Yan Yanfang (’89), from the Peoples Republic of China, has been a senior equity portfolio manager with Banc of America Capital Management since 2001. She previously worked at Putnam Investments as a vice president.  
  
Frank Castillo (’90), from the United States, 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. After 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 also been active internationally in Physicians for Social Responsibility. E-mail: fmcastillo@pol.net

Yousef Al-Herimi (’92), from Bethlehem, is teaching at Al-Quds University (Islam, world civilization, and logical thinking) and working with the Issam Sartawi Center for Peace Studies, which he directed from 1998-2002, as well as teaching religion at Bethlehem University. His work in promoting Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations throughout the area was featured in a report titled Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine by Yehezkel Landau, published by the United States Institute of Peace, September 2003. Yousef earned his MTS from Harvard Divinity School in 1997. E-mail:Yousefalherimi@hotmail.com

Cristián Correa (’92), from Chile, is executive secretary of the National Commission for Political Torture and Imprisonment in Santiago, which was appointed by the president to report on torture and political imprisonment in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. After interviewing more than 30,000 survivors in six months, the commission must research evidence for their cases and write a report, including recommendations for reparation and prevention, which will be presented to the president in August. Previously Cristián served as national director for the Juridical Assistance Program in the Ministry of Justice of Chile, which developed innovative ways to increase underprivileged people’s access to justice, including mediation, people’s empowerment, and interdisciplinary approaches from social work, psychology and law. E-mail: ccorream@cpt.gov.cl

Anna Snyder (’92), from the United States, has published Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building (Ashgate, 2003). “The book is based on my dissertation research on conflict among NGOs, particularly women’s peace organizations that were working towards building a transnational network during the fourth UN World Conference on Women. I concluded that they used conflict constructively to build the social infrastructure of their network.” Anna is assistant professor of conflict resolution studies at Menno Simmons College of the University of Winnipeg. Anna received her PhD in social science from Syracuse University in 1998, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis with the Lentz Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research.
E-mail: a.snyder@uwinnipeg.ca

Jasmin Habib (’93), from Canada, is assistant professor of global studies and Canadian studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Wateroo, Ontario, Canada, where she is teaching in the Peace and Conflict stream as part of a very small (mostly new) faculty in the fastest growing program on campus. Her book, Israel, Diaspora and the Routes of National Belonging was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2004. Jasmin earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from McMaster University in 2000, and taught peace studies at McMaster. Her interests include the study of violence, militarism and the cultures of nationalism, transnationalism and diaspora relationships particularly to Israel and Palestine. E-mail: jhabib@wlu.ca

Xabi Aguirre (’95), from the Basque Country of Spain, began working for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague in February 2004, after six years with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. “I feel very glad and proud to be one of the first staff members of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor, and in these days I have often recalled my time in ND. It is clear to me that I would have never been here if not for what I learned in Notre Dame, and for this I am and I will always be grateful.”
E-mail: ktz@wxs.nl

Anne Monaghan (’98), from Northern Ireland, is community relations manager for the University of Ulster, where she manages the conflict resolution/management program within the University, liaising with students, local communities, off-campus landlords and other community and voluntary organizations. Anne is also an associate mediator with Mediation Northern Ireland and sits on the board of Mediation UK, as well as a member of Belfasts’ District Policing Partnership.

Kamar Yousuf (’99), from Somalia, is based in Amman, Jordan, as regional finance manager for Air Serv International, a relief and development organization which provides air transport, communication and information technology to all humanitarian organizations working in Iraq. She earned her MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California in 2000, after which she spent two years in the Africa Department of the World Bank as a management consultant. Email: k_yousuf@lycos.com

Rocio Campos (’00), from Mexico, serves as communications manager for the International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC, as well as internship program coordinator for the Center. The goal of the International Budget Project (IBP) is to make budget processes and institutions more responsive to the needs of society and more transparent and accountable to the public. Rocio facilitates communication among civil society organizations analyzing public budgets in developing countries by editing a bimonthly newsletter distributed in three languages in more than 100 countries and maintaining the IBP website . Rocío also works as a volunteer for the International Child Art Foundation, where she has designed, coordinated, and facilitated conflict prevention workshops and exercises for youth in conflict zones. The Washington Times recently highlighted her work with a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriot teenagers. E-mail: campos@cbpp.org

Karim Kahwaji (’01), from Lebanon, earned a masters in clinical psychology from Santa Clara University in 2002 and is a psychologist with Alliance For Community Care in San Jose, California, a non-profit mental health agency. He provides psychotherapy and rehabilitation for the mentally ill, specializing in work with gay youth and refugees. “It is a very rewarding job. I get to combine both my MA in International Peace Studies skills with clinical psychology skills especially in conflict resolution. I have patients who walk in initially very ill and after a few months, they walk out healthy, ready to function again in the community. There is still a lot of stigma and ignorance about mental illness but at the same time there is lots of progress especially in the last couple of years.” E-mail: k_kahwaji@hotmail.com

Phak Por (’01), from Cambodia, is working at the Australian Embassy Liaison Office in Phnom Penh, as an investigative assistant with the Australian Federal Police, focusing on transnational crimes such as trafficking in women, children and drugs. E-mail: Phak.Por@afp.gov.au

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