dergarten for 4 years, and now is an “auto entrepreneur” as an English tutor for children and adults. She loves to travel and is looking forward to her next visit to Australia. Michael Crayne ’09 After graduating from the MAIA program, I took an internship in Nairobi, Kenya which led to a job with Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Kinshasa, DRC. I was responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of microfinance technical assistance projects throughout the country, with the Fonds de Promotion de la Microfinance, a challenge fund aimed at offering expertise and loans to microfinance institutions. We helped some 4,000 people access loans better fitted to their micro-enterprises, at reduced cost. I was there until last August, when I was posted in Frankfurt, at my request, so that my Colombian wife and I could live together in a calmer environment, at least for a time. I am now a project coordinator, focusing on social performance and responsible finance projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Though I miss the heat of Congo, I don’t miss the power cuts! Carey Kluttz ’09 Since September 2012, Carey has worked as a Consultant with the World Bank in the World Bank Institute’s Open Government Practice, which works on some of the most challenging areas of governance reform. She is part of WBIOG’s Procurement Team, currently focused on the Open Contracting initiative to promote transparency and accountability in public contracting. Carey has also stayed on at Bridges of Understanding, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering understanding between the people of the United States and the Arab world, where she has worked as Executive Director since completing her MA in Middle East and Islamic Studies in 2009. Bridges’ most popular program, Youth Talk, connects Arab and American high school students for monthly videoconferences and dialogue - and is organized in partnership with Global Nomads Group, an NGO co-founded by four AUP alums. Carey also currently serves as the President of AUPDC, the Washington Alumni Chapter of The American University of Paris. Heather Price ’09 I graduated from AUP with a BA in International and Comparative Politics, and was the first undergraduate
to participate in the Master of Arts in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies graduate-level intensive Arabic language program. After graduation I moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue my master’s in US Foreign and Defense Policy, where I concentrated on military-civilian transition in post-combat operations. During my time in Washington, I have worked at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Iraq, the Institute for the Study of War, and the Heritage Foundation. I am currently the Business and Industry Specialist for the Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Task Force at US Department of Commerce, where I serve as Department coordinator for the US-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement Council meeting, liaison to the Embassy of Afghanistan, and Department of Commerce representative to the interagency working group on Afghanistan World Trade Organization accession. I am honored to be part of the US Government’s mission to protect the homeland by committing to the security and stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan via private sector engagement. I am weighing private defense sector opportunities in Iraq while awaiting word on the Foreign Service Officer selection process and continuing Dari language study. My experience at AUP has pushed me to places I never thought possible, and I look forward to returning to Paris soon.
s Julie Tran ’09 I’m back in Sweden where I grew up. After graduating I got more and more interested into Swedish politics. I even ended up joining a political party and was soon recruited as the campaign leader for the local Centre Party and later their political advisor at the regional level. Thus, the Swedish
election in 2010 went well and our party regained power in all three levels, national, regional and local. Who would have known that I would one day join a political party and end up working as a political advisor for a Swedish county council commissioner? I know I didn’t! It was unexpected because I thought my first job after graduation would be in a NGO in Paris, Geneva or Brussels. I miss Paris a lot but I know I brought the best part of it: my fiancé Samuel who moved to Sweden with me. I hope to move back to Paris someday when the time is right. For the moment, I’m juggling work-study-life. I’m on the last semester of my Master program at the Linköping University. It’s thesis time and my topic is European migration policies. Jordan Land ’10 Immediately after graduating from AUP in May of 2010 with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies, I returned home to Kentucky where I spent the next year working for the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team. My responsibilities were to film every practice during the season, all of the games, and maintain a scouting video database of all our opponents that year. In the summer of 2011, I accepted a position with the U.S. Military to be an Education Counselor for U.S. Forces in Kuwait. That was one of the most unique experiences of my life, being on a military base in the middle of the desert and living through the Iraq War draw-down, as well as experiencing the local culture in a country not often visited by foreigners. Since August of 2012 I have moved to Afghanistan where I am now, counseling U.S. Service Members and NATO Forces (including French soldiers!) in education-related matters. Since the Afghanistan War is scheduled to end soon, I don’t yet know what is in store for my future but I have a few exciting opportunities on the table!
s Jessica Pettus ’10 Jessica and her boyfriend Greg Vose currently live in their hometown of San Francisco, CA where Jessica is employed as a Senior Manager of
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