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Alumni: Where are they now?

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• Ivan Barron ('98) will enter the M.A. program at the John F. Kennedy School of Public Affairs, Harvard University.
  
  
• Theresa Buckley ('99) received a Masters in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University. She has also worked for Gov. Gray Davis' office as a California Executive Fellow.
  
  
• Nathan Collins ('00) is in the Ph.D. program in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  
• Leslie Coughran ('00) J.D., University of Washington. He received the Pike's Most Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the UW School of Business, and also received a graduate fellowship to attend the UW School of Law.
  
  He recently published a paper in the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal entitled "Facing the Aging Wave: The Philippines Alternatives for Social Security Reform." This paper was an outgrowth of a project he started while an Undergraduate Fellow at CAPP.
  
  Les is now working as an associate attorney at Stoel Rives, LLP.
  
  
• Franklin Donahoe ('98) will enter the M.A. program in public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
  
  
• Gena Fedoruk ('02) will be commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. She will be attending flight school to become a USAF aviator.
  
  
• Vincent Fitts ('98) is in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at the University of Rochester
  
  
• Elizabeth Jasperson ('02) is Deputy Scheduler and Assistant to the Chief of Staff in Senator Maria Cantwell's office in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Heather Larsen ('00) is in the Ph.D. program in political science the University of Washington.
  
  
• Sean Kellogg ('03), who has been affiliated with the LEGSIM project, won the Daniel C. Lev Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis. "Government Procurement in the Digital Commons."
  
  
• Rachel Leigh ('02) participated in the state legislative internship program. She is active politics and the Seattle community. She plans on pursuing a Masters Degree in public policy in 2005.
  
  
• Lisa Mather ('98) is currently working as a developer for Microsoft in Silicon Valley.
  
  
• Stephanie McNees ('01) received the Robert Dahl Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in Political Science.
  
  
• Michael McGrath ('01) is the Director of Marketing for a nursing agency, hospice care, and training institute.
  
  
• Belle Na ('99) spent the year at Yonsei University in Korea.
  
  
• Noah Pinegar ('00) is working as Deputy Communications Director in the office of Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD).
  
  
• Courtney Popp-Johnson ('01) is attending the UW School of Law. She has worked with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and will be working with the Seattle City Attorney this coming year.
  
  
• Todd Reichert ('01) is attending law school at Seattle University. He is a legal intern at the King County Prosecutor's Office and litigating District Court cases at the Regional Justice Center in Kent and the South West District Court in Burien.
  
  
• David Roberts('03) was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and now holds a fellowship through the MA program in Geography at the University of Toronto.
  
  
• Bryan Rogowski ('03) will complete is MPA at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Spring 2005.
  
  Upon graduation, Bryan will move on to join the Professional Development Program at the GAO, working with the International Affairs and Trade team in San Francisco.
  
  
• Meghann Rother ('02) spent the past year at the Programme International at L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, where she hopes to pursue a Cycle du Diplôme (Masters Degree)
  
  
• Nicole Schiereck ('98) is in the MS program in Public Policy and Law at Cornell University, where she is also involved in coaching the soccer team.
  
  
• Christi Sue ('99) received a three year Mellon Fellowship. She is a Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  
  
• Jasmin Weaver ('02) won the George Mitchell Scholarship and will be pursuing an M.A. in Equality Studies this fall at the University College of Dublin, Ireland. She is currently working as a Legislative Assistant to State Representative Eileen Cody.
  
  
• Richard Weinmeyer ('03) won the Mary Gates Research Fellowship to pursue research about Gay Representation in the U.S.
  
  After considering offers from New York University, Hunter college, and Northwestern University, Rick is now pursuing graduate studies in Urban Planning at Columbia University.



• Erin Gulick ('03) will enter the Masters in Public Policy and Administration program at Northwestern University in 2005 and he continues to work as a compliance analyst, researching federal and state liquor laws and regulations.



• Nigel Stark ('03) is a first year law student at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas with an emphasis on campaign finance and election law.


• Mara Patashnik ('05) will attend Berkeley Law School beginning in the fall of 2007.