Celia Cook Huffman (’88), from the United States, has been promoted to Professor of Peace Studies at Juniata College (Huntingdon, Pennsylvania), where she also serves as Associate Director of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and directs Baker Mediation Services. Celia earned her Ph.D. in Social Conflict Theory from Syracuse University. E-mail: cookhu@juniata.edu

Pedro Dalcero (’90), a diplomat in the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, 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.
E-mail: pdalcero@uol.com.br

Julie McKay (’93), from the United States, is a Program Manager at CDR Associates, an international collaborative decision-making and conflict resolution firm in Boulder, Colorado (http://www.mediate.org). Julie has worked for ten years as a mediator, trainer, and conflict resolution program designer; at CDR she specializes in organizational conflict management, training, and mediating complex, multiparty consensus-building processes. E-mail: jmckay@mediate.org

Fatima Shabodien (’94), from South Africa, is working in Indonesia for the International Foundation for Election Systems on a USAID civil society support project focusing on human rights and conflict management. After Notre Dame, Fatima worked as a conflict resolution trainer with Peace Visions in Cape Town and for the South African Department of Land Affairs in land reform issues. In 1998 she was awarded the Nelson Mandela scholarship for graduate studies in UK, where she earned an M.Phil. in Development Studies at Sussex University. Fatima writes, “My objective in taking this job in Indonesia was to gain international working experience. While I have studied, attended meetings/conferences and traveled to many countries, I have never before lived and become immersed in a context so different from the one I know. I thought this would be a good way of enriching my way of looking at developmental issues. I think, also given that the development sector remains dominated by people from the global north, it is a qualitatively different experience when one comes from a developing country oneself. Increasingly, the international aid sector is itself becoming more diverse, and in my thinking, we’re all the better for this trend.” E-mail: fatima@cssp.or.id

Isis Nusair (’94), from Israel/Palestine, has received a fellowship from the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary’s College (across the street from ND), where she will teach in the Women’s Studies program. Isis is a Ph.D. student in the Women’s Studies Program at Clark University, where she is completing a dissertation entitled “Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections of Palestinian Women in Israel, 1948-1998.” She previously served as a researcher on women’s human rights in the Middle East and North Africa at the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and has also worked as a researcher with the Euro-Med Human Rights Network. E-mail: inusair@saintmarys.edu

Su Gengxin (’95), has returned to his native P.R. China to teach in the English Department of Beijing University. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies from the University of Arizona in 2001, where he wrote a dissertation on “The Seduction of Culture: Representation and Self-Fashioning in Anglo-American Popular Culture.” E-mail: sugx618@yahoo.com.cn

Oana Popa (’96), from Romania, was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Romanian Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia in June 2003.
E-mail: oana.popa@zg.htnet.hr

Jonathan Crane (’97), from the United States, graduated from Hebrew Union College in New York and was ordained a rabbi in May 2003. After Notre Dame he traveled to India on a Rotary fellowship, where he earned an M.Phil. in Gandhian Thought from Gujarat Vidyapith, a university founded by Gandhi in 1920. He studied at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Israel as a Wexner Fellow, and has served as a student rabbi in India, China and the United States. He currently directs the graduate programs of Harvard University’s Hillel, teaches Jewish ethics and Jewish approaches to war and nonviolence at a Jewish high school in the Boston area, and is designing a course in Conflict, Violence and Ethics 23 p e a c e c o l l o q u y which he will teach at Wheaton College (Mass.) in the spring.
E-mail: jcrane@camail.harvard.edu

Hossein Alizadeh (’01), from Iran, has been named assistant coordinator for international programs at the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York. He received Kroc Institute support for an internship with FOR’s Iraq program in 2001. For two years he has coordinated FORs Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People.
E-mail: alizadehhossein@hotmail.com

Karana Dharma (Stanley Olivier) (’02), from the United States, worked as a translator for the State Department and served as an election monitor in Kosovo before beginning a four-month Kroc-funded internship with the International Human Rights Law Group in Congo. He recently accepted a position as Field Supervisor with CARE International in Ituri, North Kivu, DR Congo. He coordinates Congo en Action pour la Paix, a peacebuilding program of CARE in Eastern Congo. E-mail: Karanad@cs.com

Nell Bolton (’03), from the United States, earned an appointment as an International Development Fellow with Catholic Relief Services, where she works on Justice and Peace Programming from a base in Abuja, Nigeria. E-mail: nbolton@crsnigeria.org

Mica Barreto-Soares (’03), from Timor-Leste (East Timor), received Kroc Institute support for an internship as Junior Advisor to the Ambassador of Timor-Leste to the UN in New York City, where she has been attending meetings of the Security Council, General Assembly, Asian Group and the Non-Aligned Movement.
E-mail: barreto_mica@hotmail.com

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