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ON THE JOB IN THE U.S. OF A.
PiA stomping grounds in Almaty, Kazkhstan to serve as the Senior Advisor of Public, Government and Public Affairs for Chevron.
Sean Callahan (Thailand ’91) moved to Manila to serve as the coordinator for the Pacific Islands and Mongolia for USAID.
[5] PiA Emeritus Trustee Ruth Stevens spent the fall semester as a visiting professor of marketing at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
After completing a Master’s degree in Religion and Ethics, Sean Massa
(Indonesia ’15) spent the summer in Hong Kong on a Yale-China exchange program, and is now an U.S. Education Consultant with ARCH Education in Hong Kong.

[6] Esmeralda Herrera (China ’16) recently completed a Clinton Fellowship with the American India Foundation. During her fellowship in Kishanganj (Bihar State), she served as the Human Resource Manager for Project Potential, an organization that supports local female entrepreneurs. Esmeralda’s writing about her time in Bihar can be found at aif.org/ author/esmeraldaherrera/.

David Willard (China, Summer ’04) has recently launched 52 Capital Partners (52capitalpartners.com), an independent advisory firm that provides high-level strategic advisory services to the senior management teams, Founders and Boards of Directors of corporations, financial institutions, family-owned enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures faced with transformational, complex or high-stakes transactional matters in North America and China.
Will Danforth (Mongolia ’16), who moved to Austin, Texas, after PiA, has spent the past several months working on the congressional campaign of Joseph Kopser (D) in the 21st district of Texas.
Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee (Vietnam ’07, Nepal ’08) has relocated to San Francisco to serve on Chevron’s social impact team, though her new role will send her on frequent trips to Asia.
After completing his MPP at Cambridge University, Chris Canary (China ’14), has moved to New York City to tackle infrastructure challenges with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. We’re excited to have you in our neck of the woods, Chris!
Juliana Gamble (Vietnam ’00) has recently moved with her husband and son to St. Louis, where she intends to start a residency for artists who are mothers.
[7] Dwight Crabtree (Thailand ‘02) was named “CFO of the Year” by the Pittsburgh Business Times for his work at Chevron Appalachia.

[8] From Oakley Strasser (China ’12, Carriebright ’13): “Here’s [Chris Colonna (Thailand ‘12)] and I at work! He’s a 3rd year anesthesia resident and I’m doing a month-rotation on anesthesia. PiA doctors!”

[1] Anastasia Vrachnos (Indonesia ’91) with Matt Blazejewski (China ’17) and Arianna Munguia (SOS ’12, China ’14) in Hangzhou!

[2] Matthew Silberman (S. Korea ’17), Hannah Bae (S. Korea ’07), and Gavin Huang (S. Korea ’15) in Seoul. Hannah recently visited her PiA host city and met with two of her successors at the JoongAng Daily. Gavin has since relocated to Hong Kong for an editorial position at Goldthread, the new culture offering of the South China Morning Post and Matthew has moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a researcher for the Korea Center of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
