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International Relations Concentration Graduates

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2008 - Kate Ogden is an organizing manager with Greenpeace's global warming campaign, Project Hot Seat. (02-04-08)

2007 - Mia Psorn is an associate at the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch in New York. (09-21-07)

2002 - Jennifer Schwartzman is an international policy analyst with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. Her portfolio, which includes the International Atomic Energy Agency, has kept her busy traveling between Washington and Vienna. She earned an MA in European and Eurasian studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in 2004. Jennifer is an Editor in Chief emerita of the Brown Journal of World Affairs who double-concentrated in Italian studies while at Brown. (12-20-2006)

2003 - Nicole Bennett is a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco from 2003-2004 and worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein from 2004-2005. (12-13-06)

2005 - Kingston Reif is a 2005 Marshall Scholar completing a MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics in London. In September he will begin a program in Security Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. (5-09-06)

2005 - Louise Sherman is working in Los Angeles as the Marketing Coordinator of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP. She will be attending Boalt Hall, School of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley this coming fall. (3-29-06)

2002 - Amanda Metskas is a third year graduate student in Political Science at Ohio State University. (3-27-06)

2005 - Melissa Singer is working for Teach for America in New York City. (3-27-06)

2002 - Alisha Bjerregaard is a first-year student at Yale Law School (3-15-06).

1999 - Willow Darcie is Associate Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, a high-level bipartisan group of legislators, experts, journalists, policy practitioners, members of academia, and business leaders that addresses key foreign policy problems (3-15-06).

1997 - J. Peter Scoblic is Executive Editor of The New Republic, a publication he joined in 2003. Previously he was a fellow at the New America Foundation, and from 1999-2003 he was editor of Arms Control Today, a magazine covering efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. While a political science concentrator at Brown, he was editor-in-chief of the Brown Journal of World Affairs, which is published in collaboration with the Watson Institute. (3-15-06).

2004 - Jaideep Singh is Web Editor at the journal Foreign Policy, based at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Previously he was an editorial assistant there. While at Brown, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Brown Journal of World Affairs (3-15-06).

2005 - Caroline Novogrod began a job in January 2006 at Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm in New York. She works for their geopolitical risk department managing their pro-bono clients (intergovernmental organizations and NGOs). (1-10-06).

2005 - Emily Kanstroom is working at La Federation Internationale des Droits de L’Homme (International Federation of Human Rights) in Paris, France and teaching English in a French elementary school. For more on Emily, click here and here. (12-3-05).

2004 - Evan Gill began a job as a research assistant at the Institute of International Economics in Washington, DC, in January 2006. Previously she did an internship with Women for Women International, an organization that helps women’s groups rebuild post-conflict communities (12-05).

1999 - Tania Belisle-Leclerc is completing an MA degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (11-05).

2005 - Will Huntington is a Scoville Fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington DC (11-05).

2000 - Stephan Sonnenberg is completing a joint MA-Law degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Harvard Law School, where he focuses on human rights. For more on Stephan, click here. (11-05).

2004 - From New York, Sam Hodges writes that he works for KPL, a mid-size management consulting firm that does a good bit of work internationally. His first major client project took him to Switzerland for several months. (9-18-05)