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Alumni News and Notes
Emily Browning '09 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 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 Monica Kvamme ‘07 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
Elizabeth is working as a task manager for the USAID-funded Health Jonathan Rogers ‘06 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 Jessica will be entering a graduate program in American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Fall 2008. (4-08) Jess Thimm '06 Lauren Greenberg '05 Amanda Kealey '05 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 Alex is entering law school at Rutgers-Camden, beginning Fall 2009. (5-09) Heather (Buessler) Burkland ‘04 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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