CLASS OF 2004
Stephanie Hales Following her graduation from Washington University, Stephanie attended law school at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a dual degree in law and biomedical ethics (J.D. /M.B.E.) in 2007. Stephanie then spent a year working as a law clerk to a judge at the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago. Upon finishing her clerkship Stephanie relocated to Washington D.C., where she now works as an associate in the Healthcare Regulatory group at the law firm of Sidley Austin, LLP.
Alexis Kuznick Upon graduating, Alexis participated in the Americorps program and then attended Harvard Law School. She is currently employed as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the Urban Center for Justice's Domestic Violence Project.
Tara Liss-Marino is currently a third year doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Tara’s studies focus on visual culture, consumer culture, and the creative industries. She has been honored with the Annenberg Outstanding TA award.
Dan Rubin After graduation Dan received his MA in drama from Washington University in 2006 and spent two years teaching freshman writing courses. He won a Kevin Kline Award in St. Louis for Most Outstanding New Drama or Musical for his work “Demons (and other blunt objects)," originally workshopped at Washington University’s own Hotchner Playwriting Festival. He has worked with a number of theaters--including Goodman Theater, Greasy Joan Theater Co., New Leaf Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Playwrights Foundation, OnSite Theater Company, and HotCity Theater--and his plays have received productions in St. Louis and Chicago. Dan currently works at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco as the Publications and Literary Associate.
CLASS OF 2005
Devin Naar is now in his fourth year in the PhD program in History at Stanford University. His dissertation focuses on competing visions and contested spaces of Salonica, a once multiethnic port city on the Aegean Sea, during the transition from Ottoman to Greek rule in the early twentieth century. His dissertation is in some ways a continuation of the research about Salonica that he began as an Undergraduate Honors Fellow. Devin recently has given conference papers in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Oxford, and Jerusalem. In 2009, he earned the "excellence in teaching" award from the Department of History at Stanford for a course he designed and taught about Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Mediterranean port cities.
Keren Weitzberg is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history at Stanford University.
CLASS OF 2006
Stacy Carmichael works in the Office of Journal Administration at Georgetwon Law in Washington, DC.
Catherine Kelly is a third-year Ph.D. student in comparative politics at Harvard University. Prior to starting at Harvard, Catherine had a Fulbright Scholarship to Brussels, Belgium. She received a Post-Graduate Certificate in International Politics and wrote a thesis on current Belgian-EU intervention policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Catherine spent part of this summer learning the Wolof language in Senegal on a grant from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. For the remainder of her summer, she worked as a research assistant in Ghana, where she studied political participation and electoral practices.
Anne Lamb is working for Teach for America as a Program Director.
Carrie Solomon works as a Senior Legislative Assistant for a congressman in the House of Representatives.
Daniel Zeigenbein is in the process of completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia University in New York.
CLASS OF 2007
Margot Danker completed the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs in May of 2008. For a year following the completion of Coro, she worked at Children at Risk, a non-profit that does research and legal advocacy to improve the lives of children in Houston. She is currently attending law school at Georgetown with the hope of ultimately using her law degree to continue advocating for underrepresented populations.
Emily Hawkins spent the last two years working for the Washington University Medical School doing clinical research, including work on The Contraceptive Choice Project, a prospective cohort study which involved 10,000 women in the St. Louis area. She also served as the Washington University delegate to JHPEIGO, an international health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.
Jessica Pryde is in her final semester of the Master’s program at San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science. She has gained a lot of experience by working in both the Library Dean’s office and the Technical Services Department of the university’s library. She has also had internship experiences doing reference and instruction at the SJSU library and as a librarian as a part of the International Space University's Space Studies Program at the NASA Ames Reseach Center. She will be graduating in December 2009 and is currently seeking employment in an academic or special library.
Ian Schatzberg works at Creathe Group, an online publishing company.
Andy Schupanitz attends law school at Stanford University.
CLASS OF 2008
Caroline Boeke is currently a second year doctoral student in Nutritional Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Her paper "Estimate of infant HIV-free survival at 6 to 8 weeks of age due to maternal antiretroviral prophylaxis in sub-Saharan Africa, 2004-2005," related to her UHF project, was published in the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC) in 2008. She spent summer 2009 in Bogota, Colombia doing fieldwork and is currently working several projects examining maternal and childhood nutrition and their relation to both chronic and infectious disease, especially in the developing world.
Carl Johnson immigrated to Israel after graduation. He currently learns in Yeshivat Darche Noam, the David Shapell College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He is interested eventually in pursuing an MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shannon Petry received a Master's degree with honors in European Union International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium in June 2009. Her thesis, entitled 'Beyond Parallelism? Prospects for transatlantic leadership in international energy security', examined the current state of the EU-US energy security dialogue in bilateral as well as multilateral forums and argued that a main weakness of the existing structures is their frequent exclusion of non-state actors, which then encourages bilateral contacts on the periphery that can undermine negotiations. She is currently working in Bruges as an academic assistant at the College, continuing her research on EU-US relations.
Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld spent the summer after graduation studying Turkish in Ankara, Turkey as the recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship. He started his present job as a Systems Integration Analyst with Accenture in August of 2008. Zachary is currently applying to graduate programs in political science to start in the fall of 2010.
Linda Zhou is in her second year of law school at the University of Michigan.
CLASS OF 2009
Felicia Baskin currently works as a Business Analyst in the Strategy and Operations area of Deloitte Consulting. She has contributed to research projects about consumer behavior and intends to get more involved in the research department of her company.
Alana Burman is currently working in Salt Lake City as an innkeeper at Haxton Manor Bed and Breakfast, the Youth Director at Congregation Kol Ami, and a development intern at KRCL 90.9 fm (Salt Lake's Community Radio Station). She plans to work for two years and then look for a graduate program in Social Work or Public Health.
Michael McEvilly is in his first year of a philosophy PhD at Indiana University at Bloomington. In addition to his coursework, he enjoys participating in a wonderful Kierkegaard reading group, which relates to the work he did for his UHF project.
Zack Zimble received a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate after graduation and currently lives in Shenzhen, China, where he is working as an English Langauge expert at Nanshan Foreign Langauge School. He plans to stay in China for a few more years and eventually return to the US to attend law school.
Andrea Winter is currently completing a semester of post-baccalaureate coursework in chemistry and biology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is considering applying to medical school for the fall of 2011.
"I'm able to make my major exactly what I want because I'm able to take
a lot of diverse courses but they all have a focus."
