SIPA Reaches Out Around the World

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From the Dean Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA
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Alumni Profile Cecile Brunswick: The Diplomacy of Art
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Alumni Forum WTC Town Meeting: Democracy Downtown
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Faculty Profiles
Jeffrey Sachs, Kenneth Prewitt, Joan Helpern, Richard Robb, David Nissen
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Student Profiles
James Lalremruata, Violeta Krasnic, Robert Seidman, Svetlana Pinzari
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SIPA Reaches Out Around the World
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Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia
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On the Job Around the Globe
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Alumni News MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10th Reunion
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Alumni News Letter from Jakarta
9 Picker Center News
19 Class Notes
21 Development News
From the Dean: Lisa Anderson
Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA
o live life at SIPA is to
live at the center of controversy. But, and you
may be surprised to read
this here, that is exactly
how I think it should
be. Whether we deliberate about curriculum reform, argue about the merits
of economic policy in Manhattan or
Mongolia (and we have alumni in
both places, and nearly everywhere in
between, debating economic policy
right now), discuss admissions criteria
or challenge the World Trade Organization, we are a community not simply
of disinterested scholars but of deeply
committed and passionate analysts and
activists. It is our dedication to the
schooling of that passion and commitment which makes SIPA the magic
place it is.
I was reminded of this most
recently as we began a debate here
at SIPA, indeed, at universities across
the United States, about the merits of
the campaign calling for universities to
divest their holdings in firms that manufacture and supply weapons used by
Israel to maintain the occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza. Debate
being what it is, this conversation has
been heated, as proponents of divestment have voiced very pointed and
harsh criticisms of Israeli government
policy and opponents have drawn on
arguments from national security to
free trade to condemn the campaign.
In permitting — indeed, encouraging — students, faculty, and staff
to debate this question, or any other
question of public policy, we at SIPA
are fulfilling one of the fundamental
purposes of a university, to provide
an arena in which ideas are tested.
We often forget that there are
three elements in a good education.
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The most familiar is learning, of
course, the transmission of a community’s received wisdom to new generations. All SIPA students experience
this, learning as they do from the work
of their elders, and it allows each generation to incorporate and build on the
work of its predecessors. A good education also entails the creation of new
knowledge through research. Most
SIPA students are also familiar with
this, working on data sets, pouring
over archives, designing surveys, participating in workshops with faculty
and other researchers. Sometimes
the product is a major scientific breakthrough — the kind of thing that
quickly becomes the received wisdom
of the next generation. Usually it is
more modest — perhaps a new plan
for managing a not-for-profit organization’s social service delivery — but
this sort of invention is nonetheless a
part of the creative impulse at the core
of true education.
There is a third vital element of
genuine education, and that is the
refinement of ideas, both received
and new, through testing and debate.
This constant, restless challenge to our
understanding of our world in what
John Stuart Mill called the “marketplace of ideas” is not ordinarily listed as
part of the university’s curriculum, but
it is an essential part of the translation
of new knowledge into received wisdom, indeed, of the conversion of
information into knowledge in the first
place. Unlike the first two elements,
this one does not have a formal venue
or time slot on the university schedule.
It may take place in the classroom, but
it doesn’t have to. Indeed, it should
infuse the entire experience of life at a
place like SIPA. Any good class and all
research require testing, critical analysis
and argument. But the habit of mind
that reflects an educated person is discriminating, thoughtful and demanding outside of class and beyond the
research project as well.
A competent citizen takes seriously the responsibility to think reflectively, to examine questions carefully,
to both treasure and to test the
received wisdom of the community.
In order to nurture this capacity
among our students at SIPA, we steadfastly defend the notion of academic
freedom. There would be nothing to
debate, no reason to question our
assumptions, to challenge received
wisdom, to create new knowledge if
we all agreed on everything. Fortunately, we do not. We provoke each
other to reflect on and refine our
beliefs and our arguments and in the
process we strengthen ourselves as
individuals and as a community. So,
yes, dear readers, you may take exception to some of the positions you see
or hear among the students and faculty
at SIPA in the debate about divestment, and in many other forums.
From my experience, there is no better
place in the world than at Columbia,
from the International Affairs Building’s sixth floor coffee shop to the
steps of Low Library, for an animated
discussion about issues of concern to
our community. We hope that our
friends and alumni, like today’s students, seized and treasured the opportunity to test their ideas in this most
accommodating of marketplaces. And
we hope that they are all better citizens
for it, still committed and passionate,
but discerning and wise as well.
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Alumni Prof ile: Cecile Brunswick
The Diplomacy of Art
By Celeste Tarricone
alking into Cecile
Brunswick’s
studio in the garment district of
Manhattan is like
stepping through
the looking glass into Alice’s Wonderland. Each door of the labyrinthine
space yields a new surprise — a boxy
foyer hung with black and white photos,
a tiny anteroom warmly decorated with
cinnamon-colored walls and whimsical
sculptures, and a long, narrow hallway
lined with large canvases wrapped in
plastic like gifts waiting to be opened.
And at the very end of the path,
the apartment unfolds into a brightly
lit room with high ceilings and pure
white walls dressed with her paintings,
whose signature style includes bold
lines against backgrounds gently
washed in color.
Brunswick, who graduated back
in the days when SIPA was still SIA
(the School of International Affairs),
has shaped a career for herself as an
artistic ambassador, using her painting
as an avenue for dialogue about international affairs and understanding.
When she started at SIA, though,
she dreamed of being a diplomat in the
Middle East, focusing on Arab-Israeli
relations.
“Not a very good choice for a
woman at that time,” said Brunswick,
who was born in Belgium and came
to the United States as a young child.
After graduation, she stayed in
New York, instead, and worked for
the Foreign Policy Association, the
Indonesian consulate, and as a speechwriter for the Afghan delegation to the
United Nations.
At the UN, Brunswick spent so
much time with the diplomats she
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Cecile Brunswick finds artistic inspiration in Morocco
worked for that “other diplomats
thought I was a member of the
Afghani delegation, which amused
me to no end,” she said.
A short while later, Brunswick
married and moved to a “teeny tiny
town” in western Pennsylvania, where
her only contact with international
affairs was through books borrowed
from the local library. Instead of writing speeches for diplomats as she had
done in New York, she penned letters
to the editor of the local paper offering
commentary on current events.
“I didn’t know what I would do.
There wasn’t anything I could use my
degree for,” she said.
Within a year and a half, she and
her family had moved back to New
York City, but instead of resuming
her career in international affairs, she
started down another path, photogra-
phy. She began working for a photo
agency, and soon started taking her
own pictures and building her own
business.
After attending an intensive art
workshop in Assisi, Italy, where she
“did nothing but paint,” Brunswick
changed course again and focused on
the fine arts.
“I use my paintings to express my
feelings about what I see and feel, and
what is happening in my life,” she said.
“It isn’t haphazard. It’s based on what
I’ve learned.”
Two years ago, during a trip to
Morocco, she finally had an opportunity to merge her interest in art and
international affairs, and to use her
paintings to raise awareness about
other countries and cultures.
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Democracy Downtown
By Erin Doyle, ’01
n Saturday, July 20th,
2002, I had the
opportunity to participate in something
awesome: democracy
in action. As someone who has spent most of her life in
a thriving democracy (and enough
time in fledgling democracies and nondemocracies to know better), I am
certain that we Americans take our
freedom for granted on a daily basis.
Perhaps that’s because most of us have
never known anything else. But I have,
and that’s what inspired me to participate in the town hall meeting to discuss
the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.
Brief visits to Soviet Russia, Cuba,
and Nicaragua and three years working
in Eurasia for NGOs that aim to foster
participatory democracy in the newly
independent states of the former Soviet
Union have blessed me with a deep
appreciation for all the freedoms we
enjoy. After years of watching others
work to build better societies, to voice
their opinions loudly enough for their
(sometimes unwilling) governments to
hear, I was presented with the opportunity to be a voice in the civil society of
my own world. I was also presented
with the responsibility to act on that
opportunity.
The town hall was nothing short
of extraordinary. I had witnessed
countless similar exercises in new
democracies, but nothing can compare
to what happened in New York City
that day. More than 4,000 citizens
came together to make their voices
heard. More than 4,000 citizens were
not complacent about their civic
responsibility. We devoted an entire
Saturday (a beautiful day in the middle
of summer) to the rebuilding of our
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city and, ultimately, to our belief in
democracy. We were addressed by
members of the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation (the organization charged with heading up the
rebuilding effort), the Port Authority
(the organization generally responsible
for the World Trade Center), the
mayor’s office, and one of the victims’
families associations. A brilliant facilitator walked us through a day of structured discussion that covered topics
from our hopes and concerns about
rebuilding downtown to reactions to
the six plans unveiled earlier that week
for the WTC site and ideas on appropriate settings for a memorial.
Using the latest technology (each
participant had a keypad to respond
to multiple choice questions) we were
able to see results to simple questions
immediately. A review of the demographics of the participants showed
that the group was representative of the
region at large in terms of gender, age,
income, race, and ethnicity. We also
learned that: 9% of us were survivors
of 9/11; 33% were at or near Ground
Zero on 9/11; 21% became displaced
or unemployed as a result of 9/11; 6%
were rescue or recovery workers; 23%
live or lived in lower Manhattan; 41%
work or worked in lower Manhattan.
For more involved questions, we
held small group discussions at tables
of up to 10 people: picture a room
with over 400 small group discussions
occurring simultaneously. Each table
had a professional facilitator to assist
with the discussion, all of whom came
to New York on their own dime, in
response to a call for volunteers over
the Internet. They came from all 50
states and six foreign countries, including Afghanistan. The participants at my
table included: a Caucasian, handicapped woman of about 50, who is a
resident of lower Manhattan and head
of a tenant organization in Battery Park
City; an African-American woman who
is a lawyer and whose two sons worked
at the WTC (neither was hurt on
9/11); an Arab man who worked at
Windows on the World but was not
at work on 9/11; a Caucasian woman
in her 20’s who is a Ph.D. student in
sociology at Columbia and was there
primarily to observe the process; and
me (I was at Ground Zero on 9/11
and am still displaced from my place of
work.) The dynamic in the room was
phenomenal — everyone was focused
on the task at hand, was serious about
discussion, and considerate of everyone’s opinions. Participants laughed
and cried together, as the subject matter warranted.
Each table was equipped with a
laptop computer, hooked into a network. Responses were funneled to the
network and read by a team of analysts
who summarized the results and
posted them on large screens throughout the room about an hour after we
submitted them. It was amazing not
only to receive such immediate feedback but also to see such dramatic
trends in the responses from throughout the room. Opinions were expressed
on an array of issues — from a review
of the six concept plans to a proposed
mission statement for the memorial,
the importance of restoring the skyline,
and the need for affordable housing
in the neighborhood. Due to an overwhelmingly negative response to the
six concept plans, the planners agreed
at the end of the day to re-think them.
The town hall was
nothing short of
extraordinary....
More than 4,000
citizens came together
to make their voices
heard. More than
4,000 citizens were
not complacent about
their civic responsibility.
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Faculty Prof ile
Jeffrey Sachs
By Anjali Cordeiro
hen Jeffrey Sachs gave
his first lectures at
Columbia this fall,
SIPA’s auditorium could
barely hold the throng of students
who poured in. The eager audience
had come to hear the scholar who has
served as an advisor to governments
all over the globe and has, on occasion,
been called the “world’s most important economist.” They weren’t disappointed. Sachs’s forthright opinions on
achieving sustainable development in
the 21st century left them with plenty
to think about.
Sachs’s move from Harvard University to Columbia last year and his
much-publicized appointment as
director of the Earth Institute was seen
as something of a coup for Columbia.
Sachs also serves as special advisor to
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
on the United Nations’ Millennium
Development Goals, an international
plan for poverty alleviation that
includes cutting extreme poverty by
half and achieving universal primary
education throughout the world.
Sachs says that his responsibilities at
the UN will complement his work
at the Earth Institute, where many
scientists are already working on ways
to meet the Millennium goals. “The
fact that I personally have these two
responsibilities, and, more importantly,
that the United Nations agencies
and the Earth Institute are working
together on this shared commitment,
is extremely exciting and strongly promotes the shared objective,” he said.
Sachs does not mince words
when he talks about the progress on
the Millennium Development Goals.
“If things are left as they are right now,
we will not meet the Millennium goals,
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we will not find the political will, and
we will have continued extreme suffering of billions of people in the coming
decade,” he said. “But it is quite possible not only to meet the goals from a
technical point of view but actually to
find the political organization and
will to do that. I think that at critical
moments like this we have to work
especially hard to try to turn these
potential crises into a real positive
opportunity.”
Sachs, who is known for unorthodox views about development, is
equally candid when he discusses the
commitment resource-rich countries
must make towards issues of sustainable development. He is especially
vocal about their role in the war
against AIDS in Africa. “We got the
treasury secretary to Africa this spring.
He went to hospitals and he went
to the clinics and he was horrified by
what he saw. I’m still waiting for the
policy response to that. There is a little
bit of progress, but it is much too slow.
It is not satisfactory at all. I won’t take
heart in it until the U.S. is really exercising the kind of leadership that it is
capable of exercising and that the
world needs it to exercise,” he said.
Sachs came to Columbia after a
long tenure at Harvard, where he was
director of the Centre for International
Development and the Galen L. Stone
Professor for International Trade. He
has acted as a consultant to organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and
the United Nations Development
Programme, and has served as an
economic advisor to governments on
every continent. “The things I have
been able to see and learn in the past
20 years of on-the-ground work in all
Jeffrey Sachs
parts of the world for me suggest real
solutions to some of these great challenges,” he said.
Besides heading the Earth Institute, Sachs has appointments at SIPA
and at the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences. He is giving lectures all over
the university, meeting students and
working to get them involved with the
Earth Institute. “I definitely plan to
devote a lot of time to teaching. But
this first year is teaching through visiting all parts of the university and giving a lot of talks and lectures along the
way,” he explained.
And how does Columbia compare to Harvard? “I love Harvard,
I have to say. I spent 30 years there
and didn’t imagine that I was not
going to spend the next years of my
career there. This came as a surprise,
but I am finding Columbia and New
York to be completely exhilarating.”
Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA
student concentrating in International
Media and Communications and South
Asian studies.
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Faculty Prof ile
Joan Helpern
Ken Prewitt
By Fabiota Salata
By Christine Caralis
hen Professor Ken
Prewitt got a call
offering him the
position of director
of the United States Census
Bureau, overseeing the 2000 population survey, he was so surprised,
he suggested several other people
he thought would be better suited
for the job.
But once he began working
on the census, often hailed as the
largest peacetime mobilization in
America’s history, it became a “fascinating experience,” said Prewitt,
who started his new appointment
at SIPA in January 2003.
Prewitt said he loved “watching the civic participation in the
census unfold in thousands of
communities across the country.”
Inside the nation’s capital,
however, he got a different view.
“Initially, I underestimated the way
in which partisanship would try to
trump evidence and rational argument,” Prewitt said. “In the university, we believe that facts are
stubborn things, and that they
should and will prevail. In partisan
politics, facts are not stubborn but
endlessly flexible.”
After leaving the Census
Bureau, Prewitt served as dean of
the graduate faculty at the New
School University before coming
to SIPA. This semester he will
teach two courses, one on the role
of race in census surveys around
the world, and another on the
complex interaction between the
social sciences and policy analysis.
Prewitt, who has done considerable research on the role
private foundations play in policy
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analysis and policy advocacy, has
twice served as president of the
Social Science Research Council,
and as a board member of several
academic and international organizations.
Prewitt said he is excited to
engage SIPA students in discussions about how national measurement systems, such as a census,
affect group identities and social
issues such as race relations. With
such a diverse international population, SIPA offers a great opportunity to gather different perspectives, he said.
“This is the early tremor of an
earthquake in how we understand
race and ethnicity… The public is
ill-prepared, and the policy process
confused. Perhaps SIPA is the
place to prepare the lesson plans
for the country.”
Fabiola Salata is a first-year dual
degree MIA/MBA student.
ou will have to be
very direct,
I ramble,” said Joan
Helpern, founder of
the fashion house Joan & David,
with a warm smile.
A native New Yorker who has
lived all around the world, a social
psychologist, a business entrepreneur, a CEO and a fashion icon,
Helpern joined the SIPA faculty
this past fall as a co-professor with
Professor Hans Decker of the International Finance and Business (IFB)
Internship Workshop.
She was attracted to the international aspects of SIPA, which she
likens to a mini-United Nations,
because she values mentoring so
much. She describes the students
as “committed scholars from all of
the world exchanging ideas, learning new skills, getting to know
each other, refining their thinking,
and re-examining their issues.”
Although new to SIPA, she
has a Columbia Master of Social
Psychology and is currently a
faculty advisor and mentor to
the Business School’s Lang
Entreprenurial Studies Program.
Helpern had always intended
to stay in academia, and she
attended Harvard University
to complete her doctorate in
social psychology.
Eventually Helpern left academia to establish a successful fashion company, Joan & David, targeting intelligent business women.
Ever since, she has been shattering
the glass ceiling for women.
Helpern presently serves on
Harvard’s JFK Women’s Leadership Board. She is the recipient of
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over three dozen awards, from
design excellence to personal
achievement, is a member of the
Council of Fashion Directors of
America, and is a co-founder of
the Committee of 200, a forum
designed to encourage and support women entrepreneurs and
corporate executives.
She says her real mentors
were her mother and grandmother, who taught her to never
be satisfied. She recounts proudly
that her mother completed a double major in 1912 and her grandmother established a successful
insurance business in the 1800s.
Like these women who inspired
her, Joan Helpern is pioneering
the way for women and is now
bringing those skills to benefit
SIPA students.
Christine Caralis is a second-year
MIA student concentrating in International Energy Management and
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Faculty Prof ile
Faculty Prof ile
Richard Robb
David Nissen
By Tamala Montgomery
By Mohammed Hadi
earing black converse sneakers, an
old polo shirt, and
faded black jeans,
Richard Robb hardly seems the
corporate type. While pursuing a
Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, Robb distinguished himself as a serious academic, conducting research with
Nobel Laureate Gary Becker on
manpower training programs.
Currently, in his spare time, Robb
manages a hedge fund that trades
and invests in European assetbacked securities.
Robb’s obvious intellectual
curiosity and concern for social
policy may seem hard to square
with his 16 years in corporate
finance. Although Robb won’t
claim he “wanted to help mankind
through derivatives,” he denies
selling out. In Robb’s view, “society benefits from a banker who
helps underwrite a novel residential mortgage bond (allowing families to buy homes) in the same way
that it benefits from a researcher
who devises more effective urban
policies.”
As a professor, Robb engages
students with his obvious love for
economics and his liberal pragmatism. He said the highlight of his
first year at SIPA was when his
students developed an economic
policy solution for increasing the
supply of AIDS vaccines to Africa.
In fact, thoughtful students
and a collegial environment are
two things that drew Robb to
SIPA. “I have been struck by how
earnest and pleasant everyone is,”
he commented. “Students thank
hat’s unique
about our program is the concentration on
the interaction between energy
policy, business, and economic
development… which is appropriate for our location here at SIPA,”
says David Nissen when describing
the Program in International
Energy Management and Policy
(IEMP).
Nissen became director of
IEMP this fall and has spent the
last few months solidifying the
program’s graduate curriculum
while settling in at the Center for
Energy, Marine Transportation
and Public Policy.
That Nissen has worked in
both the public and private sectors
gives him a vantage point from
which to further develop the
IEMP goal of getting “policymakers and business developers on the
same page.” He spent the last 12
years as the “resident economist”
for Poten & Partners, an energy
consulting firm, but also worked
for the federal government during
the administrations of Presidents
Nixon, Ford and Carter.
During his time at the Federal
Energy Administration, which
eventually became the Department
of Energy, Nissen worked on the
development of a national energy
policy, originally called “Project
Independence” by the Nixon
Administration. “It was a very
exciting time of my life; we were
trying to bring some rationality to
a very big problem,” Nissen said.
Nissen also worked for
Exxon’s Corporate Planning
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Richard Robb
me after my lectures. They apologize when they do badly on exams.
I have never seen anything like it.”
Another draw to SIPA was the
opportunity to devote more time
to his research interests.
Robb, who now teaches two
courses, Economics of Finance and
International Capital Markets, in
both fall and spring semesters,
offered a tip to his economics students: “Economics is a powerful
science for understanding human
behavior and public policy. If it
were easy, everyone would know it.
You should expect to struggle.”
Tamala Montgomery is a second-year
MPA student concentrating in
Advanced Policy Analysis.
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Department and Chase Manhattan’s Corporate Lending Group.
This is not Nissen’s first academic experience either. He has
been on the faculty at the Rutgers
School of Business and the Rice
University Department of Economics, and has a doctorate in
economics from the University
of California at Berkeley.
He hopes to take advantage
of SIPA’s diverse offerings, including the finance and environmental
policy faculties, to address the
environmental and infrastructure
development issues that he considers “core issues in energy policy.”
Mohammed Hadi is a second-year
MPA student concentrating in Media
and Communications. Last summer
he interned at AFX News, a business
newswire in New York.
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Student Prof ile
James Lalremruata
By Liz Leyne
James Lalremruata
ames Lalremruata, a political activist from Burma (also
known as Myanmar) is an
MPA student at SIPA studying international development and
management. James possesses a
determination to fight, through
non-violent means, to restore
democracy in Burma, which he
describes as “one of the most
repressive governments in the
world.”
Lalremruata’s political
activism dates back to the 8888
movement (August 8, 1988), the
nationwide uprising which was
brutally repressed, calling for an
end to military rule. In the 1990
election, Aung San Suu Kyi, the
General Secretary of the National
League for Democracy, won 82%
of the national vote. However, the
government nullified the election.
As Lalremruata attests, “It is still
the will of the Burmese people that
power be transferred to our elected
government.”
Lalremruata, a teenager at the
time, was part of an underground
network that assisted activists fleeing into neighboring countries,
and in 1992, he also left Burma for
New Dehli, India, where he
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received political asylum as a
refugee. This was the last time Lalremruata saw his family.
While in India, Lalremruata
co-founded the All Burma Student
League (ABSL), a non-violent
movement that believes in “people’s unity and strength” in establishing a truly democratic government and “will leave no stone
unturned in its fight to remove the
bloody military regime in Burma.”
Lalremruata lobbied the Indian
government, international organizations, and political parties to
appeal for the support of the
Burmese people; he also launched
a number of political and social
awareness campaigns.
He left India to finish his
undergraduate degree at Hartwick
College in New York and then
came to SIPA to continue his studies. After graduating this spring,
Lalremruata will not return to his
homeland, as he would be forced
to acknowledge the military government as the true and legitimate
government of Burma. However,
he will continue his struggle and
that of the Burmese people. He
considers the fight for democratization as “do or die.”
He believes that, “The most
important part is keeping the spirit
alive. If you lose your heart, you
lose everything.”
Liz Leyne is a second-year MIA student concentrating in Economic and
Political Development. Before coming
to SIPA, she had a Fulbright Scholarship in Amman, Jordan, where she
researched the role of women in the
democratization process.
Violeta Krasnic
ioleta Krasnic is a problem solver. She saw a crisis in her native country
— violence against
women — and set up a women’s
center to help victims and put an
end to the abuse. Before coming
to SIPA, Krasnic, a first-year MIA
student from Belgrade, Serbia,
co-founded the Autonomous
Women’s Center Against Sexual
Violence in Belgrade in 1993.
“At that point, the rape of
Muslim women by Serbian men in
Bosnia was receiving lots of attention,” said Krasnic, whose studies
at SIPA focus on human rights.
“We knew Serbian women had
been raped, too, so we said, “Let’s
go find them.”
Krasnic established a hotline
for victims of sexual violence, provided one-on-one counseling, and
formed self-help support groups
to address the various needs of
victims. The organization also
provided legal help, healthcare,
and economic support to women.
At one point it had a theater,
where the women would put on
skits for one another.
“It was encouraging to see
that your support can help make
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someone do something for themselves,” Krasnic said.
While running the women’s
center, Krasnic worked with nongovernment organizations focused
on women’s issues, and, in 1997,
helped organize the first Women’s
Human Rights Conference for
Central and Eastern Europe. Krasnic also helped organize support
groups, education sessions, and
worked on media relations as she
traveled throughout Serbia.
Krasnic’s work with victims of
violence started while she was a
student at Belgrade University,
studying psychology. A domestic
violence hotline sought volunteers,
and Krasnic offered her time. “I
had these huge ideas of changing
the world, of changing their
world,” she said.
Krasnic left the center and
Belgrade in 1998 to continue her
formal education. She finished her
psychology degree at Columbia’s
School of General Studies in 2001,
and then decided to continue her
studies at SIPA.
She expects to graduate with
her MIA in December 2003, and
says she has no formal post-graduation plans, but knows she wants
to work in the area of human
rights. The only way to secure
women’s safety is through empowerment, she said, and she hopes
to continue working on behalf of
women.
Sandra Kinne is a first-year MPA student concentrating in education policy. Before coming to SIPA, she taught
fourth grade in Compton, California.
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Student Prof ile
Student Prof ile
Robert Seidman
By Nori Akashi
Robert Seidman
or Robert Seidman, SIPA
has provided a perspective
that reaches well beyond
his days on Wall Street.
He is in his second year of the
Executive MPA program, attempting to add something “more than
spreadsheets” to his resume.
“Wall Street has its own subculture,” Seidman says of his six
years in the financial world. “I was
surrounded by so many smart people, and you never stand out with
your just-above-the-average smartness.” Wall Street culture also startled him with its own lingo and
intensive interaction in the financial market. “I needed a translator
for the first six months.” Even
though he made his way up the
corporate ladder in this field at
major organizations such as
Lehman Brothers and Goldman
Sachs, he was still drawn to politics
and the public sector.
He decided to leave the corporate world, and he is now working at New York Governor George
Pataki’s office. Seidman finds
SIPA’s EMPA program so appealing because it not only allows him
to continue working, but he can
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Svetlana Pinzari
By Jennifer Dudley
apply much of what he learns in
the classroom to his job.
“Here I am dealing with public-private partnership, to which
I can apply a lot of my coursework
at SIPA,” Seidman says excitedly.
He is enjoying learning about the
various political, financial, and
legal aspects of working in the
public sector.
SIPA also offers Seidman a
much broader perspective. Before
SIPA, he had only limited exposure to international environments
at his work, “since all their overseas
offices are only located in industrialized countries.” But at SIPA,
with nearly half of the students
coming from places outside of the
U.S., he is learning about countries and cultures that he was never
exposed to in his Wall Street days.
He is confident that SIPA is opening the door for him to a broader
world.
Nori Akashi is a second-year MIA
student concentrating in International Media and Communications.
Last summer she interned at CNN
in Tokyo.
Svetlana Pinzari
tudying at SIPA with
students from around
the world has inspired
Svetlana Pinzari, former
vice-governor of the Bank of
Moldova, to promote government
support of university education,
particularly in the areas of economics and technology. Pinzari,
a student in the Program in
Economic Policy Management
(PEPM) at SIPA, is studying for
her MPA, focusing in macroeconomic policy management.
In 1991, Pinzari was working
in a small village bank when
Moldova gained its independence
from the USSR. Moldova then
commenced the transition from
Soviet-style government to one of
its own design. During the past 10
years, the Moldovan government
has revamped its entire economic
system, often with the assistance of
short-term training offered by
many international organizations.
Pinzari attended the trainings and
steadily moved up the ranks from
the village bank to vice-president
of the commercial bank to the
very prominent position of vicegovernor.
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Her willingness to learn and
try new things has helped her
advance in her career and led her to
SIPA. “I benefit greatly from meeting people from the central banks of
different countries such as Pakistan,
Mongolia, Haiti, and China and
discussing monetary policy and government procedures. It helps me to
learn of the strengths and weaknesses of different regimes.” Pinzari
also plans to promote a government
program she learned of from a classmate from Kazakhstan “to send
young people to university as a
means to invest in the future.”
She finds it very hard to compare studying at SIPA to her previous university study in Moldova,
pre-1991. At that time she only
studied the socialist model of economics and says that “free discussion was not encouraged.” Pinzari
appreciates the teaching style of
PEPM Director Francisco RiveraBatiz, who encourages the students
to analyze the weakness and
strength of policies.
The learning environment at
SIPA does not leave her with very
much free time, which is her only
regret. Nonetheless, Pinzari finds
that after so many years of practical
experience, it is good to be a student
again. “I just remember that where
there is a will there is a way!”
Jennifer Dudley is a first-year MPA
student concentrating in Management and Institutional Analysis.
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Searching for Peace
By Rebecca Tunstall
fter two years of planning, the Northern
Ireland Peace Builders
Program was launched
this semester. In this
pilot program, 20 participants (10 policemen, nine community workers, and one housing executive
worker) came from Northern Ireland
and spent six weeks living, studying,
working, and socializing together in
New York City. Through two weeks
of classroom lectures and a four-week
internship placement, the participants
were able to gain a broader understanding of Northern Ireland’s problems and to build relationships with
each other that would have been virtually impossible in Northern Ireland.
The program was hosted by
SIPA’s Picker Center and jointly organized with Frank Costello, head of
Costello Associates, which is involved
in community development investment in Ireland and the U.S. During
the first and the final weeks, students
spent their days in the classroom focusing on topics as general as globalization
and as specific as the data gathering
system used by the New York Police
Department. Supplemental speakers
and activities throughout the program
included: Lisa Anderson, dean of
SIPA; Senator George Mitchell, senior
research fellow at SIPA’s Center for
International Conflict Resolution;
Joseph Esposito, the chief of the
NYPD; and visits to the International
Institute on Conflict Resolution,
Ground Zero, the United Nations,
and the Federal Reserve.
Although it was a challenge for
many of the participants to be back in
an academic environment and to be so
far away from loved ones, both the
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Community workers from Northern Ireland come together for the Picker Center’s
peace-building program
organizers and participants rated the
program as a huge success. For many
participants, this was their first time
visiting the United States, or for that
matter, leaving Northern Ireland.
Coming to New York City and being
based at Columbia gave them the
opportunity to step back and see
Northern Ireland’s problems in a bigger context. “In short, our experience
at Columbia University allowed us to
see that the problems we face in our
day-to-day lives at home are no different, and perhaps lesser to some extent,
than the problems many others face in
New York City,” said Ciaran McClean,
a community worker from County
Tyrone.
Participants learned specific tools
and techniques to be applied in their
community work back home, and,
most importantly, formed relationships
with people whom they wouldn’t
normally have acknowledged. Stuart
Mullan, a community worker in West
Belfast, said that before this program
he had “little experience of working
constructively alongside policemen
and had few personal relationships
with local officers.”
Community workers and policemen who participated were intentionally
chosen from the same communities,
and organizers hope that the relationships formed at SIPA will continue
when the participants return back
home. Relations between these two
groups have been strained, and the
increased understanding and knowledge gained by the participants, ideally,
will increase their cooperation and
effectiveness as peace builders. Bill
Eimicke, director of SIPA’s Picker
Center, said, “I think this program will
make a difference in Northern Ireland.
I think if we can replicate it, it will
make an even bigger difference.”
Rebecca Tunstall is a first-year MIA
student concentrating in International
Economic Policy. Before coming to SIPA,
she researched the political economy of Latin
America at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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SIPA Reaches Out Around the World
By Christine Ostrowski
IPA aims to promote
an environment in
which its graduates
are able to excel in an
increasingly interdependent world. But this
feat cannot be achieved alone. Cooperation and exchange with universities
and institutions around the world lead
to a more cosmopolitan and rewarding
experience, both for students and
faculty members of international and
public affairs.
One of the most popular and
well-established student exchanges is
the Sciences Po program. Students
earn a dual degree from SIPA and
the Institut des Sciences Politiques
in Paris, spending one year in New
York and the other in France. It is
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program as a multidisciplinary education in international affairs. “The program works to prepare students for a
global career in the private, nonprofit
and public sectors,” she said. “Graduates join a growing network of internationally trained decision-makers and
professionals.”
Ailabouni believes the SIPA/Sciences Po dual degree program is a way
for students of international affairs to
get two different perspectives on issues
facing the world today.
“I think the students that participate get a very well-rounded education, learning about different conflicts
and putting forth resolutions,” she said.
She added, “There is no better preparation for working in the international
arena than immersing oneself in it.”
Cooperation and exchange with universities and institutions around the world
lead to a more cosmopolitan and rewarding experience.
a demanding program, in which
students must not only take intense
courses in economics, political science
and international affairs, but must do
so in French and English.
“It was definitely a challenge,”
says Rosa Ailabouni, an American student who spent her first year at Sciences
Po, and is now at SIPA studying international finance and business. “In addition to having to overcome the language
barrier, you’re also learning a different
educational system. But that is also
what makes the program so unique.”
Assistant Dean Melissa
Poueymirou, who heads the Sciences
Po program at SIPA, describes the
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One of the most recent additions
to SIPA’s exchange programs is an
initiative with the London School
of Economics (LSE). Similar to the
Sciences Po program, students will
be able to earn a dual MPA degree
from SIPA and LSE.
Judith Rees, deputy director of
LSE, believes the joint program will
foster students’ expertise in policy
management and help them develop
a unique skill set. “Our goal is to
improve the training of people going
into the public sector to cope with
critical problems in a complex world,”
Rees said at the program launch in
September 2002.
If approved by the University
Senate, the dual-degree program will
kick off next fall, sending its first group
of SIPA students to London, and
receiving LSE students from across
the pond.
Turning to South America, the
Externado program, run by the Picker
Center, is one of the most well established faculty exchanges at SIPA.
Externado is one of the premier universities in Bogotá, Colombia, with a
curriculum that Director Bill Eimicke
says “parallels SIPA’s MPA and MIA
degrees.”
The program began in the early
1990’s, with faculty from Columbia
traveling to Externado to instruct students concentrating in international
business. Today, SIPA professors teach
compressed courses in a number of
subjects ranging from management
to accounting and finance.
“It enables us to bring the quality
of a SIPA education to people who
otherwise wouldn’t be able to get it,”
says Eimicke. “It has also enabled our
faculty to learn about another important part of the world.”
Members of the SIPA faculty
have performed joint research with
visiting scholars from Externado. As a
result of the program, SIPA has seen a
high number of Colombian students
deciding to continue their education
in New York.
“The Externado program has
proved a huge success, both for the
students and the faculty,” says Eimicke.
Looking to the other side of the
world, the newest initiative is SIPA’s
partnership with Renmin, a prominent
university in China. Robert Mundell,
a Nobel Prize economist and SIPA
There is no better
way to train for
leadership in the
interconnected world
of the 21st century
than by experiencing
and learning from a
faculty member, is one of the initiators
of the partnership.
Economic policy managers from
China will come to Columbia and participate in the Program in Economic
Policy Management (PEPM). At the
end of the two-year program they
receive a master’s of finance degree
from Renmin.
Next fall, eight to 12 Renmin
students will constitute the first class of
the collaboration effort. In addition to
student participation, faculty will also
be involved in the venture. This spring
two or three SIPA economics faculty
will travel to China to teach at Renmin.
Dean Robin Lewis described the initiative as “a capacity-building project.”
Lewis said he is excited about the
initiative. “This is an important new
collaboration with a top Chinese
university that promises to offer new
opportunities for China’s future
economic managers to receive worldclass training,” says Lewis.
Finally, SIPA has taken a leading
role in the launch of a new partnership,
appropriately named Alliance, which
encompasses Columbia University as
a whole in conjunction with a consor-
tium of schools in France, namely
Ecole Polytechnique, La Sorbonne,
and Sciences Po. These four institutions have come together in a commitment to interdisciplinary programs
surrounding the issue of globalization.
“There exists a gap of understanding between the U.S. and Europe
on a number of different themes
related to globalization,” says Francis
Verillaud, a vice president at Sciences
Po. “We are attempting to close such
a gap through forums and talks led
by the participating education institutions.”
The consortium is looking to
involve students, professors and professionals in working towards solutions
to the various gaps and problems that
exist. Stemming from these initial
forums, the group hopes to develop
workshops, joint courses, and research
programs to work towards solutions.
“We don’t want to have a situation in which we have a conference
and examine all of these inconsistencies
between the two systems, and then
everybody goes home and forgets
about it,” explains Pascal DeLisle,
a visiting professor at SIPA from
Sciences Po and one of the organizers
of the program. “We want to create
a dynamic that encourages continued
public dialogue.”
The program held its first venture
on November 7-8 at SIPA on the topic
of “Risk in the International System.”
Possible themes for future meetings
include intellectual property and development and public utilities. The organizers are planning to hold the next
meeting in France this spring.
In this increasingly interdependent
world, SIPA is well prepared to meet
the challenges and needs of its students
and faculty. However, there is no better way to train for leadership in the
interconnected world of the 21st century than by experiencing and learning
from a different intellectual community and culture.
different intellectual
community and
culture.
Christine Ostrowski, SIPA News editor, is
a second-year MIA student concentrating
in International Media and Communications. Last summer she interned at CBS
News in London.
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Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia
By Choongo Moonga
IPA has extended its
presence in Asia by
launching a dual
degree program in
finance and economic
policy with Renmin
University in Beijing, China. At
Renmin’s invitation, Dean Lisa
Anderson traveled to Beijing in
May to formally sign an agreement
between the two schools. She was
joined by Francisco Rivera-Batiz,
the director of SIPA’s Program in
Economic Policy Management
(PEPM), PEPM’s assistant director,
Maya Haddow, and Economics
Professor Robert Mundell.
The dual degree entails joint
academic work between the Program
in Economic Policy Management
and Renmin University, and is a culmination of long-standing cooperation between the two universities,
Rivera-Batiz said.
“Professor Robert Mundell
of the economics department and
Hong-yi Chen, a former Renmin
student who is now a doctoral candidate in the Columbia economics
department, have been instrumental
in getting the program implemented,” Rivera-Batiz said. Professor Mundell, who has taught at
Renmin in the past, strongly recommended the program, which began
formally in September of last year.
Dean Anderson is also enthusiastic about the new program. “We
are committed not only to educating
the future leaders of the world, but
to strengthening the capacity of
other institutions devoted to the
same goal. In this wonderful collaboration, we are accomplishing both
of these purposes.”
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Dean Anderson forges partnership with Renmin University in Beijing
As part of the daylong festivities, Dean Anderson was invited
to deliver the Mundell Huang Da
Lecture to an audience of Renmin
students, administrators, and several
SIPA alumni. Dean Anderson’s talk
covered the current contributions
of social scientists to public policy
development and was followed by an
impressive traditional dinner hosted
by Renmin’s President Baocheng Ji.
Over the course of the threeday trip to Beijing, the dean was
also able to meet a number of SIPA
alumni including Guoqiang Chen
’95, Yue Wang ’95, Steven Zhang
’93, Michael Pettis ’81, Songzuo
Xiang ’01, and Victoria Zhou ’94.
About a dozen alumni joined
her for an informal breakfast, and
several were able to accompany her
on sightseeing excursions to the
Forbidden Palace, Tianamen Square
and the Great Wall. SIPA is especially indebted to PEPM alumnus
Songzuo Xiang ’01, who provided
the dean’s transportation and acted
as a tour guide on all of her side
trips. Special thanks are also
extended to Hong-yi Chen, who
planned all of the logistics for the
trip, including travel, accommodations, scheduling with Renmin, and
touring.
As part of her May trip to Asia,
Dean Anderson also visited Seoul,
South Korea, to present a posthumous degree to the family of the
late JooWon Park (MIA ’01), a SIPA
student who died from wounds
he sustained when his apartment
caught fire in October 2001.
Park, then 25, was completing
his last semester as an Economic and
Yue Wang, MIA ’95, Dean Lisa Anderson, Rodrick Dial, Maya Haddow, and Songzuo Xiang, MIA ’01, at the Great Wall of China
Political Development (EPD)
concentrator. A group of about
50 Columbia University alumni
attended the reception, hosted by
Anderson, where the posthumous
award was formally presented to
Park’s family.
“The students appreciated the
dean’s decision to honor the late
student,” said Rodrick Dial, SIPA’s
director of alumni relations, who
accompanied the dean on the trip.
After dining privately with
Park’s parents and sister on her first
night in Seoul, the dean hosted a
dinner the second evening at the
InterContinental Hotel for SIPA
alumni in Seoul. Thirty-five SIPA
graduates attended, along with several newly-admitted SIPA students
who were scheduled to begin their
studies in the fall of 2002. Woo-Taik
Kim, the president of the Columbia
University Alumni Club of Korea,
also attended the dinner and formally welcomed the dean to Korea
with several of his board members.
The dinner program included
the dean’s presentation of Park’s
diploma to his family. In addition,
Do-Hyung Kim ’99, who provided
invaluable help in scheduling the
“We are committed not only to educating the future leaders of the world, but to
strengthening the capacity of other institutions devoted to the same goal. In this
wonderful collaboration, we are accomplishing both of these purposes.”
—Dean Lisa Anderson
dean’s trip and planning the dinner,
used the gathering to introduce
his idea of forming a SIPA Alumni
Association in Korea. Kim’s suggestion was met with enthusiasm, and
he has since begun to organize a
formal alumni association that will
cooperate with Columbia’s University-wide club.
Thanks to the great hospitality
of Park’s parents, his sister Yeonjoo
Park, and his close friend, Young-Im
Cho ’02, the dean was able to tour
many of Seoul’s major sites during
the short trip. Cho, who was also a
leader of the SIPA group Korea
Focus, specifically made the trip to
Seoul to help the dean and the Park
family.
Several months after the trip,
SIPA was delighted to receive a generous contribution on behalf of the
Columbia University Alumni Club
of Korea. The gift is intended to
support Korean student activities at
SIPA and will be used to provide fellowship funds for a Korean student
and support for Korea Focus.
Choongo Moonga is a second-year MIA
student, concentrating in International
Economic Policy. Last summer he interned
at the United Nations in New York.
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On the Job Around the Globe
By Anjali Cordeiro
ome work places are
harder to reach than
others. Last summer
Leith Baker traveled
by barge to get to his
internship and returned
by helicopter. Working with the
International Rescue Committee
(IRC) in East Timor in the remote
Oecussi district, which was burnt to
the ground in 1999, was probably
more challenging than most summer
jobs. The Economic and Political
Development concentrator was the
IRC’s only international staff person
in the district, and his post included
working on developing proposals for
new projects. Baker said his summer
was extremely fulfilling “because
working with the IRC was something I had always wanted to do”.
Like Baker, SIPA students traveled all over the globe this summer
to get some hands-on experience in
their chosen professions. Sunanda
Mane, a second-year MIA student,
spent her summer interning with the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Gharm, Tajikistan. It was a summer spent largely
in remote areas far away from family
and friends, but one that allowed
her to interact very closely with the
people of Tajikistan. “I was surprised
how much they knew about the
country I come from, India,” says
Mane. “I was particularly amused
when a huge strapping Pathan man
came up to me in one of the villages
and told me that he cries every time
he watches an Indian film,” she
added, smiling.
Over the summer, Mane evaluated the credit component of the
UNDP rehabilitation project in the
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region, which
had just completed its fifth
year. “It was
wonderful to
be exposed to
the UN system
and see how it
works. The
Gharm region
where I was
had been the
center of civil
war. I was able
to speak to
Nori Akashi (left) with fellow CNN intern Rosa Lam, a student at
UNDP staff
UC Berkeley, at the network’s bureau in Tokyo
who had been
there in the initial
years of the project. I spoke to comMany students are drawn to
manders who had been in the foreinternships outside of the United
front of the war. We talk about
States. Zeeshan Amin, an MIA stuinfrastructure bottlenecks in classdent concentrating in International
rooms but in this region I saw it in
Security Policy (ISP), traveled to
reality,” said Mane, also an EPD
Islamabad, Pakistan, to spend his
concentrator.
summer with the Institute of StrateA lot of SIPA students do their
gic Studies, a think-tank partially
internships abroad, and the school
funded by the government. During
offers a special incentive for those
the two months he spent there,
who choose to do so. “We offer
Amin did research on the history of
around a hundred travel grants every Asian cooperation. “Thailand had
year for those interning abroad.
just proposed the creation of a new
They cover up to 60 percent of the
organization called Asian Cooperastudents’ travel to and from the
tion Dialogue, so we were researchplace of internship,” says Katarina
ing to see what potential such an
Holm-Didio, who is in charge of
organization would have and if it
first-year internships and recruitment could be in Pakistan’s interest to join
at SIPA’s Office of Career Services.
it. I wrote a paper at the end of my
“Last year OCS was able to increase
research which will be published in
the number of internship listings,
the institute’s journal,” says Amin.
but we believe that, besides using
His experiences outside the
the information put out by us, it is
office were just as valuable as the
also very profitable for students to
work he did, Amin said. “Well,
do their own networking to find
doing research was not something
something that meets their specific
that is new to me,” Amin shrugs,
requirements.”
“What was more interesting,
Election meeting to choose village representatives in Gharm, Tajikistan, where Sunanda Mane interned with the United Nations Development
Programme
though, was being able to spend
time in the city, getting to know
people and government systems.”
Other SIPA students chose to
draw from the wealth of opportunities that New York City has to offer.
Second-year MPA student Karine
Jean Pierre spent her summer in the
Big Apple, juggling two completely
different jobs simultaneously. For
nearly three months, she spent the
first half of every week at the Office
of Environmental Coordination
(a part of City Hall) and the second
half at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
(ITDP) working on its Africa program.
“At the office of Environmental
Coordination I focused on the issue
of brown fields: contaminated pieces
of land that the community now
wants to use. I focused on legislation, wrote memos. While at ITDP
I worked on the newsletter and did
research on bike tours organized by
the Peace Corps in Africa to create
awareness about AIDS. Both were so
different: I got a taste of city government and of an international NGO.
It was wonderful to be able to mix
them both up.”
Jean Pierre’s experiences in
New York were very different from
those of Nori Akashi, an International Media and Communications
concentrator who did an internship
with CNN in Tokyo. Akashi says that
she had a chance to try her hand at
everything from office management
to setting up studios for a shoot.
“The bureau in Tokyo was small,
with only four people. As a result,
they depended a great deal on
interns, and I managed to learn a lot.
I did a little bit of everything, from
producing stories and editing to
translating from Japanese to English.”
All in all, it was a productive
and interesting summer for SIPA
students.
Leith Baker had a rough commute to work
this summer
Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA
student concentrating in International
Media and Communication and South
Asian studies. Before coming to SIPA,
she worked as a journalist in India.
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On a tour of an old palace, she glimpsed
a courtyard that had been the only place
where women were allowed to socialize and
sit outdoors. “It shocked me into understanding on an emotional level what it must
have been like for a woman,” she said.
The experience inspired her to create a
series of paintings called “Moroccan Enclosures,” in which she explored the idea of
how people lived in the past and the strictures imposed on women. The paintings
were exhibited last fall at SIPA.
Over the last few years, Brunswick’s
works have been exhibited in locales ranging
from New York to Slovenia, Tokyo to
Jerusalem. Instead of becoming “a diplomat
who would travel to all the glamorous capitals of the world,” as she once envisioned
herself doing, she has become an artist
whose works do that.
Last summer, Brunswick was invited to
Morocco for a three-week residency during
the town of Asilah’s International Arts Festival. She became part of a delegation of artists
whose creations served as vehicles for dialogue
about international issues. The experience
fulfilled her long ago dream of working in
diplomacy in an unexpected way.
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“Essentially, it worked out in the end,”
she said.
Sharing art and ideas with artists from
around the world “was a wonderful experience. The feeling of getting along with other
people, I found it was an easy thing to do,”
she said.
Besides some of her paintings,
Brunswick also left behind a replica of a
Tibetan prayer wheel that she made and
dubbed a “peace wheel” for participants in
the program to sign. It was another personal
act of artistic diplomacy, she said.
“If everybody thinks about peace and
makes up their mind that peace is something
they truly want, then maybe some day down
the line, we’ll have it.”
Celeste Tarricone, SIPA News assistant editor, is a
first-year MIA student concentrating in International Media and Communications and Economic
and Political Development. Before coming to SIPA,
she worked as a journalist in Rhode Island and
Latin America.
In the final session, we were asked about
our experience at the town hall. Did we learn
anything new? Did group discussions lead us to
change our minds on any aspect of the rebuilding effort? When asked how confident we were
that the city would listen to our voices, the
response was generally negative (approximately
10% very confident, 25% confident, 45% somewhat confident, and 20% not confident). One of
the planning representatives tried to suggest that
such a vote translated to 80% of the room believing they would be listened to; he was heartily
booed.
Despite the cynicism of the crowd, the day
left me feeling empowered. I was impressed with
everything about the day — from the facilitators
to the technology, the questions asked, the way
the groups worked together, and the responses
of the planners and city representatives. In particular, I was encouraged by the planners’ pledge
to hold more town halls as the process continues
and kick off each town hall with a report card,
if that’s what it takes to prove to us that they are
listening. But most of all, I was proud of making
my voice heard and honored to have the opportunity to participate in an historic process, the
result of which will stand as a great symbol of
the freedoms we Americans hold so dearly and
take, all too often, for granted.
Alumninews
SIPA Alumni Authors Series
ince the last issue of SIPA News, SIPA was pleased to host
three events in our continuing Alumni Author Series.
Please check your local bookstore or your online resource
to find these books.
S
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Deborah Scroggins ’95 presented a reading and discussion with
SIPA students of Emma’s War: A Story of Civil War in the Sudan.
Pantheon: 2002.
Thursday, June 6, 2002
Thursday, October 31, 2002
Matthew Stevenson ’78
presented a reading and
discussion of Letters of Transit. Odysseus: 2001.
Jesse Larner ’02 presented a reading and discussion of Mount
Rushmore: An Icon Reconsidered. Thunders Mouth Press/Nation
Books: 2002.
Please contact sipaalum@columbia.edu or call 212-854-8671 if you have a book you would like to present to an alumni or student audience.
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Alumninews
MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10th
Reunion
n October, SIPA hosted the 10th
reunion for the MPA Class of 1992,
one of the only 10-year reunions
the school has ever sponsored.
The reunion was a tremendous
success and the brainchild of James
Lonergan, who has kept in touch with
many of his MPA classmates since
graduation. “We shared common
interests, and are a group of dedicated
people who wanted to make a difference,” he said. “Some of my best
friends are from the program.”
He and his reunion co-chair,
Susan Smith, worked with the Office
I
of Alumni Relations throughout the
summer to plan the cocktail reception
and dinner, which was held at the Kellogg Center at SIPA.
Over 30 of their approximately
60 classmates were able to attend with
their partners/spouses, and many
more alumni contributed to the
10-year reunion booklet, which provides classmates with updated contact
and personal information.
“It’s still exciting to be here,”said
Debbie Jabobs Levy, a tenant organizer. “The 15th floor brings back
memories of anticipation, excitement
and accomplishment.”
Joining Dean Anderson to welcome alumni were Steve Cohen and
Nancy Degnan, who have been involved
in the MPA program almost since its
inception. Many former students
traveled from as far away as Caracas,
Montreal and Honolulu for the event.
While SIPA does not have a
strong tradition of holding class
reunions, Rodrick Dial, the new
director of alumni relations, is hoping
to work with individual classes and
programs who are interested in organizing a reunion.
Marc Andre Blanchard
and Ken Miyamoto catch
up on each other’s lives
Judy Salwen and Barbara
Keller enjoying an evening
on the 15th floor
Reception Celebrates Endowment of
Award In Memory of SIPA Student
By Clara Perez
riends, family and former
classmates gathered on
October 4, 2002 to celebrate
the full endowment of the
Raphael Smith Award Fund, and to
honor the memory of this exceptional
SIPA student. The award is given out
every year at commencement for the
best essay in Slant, SIPA’s student
magazine.
Although the award was created
in 1995, this year marks a milestone.
Last year $25,000 was raised, ensuring
that the award is fully endowed in perpetuity.
Smith, an IMC concentrator who
loved to travel, had worked for The
New York Times during his second
semester at SIPA and was on the edito-
F
rial board of Slant. In the summer after
his first year, Smith died in an accident
while attempting to realize his dream
of retracing an extraordinary journey
undertaken by his stepfather, Robert
E. Fulton Jr., who rode a motorcycle
from Paris to Tokyo in 1932.
In their speeches, both Dean
Anderson and Greg Dalton (MIA
’94), a friend and former classmate,
acknowledged the bittersweet nature
of the occasion: both celebrating this
milestone and mourning the loss of
an adventurous and compassionate
individual. Both Dalton and Dean
Anderson also remembered Smith’s
late mother, Anne Boireau Fulton,
who had worked tirelessly to make
the award possible.
Dalton, who was instrumental in
carrying the project forward, said of
Smith, “He was one of those guys who
had a twinkle in his eye. His adventurism and spirit embodied the best of
SIPA, and we wanted to capture that
by recognizing exceptional travel
reportage that embodies his spirit.”
Former classmates in attendance
included Michele Douglas Eleta (MIA
’94), who traveled from Panama to
attend the reception, and Hilary Dunst
(MIA ’93), who remembered Smith’s
“joyful spirit and expansive way of
thinking.”
Raphael Smith
Clara Perez is a first-year MIA student
concentrating in International Media and
Communications.
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Alumninews
Letter From Jakarta
By Danielle Garbe ’01
Dear Family and Friends,
On Saturday, October 12,
I was at a dinner party in Jakarta with
Embassy friends, including a security
officer and the emergency duty officer.
We were about to leave for a nightclub
when their phones started ringing. The
news of a bomb blast in Bali shocked
us all, particularly as the magnitude of
the damage and destruction became
apparent.
Many of our Embassy staff were
out of town over the holiday weekend,
including a number of people vacationing in Bali, my consul general
vacationing outside Jakarta, and my
two consular colleagues attending a
conference in Korea. That left the
deputy consul general and me during
the hectic first 48 hours to coordinate
the American Citizen services from
Jakarta with our Consulate in Surabaya
and our Consular Agency in Bali. The
first day I did double duty helping the
ambassador and the deputy chief of the
mission, answering the phones as well
as trying to track down and assist the
Americans in Bali. I was up until 2 a.m.
on Monday taking the call about the
first dead American from the friend
who identified her body. We worked
the phones and the authorities for 24
hours straight, convincing them to
release the body on a visual identification of the scar on her back and a
fingerprint match. It was a logistical
miracle and a relief that we were able
to provide this small comfort to the
family —knowing they would have
their daughter back when so many
others were still in hospitals unidentified.
Our consular officer in Surabaya,
Tom Daniels, was the first to arrive
in Bali on October 14. He began the
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coordination efforts to
identify our presumed
dead victims. Within
the first three weeks,
the Australian Disaster
Victim Identification
team had confirmed
five more American
victims through dental
records and just last
week confirmed the
last victim through DNA testing. Tom
was there at the scene every day, walking through the morgue to check for
bodies, giving dental records to the
team, and making sure the odontologists there had enough dental supplies
to keep making matches. I went out to
Bali on October 21 to assist his efforts
and to work on the list of 45 missing
Americans. Over two weeks, I checked
hotels, airline manifests, and immigration records to track down the individuals who had not called home yet to
tell family and friends that they were
okay (or whose family and friends
had not yet called us to say they were
okay). Tom and I worked long hours,
talking to the victims’ families almost
every day as we explained to them
what we were doing to identify their
loved ones, treat the remains, and
ship them and their belongings home.
By the end of October, we reached
the end of our tasks and were ready
to return home ourselves.
I returned to Bali on November
15 to participate in the Hindu ceremony that would cleanse the island
and purify the souls of the victims, and
with the hope of doing some of my
own mental purification. I found the
island awash in red, white, and blue
signs and T-shirts reading “Bali Cinta
Damai” or “Bali Loves Peace,” much
as our American cities were awash with
red, white, and blue flags after September 11. On the same day in New York,
the families of September 11 opened
the private viewing platform at the
World Trade Center to the families of
the Bali bombings to participate in a
Hindu purification ceremony. They
had a procession down to Battery
Park and threw flowers in the Hudson
River as the sun set behind the Statue
of Liberty.
Indonesia was at the top of my
job preferences when I received my bid
list on September 12, 2001, because
I figured the world’s largest Muslim
country would be an interesting place
to work. I certainly have not been disappointed. All it takes is dealing with
one emergency to see that the work
of protecting Americans overseas truly
is the primary mission of the Foreign
Service.
It has been incredibly rewarding,
though heart-breaking and exhausting, to do this work on behalf of the
U.S. government and the families who
need our assistance.
You are all in my thoughts and
missed very much.
Love,
Danielle
Classnotes
Compiled by
Laura Limonic
1969
1978
1986
RICHARD FOSTER, MIA
dfoster@brazilwatch.com
Dick is the publisher of three
newsletters dealing with politics and economics in Brazil
and Argentina. The name
of the company is Brazil
Watch Publications, located
in Bethesda, MD. The company was started in 1984
and the original publication,
Brazil Watch, a fortnightly
analytical report on Brazil
for businesses, enters its
20th year in January. Dick
also teaches at Montgomery
College in Rockville, MD.
GEORGE MARSHALL WORTHINGTON, MIA/MBA
Worthworldtx@sprintmail.com
George has seen his consulting practice go from
strength-to-strength since
relocating his firm to Houston a little over two years
ago. He currently has four
clients, with proposals out
to other organizations with
which he hopes to establish
relationships in the near
future. Among the services
he is providing to these
groups are: strategic planning/adaptive marketing;
philanthropic marketing;
event marketing; marketing
new services and venture
creation; and corporate
sponsorships and causerelated marketing.
FRED BURKE, MIA, JD ’87
Fred.Burke@Bakernet.com
Fred and his wife, Tran Thi
Bich Loan, had their first
child, a healthy baby girl
named Mai Ly, on March
8th (International Women’s
Day) in Saigon, Vietnam.
Fred is still working in Vietnam as the managing partner
of the Ho Chi Minh City
and Hanoi offices of the
international law firm of
Baker & McKenzie. In his
(increasingly rare) spare
time, he plays with a rock
band called “DURIAN
DURIAN”.
1972
MELVYN J. SIMBURG, MIA
msimburg@sksp.com
Melvyn is a partner in Simburg, Ketter, Sheppard and
Purdy LLP and has been
appointed to the faculty for
the seminar on “Layering in
the International Market,”
which took place in Chile
this past August. Melvyn
chaired the Panel on Agency
and Distribution Agreements.
1975
TOM GOODHUE, IF
Tom has just published the
first biography ever written
of the woman who started
the world’s first dinosaur
craze, Curious Bones: Mary
Anning and the Birth of
Paleontology. Tom is a reverend and the executive
director of the Long Island
Council of Churches.
1981
AUSTIN C. AMALU, MIA
Austin is the senior regional
administrator with the UN
Department of Peacekeeping. He was recently in
Kisangani, Democratic
Republic of Congo, with
the UN Security Council
in an effort to broker peace
in the ongoing war in the
country.
DR. JOSEPH M. HENNING,
MIA
Dr. Henning has been
awarded a Fulbright Scholar
grant to lecture at Tohoku
University, Japan, where he
will teach courses on the history of US-Japan relations.
Dr. Henning is the author
of the book Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion and
the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations,
which won the Stuart L.
Bernath Book Prize by the
Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations.
1987
1983
RACHEL FOSTER, MPA
rachel.foster@ha.osd.mil
Rachel was appointed director of financial management
and performance at the
Office of the Secretary of
Defense. For this position
Rachel will get to use the
skills and knowledge she
has learned to help improve
financial management of the
program. She hopes to be
able to make a difference
from the inside.
DOUGLAS CLIMAN, MIA
ClimanDP@state.gov
Douglas left Buenos Aires
to become the economic
counselor at the American
Embassy in Islamabad.
PEDRO VASQUEZCOLMENARES, MPA
pvc@issste.gob.mx
Last October, Pedro became
the CFO for ISSSTE —
Mexico’s Social Security
Agency for the Public Sector
Employees. ISSSTE provides
pensions, health services,
personal loans, cultural and
social activities, plus children
nursing, funerary services
and home loans. Pedro
joined ISSSTE in order to
help design a profound
financial reform for the organization.
1988
STEPHEN GAULL, MIA
sgaull@hotmail.com
Stephen received an appointment as an executive fellow
at the Export-Import Bank
of the United States, where
he is originating structured
and project finance transactions, and advising on loan
restructurings in emerging
market countries.
STEPHEN C. MERCADO,
MIA
stevemercado@erols.com
Stephen has written a history
of Japanese military intelligence, The Shadow Warriors
of Nakano: A History of the
Imperial Japanese Army’s
Elite Intelligence School
(Dulles, VA: Brassey’s,
2002).
1990
PETER S. DUKLIS, JR., MIA
duklis@hqda.army.mil
Peter and his wife, Elisabetta,
welcomed their third child,
Diego Stefano Duklis, on
November 14, 2001. Diego
joins Derik (5 yrs) and
Alexandra (4 yrs). Peter also
graduated from the US
Army War College in June
2002 and received a Master
of Strategic Studies from the
college.
JAMES HOLTJE, MIA
James was recently named
manager of leadership communications New York at
Siemens. Prior to Siemens,
James worked at WPP’s
Brouillard Communications.
James will serve as managing
editor for all of Siemens’
print and online publications, and will also write articles, executive speeches and
other thought leadership
pieces. He will also be
responsible for the direction
and content of the Siemens
Corporation intranet, as well
as a special web site, which
provides the company’s top
U.S. leaders with competitive information and a means
of sharing best practices.
HARRY ROBERT SULLIVAN,
MIA
harry_sullivan@yahoo.com
Harry married Julia Mei on
September 15, 1999. At the
time, he was working as
director of regional telecommunications policy at the
Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative. His responsibilities focused on working
with U.S. industry to identify barriers to trade in
telecommunications trade
and negotiating with foreign
countries to address those
issues. In July 2001, Harry
and Julia left for Cameroon,
where Harry is the chief of
the U.S. Embassy’s combined political/economic
section; he is responsible
both for relations with
Cameroon and Equatorial
Guinea.
1991
MARGARET FORGIONE, MPA
Margaret was appointed
Manhattan Borough Commissioner in February 2002.
She is the agency advocate
for the delivery of transportation services in the
borough and advises the
Commissioner on all sensitive issues affecting transportation in the borough.
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Classnotes
1992
LAURA HARWOOD, MPA
laura.harwood@erg.com
Laura can’t believe it’s been
10 years! She is currently
living and working in
Arlington, VA, as an environmental policy analyst for
ERG. Laura provides technical, communication, and
evaluation support to a variety of EPA programs including pollution prevention,
compliance assistance, waste
reduction and recycling, and
performance measurement.
MARC SELVERSTONE, MIA
ms9pc@virginia.edu
Marc is an assistant professor
at the University of Virginia,
holding down a variety of
jobs, such as editing and
annotating the Kennedy
White House Tapes as part of
the Miller Center of Public
Affair’s Presidential Recordings Project. In addition,
Marc is the managing editor
for AmericanPresident.org,
as well as co-editor of a print
and online project to improve
the quality of standards-based
history education in Virginia
high schools. Finally, he is
teaching courses in the UVA
history department on the
Cold War and U.S. Diplomatic History. On the personal side, Marc and his wife
Bonnie had a son, Jake, on
June 14, 2001.
1993
MICHAEL TATU-CASTLEN,
MPA
Michael was recently
appointed executive vice
president at Population Communications International.
LINDA DWORAK, MIA
ldworak@gidc.org
On August 17, Linda was
married to Juan Munoz.
The couple lives and works
in Manhattan.
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CARY KENNEDY, MPA
carykennedy@earthlink.net
In the 2000 election cycle,
Cary authored a groundbreaking state constitutional
amendment on PK-12
education funding that was
approved by the voters of
Colorado. After leaving her
position in the state budget
office under former governor
Roy Romer, Cary authored
a constitutional amendment
to guarantee specific funding
levels for PK-12 education. It
is the largest funding measure
ever approved by the state’s
voters. Cary lives in Denver
and is married with two children, Kadin (12-23-97) and
Kyra (10-21-99). She currently
works for Educare Colorado,
a nonprofit organization,
advancing state policy to
improve the quality of childcare and early education.
ANNELIESE MAUCH, MIA
amauch@yahoo.com
Anneliese recently welcomed
a new member into the
family, Mia Hattie, born
September 12, 2000.
1994
MARIO AGUILAR Y MAYA,
MIA
Mario heads the Ministry of
Finance at the government
of the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
JAY CHAUDHURI, MIA
CHAUDHURI@mail.jus.state.
nc.us
Jay is currently serving as
special counsel to North
Carolina Attorney General
Roy Cooper, where he manages a number of policy initiatives, particularly in the
area of education and juvenile justice. Previously, Jay
served as Roy Cooper’s
legislative counsel, when he
was State Senate Majority
Leader. Jay recently closed
on a house in Raleigh, so he
invites fellow SIPA alums to
come and visit if they ever
get out of the New YorkWashington axis.
GREG MARSHALL, MPA
gregory.marshall@usdoj.gov
Since 1998, Greg has been living in the District of Columbia, where he works as an
Assistant United States Attorney. Currently Greg prosecutes cases in the Fraud and
Public Corruption Section of
the U.S. Attorney’s Office,
and has also served in the
Office’s Sex Offense and
Domestic Violence, General
Felony, and Appellate Sections.
Prior to joining the Office,
Greg clerked for two years for
a federal appellate judge in
Florida, and spent a year in
private practice in New York.
Greg earned a law degree in
1993 from Cornell University.
SHERRILL STROSCHEIN, MIA
strosche@ohio.edu
Sherrill is an assistant professor of Political Science at
Ohio University in Athens,
Ohio. She teaches courses in
the areas of East European
Politics, Nationalism, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. Sherrill
often travels to Boston to
visit her boyfriend, who currently resides there.
1995
KLAUS FAMIRA, MIA
Klaus.famira@bmaa.gv.at
Klaus will return to Belgium
after three years in Rome,
where he is currently finishing his dissertation on the
integration of Schengen in
the European Union.
1996
ELIOT HIGHET, MIA
Eliot and her husband, Willy
Patty, recently had a baby
boy named Andrew Patty.
SHARON KAHN, MPA
shkahn@hotmail.com
On May 1st, 2002, Sharon
and her husband, Larry,
welcomed into the world
their son, Jeremy Noah.
KATHERINE METRES, MIA
kmmetres@hotmail.com.
Katherine has been serving
as second secretary for political affairs at the American
Embassy to Italy since
December 2001. Her portfolio includes the UN and
international organizations,
international organized
crime, Sub-Saharan Africa,
East Asia, and Latin America. In February 2001, she
completed a tour as consular,
economic, and commercial
sections chief at the American Embassy Nouakchott,
in Mauritania, West Africa.
Katherine would love to
hear from long-lost classmates.
SARAH WHITE, MIA/MBA
sarah_c_white@hotmail.com
Sarah is currently in the
D.C. area working as a
sports producer. Sarah has
her own production company called Big Water Productions and primarily
focuses on extreme sports
production. She has been in
the sports industry since
graduation, producing both
online and for TV shows.
On a personal note, Sarah
was married last summer in
Greece.
1998
CAROLINA AGUILERA
AguileraC@aol.com
Carolina had her first book,
Our Heroes, published by
Planeta in August. The book
profiles the Latino firemen
who died on September 11.
This is the first time that
Planeta, the largest of the
Spanish language publishers,
released a book in English.
The book is also available
in Spanish, under the title
Nuestros Héroes.
CLAUDE DEMERS
claude.demers@dfait-maeci.
gc.ca
For the past four years
Claude has been working at
the Canadian Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Currently,
Claude is second secretary
at the Canadian Embassy in
Tokyo.
ALEX MARTINEZ, MPA
AMartinez@uwnyc.org
Alex has recently embarked
on a new position with the
United Way, where he is
working to help women and
families infected or affected
by AIDS. Although Alex
does not do direct service
provision, he funds agencies
that do the work.
TASARA MUZORORI, PEPM
Since September 2001,
Tasara has been employed
by a company called Techfin
Research (Pvt) Ltd. in his
home country of Zimbabwe.
The company carries out
business, economic and
investment research for Zimbabwe and the Southern
African Development Community. Tasara maintains
that the training he received
at Columbia is invaluable to
his career and hopes one day
to enroll in an Economics
PhD program at Columbia.
ADRIENNE SANDERS, MIA
adrienne_sanders@yahoo.com
Adrienne is currently a
reporter at the San Francisco
Examiner.
Laura Limonic is a secondyear MIA student concentrating in International Economic
Policy.
Developmentnews
European Travel Log
By Brigette Bryant
he fall semester of 2002
proved to be an exciting
time at the School of
International and Public
Affairs. As is her custom,
the dean planned an
annual excursion “somewhere in the
world” to visit SIPA graduates. Mexico
City, Tokyo, Shanghai, Korea, Russia,
and Hong Kong are just a few of the
international destinations which have
been a part of the dean’s recent travels.
Six weeks into the semester, Dean
Anderson traveled to London, where
we had occasion to visit with a number
of SIPA graduates and also to celebrate
the school’s new dual degree program
with the London School of Economics. As luck would have it, I accompanied the dean to London and also took
a side trip to Paris to meet with graduates in that beautiful city. Here is a
snapshot of our trip to Europe:
Day 1 — James Rubin ’84 was
our first stop in London. As former
assistant secretary of state for public
affairs in the Clinton Administration
and the State Department’s chief
spokesman under U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, Rubin
updated us on his post-Washington,
D.C. professional activities. Currently,
he heads his own consulting firm in
London. We also met with Malcolm
Stewart ’78 IF, ’79 MIA, managing
director, Citicorp at Canary Wharf for
lunch at Ubon and John Quitter ’67,
’68, chairman, The Northern Partnership Limited and chairman, The
British-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce for afternoon tea. Both alumni
shared their student experiences while
at SIPA and their professional lives as
post-graduates. The dean ended her
T
day with the first of a series of meetings
at Human Rights Watch, an organization whose board she is a member of.
Day 2 — The second day of our
trip was brimming with activities: the
dean’s in London and mine in Paris.
While the dean attended her morning
board meeting at Human Rights
Watch, I flew to Paris to visit the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Strategiques and to meet with three SIPA
graduates. My first meeting was with
Bruno Frydman ’80, former president
of AMC Europe, followed by a visit to
Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et
Strategiques, where alumnus Michael
Strauss ’76 is working on his Ph.D.
My last meeting of the day was with
Giorgio Stock ’88, vice president,
Global Licensing for Disney Publishing Worldwide. As I listened to these
men and those I met the day before
discuss their career paths, I was
reminded how incredibly prepared
SIPA alumni are for any career path
they choose and struck by how each
one could — with a SIPA degree and a
wealth of experience — chart a new
course in any professional direction.
That really is the “beauty” of SIPA.
Back in London, the day was
marked with an event in celebration of
SIPA’s new dual MPA degree program
with the London School of Economics
(LSE). The program, which will begin
in fall 2003, will give students the
opportunity to study policymaking
from a trans-atlantic perspective at
leading institutions in two of the
world’s most international cities.
Day 3 — Michael Lehman ’71
was our first SIPA meeting of the day,
followed by an evening alumni reception at the Kingsway Hall. The recep-
Brigette Bryant with Michael J. Strauss, 1976 International Fellow, at the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques
et Strategiques in Paris
tion was well attended and provided an
excellent opportunity for SIPA graduates to make connections not only with
each other but also to reconnect with
the school and Dean Anderson. The
dean delivered a report on SIPA’s
recent developments, future plans, and
activities to a room of over 40 guests,
which included Advisory Board Chairman, A. Michael Hoffman, managing
partner of Palamon Partners, and
board member Jeanette S. Wagner,
former vice chairman of Estee Lauder,
and her husband, Paul Wagner, who
were in from New York City.
The evening concluded with a
private dinner hosted by A. Michael
Hoffman and John Quitter in the Terrace Room at the RAC Club. Hoffman
and Quitter were joined by Mercedes
Hoffman, Peter and Susan Arndt,
both from the class of 1990, Arpad
Krizsan ’94, Kevin Caulfield ’84,
Elizabeth Katkin ’92, her husband,
Richard Waryn, Michael Lehman ’72,
Bronwen Manby ’92, Erich Stock ’88,
Jeanette and Paul Wagner, and Jianjun
Zhang ’95.
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Developmentnews
SIPA received gifts from
almost 1,100 alumni,
friends, corporations and
foundations in 2001–02.
Together the gifts total
approximately $4.8 million. Below are the 356
donors who gave $250
or more between July 1,
2001, and June 30, 2002.
Not listed are the 730
donors who gave under
$250, to whom we are
very grateful.
$1,000,000 and above
The Freeman Foundation
$500,000 – $999,999
Gordon Gray, Jr.
$250,000 – $499,999
Foundation for the Center
for Energy,
W. Alton Jones Foundation,
Incorporated
$100,000 – $249,999
Carnegie Corporation of
New York
The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
The Korea Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Leonard Riggio
The Riggio Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Ukrainian Studies Fund,
Incorporated
The World Bank
$50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous
Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. &
Dr. Camille Cosby
International Women’s
Health Coalition
National Futures Association
Olayan Charitable Trust
Joan Schneeweiss
Taipei Economic and Cultural
Office
Trace Foundation
United States-Japan
Foundation
Verizon Foundation
Lan Yang ’96 and Bruno Z. Wu
22
S I P A n e w s
$25,000 – $49,999
Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan
Al-Qattan Charitable Trust
American International
Group, Incorporated
Banco Itau, S. A.
Ambassador Donald Blinken
& Vera Blinken
Blinken Foundation,
Incorporated
Canadian Government
Patricia M. Cloherty ’68
Richard A. Debs
The Debs Foundation
The Florence J. Gould
Foundation
Mary W. Harriman Foundation
A. Michael Hoffman ’73
Harley L. Lippman ’79
J.P. Morgan Chase &
Company
Kathleen H. Mortimer
The Kosciuszko Foundation,
Incorporated
Leucadia National Corporation
Ambrose Monell Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Company,
Incorporated
Smith Richardson Foundation,
Incorporated
Juan A. & Mariana Sabater
Jeffrey L. Schmidt ’79 IF
& Cert.
Jeffrey L. Schmidt Charitable
Trust
Jeanette S. Wagner
$10,000 – $24,999
Shaler Adams Foundation
Anonymous
Mina Schricker Atabai
Peter A. Berton ’56 Cert.
Laszlo Z. Bito
James L. Broadhead, Esq.
’63 IF & Sharon Broadhead
Olivia B. Carino
Robert Meade Chilstrom,
Esq. ’69 & Buena Chilstrom
Ramzi A. Dalloul
Steven Aaron Denning
Ambassador Edward Elson
Estee Lauder, Incorporated
Fannie Mae Foundation
Francis Finlay
Francis Finlay Foundation
Genesis Ten
Dr. Leslie Gruss & Brenda
Gruss
Joseph Man-Kyung Ha ’71
Cert.
James Harmon
The Harmon Foundation
Investcorp International,
Incorporated
James E. Jordan ’71
The Jordan Company LLC
Walid H. Kattan
Said T. Khoury
Nemir Kirdar
James Leitner ’77 and Sandra
Shahinian Leitner ’76
Brian C. Lippey ’78 &
Jackie MacLeod
Peter Neill Marber ’87 &
Andrea Marber
New York Mercantile
Exchange
Vahid F. Noshirvani
James D. Seymour ’61 Cert.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
SG Cowen Securities
Corporation
Tahereh H. Shirvani
Joan E. Spero ’68
Joseph S. Steinberg
Joseph and Diane Steinberg
Charitable Trust
Malcolm J. Stewart ’79
Henry M. Strage
The Alberta & Henry Strage
Foundation
The Tinker Foundation
Incorporated
Trans-Pacific Foundation,
Incorporated
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Vincent Viola
Kathryn E. Wilbur
Neal L. Wolkoff
Alexander E. Zagoreos ’64
David W. Zalaznick
$5,000 – $9,999
The Annie E. Casey
Foundation, Incorporated
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin
& Kohn, PLLC
Atlantic Advisors, LLC
Estate of the Most Honorable
Bapsy Marchioness of
Winchester
Judith Brown ’71 IF &
Michael Meyers
Centennial Foundation
Dar Al Handasah Consultants
Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson ’66
Lawrence D. Glaubinger
Ralph O. Hellmold ’64
Joan Klitzman
Kramer Levin Naftalis &
Frankel LLP
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
Gregory McLaughlin
Meyers Charitable Family Fund
Charles S. Monat
New York Community Trust
Mina Nikou
Philanthropic Collaborative,
Incorporated
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Julie Lynn Rasmussen ’90
William A. Ryan
Kamal A. Shair
Scherman Foundation,
Incorporated
Shearman & Sterling
Claire C. Shipman ’94
Shirvani Metallurgical
Consulting
Abdul Majeed Shoman
Ken Sunshine
Ken Sunshine Consulting,
Incorporated
UBS Warburg
Jens Ulltveit-Moe ’68
Geraldine Wang
The Richard C. Welden
Foundation
Mrs. Giles Whiting
Foundation
$2,500 – $4,999
Wilder K. Abbott ’61
Anonymous
Volodymyr O. Bazarko
Michael H. Coles
Coles Family Foundation
Gregory R. Dalton ’94
The William & Mary Greve
Foundation, Incorporated
James R. Helvey, III ’84
John W. Kiser, III
Donna L. Klitzman, M.D.,
F.C.C.P.
Robert I. Kopech ’77
Claudette M. Mayer ’76
Mehrangiz Nikou
Shahnaz Nikou
Oscar Capital Management,
LLC
Mary A.H. Rumsey
Foundation
$1,000 – $2,499
Lisa Anderson ’76 Cert.
Suzanne Bakken, R.N.
Robin L. Berry ’78
Patricia Bevacqua
Donald M. Blinken
The Boblink Foundation
Kim Christopher Bradley ’83
Marcia Beth Burkey ’88
Charles E. Cheever, III
Leo M.F. Chirovsky
Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert.
Columbia University Club
of Washington DC, Inc.
Courtroom Television
Network LLC
Anne Cannon Cowles ’89
Robert S. Diamond
John William Dickey ’92
W. Leslie Duffy, Esq.
Walter A. Eberstadt
Collen A. Edwards
Peter D. Ehrenhaft ’57
Elise D. Frick
John A. Grammer, Jr. ’63
Edgar C. Harrell ’72 Cert.
The JKW Foundation
Henry D. Kahn
Lila J. Kalinich, M.D.
Hisanori Kataoka ’98
David A. Kay ’64
Julia Grammer Kislevitz
Melvyn N. Klein, Esq. ’65 IF
Philip Koether
Philip Koether, Architects
Pichon P. Y. & Vivien L. Loh
T. Dixon Long
Dale A. Lucas
James Luikart ’72
Alex Machaskee
Sophia G. McConnell
Edward M. McNally, Esq.
Stanislaw A. Milewski
Sergio Millerman
Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D.
London Morawski
The London & Mary
Morawski Charitable
Foundation
Richard D. Parsons
Henry M. Paulson
Estate of Dasturgada Jal Pavry
Percy Parker Phillips ’97
Pulmonary & Intensive Care
Specialists of New Jersey
Lincoln Rathnam
Harland A. Riker, Jr.
Judith O. Rubin
Safra National Bank of
New York
Springcreek FoundationDividend
Carol Gary Tatti ’82
Elizabeth K. Valkenier ’51
Cert.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Margo Viscusi
Wilford Welch
$500 – $999
William Armstrong
Pearl Berman
Kenneth Herbert Blackman ’00
Dinah K. Bodkin
Patrick F. Bohan
Matthew Penn Boyer ’94
Cengiz Cagar ’78
Cardiology Associates of
New Brunswick
Central Jersey Oncology
Center, P.A.
The Cleveland Foundation
Richard Wayne Coffman
Miriam Cohen
Michael A. Coye ’79 IF
David N. Dinkins
Karin Falencki
Gerald D. Fischbach
Michael William Galligan ’84
Ibrahim A. Gambari
Richard N. Gardner
Lawrence M. Gelb Foundation
Esther Goldsmith ’96
Joseph E. Gore
Radmila Gorup
John D. Greenwald, Esq.
’71 IF
Neal H. Harwood ’61
Joseph Kindall Hurd, III ’94
Horace P. Jen ’93
George I. Karp, M.D.
Lauren Jennifer Kelley ’84
Thomas L. Kennedy
Miodrag Kukrika
Jane P. Laudon
George M. Lazarus, M.D.
’69 IF
Nathan Leventhal, Esq. ’66 IF
Cara Londin
Lorin Marsh, Ltd.
The Love Foundation,
Incorporated
William Kennedy Love ’90
Herbert H. P. Ma
Ann Wilbur MacKenzie
Alan B. McDougall ’92
Deborah Duff Milenkovitch
Andrew J. Nathan
M. Michael Ogan
Ron Oppenheimer
Scott Alan Otteman ’89
Chang P’eng-Yuan
Hugh Patrick
Carol Jean Patterson ’76
Peter J. Pettibone
Polish American Congress of
Western MA, Incorporated
Polish Student Organization
of New York
Anthony C.E. Quainton
Philip L. Schiffman, M.D.,
F.A.C.P.
Christopher William Smart
’89 Cert.
Edward Byron Smith ’70
Matthew M. Stevenson ’78
Steven T. Stokes
Guillermo M. R. Strauss ’77
David H. Taylor, Jr.
Christos John Thomas ’90
Miroslav M. Todorovich
Joseph H. Trevisani ’88
James Williamson Uehlinger ’92
Desa V. Wakeman
Gavin Conrad Wellington ’95
Jayne S. Werner
Sandra K. Wigler
Chang Yu-Fa
Madeleine H. Zelin
Thomas David Zweifel ’96
$250 – $499
Daniel Charles Altman ’96
The Armstrong Foundation
John L. Armstrong
Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D.
Maureen R. Berman ’73
Kenneth Lawrence Blacklow ’93
Amy E. Brenner ’94
Rebecca Bromley ’70
Donald D. Bronkema ’57 Cert.
Pauline Ho Bynum
Allen L. Byrum ’72
Joan O. Camins ’73 IF
Lisa E. Cleary
Philip A. Dabice ’77
Carol M. Degener ’84
Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94
Jutta E. Dorscher-Kim ’87
Gordon Epstein ’77
Aurelius Fernandez ’59
Robert Mark Finkel ’88
Louise R. Firestone ’79
Friends of Karen Klitzman
Memorial Fund
The Foundation for Worker,
Veteran, & Environmental
Health
Larry S. Gage, Esq. ’71 IF
Evans Gerakas ’59
John M. Gorup
Jennifer Greenstein
Guy B. Gugliotta ’73
Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D.
Peter L. Harnik ’75
Teresa Misty Hathaway ’89
Svea Herbst-Bayliss ’88
Christine L. Honnen ’91
Hunter College of the City
University of New York
Constance L. Hunter ’94
Douglas R. Hunter ’73
Douglas A. Hutt, M.D.,
F.C.C.P.
Nachamah Jacobovits
Deborah Lee James ’81
Edward Van K. Jaycox, Jr. ’64
Eva Cristina Jedruch
Dale Knezevich
Dushan R. Kosovich, M.D.,
P.C.
Steven H. Krawet
Jeff Krevat
Keiichiro Kubota ’00
Richard H. Lawrence, III,
Esq. ’77 IF
Beatriz Eugenia Leycegui
Gardoqui ’90
John Joseph Lis ’96
Charles B. McLane ’48 Cert.
Milton W. Meyer ’49
Amy L. Miller ’82
Montamer Corporation
Catherine Mulder ’81
Mary Agnes O’Donnell ’95
Ruth G. Ornelas ’81
Richard B. Palmer ’55
Lidia Paslawskyj
Ratko Picuric
John H. A. Quitter ’67 IF
Radakovich Foundation
Mildred Radakovich
Robert D. Reischauer ’66
Marvin M. Reiss ’87
Glenda G. Rosenthal ’71 Cert.
Indranil Sarkar ’01
Ernst J. Schrader ’65
Laurie Sherwen
Louis V. Siracusano
William T. Spadaro
Alan Stern ’68
LeAnn D. Tavtigian ’87
Hui-Yu Caroline Ts’Ai
The Wilf Family Education
Foundation
Andrew W. Zimmerman,
M.D. ’68 IF
Sidney Zirlin
There were 366 new individual donors to SIPA in
2001–02. We would like
to thank each of them for
their first gift.
Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan
Simeon David Alder ’00
Rosalind Alpert
Veronica A. Alroy
Eliza Chrystie Armstrong ’96
John L. Armstrong
William Armstrong
Marilyn Iris Auerbach,
Dr.PH., M.P.H.
Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D.
Suzanne Bakken, R.N.
R. J. Balcarek
Zdzislaw Baran
Gordon N. Bardos
John Warren Barnhill
Andrew Barros ’90
Donna M. Batcho ’93
Joan Beck
Linda M. Ben-Zvi
Suzanne R. Bennison
Arlynn Benson
Elizabeth S. Berberich
Lisa Berman
Pearl Berman
Michael H. Bernhard
Jan Carol Berris
Patricia Bevacqua
Shadi Lal Bhatia
Vladimir Bibic
Dorothy J. Bieber
David Lawrence Birnbaum ’98
Laszlo Z. Bito
Joan S. Blog
Lawrence R. Boddy
Dinah K. Bodkin
Christopher K. Bowen
Robert J. Brenner, M.D.
Rebecca Bromley ’70
Donald P. Brown
Sonia Virginie Bujas ’92
Pauline Ho Bynum
Andrea Elizabeth Calise ’00
Olivia B. Carino
Victor Caroddo
Carmen Anne Chan ’00
Melan M. Chonich, Ph.D.
Satinath Choudhary
Nicholas A. Christakis
Thomas John Christensen
Jadwiga Chrusciel
Mina Charlotte Chung ’00
Andrew Z. Ciszek
Lisa E. Cleary
Natalie Greenan Coburn ’89
Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert.
David M. Colbert, Esq.
Michael H. Coles
Jerry Lewis Collins
Vincent Michael Coluccio, Dr.
William H. Cosby, Jr.
Debra Craine
Ian Keith Crooke ’00
Edward J. Czerwinski
Christopher Paul D’Andrea
Gabriella A. B. Dahlstrom ’99
Ramzi A. Dalloul
Mary Catherine Dansky
Joseph J. Darby ’57 Cert.
Gurnam Das
Ram Dass
Natalie Newbern de La
Giraudiere ’98
Richard A. Debs
Deborah R. Deitcher
Marilyn L. Deleon
Steven Aaron Denning
Paula Derrow
Rosalind Devon
Robert S. Diamond
Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94
Dimitrije Djordjevic
Madeleine Dorval ’98
W. Leslie Duffy, Esq.
Goran Dukuic
Hilary Dunst ’93
Patrick Orr Dwyer ’00
Walter A. Eberstadt
Collen A. Edwards
Barry Emanuel
Mariko Enomoto
Will Lewis Evans ’97
Andrea Fagin
Denise Marie Faingar ’01
Louis Gino Fava
Betty I. Feder
James A. Feldman
Robert Mark Finkel ’88
Francis Finlay
Gerald D. Fischbach
Kathryn Anne Fleury ’93
Audrey L. Flumen
Laura Ellen Forlano ’01
Renee Claire Fox
Carol Francis
Scott Edward Fraser
Rav Freidel
Elise D. Frick
Stephen Gerard Fromhart ’98
Peter Gacs
Ryszard Gajewski
Martin Garbus
Frances X. Gates
Peter F. Geithner
Robert J. Gellert
Anne Margaret Geschardt ’87
Susan Gillotti
Eugene Ginewski
Leslie Glanz
Lawrence D. Glaubinger
Laura Goldenberg
Roslyn M. Goldstein
Edward J. Grace
Dierdra A. Gray ’97
Gordon Gray, Jr.
Stanislaw W. Grebski
Astaire R. Greenberg
Jennifer Greenstein
Clark D. Griffith ’00
Susan L. Groelly
Rakesh Gupt
Joseph T. Hapak
Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D.
James Harmon
Mary Beth Hastings ’94
Mark A. Hatsis
David G. Hees
Gladys Heitin
Susan E. Heuman ’68 Cert.
Michael Anthony Hillmeyer ’97
Martin S. Himeles, Jr.
Richard A. Hirsch
Susie Hoffman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Douglas A. Hutt, M.D.,
F.C.C.P.
Richard A. Isay, M.D.
Nachamah Jacobovits
David M. Janas
Christopher Janik
Jelka J. Jankovic
Danica Javanovic
Eva Cristina Jedruch
Luis Alberto JimenezMcInnis ’97
Austin Denis Johnston ’89
Christopher P. Jurkiewicz
Jane R. Kahan
Henry D. Kahn
S I P A n e w s
23
Marvin J. Kahn
Anne Kamen
Genesia Perlmutter Kamen
Margrit Kaminsky
Jonah Edmund Kaplan ’97
George I. Karp, M.D.
Elizabeth Lynn Katkin, Esq. ’92
Walid H. Kattan
David A. Kay ’64
Laura Kenny
Robert M. Kertzner, M.D.
Said T. Khoury
John W. Kiser, III
Julia Grammer Kislevitz
Bruce Klitzman
Donna L. Klitzman, M.D.,
F.C.C.P.
Elliot S. Klitzman
Jack Klitzman
Joan Klitzman
Mary Ann Klitzman
Mona Klitzman
Stephen H. Klitzman
Philip Koether
Lidia Kopernik
Andrzej Korbonski
Slawomir A. Korzan
David & Ronda Kotelchuck
Rebecca E. Kotkin
Steven H. Krawet
Jeff Krevat
Ivan Kristoffy
Regina Krzych
Alan B. Kubarek
Keiichiro Kubota ’00
Vivian Kushner-Schwartz
Magdale Linda Labbe ’96
Surjit Lal
Marc Andrew Landis
Paul Algirdas Landsbergis, Ph.D.
Jesse Gabriel Larner ’02
John Lastavica
Donald A. Lawniczak
Molly Kinney Leonhardt ’93
Herbert R. Levin
Michael A. Levitt
Sobner Lherisson ’97
Hua-Yu Li
Amy S. Loewenberg
Cara Londin
Laura Zenta Losciale-Malha ’00
Marsha L. Love
Xiaobo Lu
Jeffrey S. Lubbers
Dale A. Lucas
Nancy J. Lucas
Hal Alan Luftig
James Luikart ’72
Vic Lumovich
Nasser A. Malik ’91
Paul L. Mandel ’78 Cert.
Joanne E. Mantell
Paulina M. Marano
Borivoje A. Markovic
Grazyna Marmajewska
Ruth E. Marmorstein
Kathryn L. McCormack ’95
Gregory McLaughlin
Edward M. McNally, Esq.
24
S I P A n e w s
Susan J. McQuade
Michael Mennard
Andrew J. Meyers ’87
Beth S. Michelson ’97 IF
Branislava Mijatovic
Sergio Millerman
Martha Mindlin
Alexander John Miral ’01
Philip P. Mitchell
Hana Rebecca Miura ’91
Eric Stacey Moen ’98
Barbara Mogulescu
Nazanien Monasebian ’92
Charles S. Monat
Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D.
Marcia R. Mondschein
Stephen Mooser
London Morawski
Paul Richard Newman ’00
Mehrangiz Nikou
Mina Nikou
Shahnaz Nikou
Vahid F. Noshirvani
Tracey Ellen O’Connor ’94
Ron Oppenheimer
Jerzy A. Owczarek
Chang P’eng-Yuan
Prem Panther
Richard D. Parsons
Peter Pastor
Henry M. Paulson
John T. Pawlikowski
Jed A. Perl
Sophie M. Peters ’76 Cert.
James Andrew Pickup ’91
Ratko Picuric
Murray Polner ’67 Cert.
Vesna T. Popovich
Frances Pritchett
Bernard J. Purta
Otto Quittner
Steve Radakovich
Irwin C. Radezky
Alexander Radichevich
Milan Radovich
Adina Rakocevic, M.D.
Lincoln Rathnam
Jane Recant
Catherine Rekai
Larry & Freda Remmers
Leonard Riggio
Anne Barnard Roberts ’96
Lynn F. Roberts
Maria Rosenfeld
Gabrielle Catherine Ross ’93
Laura Rothenberg
Elizabeth Dee Rubin ’95
Judith O. Rubin
Samuel Rutter
William A. Ryan
Ignatius R. Rzeznik
Hardev Sahai
George Samuel Samman ’00
Indranil Sarkar ’01
Rosalind Sarlin
Halina T. Sasak
Manabu Sasaki ’01
Mariko Sato ’94
Christine Savarese
Philip L. Schiffman, M.D.,
F.A.C.P.
Joan Schneeweiss
Eric Schorr
Caroline Paulus Schreder ’92
Kamal A. Shair
Laurie Sherwen
Lu Shi-Chiang
Tahereh H. Shirvani
Abdul Majeed Shoman
Joel Shufro
Frank Joseph Shulman
David C. Siegel
Yael Simonson
Amarjit Singh
Joginder Singh
Satnam Singh
Louis V. Siracusano
Robert Slocum
Timothy Snyder
William Vasilio Sotirovich
William T. Spadaro
Anita E. Spertus
Stefan Stein, M.D.
Zena Stein Susser
Joseph S. Steinberg
Ada Sterling
Steven T. Stokes
Ilene S. Stone
Cheryl P. Sucher
Marianne L. Sullivan ’93
Jennifer Jaryi Sun ’97
Ken Sunshine
Mervyn Wilfred Susser
George Swierbutowicz
Eva Szabo
Gustav O. Szabo
Naoki Takyo ’98
David H. Taylor, Jr.
Christos John Thomas ’90
Sara R. Throne
Nathaniel L. Tindel, M.D.
Denise Marie Tomasini ’99
Kenneth Trell
Amy Ullman
Susan Unterberg
John Karl Urda ’91
Laura Vallone
Vincent Viola
Margo Viscusi
Irma Wachtel
Christopher T. Walker ’01
Yi-Chia Wang ’00
Robert E. Ward
Stephanie Louise Watnick ’92
Lisa Watson
David Wechsler-Azen
Richard S. Weinert
Morton P. Weitzman
Robert H. Weitzman, M.D.
Barbara Wierzbianski
Sandra K. Wigler
Drenka Willen
Ron Winchel, M.D.
Nadine Rachelle Witkin ’95
James L. Wolf
Stephen L. Wolf
Neal L. Wolkoff
Arthur M.F. Yee
Jill Fishkin Yener ’93
Chang Yu-Fa
Alicia a Zadrozna-Fiszman
Farwa Zafar ’84
William D. Zeller
Stanley R. Zimmerman, M.D.
Warren Zimmerman
Sidney Zirlin
Thirty-seven companies
supported SIPA through
their corporate matching
gift programs by matching
the chartitable gifts of
their employees, retirees or
shareholders. We thank
them for their support.
Alliance Capital Management
L.P.
Bank One Foundation
Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation
EAI Corporation
Enron
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fannie Mae Foundation
Fidelity Foundation
First Data Corporation
GE Fund
IBM International Foundation
J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation
Jefferies & Company,
Incorporated
Johnson & Johnson Family
of Companies
KPMG Foundation
Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Foundation, Incorporated
Moody’s Corporation
The Merck Company
Foundation
Mitsubishi International
Corporation
Merrill Lynch & Company
Foundation, Incorporated
Metropolitan Life Foundation
Motorola Foundation
Mutual of Omaha Companies
New York Life Foundation
NIKE, Incorporated
Northwestern Mutual Life
Foundation, Incorporated
Organon, Incorporated
The William Penn Foundation
Pfizer Foundation
Philip Morris Companies,
Incorporated
The Pioneer Group,
Incorporated
Reuters America, Incorporated
The Sherwin-Williams
Foundation
The Times Mirror Foundation
UBS Warburg
Wells Fargo Foundation
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