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Polly Carl is producing artistic director of The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She works with playwrights locally and nationally, producing and developing new plays for the stage, oversees all artistic programming and maintains finances. She is currently working on a play about graduate teaching assistants organizing on a university campus, called "Organizing Abraham Lincoln," based on a true story. It will be performed at the Playwrights' Center's 23rd Annual PlayLabs Festival, one of the nation’s most celebrated annual festivals of new work. This will be the fourth time Polly has produced this festival. Polly earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota in 1999, with a dissertation titled Making a Good Story: Feeling Good about Queer Theory.  Email: <PollyC@pwcenter.org> (6/05)

Lilianna Castaneda Rossman is assistant professor of communication at California State University, San Marcos.  Email:  <rossmann@csusm.edu> (9/05)

Frank Castillo directs the Department of Family Practice at Erie Family Health Center in Chicago, where he takes pride in being a role model for Latino medical students. When he attended the Kroc Institute, he had finished medical school. Upon graduation, he did clinical medical training at the University of Wisconsin, continuing his peace activism with travels to Latin America. His medical practice has taken him to northern New Mexico and to South Bend, where he worked on behalf of the underserved Latino population. He has been active in Physicians for Social Responsibility. In an essay titled "Personal Reflections on Community Service," Castillo recounts his activism and career in a tribute to the Notre Dame professor who inspired him. Email: <fmcastillo@pol.net> (5/04)

Pedro Dalcero is working in the Brazilian Presidential Palace in the office of President Lula's Special Advisor on Foreign Policy. After Notre Dame he worked as a senior researcher on globalization issues at IBASE (the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis) and in 1996 joined the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, where he has served in the Division of Science and Technology prior to this appointment.  Email: <pdalcero@uol.com.br> (5/04)

Katalin Fabian is assistant professor of government at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.  Email:  <fabiank@lafayette.edu>  (12/04)

Alejandro Ferreiro was named one of the 2006 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. This award annually identifies 200 people under age 40, out of 3,500 nominated worldwide, who have shown both commitment and positive results in the effort towards improving the state of the world. Alejandro is chairman of the Securities and Insurance Commission (Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros), Chile’s national market regulator. He has previously worked for the Ministry of the General Secretary of the Presidency in Santiago and held several presidential appointments. As executive secretary of the National Commission for Public Ethics from 1994 to 1996, he headed the legal team that prepared anti-corruption legislation.  He is a professor of finance at the University of Desarollo and teaches economic law at Andrés Bello University and government and public administration at the University of Chile. Email: <aferreir@svs.cl>  (2/06)

Edie Hofmeister lives in Reno, Nevada, where she is a legal consultant for a private trust that compensates asbestos victims, and does volunteer work for women's and children's groups.   After completing law school, she worked as a corporate attorney in San Francisco for 7 years before leaving her legal job to be a full-time mom for several years.  Email:  <ediehof@yahoo.com>  (9/05)

Mari Ishibashi is assistant professor of political science at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.  She teaches East Asian Politics, International Relations, and Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Email: <mishibashi@rmwc.edu> (5/04)

Joe Kennedy teaches natural building and ecological design as part of the Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community program at New College of California.  He cofounded and for three years served as director of Builders without Borders, an international network of ecological builders dedicated to serving the underhoused of the world, with projects to create affordable housing with sustainable and local materials.  He has published Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (New Society, 2004) and The Art of Natural Building (New Society, 2001).  Since 1993 Joe has been closely involved in creating sustainable settlements in South Africa, serving as principal designer for the Tlholego Development Project, an ecological teacher-training center for basic needs in South Africa, where he helped build several prototype structures based on ecological design principles.  In 2003 he began a collaboration with NextAid to create a sustainable child support center in Dennilton, a rural town outside of Johannesburg faced with extreme poverty (95% unemployment) and a 40% HIV infection rate.  Traveling and consulting around the world, Joe has participated in numerous building and research projects.  He co-designed a space station habitability module for NASA; participated in a National Endowment for the Arts-sponsored ceramic house project; studied ancient stone towers on the island of Sardinia with Earthwatch; and co-created a site-built earth art project with Japanese artist Nobuho Nagasawa, in Prague, Czech Republic.  An associate producer on The Straw Bale Solution video, Joe has also produced a grade 6-8 curriculum about ecological design and natural building entitled Homeward Bound.  He has recently formed the social profit organization, Village Renaissance to further study and disseminate these ideas.  Email:
<livingearth62@hotmail.com> (7/05)



Musa Khalidi is senior associate dean of admissions at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.  Email: <khalimu@earlham.edu> (5/04)


Marty Loesch is doing human rights work with indigenous people in Washington state, focusing on religious, cultural and tribal rights.  Email: <MCLoesch@earthlink.net> (5/04)

 

Joy Meeker is visiting assistant professor of peace, conflict, and global studies and environmental studies at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin.  Email:  <jameeker@northland.edu>  (12/04)

Kurt Mills is a lecturer in international human rights at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.  His book Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New Sovereignty? was published in 1998 (St. Martins and Macmillan).  Kurt earned his PhD in government and international studies from Notre Dame in 1995, and has taught at Gettysburg College, James Madison University, Mount Holyoke College and the American University in Cairo.  His research interests include human rights, refugees , international organizations, Africa, and the internet in international relations.  Email:  <vicfalls@mac.com>  (8/04)

Irene Perurena is director of international organisations and cooperation for Ciudad del Saber (City of Knowledge) in Panama.  Email: <iperurena@cdspanama.org> (5/04)

Thomas Schuster is associate professor of journalism at Leipzig University. From 1994 to 1999 he was assistant professor of sociology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and served as a consultant in telecommunications with Roland Berger & Associates, Germany's top management consulting firm. Thomas earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1994 from the Free University of Berlin and has received a Fulbright scholarship and two fellowships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).  He has published three books and numerous articles for leading German newspapers. Personal web page.  Email: <tschu@rz.uni-leipzig.de> (5/04)

Jill Sternberg is executive director of the Westchester Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for Nonviolence in White Plains, New York.  From 2001 to 2004, Jill worked in East Timor, where she assisted Nobel Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta in establishing a peace center focused on conflict transformation and preventive diplomacy. For more information on the work of Kroc alumni in East Timor, see the article "Peacebuilding in the midst of change."  Jill previously served for several years as coordinator of the Non-violence Education and Training Project for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in the Netherlands, arranging seminars around the world for grassroots activists.  Email:  <jillberg@igc.org>  (4/05)

Gary (Sugarman) Sagiv is marketing and sales development manager for Itamar Medical, an Israeli company that developes and manufacturers medical devices for the early detection of sleep apnea and endothelial dysfunction.  He is based in Minneapolis and travels extensively, including home to Israel once a month.  Email: <sgary@itamar-medical.com>  (4/05)

Ed Sullivan is a litigation attorney at Baker & Daniels in South Bend. 

Email: <easulliv@bakerd.com> (5/04)

Kaja Szwykowska-Ziemniak founded Impress Art PR & Lobbying in Warsaw in 1994, where she currently serves as president of the board. Impress Art is a strategic communications consultancy focused mainly on crisis communication management, issues related to company restructuring, mergers and aquisitions as well as managing emloyment changes.  They work on general corporate public relations as well as charity public relations.  She writes, "A different part of our activity is lobbying at Parliament.  Impress Art is a Founder-Member of Polish Association of Lobbysts (PAL).  Main areas we are active in are energy law and tax law.  Impress Art serves clients in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia."  The company now has 15 employees.  In addition, Kaja works as an individual consultant for a French human resources consultancy, Bernard Brunhes International.  Email: <K.Szwykowska@impress.com.pl> (9/05)

S.P. Udayakumar (Kumar) founded and directs the South Asian Community Center for Education, Research and Action (SACCER Action) Trust to carry out community work and educational and research ventures in Tamil Nadu, India.  SACCER projects include an elementary school, a vocational school, vocational centres for women in twelve coastal villages, and entrepreneurship training for young fisherwomen.  SACCER is also providing assistance to tsunami victims through numerous projects, including publishing handbooks on disaster education in Tamil and in English for both trainees and trainers.  "We are also planning three short handbooks on Nutrition Education, Cancer Education and Domestic Abuse Education, all of which will be distributed freely in fishing and farming villages," Kumar writes.  In 2006 the elementary school began its fourth year providing low-cost, quality English education to some 100 rural children from neighboring farming and fishing villages.  "We have just finished constructing a large kindergarten classroom and have named the building after my American (host) parents, Donald and Jean Kramer."  In 2000 Kumar founded the Green Party of India.  In addition, Kumar writes, "I grow banana, coconut, and rubber on our land; write columns for some Indian newspapers and international agencies; and teach peace studies around the world.  I am also deeply involved in a nonviolent struggle against the upcoming Koodankulam nuclear power project."  Kumar's publications include "Presenting" the Past: Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India (Praeger 2005). He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii in 1996.  Email: <spudayakumar@gmail.com>  (6/06)

Hannah Wu is a human rights officer in the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, where she has been working since 1994.  After assignments in many different countries, she singles out Cambodia as the most memorable.  Hannah is currently advising colleagues and working on policy and methodology of the UN Technical Cooperation Programme in the field of human rights.  Hannah received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Kroc Institute in October 2005 and presented a lecture, A Journey to Human Rights.  She also discussed her career trajectory in an interview.  Email: <hwu@ohchr.org> (12/05)

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