ALUMNI UPDATE Mark Anner (M.A. ’91) was promoted to full professor at Penn State University on July 1, 2020. He also received the Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award, the 2019 Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) award, and the Advancing a Global Penn State: Outstanding International Research Award. Along with co-author João Paulo Veiga, he published “Employment Regulation in National Contexts: Brazil” (Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy, 2nd edition) in 2020.
Beatriz de la Mora (M.A. ’94) is a senior partnerships officer at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Jane Bussey (M.A. ’76) recently retired after working as managing director of FTI Consulting since 2012.
Marleny de León (M.A. ’19) was recently awarded the Forté Foundation Scholarship and Full MBA Fellowship, the Dean’s MPP Tuition Scholarship, the George Award, the ALPFA and Ernst & Young Scholarship, the HSF National Scholarship from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Prospanica Foundation National Scholarship, the TLF Graduate Scholarship from the LAGRANT Foundation, and Fulbright travel grants for the Diversity Seminar (Amsterdam), the Media Literacy Conference (Rome), and the EU-NATO Seminar (Belgium).
Taylor Boas (B.A. ’99) is currently the director of graduate studies in political science at Boston University after receiving tenure in 2017.
Gustavo Empinotti (M.A. ’17) is currently working in environmental, social, and corporate governance at StoneCo where he is an ESG Manager.
Kai Medeiros (M.A. ’17) is a staff attorney at the American Bar Association and continues to shout into the void about immigrants’ rights. Veriene Melo (M.A. ’12) currently works with applied social research at Oxfam Novib, where she explores social change and the impact of programs through qualitative methodologies and analysis. Prior to that, she spent one year at the International Criminal Court, where she provided analytical support to investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the past two years, Veriene has authored/ co-authored one article and two research reports on themes related to youth empowerment, education for social transformation, and CSO engagement. She lives with her husband in Den Haag, Netherlands, and is expecting her first child (a baby girl).
Alberto Milo (Minor ’73) was a member of a group tour of the Mexican colonial cities of Amelia Farber (M.A. ’16) recently took on Queretaro, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Mary Boyer (M.A. ’16) is managing an a major project in which she is negotiating Allende, and Mexico City in January 2020. Airbnb and raising her son, Alvand. She with and signing on new global resellers for Both trips brought back fond memories of will be applying to the Stanford Civil and Conversica. She is able to remain conEnvironmental Engineering M.A. in the living in Mexico as a Stanford student while in nected, albeit in a small way, to Latin atmosphere and energy track this year. the Stanford-in-Mexico program in 1972. America since she manages some of the Karen Cornejo Guillén (M.A. ’19) began resellers in Chile, Australia, and Belgium. Denis Minev (M.A. ’99) is now CEO of the a remote research assistantship with two She has also started a gluten-free baking largest retail group in the Brazilian Amazon, law professors at Universidad Torcuato Di blog, developed a hobby of food photogra- where he remains involved in social and Tella Law School in June 2020. She is phy, and founded a home bakery in environmental issues through two NGOs he assisting in building a database of laws Southern Oregon with her sister called co-founded, Fundação Amazonas Susteand policies on gender justice in five Latin Sisters Sans Gluten, LLC. They now sell ntável and Museu da Amazônia, after serving American countries for Red Alas, a special orders and weekly baked goods in in the state government of Amazonas in network of Latin American law professors Ashland, Oregon, and run their online Brazil for one term as secretary for planning who defend and promote legal assistance presence on their website (www.sistersand economic development. to women and LGBT groups. sansgluten.com), Instagram, LinkedIn, Jennifer Nguyen (M.A. ’15) is currently Facebook, and Pinterest. Michael Cotter (M.A. ’76) has retired in pursuing an M.B.A. at the Wharton School at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and continues Andrea Flores (M.A. ’19) is a John the University of Pennsylvania. to be on the board of the journal of Gardner Fellow at America’s Voice in international relations, American Carlin Otto (M.A. ’74) is self-employed as Washington, D.C. Diplomacy. an editor after retiring from Stanford UniverErin Foley (M.A. ’92) has been using her sity as a library specialist. Austin Cruz (M.A. ’13) is currently CLAS background for community organizing serving as managing editor for the Journal while working in the software/computer Nancy Pasternak (M.A. ’63) is CEO/ of Environmental Education. Along with president of the Prosperity Rings Micro industry. She has organized community Stanford faculty members Dr. Nicole Finance Foundation. awareness forums in Colorado about Ardoin and Professor Emeritus William immigrant experiences, partnered with Hari Seshasayee (M.A. ’15) was a panelist at Durham, he recently co-authored and Casa de Paz in Denver, and her local group a seminar organized by the Latin American published a paper on their work in has also partnered with the border assisand Caribbean Economic System (SELA) in southern Costa Rica: “Community-as-ped- tance group Frontera de Cristo between January 2020. He published a book chapter agogy: Environmental leadership for youth Agua Prieta, Mexico, and Douglas, Arizona. with Ambassador Jorge Heine titled “Indian in rural Costa Rica” in Environmental Alejandro Gómez (M.A. ’80) was singing in Foreign Policy: The Rise of the South and Education Research. Indo-LAC Relations.” He also published two an acapella male quintet in Bogota, ColomMariana de Heredia (M.A. ’12) is a pieces with the Wilson Center: an article titled bia, before the COVID-19 lockdowns began. media specialist and STEAM teacher at the “India and Venezuela Grow Distant Post Graciela Gómez (M.A. ’17) is a human Yangon American International School. U.S.-Sanctions” and a report titled “Indiaresource coordinator at the Harry Ransom Venezuela Relations: A Case Study in Oil Center at UT Austin. Diplomacy.” 18
