Alumni Updates
Serap Cansizoglu Oz (2009) welcomed a son, Mehmet Selim, on October 1, 2009.
Katia Dantas (2009) is an Atlas Fellow with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, based in Arlington, Virginia.
Ruben Gonzalez (2009) is the Executive Director of the Sister Communities of San Ramon, Nicaragua (SCSRN, based in Durham, North Carolina.
Shinichi Itagaki (2009) is now Deputy Division Chief in the Americas Finance Department of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
Sanghee Jeong (2009) is a Research Fellow with Good Friends, an International NGO that focuses on humanitarian issues related to North Korea.
Chanchal Kumar (2009) returned to the state of Bihar in India and is the Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
Javier Ochoa (2009) is a Financial Management Consultant with AOC Solutions in Virginia.
Claudia Paccieri (2009) works with the Be Do Community Development organization in Atlanta Georgia.
Anita Sharma (2009) is now a Project Coordinator with IFMR Trust in Chennai India.
Pia Simonsen (2009) is a Research Assistant with the World Bank and is working on the 2011 World Development Report on Conflict and Fragility.
Melissa Arnold-Martinez (2008) married Jason Watkins (MPP 2008) on a mountaintop in Aspen, Colorado on September 26, 2009.
Carolina Diaz (2008) now works for the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Multicultural Affairs division. She is responsible for environmental agreements.
Stella Ndubuisi (2008) continues her work with the Ray of Hope Foundation that she founded in Nigeria. On Children's Day in May 2009, Ray of Hope started an intergrated social development program for street children and their families.
Mayer Ngomesia (2008) is now Partnership and Projects Coordinator with teh Diamond Development Initiative, based in Ottawa Canada.
Rachana Shrestha (2008) is now a Governance and Capacity Building Officer with the Asian Development Bank in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Bounphamith Somvichith (2008) works on issues of disability access for the Government of Laos in the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.
Kuangshen Gu (2007) married Benjamin Thomas, of Germany, in Shanghai in August 2009. They reside in Beijing.
Noorin Nazari (2007) is now a Governance Specialist with the International Centre for Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Ana Salazar (2007) is now a Marketing and Fundraising Analyst for Embrace Global, a non-profit that has pioneered a low-cost infant incubator for use in the developing world.
Oscar Farfan (2005) and his wife Paola, welcome a baby boy, Elias on August 8, 2009.
Jong Moon Kim (2005) is Vice Director for the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California.
Itgel Lonjid (2004) married Erdene Dorjsuren (2005) in 2005. They now have a daughter and a son. Itgel is a Social Sector Officer with the Asian Development Bank in Mongolia.
Alejandra Ortiz (2004) is studying for her Ph.D. in Women and Gender Relations at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, Canada.
Young Seok Yoon (2004) is the Director of the Global Marketing Division for the Seoul Metropolitan Government and was chosen to serve as Chairperson of the Asian City Association (ACA).
Sangkey Yoh (2003) works for the Korean Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Jeff Goebel (2001) works for USAID and will relocate to Egypt to work on democracy and governance issues.
William "Stacy" Rhodes (1991) was appointed as Chief of Staff for the United States Peace Corps.
Ana Dreikorn ( 1990) is a Program Officer with the UNDP in El Salvador.
Earl Green (1990) is a Technical Planning Coordinator in the Forest Department of The Ministry of Natural Resources, the Environment and Industry in teh Government of Belize.
Brenda Ortiz Chour (1990) is now a permanent employee of the Food and Agriculture Organization, based in Rome, Italy.
Please send additional updates to Stephanie Alt Lamm at slamm@duke.edu. Please send update corrections to dcid-communications@duke.edu.