Marlise Jean-Pierre, a native of Stamford, CT, is an English major and certificate candidate in Spanish and African-American studies. She focuses specifically on the representation of trauma and mental illness in literature. As an Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholar, she will research the mental health conditions of post-Katrina New Orleans as part of her senior thesis work. Marlise hopes to increase accessibility of mental health care to survivors of major disasters and to victims of sex trafficking. She interned at the  Department of Health and Human Services' Family Violence Prevention and Services Program during the summer of 2011.

Lauren Rhode, of Brookline MA, is a Woodrow Wilson major and a certificate candidate in Chinese Language and Culture and in Near Eastern studies and Arabic. She focuses on national security studies and conflict prevention, with a particular interest in emerging Sino-US competition and cooperation in the Middle East. Ms. Rhode has lived and studied in in China, Morocco, and Israel; servied as an American delegate at Seeds of Peace, where she participated in Arab-Israeli conflict dialogue; and  as an analyst at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College, working on issues of Chinese naval strategy and policy. Lauren interned the summer of 2011 in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Kelly Roache is a native of Little Silver, New Jersey. A Woodrow Wilson major and a certificate candidate in Near Eastern studies, Arabic Language and Culture, and Persian Language and Culture, Kelly focuses on crisis diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia, specifically Iran and Afghanistan. Her semester abroad at the American University in Cairo was cut short by The Arab Spring and she completed the semester at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  Kelly secured a summer internship position working on regional economic engagement and Indian Affairs in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State.

Miriam Rosenbaum, a junior from Bronx, New York, hopes to combine her appreciation for science and dedication to policy by attending medical school and working in the public sector on domestic health issues such as childhood obesity. A major in the Woodrow Wilson School with certificates in African-American studies, Near Eastern studies, Language and Culture and in Judiac studies, she speaks fluent Hebrew and is studying Spanish. Miriam interned at the National Institutes of Health's Department of Bioethics.

Omar Muhsin Usman, who lives in St. Paul, MN, is a native speaker of Arabic and Kiswahili and has lived in Africa and the Middle East. A Wilson School major and certificate candidate in Near Eastern studies, he hopes to apply his experience to issues of international development, politics, and law. He studied in Egypt  the past two summers and interned with the Red Cross Society of Kenya. He  returned to Kenya the summer of 2011 as an intern with USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives/Nairobi working on Somali refugee issues.

Jared Crooks '11 MPA '15, an astrophysics graduate from Fort Worth, Texas,  seeks to use his scientific and technical background to deal with issues of foreign and domestic science policy, national security and development of alternative energy. He has done field research in South Africa, China and Tunisia and served as an intern at NASA. His SINSI internship was spent at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.  Jared's long-term career interest is to return to NASA or work at the U.S. Department of Energy. He began his MPA studies at WWS in the fall of 2011. 

Kevin McGinnis '11 MPA '15, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate with certificates in Spanish, Latin American studies and Environmental studies, is from Salisbury, MD. Kevin was a member of Engineers Without Borders in Ethiopia, studied abroad in Spain and interned with the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. He participated in the Wilson School's inaugural semester abroad program at the University of Havana in the spring of 2010 and conducted water resources management research in Chile and Peru through Princeton's Development Grand Challenges grant program. His summer SINSI internship was spent at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Middle East and North African Affairs working on environmental issues.  He began his MPA studies in the fall of 2011.

Megan McPhee '11 MPA '15, a native of Sudbury, Mass., is a summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Wilson School graduate with certificates in Latin American studies and musical performance. She held a summer internship with La Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura, a nonprofit organization in eastern Bolivia, and spent a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Megan's SINSI internship was with the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stablization Planning Team embedded in the Office of the US Special Envoy to Sudan.  She began her MPA studies the fall of 2011.

Marian Messing '11 MPA '15, of St. Paul, Minn., graduated with honors from the Woodrow Wilson School with certificates  in Arabic and Near Eastern studies. During the spring of 2010, she studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. Marian is interested in issues of international law, human rights, political and economic development and US immigration reform.  As a 2009 Liman Fellow in Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs, she interned at Human Rights Watch's Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program and spent her SINSI summer internship in 2010 at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. For the summer of 2011, Marian was awarded a Rosenthal Fellowship to intern in the Department of Defense's  Office of the Under Secretary for Policy focusing on NATO affairs.  She began her MPA studies in the fall of 2011 as part of a joint MPA/JD degree.

Elias Sánchez-Eppler '11 MPA '15, of Amherst, Mass., hopes to promote international development through a career in the US Foreign Service.  He is a Wilson School magna cum laude graduate with certificates in Latin American studies and Spanish and has lived in Costa Rica, Spain, Chile and Cuba.  In recent summers, he has shepherded procurement and program design at USAID and studied international labor practices with Verite.  Sanchez-Eppler serves on the governing coporation and standing nominating committee of the American Friends Service Committee and oversees emerging partnerships and opportunities for expansion with Generation Enterprise. His senior thesis was awarded the Lt. John A. Larkin Memorial Prize. He began his MPA studies in the fall of 2011.

Rashad Badr '10 MPA '14, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate from Manassas, Virginia, seeks to apply his international background to the fields of diplomacy and international relations and, ultimately, a career in the Foreign Service. He studied abroad at the University of Cape Town, South Africa for a Woodrow Wilson School policy task force and did his summer internship at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. Rashad is a Fellow in the Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at WWS.  He  began his MPA studies the fall of 2010. He began his two-year fellowship the summer of 2011 in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Directorate of Operations, at the Department of State.

Carolyn Edelstein '10 MPA '14, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate with high honors and a certificate in  Environmental Science, is from Toronto, Ontario. She speaks French and Mandarin Chinese and spent the summer of 2009 working on sustainable development and climate change adaptation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Edelstein also participated in a School Task Force in Cape Town, South Africa in Spring ’09. She began her MPA studies the fall of 2010. Her two-year fellowship will be at the US Agency for International Development's new Development Innovation Ventures.

Andrew Kim '10 MPA '14, from Roslyn, New York, graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School's undergraduate program with a certificate in East Asian studies.  He has just completed the first year of his MPA program.  Andrew speaks Korean and Chinese and has spent time working, studying, and researching in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Seoul. He interned at the Department of Defense's Office of East Asian Affairs in the summer of 2009 and returned to the Department of Defense for the initial rotation of his two-year fellowship in the summer of 2011. Mr. Kim looks forward to a subsequent rotation in the Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Simonne Li '10 MPA '14  from Alpharetta, Georgia and a graduate in Chemistry with certificates in Environmental studies and materials, recently completed her first year in the MPA program where she is concentrating in development studies and pursuing a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP).  Aftere an undergraduate focus on solar cells and flexible energy-producing materials, Simonne now works primarily on the role of climate change technology cooperation among major states.  As part of the SINSI program, Ms. Li interned at the Environmental Protection Agency where she worked on greenhouse-gas-reducing technology in the US. She began the MPA program in the fall 2010 and this fall will join the Office of the Advisor to the Secretary of State on Science, Environment and Technology Issues as a fellow.

William Wagner '10 MPA '14, from Montclair, New Jersey, is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Woodrow Wilson School graduate with a certificate in Near Eastern studies.  Upon graduation Mr. Wagner was awarded the Donald E. Stokes Dean's Prize for most significant contribution to the WWS undergraduate program and the program in Near Eastern Studies Thesis Prize.   Proficient in Farsi and Spanish, Wagner studied Arabic as part of Woodrow Wilson School's Policy Task Force at American University in Cairo, Egypt and interned at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo the summer prior to his senior year. He began his MPA studies the fall of 2010 and this summer began his two-year fellowship at the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs' Office of Egypt and the Levant working on Egyptian internal politics.

Tavon Cooke MPA '11, a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has considerable academic and professional background in Russian studies with an emphasis on education, social welfare, and domestic and international health policy issues. Tavon spent his internship with USAID Tbilisi's Health and Social Development section, where he planned and implemented an embassy-wide conference on social capital issues in Georgia.  Following his graduation from the MPA program in May 2011, he was sworn in as a Foreign Service Officer. His first post is Belgrade.

Daniel Joyce MPA '13  served from July 2006 through July 2009 as the program associate on democratic governance and human rights issues in the Andean region at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, DC think-tank for US-Latin American relations. A magna cum laude graduate from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a B.S. in international politics and a certificate in Latin American studies, he spent a semester at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile as part of his undergraduate studies, and organized Dialogue conferences in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. His fellowship beganwith the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Office of Andean Affairs, Department of State, followed by a rotation at the US Embassy Quito, Ecuador. In October 2011 he will begin work as the Syria Desk Officer, Office of Egypt and Levant Affairs, Department of State,

Brieana Marticorena MPA '13, a native of Laguna Hills, California, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in government and a citation in Italian. Marticorena worked in orphanages in Ghana and Brazil, taught English in Thailand, Cambodia and Poland, conducted genetic engineering research in Russia and interned for Congress and the Department of State.  Her fellowship began in the fall of 2010 in the Office of Global Strategic Affairs, Office of the Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Defense and followed by an assignment to the Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell in the Office of the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon.  Ms. Marticorena was awarded a Rosenthal Fellowship at the Department of the Treasury for the summer of 2010 and was included in a Group Achievement Award from Under Secretary of Defense Flournoy for her efforts on the National Security Space Strategy.

Caitlin Pierce MPA '13 was a double major in environmental studies and economics at Dartmouth College. Her interest in these fields has taken her to study and conduct research in southern Africa, India, and British Columbia, as well as an internship in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice. Pierce's fellowship rotations have included the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science at the Department of State and the Office of African Affairs at the US Agency for International Development.

Sarah Ray MPA '13 is from Memphis, Tennessee and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Tulane University in May 2009 with degrees in political science and social policy.  A 2008 Harry S. Truman Scholar, Sarah worked at the Department of Health and Human Services on economic mobility and poverty policy.  Sarah's interest in community and economic development come from her experience in post-Katrina New Orleans, where she worked in the Mayor's Office. Fluent in Spanish, Sarah studied abroad at the University of Granada in Spain, and at the University of Cambridge in England. She also participated in the PPIA JSI program at WWS in 2008.  Her fellowship is in the Secretary's Office of  the Department of Housing and Urban Development where she focuses on connecting housing to health and human services,  the White House Neighborhood Revitilzation Initiative and a Domestic Policy Council initiative on city capacity.

Alexander Correa MPA '12 graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Miami in May 2008 with bachelor’s degrees in economics and international studies. Correa completed a two-year fellowship as an International Economist at the Treasury and worked on the Turkey and Lebanon portfolios prior to assuming the Andean desk officer position. He also managed Treasury's coordinating role in the multilateral Microfinance Growth Fund for the Western Hemisphere and worked at the US Embassy Quito. He began his MPA studies in the fall of 2010 and spent the summer of 2011 working with the World Bank's IFC team in New Dehli.

Caroline Gilliam Walsh MPA '12, from Charlottesville, Virginia, graduated from Columbia University, where she majored in East Asian Languages and Cultures. She won the National Security Education program David L. Boren Scholarship in 2006 and pursued intensive Mandarin Chinese language study. Caroline interned at the Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies and spent two summers studying the language in Beijing. She has worked as an analyst during her fellowship in Washington and began her MPA studies in the fall of 2010.

Brian Kelly MPA '12 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude with a BA in International Relations (with honors) and Modern Middle East studies. He interned at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Department of State, and the FBI. His first SINSI fellowship rotation was as the Economic Sanctions and Energy Officer in the Office of Iranian Affairs at the State Department. He spent the summer of 2009 working in the Iran Regional Presence Office at the US Consulate General, Dubai, the fall at the US Mission to the United Nations and rounded out his fellowship in the Office of the Special Envoy to Sudan. Mr. Kelly has studied  both Farsi and Arabic. Brian interned in the Office of Vice President Biden the summer of 2011 working on foreign policy issues.

Rachel Van Tuyl MPA'12   is currently an MPA2 with a major in international relations. Prior to starting her MPA program in the fall of 2011, Rachel was a SINSI fellow at the Department of the Army working as a political-military foreign affairs specialist in the International Affairs Division responsible for Europe, Eurasia and NATO.  She graduated summa cum laude from Auburn University in 2008 with a degree in economics. As an undergraduate, Rachel interned for the Department of State at the U.S. Embassies in Dublin and London. She was awarded a Critical Language Study Scholarship and  spent the summer of 2010 in Ankara studying Turkish.

Cynthia Barmore '09 MPA '15, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate from Illinois, speaks Italian, French and some Bosnian-Croation-Serbian. She founded a service organization doing volunteer work in Trenton, and was president of Princeton Against Protectionism. She spent the spring semester of her junior year in WWS’ policy task force in Cape Town, South Africa, her summer internship under SINSI with the US Department of Agriculture in Russia and her fellowship with the Office of the Agricultural Attache at US Embassy Rome and the US Mission to the UN Food Agencies, followed by work with USAID's agricultural development project in Bosnia. Both rotations focused on issues of land rights and agricultural development.  She began her MPA studies in the fall of 2011 as part of a joint MPA/JD program with Stanford Law School. Her career goal is to work on issues of land reform and property rights in developing countries.

Shannon Brink '09 MPA '13, a native of Denver, Colorado, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Woodrow Wilson School with certificates in Latin American and Environmental studies. As an undergraduate she was deeply involved with Princeton's chapter of Engineers Without Borders, serving as co-president, secretary, and manager of projects in Peru.  Ms. Brink also studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catlica in Santiago, Chile, where she began research on her thesis on the Inter-American Foundation. As a Scholar, she interned with the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Washington, DC and Nicaragua.  She was a fellow at the USAID Mission in Lima, Peru, where she specialized in economic growth and environment programs, as well as public-private partnerships and communications. Fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese, Ms. Brink began her MPA studies at WWS in the fall of 2011.  She plans a career promoting sustainable economic growth and environmental policies in developing countries.

Emily Yasmin Norris '09, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate from Brookline, Massachusetts, studied Middle East issues, specifically Iran. She has native Farsi, excellent French and good Arabic. She spent the summer of 2006 at American University in Beirut, and had to be airlifted out during the war. She has studied overseas in Oxford and Hamburg, spent a summer doing journalism in Thailand, and  spent spring of her junior year at WWS’ new Cairo Policy Task Force.  Ms. Norris is now a Foreign Service Officer posted to Indonesia.

Brendan Reilly '09, a Politics graduate, is from McLean, Va. He is currently a 1st Lt. with the U.S. Marine Corps.

Michael Shapiro '09 MPA '15, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate from Avon, Connecticut,  is interested in health policy and economic policy, Michael was executive editor for the web at The Daily Princetonian. As part of the SINSI program, Michael interned in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy and, after graduation, at the Department of the Treasury's Office of Economic Policy.  His fellowship has included Research Assistant in the Executive Office of the President of the Council of Economic Advisers working on health care reform, Research Assistant for the Special Advisor to the Director and Associate Director for Economic Policy, Office of Management and Budget at the White House, and at the National Economic Council. He has deferred admission to the MPA program to serve on the National Economic Council staff.

Kimberly Bonner '08 MPA '12 was a molecular biology graduate who seeks to apply her scientific background to global health, specifically malaria control. She spent her summer internship at the U.S. State Department working in the Office of International Health and Biodefense, in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. During her fellowship, she worked with USAID in Tanzania's National Malaria Control program, assisting in a national distribution of 9 million free bed nets.  and her fellowship working with USAID and the CDC in Tanzania on malaria control initiatives.  She began her MPA studies the fall of 2010 and worked with the Center of Disease Control's Malaria Branch on a meta-review of vector control activities the summer of 2011.

Jordan Reimer '08 MPA '12, is concentrating in international relations as an MPA student. As an undergraduate, Jordan majored in politics with a certificate in Near Eastern studies and studied abroad in Egypt and Yemen.  As a junior he interned with the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs/Office of Iranian Affairs. Following graduation, his fellowship at the Department of Defense included rotations in the Office of the Under Secretary for Policy/Iraq Affairs and the Joint Staff on Arabian Peninsula issues as well as work on the Quadrenniel Defense Review and public affairs. He interned this summer in New York City at the Synergos Institute on the Arab World Social Innovators program and returned to Princeton in the fall to complete his MPA studies.

Ishani Sud '08 MPA '12/MEng '12,  graduated with a degree  in chemical engineering with certificates in public policy, neuroscience, materials science and engineering biology.  As an undergraduate she worked with the Global Development Network to design and study low  cost energy and water solutions for developing communities in Africa and South America.  She received the Joseph Clifton Elgin Prize and the Chemical Engineering Department's Design Award at graduation.  As a Scholar, she interned with the  U.S. Naval Forces-Japan in Yokosuka and was a technology analyst in Washington during her SINSI fellowship.  Ishani is interested in a range of international issues including health, technology and security.  She is currently completing a Masters in Engineering in addition to the MPA.

Lilian Timmermann '08 MPA '15, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate with a certificate in East Asian studies, started an organization to tutor immigrants in English and financial literacy and hopes to use her Mandarin and Spanish skills in the nation’s service. Her summer internship was with the State Department’s Western Hemisphere Affairs, Andean Office, covering Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Her fellowship is also at the Department of State where she worked on the first-ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review and in the Bureau of East Asian Affairs in the Office of China Affairs. She also did fellowship rotations at Embassy Beijing and Embassy Rangoon.  She began her joint MPA/JD studies in the fall of 2011.

Eugene Yi '08 MPA '15, a Woodrow Wilson School graduate who speaks Korean and Chinese, founded a translation effort that has drawn attention from the Gates Foundation and the joint United Nations program on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS). He spent his summer internship at the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs as well as the Office of Asian and Pacific Security Affairs at the Department of Defense. His fellowship was divided by work at the Department of Defense Office of the Under Secretary for Policy/East Asian Affairs and the Political Section at the US Embassy Beijing.  He began his joint MPA/JD studies in the fall of 2011.