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Emil Bolongaita is deputy chief of party and senior governance advisor of the Rule of Law Effectiveness (ROLE) Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Philippines. This three-year program which began September 2004 provides support to the Philippine government to strengthen rule of law through anticorruption and judicial reforms. In September 2004 Emil presented the Kroc Insitute's first Distinguished Alumni Lecture, titled The Enemy Within: Challenging Corruption in Post-Conflict Countries.  Previously Emil served as a consultant with the External Affairs and United Nations Vice-Presidency of the World Bank and as manager of the Public Sector Governance Group of the Economic Governance Technical Assistance Program of USAID in the Philippines. He is co-author of Challenging Corruption in Asia: Case Studies and A Framework for Action (World Bank 2004).   Emil has been project manager of the World Bank's Global Distance Learning Program on Making National Anticorruption Policies and Programs More Effective and has taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, the Public Policy Program at the National University of Singapore, and at the Asian Institute of Management.  He has consulted with international development organizations and national and local governments in Asia.  Emil earned his PhD in Government from Notre Dame in 1996.  Email: <Emil_Bolongaita@alumni.nd.edu>   (5/05)

Raul Campusano practises international environmental law and natural resources law in Santiago, Chile.  He also teaches international environmental law and commerce at the Chilean Foreign Affairs Academy and at the Universidad La República.  His firm, INGEDER Consulting Ltd., works to promote sustainable development for the southern hemisphere and a better understanding between East Asia and South America. "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has been the platform of this  commitment," he writes, "originally focusing on environmental, mining and energy issues, but expanding to other areas.  Most of my work is for goverments, international agencies and NGOs."  Raul received his LLM in international law from the University of Leiden, Netherlands in 1994.  Email: <rfcampus@ingeder.com> (4/06)

Rich Conroy is manager of Bicycle Education Programs at Bike New York in New York City, a non-profit organization promoting bicycling and bicycle safety education through education, public events and collaboration with community and government organizations.  Bike New York produces the largest cycling tour in America, The Five Boro Bike Tour.  He writes, "In the last couple of years ran a bike mechanics program for Childrens Aid Society in a inner city middle school (nothing in my previous education prepared me for some of the gangster attitudes and behavior problems I saw there). In my last summer on the job, we did a "peace quilt" program. We took the kids on various field trips (the UN, Amnesty International, Hague Appeal for Peace, etc) by bike of course. We also showed some movies--Gandhi, Bowling for Columbine--and had them do some artwork and writing about "peace".  Since this is a bicycling program, we tried to get them to think about how bicycling related to peace at the personal, community, and global levels. You can check it out at www.recycleabicycle.org.  Email: <allez_epic01@yahoo.com>   (7/05)

Cobbie de Graft is an attorney in private practice in the Washington
D.C. area, specializing in construction law, government contracts and information technology law.  Cobbie earned his law degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1992.  Law Offices of J. Cobbie de Graft:  http://www.jcdegraft.com/   Email: <cdegraft@counsellor.com> (5/04)

Mark Gunty is assistant director of the Office of Institutional Research and concurrent assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, doing statistical research related to student outcomes assessment in higher education, decision support services for university officials, teaching research methods, sociology of masculinity, and gender roles and violence in society.  Email:  <Gunty.4@nd.edu>   (5/04)

Susan Hixon lives in Carslbad, California, where she is providing primary child care for her son.  Email:  <hixons@aol.com>  (12/04)

Keiko Nagai Ito is in the faculty of law of Teikyo University in Tokyo.
She teaches International Relations, International Political Economy, International Economic Law and American Politics.  Email: <keikonagaiito@ams.odn.ne.jp> (5/04)

Felicia Leon-Driscoll is raising her four children with husband, Dan, and is intimately involved in the running of Good Shepherd Montessori School in South Bend which she co-founded in 2002. The school combines her interest in the religious formation of young children with her commitment to peacemaking, as children from diverse socio-economic groups embrace Maria Montessori's vision of cosmic education. The school embodies its commitment to the earth by having children and their families working an organic farm.  Felicia is also working toward becoming a trainer for the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.  Email: <fleondri@nd.edu> (9/04)
 

Christine Matusik-Plas is executive director of HM Housing Development Corporation in Lorain, Ohio, a non-profit organization developing and providing housing and supportive services for homeless single-parent families with special needs.  She is also active in several local volunteer organizations providing advocacy and services for homeless individuals and families.  A profile of her work appeared in the alumni section of the Wittenberg College magazine in fall 2002.  Email:  <faithhouse@bright.net>  (1/05)

Vitaly Rassolov is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, after which he taught at Northwestern University until 2001. Email: <rassolov@mail.chem.sc.edu> (5/04)

Daniel Slattery is pursuing a career as a watercolor artist and providing primary care to his two young children. He illustrated the book Daddyhood, by Daniel Driscoll (Felicia's husband), published in 2002. Prior to embarking on his art career, he worked as legal counsel for a York Title and Escrow and coached diving at St. Mary's College for several years. His paintings may be seen on line at Expressions in Water and Light.  Email:<slatterydan@hotmail.com> (5/04)

Tom Tuttle is a litigation paralegal with Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, working on complex commercial litigation.  He earned his JD from Suffolk University Law School in 1993 and LLM in banking and financial services law from Boston University School of Law in 2002.  Email:  <ttt89@alumni.nd.edu>  (8/04)

Oleg Vasilyev is assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  He earned is PhD in mechanical engineering from Notre Dame in 1996 and then taught at the University of Missouri.  Email: <Oleg.Vasilyev@Colorado.edu> (5/04)

Yan Yanfang is a portfolio manager working in New York.   [Email available from Anne Hayner.]   (11/05)

Zoughbi Zoughbi is founder and director of Wi'am Center (Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center) in Bethlehem.   Email: <alaslah@planet.edu>    (5/04)

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