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Roberta Ward Walsh, PhD’89, has retired from Florida Gulf Coast University and is now consulting and teaching part-time in graduate online public administration programs for Norwich University and the University of Virginia. (rwwalsh06@comcast.net) Amandine L. Weinrob, MA/SID’12, started working at AECOM International Development, a contractor to USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), in December 2012. As a program coordinator working on the crisis response and stabilization team, she is currently backstopping a project in Cote d’Ivoire. Weinrob had the opportunity to travel to Abidjan and around the northern parts of the country, where there were (and still are) tensions between the Ouattara and Gbagbo political camps that have been destabilizing the social cohesion of the Ivorian society. (amandineweinrob@gmail.com) Dinah Zeltser Winant, MM’00, is a democracy and governance officer with USAID, completing an assignment in Central Asia. In the fall she will move to Pakistan to take up a position as humanitarian affairs officer with USAID. She is married to a fellow foreign service officer. (dinah_z@yahoo.com) Joseph Wronka, PhD’92, professor of social work at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., was recently interviewed by Austrian Public Radio on the importance of creating a human rights culture, which he has written about as a “‘lived awareness’ of human rights in one’s mind
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and heart and dragged into one’s everyday life.” He was also interviewed on World Citizen Radio using human rights as a nonviolent strategy to enter into a creative dialogue concerning how to foster allegiance to humanity rather than the nation-state, which continues to spend roughly $2 trillion dollars a year to keep the boundaries of their countries intact. He also developed a series of public service announcements for Amherst Cable Television to commemorate such international days that pertain to: mental health, the eradication of the death penalty, the eradication of extreme poverty, the promotion of tolerance, the right to peace, the rights of children, the rights of women and the rights of people with disabilities. (rightsdefender1@verizon.net) Aaron Gregory Young, MA/SID’12, received a substantial fellowship to the University of California, Berkeley, and plans on matriculating this fall. In addition, he will be traveling to Lagos, Nigeria, to work on a project in upgrading impoverished areas. (xaaronyoungx@gmail.com)
PUBLICATIONS Allan Borowski, PhD’80, has recently published “Australia’s Children’s Courts Today and Tomorrow” (Springer, Amsterdam and New York). Co-edited with Rosemary Sheehan, it is based on the first national study of juvenile courts conducted anywhere in the world. The two-year study was completed in 2012. (a.borowski@latrobe.edu.au) Michael Galhouse, MA/SID’13, has been working full-time as a family economic opportunity manager at CASA of Oregon since August 2012. He also published an article in which he discusses the performance and cost savings of electric vehicles and the possible implications they will have on the environment. Summer Jackson, MA/SID’13, co-authored a book titled “Powering Africa Through Feed-In Tariffs: Advancing Renewable Energy to Meet the Continent’s Electricity Needs.” Through her practicum at Meister Consultants Group she was selected as a Truman National Security Project Fellow. She will be starting as a program analyst at the Department of State, Middle East Partnership Initiative. (summerj@brandeis.edu)
Deborah Kaplan Polivy, MSW’72, PhD’78, finished her new book called “Donor Cultivation and the Donor Lifecycle Map: A New Framework for Fundraising,” which will be published by John Wiley & Co. in the fall. (debpol@aol.com) Michael Levine, PhD’85, recently coauthored a news report for the national Campaign for Grade Level Reading titled “Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West.” The campaign is supported by more than a dozen foundations and operates in over 140 cities across the United States. (Michael.Levine@sesame.org) Angela Nicoara, MA/SID’07, is chief of party for the IREX New Media Project in Azerbaijan. Since leaving Brandeis in 2007, Nicoara and her writer husband, Mike, have lived in Romania, Serbia and Sudan, and they are now based in Baku. In addition to holding down a full-time job in a developing region, Nicoara has recently published “Spinner the Winner,” a children’s book about a wind turbine that saves the day. This charming tale of triumph over adversity has superb images, an ecofriendly theme and memorable characters. “Spinner” has sold more than 3,000 copies in three languages since October 2012. Nicoara plans to translate the book further and help to educate kids about renewables in many windy countries around the world. (angela.nicoara@gmail.com)
AWARDS/HONORS/BOARDS/GRANTS Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey, recently named the library of its new gerontology building in honor of Professor Nina Silverstein, PhD’80. (Nina.Silverstein@umb.edu)
BIRTHS/MARRIAGES Sue Doucet ’96, MBA’12, was engaged on Nov. 22, 2012, and married John Mynttinen on July 20, 2013, in Maynard, Mass. (sdoucet@brandeis.edu)