Literature and has worked since graduation in the non-profit and social service fields. Focusing primarily on educational services, she has worked with a number of underserved populations, including the previously incarcerated and those struggling with mental illness and/or addiction. She is happy to have spent the last year-and-a-half working in the Worcester community, dividing her time as a youth advisor between two experiential education programs. Her interests include sustainable agriculture and food security, educational access and innovation, knowledge management and social/youth entrepreneurship. She is an unabashed fan of the Beautiful Game and can be found at Elm Park Community School Saturday mornings, coaching neighborhood youth through the Cultural Exchange Through Soccer (CETS) program. |
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Nick Gunther Fedorek, CDP (U.S.) graduated from Clark with a degree in economics and a minor in geography. He is interested in economic geography, neighborhood economic development strategies, brownfields redevelopment, and the use of econometrics and GIS to study cities. He has written extensively on spatial distributions of employment in Atlanta and the importance of local jobs for low-income residents. Recently he interned with the Worcester Business Development Corporation, where he conducted research for a Job Growth and Retention Task Force led by Mayor Joe O'Brien. |
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Chanell Fletcher, CDP (U.S.) graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in history. Fletcher worked to eliminate the achievement gap between white and minority students with an educational equity organization in the bay area. She also volunteered for two years as a mentor to college students, providing insight and support in their academic and personal development. She continued to be involved in youth development, working to promote confidence and character in young women through the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County. She transitioned into economic development and social equity issues through her work with the Community Child Care Council. From research to direct support of low-income families with economic and social resources, Fletcher was exposed to a wide breadth of issues facing urban communities. Recently, Fletcher finished a public policy and advocacy internship with the Greenlining Institute. |
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Janna Gullery, CDP (U.S.) |
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Edward Hannigan, CDP (U.S.)
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Cameron Ingram, CDP (U.S.) |
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William Lehman, CDP (U.S.) |
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Patrick McCafferty, CDP (U.S.) graduated from Miami University with a B.A. in urban/regional planning. His undergraduate research centered on examining human ecology within blighted neighborhoods, and devising improvement strategies. He is currently interested in studying the effects of urban sprawl on deviant behavior and nihilism in inner city communities. |
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Oksana Onasenko, CDP (Ukraine) was educated in her native Ukraine, and has most recently been working for the U.S. Peace Corps. She taught Russian language and cross-cultural issues to newly arrived Americans, and co-facilitated various community projects with them during their first months in country. She is primarily interested in gender issues in transition states, and in gaining the knowledge necessary to organize large-scale development projects. |
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Linda Parham, CDP (U.S.) received her master's in organization communication and a B.S. in business management from Clark, master's of divinity from Andover Newton Theological School, doctor of ministry in complex urban studies from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary concentrating in urban youth and young adult ministry, and a certificate in women politics and public policy from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is working on expanding her case study on faith-based health promotion as a new social justice paradigm examining health disparities among people of color as a viable means of social reconstruction. |
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Jessica Rivera, CDP (U.S.) |
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Jaclyn M. K. Snow Sargent, CDP (U.S.) graduated from Assumption College with a degree in psychology, community service learning, peace and conflict studies and women's studies. She became interested in social justice/civic engagement after helping with hurricane relief efforts in New Orleans. After graduation, she did a year of service with City Year New Hampshire where she coordinated service projects and served as a tutor and mentor to at-risk youth. She sees youth as powerful agents of social change. She is interested in researching how a localized economy affects access to basic needs (food security, affordable housing, access to education, safety). |
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Ashley Trull, CDP (U.S.) |
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Jeremy Weyl, CDP (U.S.) |
