Winter 2007 MPP Alumni Notes
MPP ’06
Verena Arnabal married Brian Hennessey on Sept. 16. She works in New York City, conducting research for People for the American Way, a nonprofit dedicated to defending democracy.
MPP ’05
Megan Burns was selected to participate in Leadership Development Initiative, a 9-month program designed to connect young professionals to important issues in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Eric Hoefer and his wife, Sarah, celebrated the birth of their second child, Eric Joseph, on Aug. 25. Eric is a senior product manager in the BioOncology franchise of Genentech in San Francisco, Calif.
Andrea Reese married Adam Strait on Aug. 12. She is working at the Connecticut Farmland Trust, a statewide nonprofit that works to keep farmland in production.
Danielle Sass is engaged to Patrick Byrnett (’08) and planning a 2008 wedding.
MPP ’04
Grace Boachie-Ansah married Kwame Kena on July 30. Joining them to celebrate were classmates Sara Vande Kappelle, Jim Huynh, Nora McArdle, Sandra Johnson, Katherine Marshall (PIPD ’04), Marissa Archibald (’05) and Elizabeth Reed (’07).
Megan Fotheringham spent the past four months in Ghana on assignment as a public health advisor for the U.S. Agency in International Development focusing on the avian influenza virus.
Jesse Smallwood is an associate with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.
MPP ’03
Robin Gelinas is engaged to Albert Bossar and planning a June 2007 wedding. She also was promoted to director of policy initiatives for the Texas Education Agency in Austin.
Lauren Hierl and Shane Heath were married on Aug. 8 on St. John. Joining them for a reception in Connecticut were classmates Nick Cornelisse, Kevin Hutchinson, Chloe Metz, Craig Harper, Jennifer Nevin, Chuck Anderson and Gustavo Flores-Macias.
Jenifer Hlavna Feaster and her husband, Brian, celebrated the birth of their daughter Casey Virginia on Nov. 18. Jen and her family live in Indianapolis, Ind., where she works as senior associate at the Center for the Support of Families.
MPP ’02
Lee Cochran and his wife, Natalie, celebrated the birth of their fourth child, Sarah Clark, on Nov. 6. Lee and his family live in Charlotte, N.C., where he works at the Charlotte Mecklenberg Housing Partnership.
Eric Sapp, senior partner at Common Good Strategies, writes a blog for the “Faithful Democrats” Web community, which offers resources and discussion forums to Democrats who hope to bring balance to the national discourse on faith and politics. In October he appeared in a PBS segment on Democrats and religion.
Laura Carter Whiteley and her husband, Sean, welcomed their second child, Carter Paul, on Oct. 29. Laura and her family live in Boston, Mass.
MPP ’01
Alexandra Kennaugh relocated to London, where her husband has been transferred. Alex will continue to work at Natural Resources Defense Council where she was formerly based in New York.
MPP ’00
Sachin Agarwal and his wife, Shalini, welcomed their son Amartya on Oct. 16.
Chris Clark has a new position as the financial manager for the Global Development Program at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, Wash. His wife, Jamie Strausz-Clark (’00), is a senior associate at PRR, a public affairs and social issues consulting firm.
Ian Noetzel has moved to London, with a new position as an attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw LLP.
Kristin Petrocine Pennington and her husband, Mark, celebrated the birth of their daughter Sonja Elizabeth on Dec. 13.
Kim Zimmerman left her position in U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson’s office to become director of government affairs for Cephalon, a biopharmaceutical company in Frazier, Pa. Kim lives in Washington, D.C.
MPP ’99
Sekou Kaalund leads strategy, securities and acquisitions at Citigroup Securities & Fund Services in Greenwich, Conn. His negotiating tips were listed in the December 2006 issue of Black Enterprise.
Cindy Siebert Kinkade works for EDAW, an international environmental consulting firm located in San Diego. She and her husband, Charles, celebrated the birth of their son Ian in June 2006.
Ben Marglin was promoted to senior associate at Booz, Allen, Hamilton in Washington, D.C.
MPP ’98
Susan Biles (MPP ’98) married Michael Nink in Austin, Texas, on April 29, 2006 and shared the special day with fellow Duke grads, from left, Heather Flodstrom (MPP ’98) and Laura Haltzal (MPP ’98).
Heather Flodstrom received the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, given by the German Marshall Fund of the United States to emerging leaders who will travel to Europe in 2007 to conduct transatlantic diplomacy. Heather lives in Seattle where she works as a program officer for special projects at the Gates Foundation.
MPP ’97
Holly Barkely DePaul and her husband welcomed their second son, Mark, in October. Holly is a senior consultant at CGI-AMS Inc. in Fairfax, Va.
Peter Brown and family welcomed daughter Rachel Alexa on Nov. 28.
Steven Elmore has a new position on the Majority Staff of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Budget, focusing on veterans and international affairs.
Timothy D. Johnson is on assignment from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the Euro Portfolio Manager in the Financial Markets Division of the De Netherlandsche Bank N.V.
MPP ’96
Kirk Odegard and his wife, Gretchen, welcomed daughter Anneliese Charlotte on June 26, 2006 in Basel, Switzerland, where Kirk is on assignment from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C.
Russell Rothman and his wife, Alice, announced the birth of their second child, daughter Elena (Ellie) Mia, on Nov. 8.
Lynn-Anne Schow moved to Newburyport, Mass., where she telecommutes for Houston law firm Linn, Thurber, Arnold & Scrabanek LLP. She balances tax and trust work with caring for her three small children.
Dave Sheldon, after leaving the Council for Excellence in Government and completing a long vacation in Europe, has joined SRA Touchstone Consulting in Washington, D.C., a private firm with government and non-profit clients.
MPP ’94
Jennifer Hoffman left North Carolina’s Fiscal Research Department to accept a new position in the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management, where she will lead the state’s efforts in results-based budgeting.
Claudia Horwitz produced a new video titled “Exploring Liberation Spirituality: Growing a Movement of Spiritual Activism” as part of her work at stone circles in Durham.
MPP ’93
Dale Rhoda completed master’s degrees in both cognitive systems engineering and applied statistics in 2006 at Ohio State University. As a result of his wife Kara’s successful battle with breast cancer, he is now pursuing a PhD in pubic health at Ohio State.
MPP ’92
Andy Cook left his position in the Office of the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and will join Smith Barney as a financial advisor in Washington, D.C. Andy and his wife, Melissa Young Cook (’92), live in Fairfax, Va.
Garrick Francis left Progress Energy for a new position as director of financial communications with CSX Corp. and has relocated to Jacksonville, Fla., with his wife, Sheila, and children Ries, 5, and Karis, 1.
MPP ’91
Janet Kroll and her husband, Michael Ytterberg, welcomed their daughter Lucy on April 26. Kroll continues to work at the Pew Charitable Trusts in the Planning and Evaluation Unit in Philadelphia, Pa.
Elana Varon was promoted to executive editor of CIO Magazine, where she manages contributed columns, edits features and writes a blog about executing innovation. Elana and her husband, Andy Eschtruth (’91), live in Natick, Mass.
MPP ’90
Ben Muskovitz left TSG for a new position as associate partner in the government group at The Gallup Organization in Washington, D.C.
Janet Syme Piller has been promoted to chief administrative officer for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit in the office of the vice president on strategy, policy and budget at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
MPP ’88
Mark D. Carlson has a new position as chief medical officer and senior vice president for clinical affairs with St. Jude Medical CMRD in Sylmar, Calif.
MPP ’81
Krista Magaw, executive director of the Tecumseh Land Trust, announces that the Trust has reached a milestone of preserving over 10,000 acres in Clark and Greene Counties, located in Ohio.
