Where are they now?
In an effort to create better networking opportunities for CISLA alumni, we ask that you please complete the CISLA alumni Survey Monkey, which has been sent via e-mail. Also, be sure to visit the new Connecticut College Alumni Online Community http://www.conncoll.edu/alumni/. If you have trouble logging on, contact alumni.relations@conncoll.edu.
Elisa Roller '93 lives in Brussels, Belgium and works for the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Regional Policy. Her first child, Francesco, was born on July 21, 2006.
Keri Sarajian '96 and her husband Rick Stratton '96 live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Keri is a brand manager of Oust Air Sanitizer at S.C. Johnson & Son and works with a global team on new product innovation. Rick and Keri welcomed their first child, Beckett Asadoor Stratton, on February 8, 2007. They can't wait for him to get a little older so they can take him on his first international trip - back to Paris, where Keri spent her CISLA summer.
Heidi Szycher Grasbon '95, her husband Flex and their children Janina Leila (six), Amelie Maret (four), and Dominic Mohr (three) have moved back to the U.S. after 10 years of living in Germany, and now live in Madison, New Jersey. In April 2006, Heidi ran the 30th Paris Marathon with her brother, followed shortly by a triathlon in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Lauren (Half) Warren '96 received her Ph.D in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in May. She lives there with her two-year-old son, Nathan.
Laure (Carpentier) Cousineau '97, is a global marketing manager at the international law firm Baker & McKenzie in Washington D.C. and works with lawyers in over 50 countries. She received her MS in marketing from Johns Hopkins and now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Matthew and four-month-old daughter, Charlotte.
Dana Luedke Jacob '97, and her husband, Kurt Jacob still live in Seattle, Washington. In September 2005 they had their first child, Aubrey Susanna Jacob, born three weeks before her third year of law school. Dana finished law school last June, graduating in the top ten percent of her class, and passed the Washington State bar on her first try. She is now clerking for a judge on the Washington State Court of Appeals and loves it. Her life is an eclectic combination of researching and writing judicial opinions and chasing a very active 16-month-old child around.
Catie Ryan '99, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand from 2003-2005. After serving, she traveled to Cambodia, Myanmar and Europe before returning home. She is now attending graduate school at Brandeis University where she is pursuing an MA in Sustainable International Development.
Irina A. Telyukova '99, who interned at Deutsche Bundesbank (German Central Bank) in Frankfurt, Germany for her CISLA internship, graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2006. Irina is now an assistant professor of Economics, at the University of California, San Diego.
Kristin Mueller '00, completed her MA in International Affairs and China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in May 2003. She works at a consulting firm in Washington, DC doing financial analysis for white-collar litigation. She has been traveling a lot and will take her first trip to Africa this summer.
Laurel Dudley '02 moved to Hawaii in August 2006 to participate in the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, a graduate fellowship program at the East West Center. She is finishing up the program, and just returned from a month excursion to Vietnam. Laurel also works as a guide for an outdoor adventure tourism agency, which allows her plenty of time to go hiking and biking in the lovely Hawaii rainforests.
Michelle Miller '02, who interned at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, joined the Peace Corps and is serving as a community and organizational development volunteer in Moldova. This summer, she will be in charge of a young women's camp for ages 17-21, empowering and educating the most vulnerable victims of human trafficking.
Wilbert Quintanilla '02, spent several months living in Niamey, Niger in 2007. After graduating, Wilbert joined the Peace Corps where he served for almost three years. Following the Peace Corps, he worked as the Carter Center Resident Technical Advisor in Togo on the Guinea Worm Eradication Campaign until December 2006.
Kathy Avgerinos '06 has been working in Moscow at an American law firm that specializes in immigration and arbitration law. She works directly with the firm's top attorney and often represents clients at the American Embassy. She also works on the side as a translator and editor for a Russian-American Business Consortium. Her CISLA SIP on the sex trade industry in Russia was also recently published in Vestnik: The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies.
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