ON THE JOB

Julia Gall (Kazakhstan ’12) is back in the Pacific Northwest after spending a year on research on mental health in Moldova, and she has been busy! She has already interned for U.S. Senator Mari Cantwell, created illustrations for a USAID-funded project in Pakistan, secured a new position at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and generously volunteered at PiA interviews.

Samantha Luu (China ’14) and Supriya Sadagopan (Thailand ’16) are new students in the MPH program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Go Tar Heels! The two co-led an information session for PiA in conjunction with the Carolina Asia Center.

A former data scientist, Dan Kopf (Vietnam ’05) joined the digital news outlet Quartz as a San Francisco-based reporter focusing on economics and market coverage. Follow him on Twitter @dkopf.

Sakura Christmas (China ’08) has joined the faculty at Bowdoin College as an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies. Tarryn Chun (Taiwan ’06) has joined the facuty of the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, where her research primarily focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese theatre.

Jill Capotosto (Vietnam ’14) has traded the Lone Star State for the Green Mountain State to work on communications for the Institute for Sustainable Communities. She recently co-organized PiA’s first information session at the University of Vermont with post-bac student, Anna Seeman (Laos ’15)!