Public Service/Education/Non-Profit
1900-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009
2000-2009
State Department Foreign Service officer David Gehrenbeck ’00 PhD*, who coordinates U.S. policy on the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, hopes more young people will consider a career in the foreign service. (Providence Journal, 5/1/08)
Marie Claire magazine chose the Polaris Project, founded by Katherine Chon ’02 and Derek Ellerman ’00, as their #4 Charity in the United States (Marie Claire, April, 2006). The pair’s work had also been profiled in the Brown Alumni Magazine in January 2006.
Lisa Cisneros ’01 practices law for a special kind of client in her hometown: LGBT farmworkers. (The Advocate, 4/22/08)
Alabama lawyer Joshua Segall ’01 is running for the U.S. House of Representatives. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/26/08)
Christopher Bizzacco ’03 is, at age 24, the new chief of staff for Providence’s Mayor David Cicilline ’83. (Providence Journal, 5/30/06)
Janice Gallagher ’03 MAT spent the past year as a human-rights activist in Colombia. (Lowell Sun Online, 1/14/08)
After recovering from an often-fatal traumatic brain injury, Charlie Maddock ’04 started a nonprofit foundation that supports patients who have suffered brain trauma.
Ben Carmichael ’05 won a Marshall Scholarship to study environmental change and management. (BritainUSA.com, 12/3/07)
Erica Sagrans ’05 joins U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s online media team. (Providence Journal, 3/5/07)
Christie Hunter ’06 is Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar and will head to Oxford University. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/24/07)
Daniel Orenstein ’06 PhD discusses what he calls a “failure” in the Israeli environmental movement in an op-ed published in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper. (Ha’aretz, 3/25/07)
Josh Lerner ’07 wants you to apply to be a college adviser with the National College Advising Corps. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/7/08)
Kimberly Misher ’07 landed a highly competitive Junior Fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/31/08)
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1990-1999
Gregory P. Baldwin ’90, a lifelong volunteer and the new president of VolunteerMatch.org, was on the original team that launched the organization. (Market Wire, 9/25/06)
Brian Knep ’90, ’92 ScM is Harvard Medical School’s first artist-in-residence. (Boston Globe, 4/7/06)
Dan Maffei ’90 is running for U.S. Congress. (Syracuse.com, 2/24/08)
Illinois Professor of the Year Steven A. Meyers ’90 makes his students spend hours volunteering in order to gain a personal connection to the issues they’re studying. (Chicago Tribune, 11/15/07)
As the new director of education outreach, Tehani Collazo ’91 will support Brown’s efforts to help Providence public schools. (Brown Daily Herald, 10/25/07)
Associate Professor of Geological Science Gregory Hirth ’91 PhD has traveled around the globe, but now his research has led him back to College Hill. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/27/07)
Dan Newman ’91 runs an award-winning nonprofit website, Maplight.org, that traces the links between money and politics. (The Nation, 6/11/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation awarded a fellowship to Mary Louise Roberts ’91 PhD.
Bobby Jindal ’92, Louisiana’s 55th governor, talked about rumors of becoming a possible Republican VP running mate on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The first non-white governor in the state since the Reconstruction, Jindal was elected with 54 percent of the vote in an open primary. A former Rhodes Scholar, consultant, and congressman, Jindal is the first American of Indian descent elected to a gubernatorial position. His efforts to preserve tax cuts and increase the availability and affordability of health care have been gaining strength in post-Katrina Louisiana. (Shreveport Times, 4/29/08; Times of India, 1/15/08; Bloomberg, 10/22/07; Times Picayune, 11/8/06; Brown Daily Herald, 10/19/06)
Leon Richter ’92 has been leading a campaign in Puerto Rico to save the elkhorn coral beds off a quaint fishing village. (OnEarth, Summer 2006)
Serena Simmons Connelly ’92 co-founded the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas to help immigrants and refugees. (Dallas Morning News, 5/14/06)
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr ’94 was honored with a CBS Jefferson Award for her work with public high school students in low-income communities. (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/4/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Sarah Oppenheimer ’95.
Adam Werbach ’95 is trying to turn Wal-Mart green, one associate at a time. Werbach was also profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle for his efforts. (Fast Company.com, 9/01/07; San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/08)
Political fundraiser Rufus Gifford ’96 was named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America. (Out Magazine, April 2008)
Dufirstson Neree ’96 may be first Haitian American running for Congress. (Miami New Times, 12/15/05)
MIT’s Technology Review named Tapan Parikh ’96 Young Innovator Under 35 “Humanitarian of the Year” for his work adapting technologies to address developing world problems. (Technology Review, Dec 2007)
Karen Pittelman ’97 and Kent Logan ’66 are taking new approaches to philanthropy. (U.S. News & World Report, 2/18/07; New York Times, 2/18/07)
Tyler Denmead ’98*, founder and director of New Urban Arts, an after-school arts studio for high school students, is leaving to study at the University of Cambridge. (Providence Journal, 3/7/07)
Former Watson Institute visiting fellow Michael V. Bhatia ’99* was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. (Providence Journal, 5/10/08)
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1980-1989
Martin McKeon ’80 MAT was chosen as Maine’s Teacher of the Year. (MaineToday.com, 9/17/07)
Cecile Richards ’80 is the new president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Richards was also profiled at length in the July 2006 issue of Vogue magazine. (Washington Post, 3/25/06)
Bruce Katz ’81 receives the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his work toward reshaping and revitalizing cities and suburbs. (HeinzAwards.com)
Sr. Joan Lescinski ’81 is named next president of St. Ambrose University. (Quad City Times, 12/21/06)
One of 242 candidates, Patricia M. Logue ’81 was named a new associate judge of the Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court. (Chicago Free Press, 3/14/07)
Urban sociologist Pedro Noguera ’81, ’84 AM delivered the Allison Davis lecture at Williams College. His topic was "Changing Racial Inequality in Our Schools." (iBerkshires.com, 2/7/07)
Nancy Northup ’81, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, was interviewed on NPR about the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion. (Morning Edition, 4/25/07)
Dr. Jim Yong Kim ’82 is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 "people who shape our world." (TIME Magazine, 5/8/06; Brown Alumni Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006)
Michal Mivasair ’82 has been appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 12/8/06)
Randy Pausch ’82, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, made national news when he gave his last lecture, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at Carnegie Mellon University before a packed auditorium. (Wall Street Journal, 9/27/07)
Jeffrey B. Swartz ’82, CEO of the Timberland Company, was honored with the Citizen Service Award by Voices for National Service. (Voices for Service, 2/13/07)
Thomas Pérez ’83, a first-generation Dominican-American, was named Maryland state Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Perez also announced his candidacy for attorney general in 2006. ((Baltimore Sun, 1/23/07; The Baltimore Sun, 5/24/06)
Political fundraiser Rufus Gifford ’96 and filmmaker Christine Vachon ’83 were named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America. (Out Magazine)
Meet Professor Mark Bear ’84 PhD, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. (Boston Globe, 2/12/07)
Randall Kroszner ’84 is one of the Federal Reserve policymakers who votes on the direction of interest rates in the United States. (USA Today, 3/5/07)
Jayne Park ’84, founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, was awarded the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Exponent Award. (Philanthropy News Digest , 10/10/06)
David Saltzman ’84 is executive director of Robin Hood, one of the most pioneering and influential philanthropic organizations in the country. (Fortune, 9/18/06)
Nathan Hochman ’85, one of the country’s leading tax litigators, is the new assistant attorney general for the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice. (Reuters, 1/7/08)
Steven Lawrence ’85 is the new superintendent of the Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento, CA. (Sacramento Bee, 5/26/06)
Lynn Pasquerella ’85 PhD will be the next provost of the University of Hartford. (Harford Informer, 3/13/08)
Steve Ritter ’85 is using computers and cognitive science to help middle school students learn math. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/24/07)
Victor Bernson ’86 will be the second Hispanic member, and the only member with children in private rather than public school, on the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Board of Education. (Baltimore Sun, 8/11/06)
Anne Fisher Vollen ’86 has published a guide for "green" living in San Francisco. (Bay Area Business Woman, 12/1/06)
Corali Lopez-Castro ’87, only the second woman president of the Cuban American Bar Association, has received the Florida Bar President’s Award of Merit. (PR-GB.com, 8/4/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Associate Professor of Anthropology Philip Scher ’87.
Baishali Rinku Sen ’87 will head the Applied Research Centre, a public policy institute advancing racial justice in the U.S. (Hindustan Times, 8/17/06)
Amy F. Dunathan ’88 has been named by President George W. Bush to be associate counsel to the president.
Williams College will confer honorary degrees on health advocate Nawal Nour ’88 and Rector of Oxford’s Exeter College Frances Cairncross ’67 AM. (iBerkshires.com, 3/13/08)
Joseph Corriveau ’89 PhD was appointed director of research and technology for the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.
Jennifer Niles ’89, founder of the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, is profiled in the Washingtonian. (Washingtonian, October 2006)
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1970-1979
Francisco Besosa ’71 has been nominated to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico. (U.S. House of Representatives Press Release, 5/16/06)
Attorney Robert G. Flanders Jr. ’71 was nominated by Senator Lincoln Chafee to serve on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (Providence Journal, 3/17/06)
Rabbi Laura Geller ’71 made the Jewish Daily Herald’s “Forward 50” list of people who are making a difference in the way American Jews view the world and themselves. (The Jewish Daily Forward, February 2008)
Peter Whitehouse ‘71 has created a school in which Alzheimer’s patients can stay active by working with young students. (NPR, 6/12/08)
Leonard A. Schlesinger ’73 was named the 12th president of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. (Boston Globe, 11/17/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Professor of Sociology Roger Waldinger ’74.
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Professor of Mathematics Douglas Arnold ’75.
Arthur Warga ’75 has led the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business from ordinary to extraordinary while battling brain cancer. (Houston Chronicle, 3/20/08)
Marilyn Deldonno ’76 was honored by Amgen, a biotechnology company, for excellence in science teaching. (Cambridge School of Weston)
Eduardo Montealegre ’76 ran a tight race against former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega for the presidency of Nicaragua. (See profile in Brown Daily Herald from 10/11/06)
Howard Frumkin ’77, director of the National Center for Environmental Health’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control, is planning an overhaul of government action on climate crises.
William Owen ’77 has been named president of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. (University Business, 3/30/07)
David Schmittlein ’77 will be the new dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the first since 1966 to be recruited from outside MIT. (The Boston Globe, 8/28/07)
Seth Berkley ’78, ’81 MD, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, announced the organization’s expanded research and advocacy efforts in South Africa. (Medical News Today, 11/22/06)
State senator Elizabeth H. Roberts ’78* becomes RI’s first female lieutenant governor. (Providence Journal, 5/23/06; See also profile in Brown Daily Herald from 2/7/06)
William Wood ’78 has been named outstanding community leader by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas. (Austin Business Journal, 2/22/07)
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1900-1969
Martha Sharp ’26* was posthumously inducted into the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’s "Righteous Among the Nations" for helping to save the lives of Jews during World War II. (Boston Globe, 6/13/06)
Dr. Matthew Scharff ’54 received the inaugural Albert Einstein College of Medicine Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D. Faculty Prize for Research Excellence. (AECOM Press Release, 11/29/06)
Ted Turner ’60, whose buffalo-ranch holdings are considered to be the world’s largest, was inducted into the National Buffalo Hall of Fame. (KX-net.com, 7/25/07)
Paul Choquette ’60* received a prestigious humanitarian award in honor of his support of the nation’s top lung, allergy, and immune diseases hospital. (Providence Journal, 5/14/06)
In a Washington Post op-ed, Richard Holbrooke ’62 examines Russia’s reaction to likely phased independence for Kosovo. (Washington Post, 3/13/07)
John Brandenberger ’64 ScM, ’69 PhD, Professor of Physics at Lawrence University, was honored with its inaugural "Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity Award" citing him for "imagination and energy" in his classroom and lab. (Post-Crescent, 6/12/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Daniel Rodgers ’64.
Rhode Island Senator Mike Lenihan ’65, ’68 MAT and Governor Don Carcieri ’65*, once teammates on Brown’s football squad, are now at opposite ends of a high-profile tug of war between the Democratic RI Senate and the Republican governor. (Providence Journal, 5/13/07)
Robert A. Seiple ’65 will be president of the Council for America’s First Freedom. (PRNewswire, 1/19/06)
W. Terence Walsh ’65 received the American Bar Association’s John Minor Wisdom award for his commitment to public service through pro bono litigation. (dBusinessNews, 4/6/07)
Howard University professor Winston Anderson ’66 PhD will use his $1 million HHMI research grant to improve undergraduate education and mentoring programs at the university. (Jamaica Gleaner, 6/17/07)
Karen Pittelman ’97 and Kent Logan ’66 are taking new approaches to philanthropy. (U.S. News & World Report, 2/18/07; New York Times, 2/18/07)
Williams College will confer honorary degrees on health advocate Nawal Nour ’88 and Rector of Oxford’s Exeter College Frances Cairncross ’67 AM. (iBerkshires.com, 3/13/08)
Ron Gidwitz ’67 seeks the Republican Party nomination for the Illinois gubernatorial race. (Chicago Tribune, 3/5/06)
John M. Robinson ’67 was sworn in as director of the State Department’s Office of Civil Rights and as its chief diversity officer. (TMC.net, 3/4/08)
Peter Allgeier ’69, visiting deputy US trade representative, met with Chinese officials to help move the stalled Doha global trade negotiations forward.
(Xinhua News Agency, 3/15/07)
Ira Magaziner ’69, his son Jon Magaziner ’07, and Nathan Wyeth ’08 are committed to bringing the Clinton Climate Initiative to colleges and universities. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/28/07)
Lynn ’70 and W. Thomas ’69 Moulton struggle over how to support their son, Seth, who is serving in Iraq, while standing against the conflict. (Boston Magazine, 12/07)
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