Tiffany Sneden ’02 of Riverview, Fla., is teaching seventh-grade science at Mann Middle School in Brandon, Fla.
Paul M. Neuberger ’05
Anthony D. Veneziano ’03 of Highland, Ind., is in his fourth season as the public relations director of the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series. There will be about 80 races this sea-
son from coast to coast. Sara Matzdorf Dassow ’04 and her husband, Nate, of Racine, Wis., have a daughter, Isabelle Elise Dassow, born Jan. 15, 2009. Tammy Lyn Zellner ’04 of Goliad, Texas, is a park ranger with Texas Parks and Wildlife. Mary Grant Haste ’05 and her husband, Ryan, of Indianapolis, Ind., have a son, Grant Michael Haste, born March 3, 2008. She took a child-rearing leave of absence from the Indianapolis Public Schools for the 2008-2009 school year. CJ Johnson ’05 of Brooklyn Park, Minn., is a home mortgage consultant with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in Minneapolis, Minn. He also owns rental properties and officiates basketball from time to time. Amber Kind-Keppel ’05 of Grafton, Wis., is an English teacher at Whitefish Bay High School, where she also directs theater from time to time. Paul M. Neuberger ’05 of Oak Creek, Wis., has been promoted to vice president for Advancement at Saint Thomas More High School in Milwaukee. In this expanded role, Paul will oversee the Development, Alumni and Admissions Offices in an effort to increase overall revenue for the school. Paul officially will assume this new role July 1, 2009. Philip Martin Argon ’06 of Des Plaines, Ill., is in the master’s degree program in chemistry at DePaul University. Stephanie Chacharon ’06 of Seattle, Wash., is a marketing manager at Microsoft for a line of free software solutions products. Alisha Gard ’06 of Verona, Wis., is working as an operations specialist for an Independent Review Organization, doing reviews for insurance companies specifically for psychiatric and additions benefits only. She plans to move to California in July. Nikita A. Kibardin ’06 of Grayslake, Ill., is the office manger for National City Bank in the Antioch, Ill., branch. Ambre Neuser-Gajewski ’06 of Green Bay, Wis., currently is working for Acme Television, otherwise known as the CW, as a master control operator. She recently was accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to go back to school for her teaching certification in K-12 special education.
C H AW D A ’06 W O R K I N G T OWA R D P E A C E I N C O N G O After graduating origin and was from Ripon in May born in Angal, 2006 with degrees Uganda. In in German and 1992, her famcommunication, ily moved to Pooja Chawda set Pune, India, out on a mission to and eight years impact the world later, they — a global commoved to munity that has Milwaukee. always been her “Through home. She finished Pooja Chawda ’06 media, I her master’s degree learned about from the European Univer- violence and conflict across sity Centre for Peace and continents, intra- and interConflict Studies (EPU) in national, intercultural, Stadtschlaining, Austria, in between religions, in famithe fall of 2007. She then lies and, at times, intra-perworked at the International sonal,” Chawda says. “It Institute of Wisconsin in made me reflect about life in Milwaukee, focusing on the absence of violence and immigration and refugee if the outcome of construcresettlement, for almost a tive conflict resolution year. would foster more underShe now lives in Kinstanding about differences shasa, the capital of the and respect amongst Democratic Republic of people.” Congo (DRC) where she Chawda learned bout the works for the United EPU through Professor Joe Nations Mission. She is Hatcher and says her curpart of an investigation rent work is important. team that writes reports “The Security Council of including findings, observa- United Nations has authotions and recommendations rized [the Mission] to use all regarding an incident incur- means deemed necessary — ring on UN Staff. within the limits of its Chawda is of East Indian capacities and in the areas
Sara Sanford ’06 of Decatur, Ga., is continuing to pursue her doctorate in psychology after finishing her master’s in psychology at Emory University last year. Jennifer Baker Schilling ’06 of Pelican Lake, Wis., is a teller and key holder at Ripco Credit Union in Rhinelander, Wis. She and her husband, Dave, have a son, Tyler Allen Schilling, born April 5, 2007. Craig Worden ’06 of Beaver Dam, Wis., earned his master’s of science in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in August 2008. His research, “Environmental pH affects transcriptional responses to cadmium toxicity in Escherichia coli K-12,” has been published in the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Microbiology Letters. Now the job search has begun.
of military deployment — to protect civilians under threat of physical violence and to contribute to the improved security conditions in the arena of fair elections,” Chawda says. Military and police capabilities exceed 19,000; there are more than 4,000 civilians and experts in humanitarian affairs, human rights, child protection, legal affairs, political and economic affairs; and an administration represented by more than 100 nations. “[This is] an indicative factor of the global interest in resolving the Congo crisis and accompanying the Congolese into reconstruction and stabilization in the context of durable peace,” Chawda says. “I am indebted to my education at Ripon,” she says. “Without my experience in Ripon, it would be impossible to achieve what I have so far. The knowledge and wisdom I received there has helped me in honing my skills, and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of some element in Ripon.”
Katy Griffiths ’07 of Oshkosh, Wis., recently presented her research at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans, La. The research is on Brugia malayi, a parasite of people that causes the debilitating disease elephantiasis. Her work is looking for ways to block it from infecting the mosquito which carries it from one person to another. 119 million people are infected worldwide. Jill Jones ’07 of Marengo, Ill. is in the middle of her second year as an English language assistant in a bilingual grade school in Madrid, Spain. She not only is teaching but also learning a lot at the same time! Emily Ninmann ’07 of Madison Wis. will be attending Madison Area Technical College in the fall for certification as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). She plans to eventually become a physician assistant.
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