Where Are They Going?

Sarah Holsen ('03) has been accepted into a one-year intensive program in Public Administration at Syracuse University. Sarah hopes to utilize her education in the area of human rights, working for an international organization such as Amnesty International or the United Nations.

Erik Lee ('00) recently joined the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UCSD after having worked as Assistant Managing Director at the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy. He is U.S. Co-Chair for the binational Environmental Education Council for the Californias (EECC) . Prior to completing his master's degree in Latin American Studies at UCSD, Erik worked for over two years as a university administrator and instructor in Hermosillo, Sonora. He is responsible for the Center's day-to-day operations and coordinates staff efforts in media affairs, funding, publications, intra- and inter-institutional collaboration, outreach, and research.

Erynn Masi de Casanova (’01) has been accepted to the doctoral program in Sociology at UCSD.

Nathan Clarke (‘01) has been accepted to the doctoral program in Latin American History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and will be focusing on Peruvian history.

Guillermo Gallardo(’01) has been accepted to the doctoral program in History at UCSD.

Andrea Lopez (’01) has been accepted to the doctoral program in History at the University of Texas, Austin.

Christine de Piérola Foerster (‘00) has been accepted to the MFA Visual Arts program at UCSD.

Apha (Mim) Thirakaroonwongse ('01) will work at the Latin American Section of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs beginning in September 2001.

Where are they now?

Marisabel Almer ('98) will begin her doctoral studies in Anthropology with a sub-filed in Ethnology this fall at the University of Michigan.

Carlos Cervantes (’00) is currently Academic Advisor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. He plans to proceed to law school by Fall 2003

C.R. Hibbs (’94) has accepted a position with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, to be its representative in Mexico.

Matt Martin ('99) is the Director of Project Development for Fútbol de Primera, a company which produces soccer events and broadcasts a daily Spanish language radio show on soccer.

Mark Patterson ('00) is a student teacher at Chula Vista High School, and completing the Bilingual Teaching Credential Program at SDSU in the areas of Spanish and Social Science.

Barbara Reyes ('92), is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

Sarah Robert ('00) lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is a Researcher and Docente at the Escuela de Educación, Universidad de San Andres. She intends to enter graduate school in the US in Fall 2001.

Patricia Rosas ('96) lives in Tuscon, Arizona, where she is a freelance editor and translator, working with academic publishing in the social sciences.

Andrew D. Selee ('99) is a Program Associate for the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C..

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