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Emily Browning '09
Research Assistant, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Emily is working as a research assistant
and deivides her time between two oncology researchers. She
assists with studies in medical ethics, with a focus on the ethics of
biomdical research and racial differences in the perception of lung
cancer. She gets to use her ethnographic intervieiwng and other
research skills arranging and conducting interviews with pediatric
cancer patients. (07/09)
William Kennedy '08
Reporter for UB Post, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
William sends greetings from Ulaanbaatar!
He is working as a reporter for the UB Post and loves his job. He
writes, "The city has treated me very well; it's much more cosmopolitan
than I expected and I've had a chance to interview people ranging from
bank CEO's and explorers to the 2006 winner of Russian Idol. Somehow,
I've found myself asking almost all of them: "What do you do during a
typical day?" I guess old habits die hard."
Katyana Melic '08
Immigration Law Paralegal/Baha'i Service Fellow, Falls Chuch, VA
Katyana
works at an organization that seeks to protect the rights of immigrant
women and girls fleeing gender-based persecution though direct
litigation and public policy advocacy. The organization serves women in
the DC metro area who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault,
forced marriage, female genital cutting, and many other forms of
violence against women. She helps immigrant women and girls from all
over the world understand their rights and access legal representation.
She gets to use the skills of cultural competency, qualitative research
and draws on her numerous anthropology classes in her daily work in
trying to help diverse individuals navigate the American Immigration
system. Katyana can be reached at katyanamelic@gmail.com.
Monica Kvamme ‘07
Global Client Services Manager, Iconoculture Inc.,
Minneapolis MN
Monica is working at a cultural trend research company,
helping agencies and corporations gain insight into the drivers behind global
consumer behavior. Some of the recent projects she’s been involved
in include researching cultural perceptions of femininity to inform product
repackaging for a large CPG company and collaborating on a report about
consumers’ shifting expectations of corporate responsibility.
Monica can be reached at monica.kvamme@gmail.com.
Elizabeth Eckel, '07
Associate Analyst, Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD
Elizabeth is working as a task manager for the USAID-funded Health
Systems 20/20 project, which means that she assists with operational
tasks for several maternal and child health initiatives as well as
country programs in Liberia, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic
of Congo. She also works on Health Systems 20/20's website using
skills she learned in a 3-hour HTML class at the Dewitt Wallace
Library! Elizabeth recently traveled to the Philippines to help
coordinate and deliver an Asia regional Pay for Performance Workshop,
which sponsored country teams from all around the Asia region to learn
about and develop performance-based financing approaches to ensuring
quality health care delivery. She uses her anthropological skills to
learn the myriad folk terms of international health, and hopes to be
involved with more research in the future. Elizabeth can be reached at
elizabeth.eckel@gmail.com. (5-09)
Jonathan Rogers ‘06
Technical Assistance Coordinator, Neighborhood Networks
Jonathan Rogers, '06, is a Technical Assistance Coordinator at
Neighborhood Networks, an initiative of the US Department of Housing
and Urban Development. Building on his experience in Americorps, he
assists the staff of community centers and computer labs on HUD insured
properties around the country. He has helped centers develop
programming, secure funding resources, create community partnerships,
and improve outreach in interesting places like Spokane, Washington;
DeFuniak Springs, Florida; and Washington, D.C. He enjoys working with
the communities and participants at each center, and helping to
accomplish their goals. Jon can be reached at: jrogers.rogers@gmail.com. (5-6-08)
Jessica Fishken-Harkins ‘06
Graduate student in American Studies, University of New Mexico
Jessica will be entering a graduate program in American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Fall 2008. (4-08)
Jess Thimm '06
Program Associate, AED, Washington, DC
Jess Thimm works in the Global Health, Population, and Nutrition group
at the Academy for Educational Development facilitating administrative
and operational efficiency, and ensuring that all projects meet USAID
or CDC policies and procedures. She currently works on hygiene
improvement in Nepal, Ethiopia, and Uganda; health communications in
Ghana; family planning in Ukraine; and injection safety in Haiti,
Guyana, and across sub-Saharan Africa. She is soon leaving Washington
DC to pursue an MPH in Community Health Education and Global Health at
the University of Minnesota. Jess can be reached at jess.thimm@gmail.com.
Lauren Greenberg '05
Associate Analyst, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA
Lauren
is working in a public policy firm where she participates in research,
evaluation, and technical assistance projects. Currently she is working
on a project evaluating a Health and Human Service grant called
Communities Empowering Youth. The grant aims to build capacity of
youth-serving non-profit partnerships. She gets to conduct qualitative
interviews and draws on her ethnographic interviewing skills! Lauren
can be reached at laurgreenberg@gmail.com.
Amanda Kealey '05
Qualitative Ethnographic Researcher and Marketing Strategist, SBR Consulting
Amanda works as a research strategist, moderator, and marketer in the
fields of healthcare, public policy, retail, and consumer packaged
goods. Amanda uses traditional and ethnographic tactics tailored to
address specific client ambitions. Specializing in unique and
actionable research solutions, her work has assisted The Boeing
Corporation, General Mills, AXA Assistance, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue
Shield, MoneyGram, Mentium Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group,
Vera Bradley, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National
Community Pharmacists Association, among others. (4-08)
Alex Rubenstein '05
Law Student, Rutgers-Camden
Alex is entering law school at Rutgers-Camden, beginning Fall 2009. (5-09)
Heather (Buessler) Burkland ‘04
Graduate Student at the University of Washington
Heather will be entering a Master's Program in Social
and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Fall 2008.
(3-08)
Natalie Mettler ‘03
PhD student in African History, Boston University
nataliemettler@yahoo.com
Interviewed by Jon Rogers ‘06
Natalie is currently wrapping up her second year at
Boston University, pursuing a PhD in African History. Though she was an
international student, Natalie was able to work domestically in the
U.S. after graduating from Macalester, and served and hostessed at the
Twin City Grill in the Mall of America, and worked as an administrative
assistant for the Twin Cities Children’s Hospital. This was a
good way for Natalie to get to know the Twin Cities outside of the
Macalester bubble and grab some life experience.
While at Macalester during her Junior Year, Natalie
studied abroad in Cameroon and began her interest in African Studies.
Natalie found Professor Guneratne’s class “Anthropology of
Development” to be the most provocative during her time at
Macalester.
Honor Schauland ‘03
homeralice@yahoo.com
Interviewed by Koby Hagen
From Honor’s previous experience as a cook at a
local restaurant and as an organizer for the Organic Consumers
Association, she has learned a lot about community involvement.
Currently, she is self-employed and she finds challenges and problems
in her community, organizes community projects to address them and
implements the projects. Her current research is on
Methamphetamines. She is examining how it affects rural
communities in different ways and how she can plan and organize people
to curb and stop the spread of this drug.
Susanna Fioratta ‘02
PhD Student in Anthropology, Yale University
After graduation Susanna spent two years as a Peace
Corps volunteer in Guinea. Now she is working on her dissertation research for her PhD in
anthropology at Yale University.
Diana Cartier ‘01
International Organization for Migration, Zimbabwe
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
diana_cartier@yahoo.com
Interviewed by Brittany Lynk
Experienced with the ability to make a difference, Diana
is in the right field of international development. She has worked a
number of interesting jobs and internships in both the US (Land
O’Lakes international development division), and abroad in South
Africa (Khulisa Management Services-development consultancy firm), and
Mozambique (TechnoServe-focused on community health in rural areas),
and now in Zimbabwe, as well as attaining a Masters in International
Development in 2005 (Institute of Political Studies in Paris, France).
While at Macalester, Diana was also involved in a number
of internships, namely the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
(Refugee and Asylum Project) and two community organizations in
asset-based community development one in Phillips neighborhood in
Minneapolis and Frogtown in St. Paul. Her interests were broad,
but all revolved around international issues and community development
and being able to contribute positively to the world around her. As an
Urban Studies major with minors in Anthropology and Sociology, she was
able to prepare herself for how she wanted to live her life:
“working within communities (in an urban setting), being able to
cherish the differences in culture, understand the differences and relate to people despite those differences.”
Pamela Kriege Santoso ‘95
psantoso@cvt.org
Interviewed by Kirsten Bean ‘06
Pamela Kriege Santoso is the Manager of the
International Capacity Building Project at the Center for Victims of
Torture, and has been with the project since August 2001. She graduated
from Macalester College with a double major in anthropology and
psychology and is currently finishing a Masters in Public Health from
the University of Minnesota. Throughout her years in the field, Pamela
has drawn on her training in anthropology and psychology in order to
work with INGOs, private companies, and government officials to develop
specific training programs by conducting needs assessments, designing
and developing curriculum, instructing, and evaluating the training
courses.
Thomas B Ibsen ‘93
Park Ranger with the National Park Service at the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
ecoperson@hotmail.com
Interviewed by Ekke Soot ‘06
After his graduation, Tom worked for a few years outside
of his study area with the MN Department of Human Services for a few
years as a medical claims technician and Minnesota Care enrollment
representative. In 1997, Tom was contacted by his former
internship supervisor and offered a 2-month position as a Park Ranger
for the National Park Service. Nearly 10 years later, Tom still
enjoys the park setting where people and the environment come
together. Tom also operates his own business called GrassRoots
Restoration. Its main purpose is to plant and restore native
plants in urban settings to save time and energy and help people
reconnect to an important piece of our heritage. His work can be
seen on campus at the Macalester Prairie under the wind turbine south
of Olin-Rice.
Karen Lundegaard ‘89
Assistant Business Editor
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
klundegaard@yahoo.com
Interviewed by Nate Oglesbee ‘06
Despite graduating from a school that didn’t offer
much in the way of journalistic training, Karen Lundegaard has still
been able to move into the upper echelon of newspapers, working as a
reporter for the Wall Street Journal for eight and a half years before
joining the Star Tribune in Minneapolis as an assistant business
editor. After graduating from Mac with a degree in Anthropology,
Ms. Lundegaard went on to earn her Masters in Journalism from
Northwestern University. While she didn’t get much formal
training for her future career in Mac, her Anthro degree has served her
well. “Cultural anthropology is about telling
people’s stories from their perspective, without the imprint of
judgment or bias. I think that’s what good journalism
is,” Ms Lundegaard says. She graduated from Mac without
knowing what would come next, but she says that she couldn’t be
happier with where she ended up.
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