Fall 2006 Undergraduate Alumni Notes
PPS ’05
Elizabeth Dixon has a new position as associate director of College Connections Inc., a small consulting firm in McLean, Va., that works with colleges and their alumni, founded by Duke alumnus Jim Warren.
PPS ’04
Portia Cornell has accepted a position in Vermont with Peter Welch for Congress as a regional field organizer.
PPS ’03
Paula Dehart Brown graduated in December 2005 from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health with an MPH in Health Policy and Management, and is now an associate policy analyst with the Georgia Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget. Paula and her husband welcomed their first child, Kenneth Leon Brown III, on Dec. 20, 2005.
PPS ’02
Sarah Bardinelli left her position as legislative aide with Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) to attend the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York, N.Y., where she will pursue a Master of International Affairs degree.
PPS ’99
Margaret Burr Hendrickson (’99) and Roberto Obando Prestol (’02) were married on Feb. 4 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The reside in Santo Domingo, where Meg is senior contracts and grants associate for Family Health International/Proyecto Conecta and Roberto is director of the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP).
PPS ’98
John Shadle has been awarded a NRSA pre-doctoral traineeship in health services research by the Cecil G. Sheps Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a fourth-year PhD student in health policy and administration at the UNC School of Public Health.
PPS ’97
Andrew Fechner has a new position as director of program and promotion scheduling at BBC America in New York, N.Y.
PPS ’88
Alyson Hyman is now a senior training and services advisor at Ipas, a nonprofit international women’s reproductive and sexual health organization based in Chapel Hill. She provides technical assistance to ministries of health, medical schools and other partners and colleagues in the field on comprehensive abortion care, and focuses on Asia. Alyson and her partner, Amy, were legally married in the Canadian Rockies on Jan. 1, 2005.
PPS ’75
Barry Shelley and his partner, Brenda Wyss, welcomed a baby girl, Sofia Nettie Shelley-Wyss, in November 2005. Barry and his family are spending July-December 2006 in El Salvador where Barry is working as senior research associate for PRISMA, the Salvadoran Program for Research in Development and the Environment. When they return, Barry and Brenda will share a professor position in the economics department at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.
