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Sigrid Arzt is founder and co-director of Democracy, Human Rights and Security (Democracia, Derechos Humanos y Seguridad) in Mexico City. This non-governmental organization aims to serve as a link between government, academic researchers and representatives of civil society in order to support reforms that promote respect for human rights and the strengthening of Mexican democracy. Sigrid is also director of political analysis at the research center Fundacion Rafael Preciado, which does political and social policy studies, and is a doctoral candidate in international relations and comparative politics at the University of Miami. Her most recent book is Combating Organized Crime in Mexico: Mission [im] possible?, in the series Transnational Crime and Public Security: Challenges to Mexico and the United States (2003). Email: <sarzt@ddhs.org.mx> (2/05)

Vienna Colucci is director of membership networks for Amnesty International in Chicago. Email: <vcolucci@aiusa.org> (5/04)

Deb DeLaet is assistant professor of political science at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Email: <debra.delaet@drake.edu> (5/04)

Evelyn Gomez teaches under-privileged pre-school children in Brooklyn, New York. Email: <EGomez4829@aol.com> (5/04)

Jun Han is a research associate in the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting scientific research in physical chemistry using non-linear optics and laser spectroscopy. From 2002-2003 he was in research and development with JDS Uniphase, the world's leading fiber optics company, in California. He earned his PhD in chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1997 with a dissertation titled Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Weakly Bound Complexes. Email: <junhan@sas.upenn.edu>(5/04)

Julie Hart is associate professor of sociology and peace studies at Bethel College, a small Mennonite liberal arts college in southeast Kansas. In 2003 she returned from a two year sabbatical in Guatemala doing peace and justice education. She has worked summers with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Israel/Palestine from 1997-2000 and will be in Colombia this July with CPT. Julie earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Notre Dame in 1994, with the dissertation topic: "The Impact of a Peer Mediation Program on an Elementary School Environment." Email: <jhart@bethelks.edu> (5/04)

Vladimir Khmelkov is a senior institutional research analyst at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD in Sociology from Notre Dame in 2000 with a dissertation titled Developing Professionalism: Effects of School Workplace Organization on Novice Teachers' Sense of Responsibility. Email: <Vladimir.T.Khmelkov.2@nd.edu> (12/04)

Patricia McCabe works at the US Supreme Court in the public information office. Email: <patricia_mccabe@hotmail.com> (5/04)

Bro. Paul McDonough works in inner-city Chicago as director of "Friends First" at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Email: <paumcd@mercyhome.org> (5/04)

Satoko Nakagawa is report officer for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. She previously served with OCHA in New York as an information officer with responsibility for the ReliefWeb site. In 2000 she participated in a panel at the Kroc Institute honoring Fr. Ted Hesburgh. "In the Company of Peacemakers: Pursuing Peace After a Kroc M.A." Her talk was titled Improving the UN from Within. Email: <satokonakagawa@1989.jukuin.keio.edu> (7/05)

David Pritchard moved to London in 2004 to begin work with Matrix Research and Consultancy Ltd. Email: <david.pritchard@matrixrcl.co.uk>

(12/04)

Kevin Ranney is managing partner of Jantzi Research Inc., which provides research and related services to the growing movement of investors in Canada and elsewhere that consider the social, environmental and ethical performance of the corporations in which they invest. Kevin oversees research and manages the development of Jantzi Research’s methodology and core product, which is a database of social and environmental profiles of Canadian corporations. Kevin has worked in this field for over ten years and finds it gratifying to observe that, in part as a result of pressure from social investors, a growing number of corporations are paying increasing attention not only to their financial bottom line but also to their social and environmental impact. Email: <kevinranney@sympatico.ca> (6/06)

Sean F. Reardan is an associate professor of education and sociology at Stanford University in California. He teaches and conducts research on educational and social inequality, segregation, and social policy. Email: <sreardon@stanford.edu> (10/06)

Marion Shaer, from South Africa, is a consultant specializing in conflict management and dispute resolution in organizations. She works in association with other consultants who focus on skills development. She lives in Johannesburg and has three children: Sam (12), Jo (8) and Tom (6). Email: <marion.shaer@mweb.co.za> (6/06)

Peter Schulze teaches physics, math, computer science, politics and conflict resolution at a major public high school in the inner city of Berlin. Email: <pmschulze@gmx.de> (2/05)

Katherine (Kasia) Sikora Nelson begins work in July 2006 at Citigroup's headquarters in New York, as a senior vice president for anti-money laundering within the firm's Corporate and Investment Banking Group.
Kasia earned her LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from the Boston University School of Law in 2005, after which she joined the Forensic Services practice of KPMG LLP in Boston. Kasia spent the previous ten years with Fidelity Investments. She is founding chair of the foreign lawyers committee of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) and currently serves as the senior co-chair of the International Law Section of the BBA. She also serves on the executive committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations. Kasia earned a MALD degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1993, where she serves as the President of the Boston Alumni Association and member of the Fletcher Development Committee.
Email:<katarzyna_nelson@yahoo.com> (6/06)

Toomas Sillaste is a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Email: <Toomas.Sillaste@echr.coe.int> (6/06)

Jennifer Smead provides primary child care for her daughter and serves on the board of Stategic Education Centers, a Seattle-based nonprofit working to empower girls and women in Africa and the U.S. with academic, technology and reproductive health knowledge and skills. Email: <jsmead@blarg.net> (10/04)

Randi (Terry) Mack volunteers at "My Sister's Place," a battered women's shelter in Washington, DC. Email: <rmack@gvpt.umd.edu> (10/04)

Tanya Tkachenko is an institutional research analyst at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her PhD in the History and Culture from the University of Chicago in 1997. Email: <ttkachen@nd.edu> (10/04)

Joanie Toner O'Brien is associate director of development for grants and government relations at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Email: <joanietoner@yahoo.com> (12/04)

George Wachira is executive director of NPI Africa (Nairobi Peace Initiative), and is working on his dissertation for the PhD program in Peace Studies at Bradford University, UK. In 2000 he gave a talk at the Kroc Institute titled Returning to the Raging River as part of a panel honoring Fr. Ted Hesburgh, "In the Company of Peacemakers: Pursuing Peace After a Kroc M.A." In 1996 he edited the volume Peacemaking and Democratisation in Africa. Theoretical Perspectives and Church Initiatives with Hizkias Assefa (Michigan State University Press). Email: <gwachira@npi-africa.org> (5/04)

Juyan Zhang Pollack (Yanzi) moved in 2004 from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, where she welcomes visitors. Email: <yanzip@netvigator.com> (4/05)
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