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Leila Abu-Gheida is the Senior Conflict Analyst for USAID Nepal. In addition, she is managing democracy and governance activities for USAID. She participated in the 2006 Voices from the Field Program. (Updated 8/2006)

Victor Assal, is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Albany. He completed his Masters from Hebrew University in 1996 and completed his dissertation in the field of conflict and conflict management at the University of Maryland.

Samantha Langbaum Beinhacker is President of New Capital Consulting, a management consulting firm in New Jersey that specializes in new business development, strategic planning, and organizational capacity-building for social entrepreneurs in the nonprofit sector. (Updated 8/2006)

Mark Berman is an attorney with Gibons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione in Newark, New Jersey.

Kate Burns is the Director of Acquisitions Management for Sheraton Corporation.

Leanna Callimanopoulos is currently living in Cambridge.

Will Elias is the general counsel for The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory of Cambridge, a non-profit science and engineering research laboratory. (Updated 8/2006)

Andrew J. Enschedé is living in Chicago and is an attorney with Zevnik Horton.

Debra Feldstein is the Executive Director of City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley. An 'action tank' for national service, City Year seeks to demonstrate, improve, and promote the concept of national service as a means of building a stronger democracy. Previously, after practicing law and getting a Master of Management degree from the Heller School at Brandeis, and working as the Director of Development for Tufts Hillel, Debra moved to California where she is Director of Hillel at Stanford University. She is getting married this September to Ken Chizinsky, whom she met in California.

Jonathan Greengrass is a consultant at Greengrass Consulting, where he provides marketing, development & strategic planning services to a variety of non-profit organizations. (Updated 8/2006)

Kristina Hare-Lyons recently received her M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and was the Director of the Physicians for Human Rights' Sierra Leone project. She is married and is enjoying spending time with her two children. She and her family live in the Boston area. (Updated 8/2006)

Stephanie Jowers currently runs membership for the National Peace Corps Association. She previously served as the Deputy Director of a prominent NGO that used new media to bridge the digital divide, produced start-up ventures in the States and abroad, and is active in the Social Venture Network. She served in the Peace Corps Small Enterprise Development Program in Tangier, Morocco. She is based in D.C. with her fiancé and 1998 EPIIC alum, Michael “Mookie” Margolis. (Updated 9/2005)

Mary Kawar is with the International Labour Organization. In 2002 she moved to the ILO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in the employment strategy department working on employment policies with particular attention to issues regarding youth, gender, and migrant workers. She received her doctorate in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. (Updated 8/2006)

Ramla Khalidi-Beyhum After completing her Masters from Georgetown University in 1991, she worked as a researcher with Amnesty International in London for three years. She then moved to Lebanon and worked in television journalism for another three years. Since 1996 she has been working with the United Nations Development Program on issues of governance and poverty.

Khalid Latif is the Chairman and CEO of The International Research and Development Company (INTERDEC) in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Updated 8/2006)

Matthew Lorin is the Director of Planning, Evaluation, and Grants at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. (Updated 8/2006)

Brenda Needle-Shimoni Upon completing her Masters in International Education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, she moved to Israel to work with SHATIL: the New Israel Fund's Empowerment and Capacity Building Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel, where she has been ever since. In 1995, she married Baruch Shimoni, and has a son.

Laura Nussbaum Solomon has a specialty law practice representing nonprofit charitable organizations based in the U.S. and abroad. Clients include many community organizations, universities, health systems and fund-raising organizations that make international grants. She has three children: Avi, Adin, and Rachel.

Stephen Palley is an associate at the firm of Stinson, Mag and Fizzell in St. Louis. He is a part of the firm's Litigation Department and is a member of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial law, insurance coverage, personal injury litigation, employment litigation, and general trial practice.

John Rumpler is employed as a Senior Environmental Attorney for the State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). He and his wife Carol have one child - Serena Rae Rumpler. (Updated 8/2006)

Beth Silverman Kotis is a senior program officer with the Financial Services Volunteer Corps based in New York, where she helps administer USAID and US State Department-funded technical assistance programs focused on banking and capital market reform in developing countries, with a special focus on the Middle East. (Updated 8/2006)

Becky Sinnreich is working as a radio account manager for WFJO FM 101.5 in Tampa Bay. She is currently volunteering for a dog rescue group called the North Florida Great Pyrenees Club. She fosters rescued Great Pyrs until they find permanent homes.

Tovia Smith Paris is a National Correspondent for National Public Radio in Boston. (Updated 8/2006)

Laura S. Solomon has a specialty law practice in Philadelphia representing nonprofit charitable organizations based in the U.S. and abroad. Clients include many community organizations, universities, health systems and fund-raising organizations. She is happily married with three children. (Updated 8/2006)

Ellen Talley-Lotzky is responsible for overseeing the distribution of product and sales for Patcraft Commercial carpet in Long Island and the Bronx in New York She has two sons. (Updated 8/2006)

Robert Tarrab is employed as an attorney in New York specializing in large corporate litigation. (Updated 8/2006)

Catherine Young is Assistant Treasurer for AOL Time Warner in New York.