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Hart Fellows 1995-2000
Erin Brock graduated from Duke in 1999 and was a Hart Fellow in Zimbabwe (1999-2000). She worked with the Farm Orphan Support Trust, a private voluntary organization that addresses the needs of orphans living on commercial farms in Zimbabwe. After her Hart Fellowship, Erin worked with San Francisco's Promise to organize after-school programs for Bay Area youth. She is currently a student in the Joint MD/MS Program at the University of California, San Francisco and UC-Berkeley. Erin is studying the human, sociocultural and bioethical contexts of health and disease, and plans to build on her work as a Hart Fellow in her master's thesis.
Craig Cohen graduated from Duke in 1996 and was a Hart Fellow in Rwanda and Malawi with Save the Children-US (1996-1997), and then with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva (1997-98). Craig has published his writing on child-headed households in Rwanda (No Home Without Foundation) and adolescent refugees in Azerbaijan (Looking Toward Home) through the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. He has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and as Hart Fellows Program Coordinator. He recently completed his Masters degree in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. His thesis, "Trusting Coexistence? Lessons from Refugee Return and Reintegration in Bosnia and Rwanda" critiques international donor efforts to coerce people of ethnic groups to live together after war as part of donors' post-conflict peace-building strategies, part of which was published in the international development journal, Praxis. Craig plans to pursue a career in international development.
Ellen Eischen graduated from Duke in 1998, and was a Hart Fellow in Jena, Germany in 1999-2000. Ellen spent 1999 researching the integration of Aussiedler, ethnic Germans immigrating to Germany from the former Soviet Union and former Eastern Block countries, under the auspices of a Fulbright Fellowship. Her Hart Fellowship, co-sponsored by the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, allowed her to return to Germany to work in a local social service agency which promotes Aussiedler integration. Ellen is currently a part of L'Arche Noah Sealth community in Seattle, where she works and lives with people with developmental disabilities.
Eldad Elnekave graduated from Brandeis in 1999, and was a Hart Fellow (1999-2000) in Israel. Living in an Arab-Israeli village, Eldad investigated the cultural and communication barriers local village women encountered in accessing healthcare. While at Brandeis, Eldad completed a summer internship with a medical care development organization in Cuamba, Mozambique that combined his interests in anthropology and medicine. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1993 to 1996. Eldad is currently a student at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Carolyn Fanelli graduated from Duke in 1998 and was a Hart Fellow (1999-2000) with Exploris, an interactive global learning center located in Raleigh. Carolyn was responsible for helping to pioneer the relationship between the Hart Fellows in the field, visitors to Exploris and school children in North Carolina. In 1998, Carolyn was a Hart Fellow for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in Washington DC, where she researched and advocated for fairer INS practices toward women and children asylum-seekers. Since her Hart Fellowships, Carolyn worked with the Visiting International Faculty Program, a cultural exchange program for international educators based in Chapel Hill. In 2002, Carolyn was selected as a Rotary World Peace Scholar. In February 2003, she began studying for her master's degree in International Studies with a concentration in peace and conflict resolution at the University of Queensland, Australia. She plans to pursue a career in rebuilding educational systems in post-conflict situations.
Anna Fink graduated from Macalester College in 1999 and was a Hart Fellow (1999-2000) in Honduras. Anna worked with the Christian Commission on Development to investigate how Honduran communities were rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. After her Hart Fellowship, Anna worked as a Program Associate with the Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities at the New World Foundation in New York. She currently works with Unite for Dignity in Miami, Florida.
Eric Gottesman graduated from Duke University in 1998 and worked as a Hart Fellow in Ethiopia (1999-2000). In coordination with Save the Children-US and other international and local organizations, Eric documented the drought in the Somali Region of Ethiopia as well as people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. His work on HIV/AIDS has been publicly exhibited at the City Hall and at The British Council in Addis Ababa and at the Open Society Institute in New York City and Washington, DC. Eric has published his photographs and writing in the International Herald-Tribune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New Hampshire Magazine and was featured in the 2003 book, 25 Under 25, a survey of work from 25 young American photographers. His work is also featured in the 2004 book, Black! A Celebration of Culture, edited by Deborah Willis. In 2003, Eric and his wife, Sara, returned to Ethiopia to continue conducting photographic work on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
Noah Hendler graduated from Duke in 1995 and worked as a Hart Fellow (1996-1997) in Rwanda and Malawi with Save the Children-US. Noah has photographed child-headed households in Rwanda, the internally displaced in Azerbaijan, victims of war in Southeast Asia, the role of chaplains in health care, and the impact of AIDS in Malawi. He uses his work to create advocacy materials that are exhibited and published internationally. His work has hung in such locations as the World Bank, the Ronald Reagan Building, the Cannon Office Building, the State Department, the United Nations in New York and the French Cultural Center in Kigali, Rwanda. Noah earned his master's degree in interactive telecommunications at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before joining the nonprofit startup, Direct Help, which harnesses technology to help nonprofits successfully communicate and fundraise online. Noah and his wife, Nancy, gave birth to their first child, Isaac, in 2003.
Amy Hepburn graduated from Duke in 1997 and was a Hart Fellow (1997-98) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. She worked in the Refugee Children's Unit on Action for the Rights of Children (ARC), a joint initiative between the International Save the Children Alliance and UNHCR to provide better protection and care for refugee children and adolescents. Amy finished her Masters in Public Policy degree with a concentration in International Policy at Duke's Sanford Institute in May 2001, after which she worked as a Program and Research Associate at the Sanford Institute, directing the "Summer in Geneva" Program for public policy graduate students and the Fleishman Fellows Program, which brings civil society practitioners from around the world to Duke. She continues to do consulting work for Save the Children, particularly around the care of children orphaned in AIDS-affected areas of Tanzania. Amy and her husband, Matt Fore, gave birth to their first child, Juliette, in 2003.
Marcy Levy graduated from Duke in 1999 and was a Hart Fellow (1999-2000) in Zimbabwe. Marcy worked for Inter-Country Peoples' Aid, a Zimbabwean NGO operating programs in peri-urban, informal settlement communities. Marcy developed and coordinated the adolescent program for the organization, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, and secured funding for a permanent youth program from Save the Children. She served as Hart Fellows Program Coordinator in 2000-2001. In 2001 - 2002 she worked in the Francophone division of Family Care International in New York, primarily on developing a youth-friendly health services curriculum for the National School of Public Health in Burkina Faso. In 2004, Marcy completed her master's degree in Population and International Health at Harvard's School of Public Health, with a focus on health, human rights and adolescents.
Mark Lorey graduated from Duke in 1995 and was a Hart Fellow (1996-1997) with the Malawi Field Office of Save the Children. He worked with the COPE program to strengthen community capacity to care for people suffering from HIV and AIDS. After his fellowship period ended, he worked as staff in the Malawi field office until beginning service as a Rotary Scholar in South Africa. While pursuing a master's degree at the University of the Western Cape, he became a visiting lecturer and researcher in the university's Institute for Social Development. He also worked with the South African office of the Deputy President on an international comparative study examining policy coordination at the Cabinet level. In 1999, Mark returned to the US, married, and consulted for organizations including Save the Children, USAID, and a foundation focused on children orphaned by AIDS. Mark recently developed a handbook for USAID-supported programs to assist AIDS-affected children. He is currently Director of the "Models of Learning" HIV/AIDS education program at the non-governmental organization World Vision.
Lauren Marks graduated from Duke in 1999, and was a Hart Fellow (1999-2000) in Zimbabwe. Lauren worked for the Oak Foundation, a private foundation based in the capital, Harare. She focused on all aspects of the grant-making process, with emphasis on the evaluation of field-based projects across Zimbabwe. She also worked as a consultant investigating the impact of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and the capacity of Zimbabwean organizations to run effective HIV/AIDS programs. Additionally, by helping grantee organizations to document their programs, Lauren made use of her documentary experience with the Community Stories Program and Literacy Through Photography at the Center for Documentary Studies. Lauren is currently pursuing a law degree at Georgetown University. She has worked at the HIV/AIDS Division of Human Rights Watch, USAID, the Nixon Peabody Law Firm in New York, and as a high school teacher in the DC Public Schools.
Elaine Menotti graduated from Duke in 1999 and was a Hart Fellow with the Christian Children's Fund (CCF) in Honduras. She worked on sustainable development projects with a focus on women and children. Elaine worked for an additional six months with CCF after her fellowship, then returned to Washington, DC to work with the nonprofit organization Turning the Page. She is currently a student in the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Krisjon Olson graduated from Duke in 1998 and was a Hart Fellow (1998-2000) in Guatemala. She worked with Ninos Refugiados del Mundo on issues of early childhood education in the Ixil Triangle. Krisjon also helped strengthen a new program for children recovering from armed conflict. The program allowed young people from the capital city to teach creative workshops in rural areas of Ixcan, Quiche and Santiago, Atitlan. As an undergraduate, Krisjon participated in Hart Leadership's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia in 1996. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, for which she is conducting two years of research on war crimes at the War Crimes Tribunal and the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands and in rural communities in Guatemala.
Minh-Thu Pham graduated from Duke in 1998 and was a Hart Fellow with the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in Washington, DC. During her fellowship, Minh-Thu researched and advocated for legislation to benefit women and children asylum seekers. Minh-Thu was also a Hart Fellow (1998-1999) in Ethiopia with Save the Children-US, where she documented and provided support for a community-based education project that empowers grassroots organizations and communities to meet their own educational needs. In addition, she worked with Hart Fellow, Catherine Wiesner to produce a publication that focused on the rights of refugee children in Ethiopia for the Action for the Rights of Children (ARC) Project, a joint initiative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Save the Children. As an undergraduate, Minh-Thu participated in Hart Leadership's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia in 1996. She then completed a master's degree at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Janet Reilly graduated from Duke in 1998 and was a Hart Fellow in the Ethiopia Field Office of Save the Children (1998-1999) and then with Lutheran Family Services in Raleigh, North Carolina (1999-2000). As an undergraduate, Janet participated in Hart Leadership's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia in 1996. As a Hart Fellow in Ethiopia, Janet helped to design activities to educate women and adolescents about reproductive health issues. During her fellowship with Lutheran Family Services, Janet coordinated World Club, a project to enlist college students and volunteers as mentors for resettled refugee and immigrant youth in North Carolina. She completed a Master in Forced Migration at Oxford University in 2001. Janet is currently working as a Junior Professional Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ankara, Turkey. In 2003, she married Cihan Karabulut.
Shane Stansbury graduated from Duke in 1996, and was a Hart Fellow (1996-1997) with Save the Children-US in Tajikistan. During his fellowship, Shane helped to develop a micro-credit program for 2,000 women and conducted research about children and war. After his Hart Fellowship. Shane completed a joint-degree program in law and public policy at Columbia Law School and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. While pursuing his graduate degrees, Shane worked with Human Rights Watch in Belgium, the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa, and the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict in New York. He then clerked for a federal circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Diego.
Catherine Wiesner graduated from Duke in 1996 and was a Hart Fellow with UNHCR (1997) in Geneva and then with Save the Children in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia (1998). In Zimbabwe, Catherine worked with Farm Community Trust Zimbabwe on the design of a health program targeting farm worker communities, and with Inter-Country Peoples' Aid in the development and coordination of new programs for peri-urban informal settlements around Harare. In Geneva and Ethiopia, Catherine worked on the ARC project (Action for the Rights of Children) to increase the capacity of UNHCR, government, and NGO field staff to protect and care for children and adolescents in emergency situations. Catherine earned a Master in Public Policy and International Security at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She currently works in the Sierra Leone field office of the International Rescue Committee.
Damon Wilson graduated from Duke in 1995 and was the first Hart Fellow, working in Rwanda from 1995 to 1996 with Save the Children's Children and War Program. He helped design the field office's information and documentation systems and participated in program planning for projects focused on unaccompanied children. He also prepared donor and government reports and developed tools to gauge the impact of Save's programs in Rwandan prisons. In the summer of 1997, he worked at the National Security Council in the African Affairs Directorate where he was responsible for Central Africa policy issues, including the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Damon completed his master's degree at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. After leaving Princeton, he worked at the U.S. Department of State as a NATO Political Officer and an Economic Officer on the "China desk" and at the U.S embassy in Beijing. He currently works in Private Office of the NATO Secretary General in Brussels, Belgium.
Kevin York-Simmons graduated from Duke in 1998, and was a Hart Fellow in Honduras (1999-2000) with the Christian Commission on Development. While at Duke, he participated in the Hart Leadership Program's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia, and also spent a summer with Newcomer's Network, working with refugee children in Atlanta, Georgia. As a Hart Fellow, Kevin acted as a liaison between Honduran community organizations and visiting work teams. Kevin spent 1998-99 working with Lutheran Family Services doing refugee resettlement work in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2002, he completed a master's degree in ethics from Yale University. In 2003, he entered a PhD program in ethics at Vanderbilt University, focusing on theological and philosophical ethics as well as building upon his work as a Hart Fellow through the study of postcolonial and liberation responses to development and trade policies in Latin America. He married Noelle York in August, 2003.
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