2000 Victoria D Sanford (2000 PhD) Professor of Anthropology & Doctoral Faculty, Lehman College & Graduate Center, City University of New York; Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies. I have had the honor of spending much of the past year working with Guatemalan and Spanish colleagues on Guatemalan genocide case - ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of the crime of genocide and sentenced to 80 years on prison by a Guatemalan court. http://www.pbs. org/newshour/updates/science/jan-june13/ guatemala_05-08.html. Gilbert Borrego (2000 MA, BA) Librarian for the Biodiversity Heritage Library at the Smithsonian Institution. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 15 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” My work focuses mainly on social media, ebook creation, collection building, exhibitions and the overall promotion of BHL (biodiversitylibrary.org). Bobby E Vaughn (2001 PhD) Associate Professor of Anthropology, Notre Dame de Namur University. Laura C Brown (2001 MA, BA) Post Doc, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University. Joining the Anthropology Department at the University of Pittsburgh in the Fall. Let me know if you’ll be in town. Allison O'Sullivan (2002 BA) Farm Educator at Zenger Farm. Falu Bakrania (2003 PhD) Associate Professor, Race and Resistance Studies Program, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. My book, Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain, will be published by Duke University press in October, 2013. Carole R Blackburn (2003 PhD) Assistant Professor.
Diana S Reddy (2003 BA) Attorney, California Teachers Association. Parker Vanvalkenburgh (2003 BA) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis. Received Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2012; received Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. research grant, 2012; started postdoctoral fellowship; will begin as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, July 2013. Michael Osofsky (2003 ) Managing Director - Partner, Baytree Capital Associates, LLC. Alison B Pearce (2004 PhD) Teacher and Curriculum Developer, Big Learning, Inc. Erich Fox Tree (2004 PhD) Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University. Che Banjoko (2004 MA) Small business employee. Awarded President's Volunteer Service Award by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation (2011). Sohi Sohn Chien (2004 MA) Google, Policy Specialist. Nicole Fox [Nicole Probst] (2004 BA) Vice Consul, US Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I am a member of the US Department of State's Foreign Service and am currently serving as a Vice Consul at the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It's an interesting time to be working as an American diplomat in Vietnam, and I am enjoying being a part of the evolving relationship between the two countries. Before arriving, I spent 6 months studying Vietnamese full time at the Foreign Service Institute. For the past 8 months, I've been working in the consular section at Post and will soon transition to serving as one of the Consulate's two economic officers, specifically handling the environment, science, technology, and health portfolio. As such, I work on issues as disparate as climate change, fish exports, Agent Orange, and intellectual property rights. Lindsey E Johnson (2004 BA) Helmet Product Manager, Smith Optics Immediately after graduation I utilized my anthropology degree in the marketing field. I soon realized how much more about business I wanted to know and enrolled at the University of Washington. In June of 2009 I completed an M.B.A. with a focus in marketing. As I explored my career options, I thought back to my time at Stanford when I ran track and completed my senior project in sports anthropology.
I've since come full circle, moving back into the sports field as a helmet product manager for Smith Optics, a company in the ski and action sports industry, based out of Sun Valley, Idaho. In small ways, every day, I help save lives. In between I ski at lunch, mountain bike from the office, and travel internationally for “work”. Marisa E Macias (2004 BA) Ph.D. Student, Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University. In December, I coorganized the Women in Science and Engineering Symposium at Duke University, attended by 200 students, postdocs, and professionals. I recently accepted a Wenner-Gren Foundation dissertation fieldwork grant, which will fund my research in South Africa, East Africa, and Europe. In addition to a university fellowship for dissertation research as well as a university award for outstanding women in science, I received an honorable mention for the Ford Foundation dissertation fellowship. I co-authored an article "The upper limb of Australopithecus sediba", published in Science this April. I am currently working on my dissertation, Functional Integration of the Hominin Forelimb, at Duke University. Kevin A Medrano (2004 BA) Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Sage H Bearman [Sage Hyman] (2005 MA) Maternal Child Health Researcher and Student Nurse Midwife at UCSF. Leila M Ben-Youssef (2005 MA) Highland Hospital Emergency Medicine Resident Physician. 2011-2012 National Institute of Health Fogarty Scholar in Nairobi, Kenya. Laura P McLendon (2005 MA) Project Manager, Sempervirens Fund. Evan W Fox (2005 BA) Marine Planning Consultant. Principal Planner for California marine protected area planning project resulting in protection for 16% of the State's coastal waters. Developed conceptual framework for marine spatial planning in Mid-Atlantic states. Developed National Programme of Action for Vietnam addressing land-based marine pollution. Kristin Gangwer (2005 BA) Food Hub Manager, Our Harvest Cooperative, Local Food Research Consultant, Green Umbrella. Elba G Garcia (2005 BA) Master of Public Policy, University of Southern California (May 2011). Julia K Nelson (2005 BA) Manager, Advisory Services (Energy
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Daniel E Howard (1999 BS) Pediatrician, Austin Diagnostic Clinic. I completed my pediatrics residency and am now a full-time pediatrician in Austin, Texas. I picked up a masters of public health along the way, and did some medical research during my training. I have an amazing wife and 2 wonderful children.