office and four district offices, manages a staff of more than 20 and serves Barrow as a senior political advisor.
2004
private sectors to promote regional economic stability and growth, strengthen financial markets, combat terrorist finance and implement U.S. economic sanctions.
was appointed to establish and oversee the state of Alabama’s largest public defender office. She is now responsible for recruiting, managing and training 39 attorneys and 29 support staff members.
2006
2005
Logan Smalley (BSEd ’06)
Jason Carter (JD ’04)
Carter is a Georgia state senator representing the 42nd district and an attorney at Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore in Atlanta, where he logs many pro bono hours representing the state’s most vulnerable residents. His 2002 book, Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa’s Borders, is based on his experiences with the Peace Corps.
Nathan Hardeman Travis Canova (BBA, MAcc ’05)
Canova began his career with KPMG in Washington, D.C., before joining Science Applications International Corporation, where he led international financial, operational and regulatory compliance audits in France, Germany and Kuwait. Today Canova is a certified fraud examiner and a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Atlanta division.
(BBA ’05)
Hardeman lives in Guatemala and is executive director of Engadi Ministries International, an organization he co-founded that provides a safe family environment and education to hundreds of atrisk boys living in Guatemala City’s dangerous Zone 18.
Smalley oversees TED-ED teams that produce original content for educators. He is probably best known as the director, editor and composer of “Darius Goes West,” which documented the crosscountry journey of Darius Weems, who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Since its 2007 release, it has helped raise $2.3 million for the disease.
2007
Richard T. Scott (BFA ’05)
Michael Mannina (ABJ, BBA ’04)
Mannina rose from an internship with U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson to become the U.S. Treasury Department’s top diplomat to Saudi Arabia, where he works closely with the Saudi government and
Kira Fonteneau (JD ’05)
In 2006 Fonteneau left a private law firm to establish The Fonteneau Firm in Birmingham. In 2013, she
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Scott is a contemporary figurative painter whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the U.S. and Europe, including in Le Grand Palais in Paris and the Palazzo Cini in Venice. In December 2012, American Artist magazine named him one of the “25 Artists of Tomorrow.”
Jinali Desai (PharmD ’07)
Desai is senior director of market health and wellness for Walmart, where she improves the affordability, accessibility and quality of pharmaceutical care for clients and manages a business unit with sales of more than