International Development (Oct. 12, 2006)
Don Clark T'73 is Mission Director/Head of the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) in Nepal, overseeing projects in community forestry, drip
irrigation, reproductive health, child survival, HIV/AIDS, hydropower,
democracy and governance, conflict resolution, human trafficking, and
counseling and healthcare for torture victims. Don has been with USAID for 33
years, all but four of them posted in Africa or Asia , ever since he graduated
from Tuck. He also spent two years in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso.
For more information about International Development, check out the
following link:
- USAID Careers - Information
about current employment opportunities with USAID, an independent federal
government agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian
assistance around the world.
International NGO's/Development Economics (Oct. 27, 2004)
Tom Blinkhorn recently moved to the Upper Valley after a career with the
World Bank in multiple capacities around the globe. Tom also has a
journalism background and has done graduate work in development
economics. Among his titles at the World Bank were the following:
Operations Officer in Africa; Chief, Public Affairs Division; Senior Adviser,
Global Development Learning Network. Tom's wife, Betsy McGean, is a
Williams grad who has a master's in forestry from Yale and worked overseas for
the Nature Conservancy and the Ford Foundation.
Rick Hausman worked for nonprofits through the Seventies and early Eighties,
including a stint as CFO of West Central Services in Hanover. For 6 years in
the late Eighties, he served as Vermont state rep. from Newbury. In 1990, he
joined Clean Yield Asset Management as Dir. of Research, a post he has held
ever since. (Clean Yield is a Greensboro, VT-based firm that manages
individuals' investment portfolios along social lines.) MPH '78 from U. of
Minnesota. Local nonprofit boards include the Upper Valley Community
Foundation, the Vermont Comm. Foundation. Financial. Advisory Comm., and
formerly, Vital Communities and the Ninevah Foundation.
Elizabeth Glenshaw is the Director, Community Investment Market &
Development with the Calvert Foundation which provides community investing
opportunities throughout the world. Housed in Bethesda, MD, the Calvert
Foundation grew out of Calvert Group, the mutual fund company that helped
pioneer the concept of socially responsible investing, when it teamed-up with
the Ford, MacArthur and Mott Foundations to provide investment opportunities to
help end poverty through investment. Individual and institutional clients
benefit from security enhancements, diversification, rigorous due diligence and
portfolio monitoring. Ms. Glenshaw's work with the Foundation has
targeted both investment and lending initiatives in an effort to move community
investing into the forefront as a recognized and viable asset class.
For more information about Social Investing, check out the following
links:
- The Social Investment Forum - a
national nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and
growth of socially responsible investing.
- Social Funds.com - the largest
personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing.
- Ethical Performance - the
independent global newsletter for socially responsible business.
- The Calvert Foundation -
The Calvert Foundation's goal is to end poverty through investment.
Tod Murphy is an entrepreneur who founded and runs the Farmers Diner, an
innovative local foods initiative in Barre, Vermont. This unique restaurant
supports local, organic agriculture by providing a steady market for their
goods, and supports its patrons with only the freshest foods. Sixty-five cents
of every dollar the business spends goes directly to farmers within seventy
miles of Barre. Tod lives with his family in Barre, and is deeply committed to
his community. Their motto: Thing Locally, Act Neighborly.
Suzanne Long ‘83, started Luna Bleu Farm in South Royalton, Vermont. The
farm is an organic CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) operation, encouraging
local, sustainable consumption of vegetables, beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and
farm-based crafts. It is also highly engaged in the community, with farm
apprenticeships, farm festivals, educational programs, and work with Farm Share
and food shelves for low income neighbors.
For more information about sustainable agriculture, check out the following
links:
Steven Montgomery is a development consultant. The grant
proposals he has written have been awarded millions of dollars on behalf of New
York City nonprofit organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, the
Lower East Side Family Union and the Bronx Charter School for Better
Learning.
Mr. Montgomery has also produced and directed documentaries that have been
recognized and televised nationally. His documentary "Morocco: The Past
and Present of Djemma el Fna" (1995) received the CINE Golden Eagle award in
Washington D.C., the Silver Award at WorldFest Houston, and has been
distributed to universities and public libraries throughout the U.S.
Lisa Cashdan is a philanthropic advisor for families, foundations and
environmental non-profits. She currently works as a consultant for The Boston
Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation, ECHO Museum, NH Audubon and
select other families and non profit clients.
Lisa was most recently the Executive Director of the Upper Valley Community
Foundation (from 1999-2004) Prior to that she was a founder and on the Board of
Directors and Chair of the Board in 1998-1999. From 1976-1998, Lisa held
numerous positions at the Trust for Public Land both in New York City and
nationally, culminating her career at TPL as a Senior Vice President
responsible for launching the National Green Cities Program. She currently
serves on the Boards of the Vermont Land Trust, Vital Communities, Center for
Whole Communities and Vermont Institute of Natural Science. She is on the
Advisory Councils of the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the Upper Valley Community
Foundation, the Appalachian Mountain Club, Upper Valley Land Trust, National
and New England offices of Trust for Public Land and Community VIS, Alice Peck
Day Hospital, and Northern Stage.
For more information about not-for-profit consulting, check out the
following links:
- Idealist.org - the best nonprofit
career center on the web, with hundreds of job and internship listings.
Also has a searchable database of over 45,000 nonprofit and community
organizations.
- Fairmount Ventures -consulting
firm which focuses on high quality programmatic, financial and
organization expertise on meeting the needs of nonprofits working in a variety
of areas.
- The Bridgespan Group - a
nonprofit organization applying leading-edge management strategies, tools and
talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social
impact.
Joan Ai '98 works in the Charitable Services Group at Goldman, Sachs &
Co., where she runs the firm's Arts & Culture program, board placement
program and various philanthropic initiatives. Joan is a member of
Dartmouth College's Trustee Nominating Committee and formerly chaired the Young
Alumni Committee on Alumni Council. She serves on the Board of Directors
for the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association and most recently, the
Centennial Host Committee for The Friends for Stuyvesant Campaign. Ms. Ai
is also active with the Asia Society, China Institute, and the New York Junior
League. She graduated with a B.A. in Asian Studies from Dartmouth
College.
Amy Stockman is currently Director of Foundation Relations at Dartmouth. For
six years (1992-1998) Amy worked in a variety of positions at the Open Society
Institute that manages George Soros' various foundations. She worked
directly for George Soros, and also served as Deputy Director of OSI-Budapest,
Advisor to the Vice President for National Foundations and Regional Director
for the Baltics and Poland where she monitored programs, budgets and the
spending of Soros foundations in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland. Before
coming to Dartmouth , Amy was the Deputy Director of Operations for Special
Projects at the After-School Corporation where she oversaw the development and
implementation of the Workforce Investment Act Fellowship program that served
1,000 high school students in New York City public schools as well as a
175-member AmeriCorps program. Amy received a BA in Russian Studies from the
University of Vermont and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia
University. She also attended Graduate Russian Language courses at the Language
Institute in Middlebury and the Executive Program in Not for Profit Management
at Columbia.
Prior to joining the Tuck Business Bridge Team in January 2005, Victoria
Yang worked in Washington, DC for various political entities. Most
recently, Victoria worked for the Democratic National Committee as the
Executive Director in the Finance Division, helping to raise over $100 million
in major donor funds for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards funds. She also spent 2
years as the Special Assistant to Senator Barbara Boxer from California, and
another 2 years with Counterpart International, Inc., an international
non-profit organization, helping to manage microenterprise programs in the
former Soviet Union, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe. She is
currently working on her MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the
U.S. Naval War College, and holds a BA in Political Science from Whittier
College, in California. Victoria is also a Tuck Partner (spouse to a
current Tuck student).
Stephen Klein, currently the chief fiscal officer for the Vermont State
Legislature in Montpelier, has crossed sectors for many years. Starting with a
B.A. in Political Science from Berkeley in 1973, Stephen went on to earn a
master of city planning degree from M.I.T. in 1977 and a J.D. degree from the
Northeastern University School of Law in 1982. Along the way, he also served in
the Peace Corps in Honduras and the Dominican Republic from 1973-75.
Much of Stephen's work has been in and around state government including
stints as legislative director for a state senator in Massachusetts; senior
policy development specialist for the Massachusetts State Employment and
Training Council; and director of the Massachusetts State Legislature Audit and
Oversight Bureau. In addition, Stephen has worked as a private consultant and
an assistant director of a $70 million endowment fund.
Marc Rosenbaum's company , Energysmiths, was founded in 1979 on the
principle that sustainable communities can only be based on renewable
resources. Marc has focused on integrating renewable energy systems,
daylighting, high performance envelope design, ecological waste systems,
efficient electrical and water systems, and benign, resource-efficient
materials selection into his projects. Having realized that the barriers
to high performance buildings and communities are neither technical nor
economic, his work scope has expanded to help clients design the process that
is necessary to create these high performance projects. His work in making
sustainable design successful and affordable has earned him nearly a dozen
national awards.
In his practice of sustainable design consulting, he has worked for
institutional clients such as MIT, Vermont Law School, Yale, Dartmouth College,
White Mountain School, and Middlebury College; non-profit clients such as the
Society for the Protection of NH Forests and the Woods Hole Research
Center; commercial clients such as Stonyfield Farm, Inc., Tom's of Maine,
and the Hanover Consumer Co-op; cohousing groups such as Pioneer Valley, Pine
Street, Island Cohousing, New View, Cobb Hill, and Alchemy Farm; and with many
architects including William McDonough Architects, Tsoi/Kobus, Solar Design
Associates, Bruner Cott Associates, Moore Ruble Yudell, and Payette Associates,
in association with BNIM Architects.
An experienced and enthusiastic teacher, Marc has trained thousands of
professionals and especially enjoys working with students. He holds BS
and MS degrees from MIT, where he studied mechanical engineering. He is a
licensed engineer in NH, VT, MA, and ME, and is a LEED Accredited Professional,
certified by the U.S Green Building Council.
Kate Stephenson combines experience working as a Program Manager at
Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT, with experience in
sustainability education, preservation of historic and natural landscapes, and
green building/living as both a career and everyday practice.
For more information about Sustainable Design, check out the following
links:
- The Yestermorrow Design/Build
School - empowers people to unleash their creative spirit by researching,
preserving and teaching the integrated design/build process.
- U.S. Green Building Council - a
coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote
buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places
to live and work.
- William McDonough &
Partners - one of the nation's leading sustainable architecture &
community design firms headed up by William McDonough '73.
Since 1995, Dean Goodwin has been Director of Environmental Education at
Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. In this capacity, Dean has
designed a new science center, and developed a college level environmental
science elective for high school students. He works closely with all academic
disciplines to fully integrate environmental issues throughout the entire
school curriculum. He runs summer institutes for teachers on the topic of
curriculum design and problem-based learning, and has been acknowledged
nationally for his work. Dean started his teaching career at The City
University in London, England. In 1986 he moved to the United States, spending
nine years as chair of science at two schools in Virginia.
Julie Clemons currently works as the General Manager for the Dartmouth
Outing Club. Over the course of her career she has worked for many
organizations in the outdoor education field, including Outward Bound and the
Appalachian Mountain Club in addition to time at both New England College and
at various organic farms and educational outdoor ropes courses.
For more information about Environmental and Outdoor Education, check out
the following links:
Karen Martinsen Fleming is a Dartmouth '83 with over 20 years of strategy,
marketing, product development and research experience with leading traditional
and non-traditional organizations. As Vice President of Marketing at Stonyfield
Farm and Seventh Generation (the nation's largest producer of non-toxic,
environmentally friendly household products) , she developed and launched the
two most successful product lines in the company's histories. Prior to this she
worked as a strategy consultant and at companies such as Procter & Gamble
and Ocean Spray.
Spencer Putnam was appointed Executive Director of Vermont Businesses for
Social Responsibility in August 2002. Previously he served as General Manager
of Danforth Pewterers in Middlebury for two years and as Vice President of
Operations at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company for twelve years. He has been
active with VBSR for over fifteen years, including five as a member of its
board of directors. Spence has been active in local and civic affairs, having
served many years on local planning commissions, as a member of the Board of
Aldermen in Vergennes, as a Justice of the Peace, and as a member of the boards
of the United Way, Community Action, Agency on Aging, The Vermont Sustainable
Jobs Fund, and the UVM College of Agriculture Advisory Board.
For more information about Socially Responsible Businesses, check out the
following links:
Karsten Barde is Portfolio Analyst at New Profit Inc. in Cambridge, MA,
where he is responsible for identifying prospective investments and performing
due diligence for the firm's venture philanthropy fund. He also conducts
research in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship for New Profit's President
and Founder.
Prior to joining New Profit, Karsten helped run Matt Dunne's 2004 Vermont
State Senate campaign and worked on Capitol Hill for former U.S. Representative
Cal Dooley (D-CA). He also received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Center at
Dartmouth College for the production of an award-winning public affairs
television program on air pollution and respiratory health at a PBS affiliate
in Fresno, CA.
Karsten is a 2004 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he received his A.B.
in Geography and Government. He also studied abroad in Guadalajara, Mexico and
Prague, Czech Republic. Originally from California's San Joaquin Valley,
Karsten is proficient in Spanish.
For more information about Venture Philanthropy, check out the following
links:
- New Profit Inc. - a nonprofit
organization that unites engaged philanthropists with visionary social
entrepreneurs to grow their social innovations to scale.
- Venture Philanthropy Partners
(VPP) - a philanthropic investment organization that helps build strong,
high-performing nonprofit institutions. It concentrates money, expertise, and
personal contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children
and youth of low-income families in the National Capital Region.
Paul Holzer '00, a recent recipient of a MLK Social Justice Award from the
College for "Emerging Leadership", is the Director of Higher Education at the
Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., where he oversees four college
preparation programs that prepare at-risk minority youth for successful
entrance to and completion of college. Paul graduated from Dartmouth with a
degree and secondary school teaching certification in English and a history of
community involvement. During his undergraduate years, Paul served as a Student
Assembly vice president, class president, acting principal of an orphanage
school in the Dominican Republic, and co-teacher at the Tucker Foundation
Prison Project. Upon graduating, he stepped into a fellowship position with the
Common Ground Community in Manhattan.
After a year as the economic development fellow, Paul became manager of
special projects at Common Ground. In this position, he trained formerly
homeless adults as employees of a Ben & Jerry's "PartnerShop" operated by
the Times Square Jobs Training Program. Paul provided the structure and
guidance needed for the trainees' transition into sustainable employment
opportunities.
In 2002, Paul moved to Washington, D.C. to work with at-risk youth at the
Latin American Youth Center's YouthBuild program. As GED instructor, education
coordinator, and college counselor, he facilitated countless successful
transitions to post-secondary education, oversaw curriculum development, and
supervised other teachers. Paul also served as a founding board member of the
YouthBuild Public Charter School in northwest Washington, D.C.
For more information about Working With At-Risk Youth, check out the
following links:
- The Breakthrough
Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge) - Since the beginning, the
program has served motivated yet under-supported middle school students from
the public schools with the goal of ensuring that each student has the
confidence and academic skills to thrive at rigorous college preparatory high
schools.
-
YouthBuild - Students at YouthBuild programs prepare for high school
diplomas, GEDs, vocational school, or college.
- SuperKids
Camp - A non-school based summer enrichment program for elementary level
students.
Scott Brown '78 is the Chief Executive Officer of New Energy Capital
Corporation and former Dean of the Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth. New Energy Capital is a private
equity fund focused on financing renewable energy, distributed generation and
energy productivity projects. They invest in, own and operate renewable energy
and distributed generation projects. These include a biodiesel production plant
in Delaware, an ethanol facility in Indiana, cogeneration projects in
California and Massachusetts, and a biomass power plant in Maine.
Scott Brown has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial management experience
leading start-up service and energy companies. After consulting with Bain &
Company in the early 1980s, he joined the founding management team of First
Solar in 1988, one of the first thin film photovoltaic manufacturers in the
U.S. He left First Solar in 1989 to become President and CEO of Glasstech
Solar, Inc, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment for the photovoltaic
industry. Until recently, Mr. Brown has been a consultant to Whitney & Co.,
a $4 billion private equity company, evaluating investments in renewable energy
markets, including a photovoltaic industry component manufacturer and a wind
energy finance start-up. Mr. Brown is a member of the National Advisory Board
of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth
College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Jeff Wolfe is the Chief Executive Officer of GroSolar. GroSolar is a leader in solar energy
systems, dedicated to energy independence and the reversal of global warming. A
leading distributor of sustainable, green energy products and services, they
deliver and install solar power systems for residential and commercial
customers. GroSolar has been recognized by Vermont Business Magazine as one of
the best places to work in Vermont .
Jeff Wolfe is a recognized leader in the solar industry and has led the
design and installation of some of the largest solar projects in the U.S. He
serves on the board of the Solar Electric Industry Association and chairs the
PV division. While a partner at the engineering firm Bard, Rao & Athanas,
he designed over four million square feet of construction and nine MW of power
generation. He is a certified professional engineer and has a BSME degree from
Cornell University.
For more information about Renewable Energy, check out the following
links:
Sienna Craig lived in Nepal from 1995-1998, working as a freelance writer,
editor, experiential educator, trekking guide, and development consultant.
While living in Nepal, Sienna met Kenneth Bauer, whom she married in 1999. In
1998-99, they founded DROKPA, a non-profit
organization whose mission is to partner with pastoral communities in the
Himalaya and Central Asia to implement grassroots development and catalyze
social entrepreneurship. DROKPA currently funds projects in Nepal, Ladakh,
India, Bhutan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in the following areas:
alternative energy, education and training, community health and Tibetan
medicine, and social entrepreneurship. Sienna's interest in Tibet carried on
into her doctoral dissertation, "On the Science of Healing: Efficacy and the
Metamorphosis of Tibetan Medicine" which explores the possibilities of
defending and transforming a non-western medical and social system in the face
of many changes and challenges. In addition to her dissertation research, from
2002-04 Sienna has been an ethnographer and research coordinator with a
National Institute of Health / Global Network for Women's Health project based
in Lhasa, Tibet. She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology here
at Dartmouth and has published widely in both academic and popular venues.
Kesang Tashi, a native of Tibet, is a member of the Dartmouth class of 1970
who founded the InnerAsia Trading
Co. After years working as an international banker in New York,
Tashi founded the InnerAsia Trading Co. in 1986 with the aim of revitalizing
Tibet's rug weaving heritage. The project was appealing for him because it
restored pride in this ancient craft which was in danger of being lost, and at
the same time ensures that this art will continue for generations to come.
InnerAsia also generates a livelihood for Tibet's wool producing nomads, wool
corders, yarn spinners and rug weavers. The Tibetan rugs are handmade in the
traditional way from the wool of aboriginal sheep and often incorporate symbols
from Buddhism, the predominant religion in Tibet. Presently, InnerAsia's
Tibetan rugs grace showrooms in Japan, Hong Kong, China, Germany, Australia,
and the United States. Tashi retains strong ties to Tibet and in addition to
his work with InnerAsia, in 1995 he built the 45 room Gyalthang Dzong Hotel in
his hometown of Gyalthang to promote ecotourism and Tibetan culture. In 1996 he
began working with the regional Bureau of Forestry, and later the Royal Botanic
Garden of Edinburgh and the Nature Conservancy to create an environmental
preserve four times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the Yunnan
province.
For more information about Social Enterprise, check out the following
links:
Janet Cote is the West Central Regional Manager for MicroCredit-NH. Before
joining MicroCredit-NH in April 2000, Janet served as Executive Director of
Newfound Economic Development Corporation (NEDC), where she worked with
communities, businesses and schools to foster economic development
opportunities in the Newfound Lake Region of NH. At NEDC, Janet most enjoyed
her consultant work with business start-ups as they developed business plans,
so that they might secure financing to achieve their business dreams. "It is a
great feeling when you see the little successes along the way bring such great
joy," explains Janet. At MicroCredit-NH, she continues this work by
facilitating workshops, establishing new business groups and providing support
and resources to the business group members in her region.
Dana Dakin is the founder and president of WomensTrust Inc. Today,
WomensTrust in the village of Pokuase (Ghana) is thriving, with more than 400
women in the loan program and repayment rates consistently above 90 percent.
The 501c(3) organization (with NGO status in Ghana) has become a viable
community-based partnership approach to long-term social change: bottom-up,
playing to the entrepreneurial drive that is alive and well in developing
countries, with money going directly into the hands of the beneficiaries.
Dana's career is in the investment business, where she has been a pioneer in
marketing consulting to institutional investment firms, both on the trading
side as well as for leading money management organizations. Her experience
began on Wall Street and in 1971 she joined what became Callan Associates, a
top pension consulting firm. With a five-year inside perspective on evaluating
money managers, she formed Dakin Partners in 1976, the first firm to creatively
package institutional investment organizations. She has worked on some of the
great launches in the business, and has authored a summary of the essentials of
investment marketing in Five for the Road, available at www.dakinforum.com. She
also co-produced the eight-part PBS series "Beyond Wall Street: The Art of
Investing" with a companion book published by John Wiley. She was educated at
Scripps College, where she graduated with a B.A. in 1964. Her concentration was
in international relations, with an honor's thesis on pan-Africanism. She was a
member of the college's Board of Trustees for nine years. Other board
commitments over the years have included Alumnae Resources in San Francisco, NH
Writers' Project and the Women's Fund of New Hampshire.
For more information about microfinance, check out the following links:
- The Grameen
Foundation - The Grameen Foundation helps people to escape poverty by
giving them collateral-free loans to support income-generating businesses.
- ACCION
International - ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization
with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need –
microenterprise loans, business training and other financial services – to work
their way out of poverty.
- Association for Enterprise
Opportunity (AEO) - Serves as the voice for the U.S. microenterprise
movement.
Lelia Mellen graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in Geography in 1986.
She became a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Lelia got her
graduate degree from Duke University in Resource Economics and Policy and
began working for the National Park Service in 1993. Within the National Park
Service, Lelia works as the Director of New Hampshire Projects for the Rivers,
Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. As such, she works with community
groups, local governments and state agencies to help them build trails, protect
rivers and conserve open space.
Peg Merrens graduated from Dartmouth in 1987 with a degree in Geography. Peg
also received a Masters in Environmental Law and a JD degree from Vermont Law
School in 1994. She currently works as Vice President for Conservation for the
Upper Valley Land Trust, and has previously served as the Conservation Director
and the Conservation Project Manager there. Prior to working at the UVLT, Peg
worked as a Senior Analyst at Environment International and as an Environmental
Attorney with Lee & Associates, Attorneys at Law. She has also served as a
Student Judicial Intern at the United States District Court in Rutland, VT, as
a law clerk for the National Wildlife Federation in Anchorage, Alaska, and as a
Map Technician at Geographic Data Technology. Peg spent 1989-1991 in Western
Kalimantan, Indonesia working as a Resource Consultant for the Bukit Baka
Sustainable Forestry Project, and as a Research assistant for the Gunung Palung
Tropical Ecology / Biodiversity Research Project. She was also a Development
Project Intern with Associates in Rural Development, Inc., and a Research
Assistant with Dartmouth College/US Forest Service at Mount Moosilauke.
STEPHEN J. ATWOOD '68, DMS'70
Dr. Stephen Atwood graduated from Dartmouth College in 1968 with a degree in
English literature and from Dartmouth Medical School in 1970 with a Bachelor of
Medical Science degree. He received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in 1972 and went on to complete his internship and residency at the
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, where he was chief resident in pediatrics and
subsequently director of pediatric emergency services. From 1978 to 1986,
Atwood served as associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons and as director of the Division
of Medical Education, Department of Pediatrics. Atwood began his international
public health work in 1986, when he joined CARE International in India as
senior primary health care advisor and director of CARE's new Primary Health
Care Unit, a post in which he served until 1994. He next worked for seven years
in the UNICEF's largest country office--the India Country Office in New
Delhi--managing UNICEF's health programs there as chief of its health section.
In 2001, Atwood became the regional advisor for health and nutrition in the
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok. Shortly after the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami, Atwood spent six months on mission to Banda Aceh,
Indonesia, as UNICEF Indonesia's director of emergency operations. In 2006 he
served as advisor to UNICEF Timor Leste in Dili responding to the conflict in
that country.
ALLISON BARLOW '86
Allison Barlow came to Dartmouth as a gifted lacrosse and field hockey player.
During her years at the College she was named an All-American Lacrosse Player
and received the Kenneth Archibald Prize for the most outstanding
scholar-athlete. After graduating with a degree in English, she worked for
several years at the Children's Hospital in Boston and as a freelance science
and health writer. She then was awarded a Rotary International scholarship to
earn an M.A. in Aboriginal studies, literature, and ethnography at the
University of Melbourne in Australia. Returning to the United States, she
served as a documentary researcher for PBS's "Healing and the Mind with Bill
Moyers" and then as deputy director for public affairs at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also earned a Master of Public
Health degree with a concentration in health promotion and adolescent health.
Since 1992, Barlow has worked for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian
Health in a variety of positions--as director of development and
communications, director of youth and family services, director of behavioral
health, and, for the last four years, deputy director of the Center.
ANNE SOSIN '02
As a Dartmouth undergraduate, Anne Sosin created and ran both Templeton Reads,
which continues today under the name ROAR (Reach Out and Read), and Dartmouth
Habitat for Humanity's first international service trip Trinidad. She spent
time as a legal aide with Have Justice–Will Travel and she won a Tucker
Fellowship to travel to Senegal, West Africa, to research strategies for local
resource mobilization and to prepare a feasibility study for the launch of a
Citizen Base Initiative. Upon graduating from Dartmouth with a degree in
English, Sosin worked as a community service coordinator with the Tucker
Foundation. After leaving Hanover, Sosin moved to Haiti, where she worked with
the Institute for Justice and Democracy investigating and documenting abuses of
human rights and advocating on behalf of victims. In 2005 Sosin founded Haiti
Rights Vision, which focuses on women's rights, violence against women, health
as a human right, and general human rights issues in Haiti. The organization's
grassroots program for women survivors of sexual violence was one of a select
few programs chosen internationally for the UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eliminate
Violence against Women grant. In 2006 and 2007 she also worked as a consultant
with Oxfam-UK conducting field research on small arms control in Haiti.
Currently, Sosin continues to serve as director of Haiti Rights Vision and is a
Master of Public Health degree candidate and Sommer Scholar at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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