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Amy Arcand
Amy Arcand is the Executive Director of the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization in south Minneapolis. She is running for the 9th Ward Minneapolis City Council seat in the 2009 election cycle. Her daughter, Piper, was born in June 2008.
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Chris Backley
Christopher Backley graduated from the Humphrey School in December 2005, with a focus on social policy (mostly related to economic/labor issues). He took a handful of WPP courses, and still finds that they were some of the most useful of any classes at Humphrey. He currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Amber. He is an analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). His free time is spent reading or thinking about reading.
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Johanna Bond (1993)
Johanna spent her Humphrey School summer internship
assisting with the development of a training curriculum on domestic violence
and women's human rights at the Human Rights Task Force in Cambodia. She
then traveled to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing, where she continued her work with the International Women's Rights
Action Watch (an organization based at the Humphrey School).
After completing her LLM degree, Johanna accepted a visiting associate
professor of law position at Georgetown University and assistant director
of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown University
Law Center. She co-taught a course on international and comparative law
and the rights of women, and she led students in a human rights fact-finding
mission to document domestic violence in Poland.
Johanna also clerked for U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery and engaged
in a variety of women's human rights projects that have resulted in publications
on domestic violence in Bulgaria and Macedonia; sexual harassment in Bulgaria;
maternal mortality as a human rights issue in Uganda and Mexico; domestic
violence in Nepal; trafficking in women; women's rights in Cambodia; and
a variety of issues concerning the United Nations treaty mechanisms.
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Rebecca Burch
(2005)
 Rebecca Burch works in Washington, DC as a policy analyst for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, working on advancing proactive public policy to expand access to reproductive health care. Her issue area focuses on state health care delivery and services.
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Katie Burns (1997)
 Katie Burns has worked in Minnesota’s state government since 2002 on health and human service financing and policy. Most recently, Katie was recruited by the Minnesota Department of Health to manage implementation of an ambitious set of market-based health reforms enacted at the state level. Prior to working in Minnesota, Katie worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC for three years.
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Jen Cornell
 Jen Cornell recently retired from the Minneapolis Fire Department at the rank of Battalion Chief after 15 years of service. She now teaches the management and administration class for fire chiefs at Hennepin Technical College and is attending law school at the University of Minnesota. She is particularly interested in practicing Employment Law after graduation.
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Susan Curry (1995)
 Susan J. Curry is a 1997 graduate of the Humphrey School and also holds a law degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Law. Since 2002, Susan has served as the Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Initiative, a nonprofit organization that cultivates a lifelong commitment to public interest law by creating opportunities for law students and lawyers to perform public interest law and pro bono legal activities in service to the poor and under-represented.
She has also served as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Justice Foundation, Executive Director of the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, and Executive Director of the P-Fund Foundation. She began her early legal career in Chicago as an associate with the law firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas, then moved to the public interest sector where she served as a staff counsel first for the Better Government Association and, then, for the Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission's Legal Advocacy Service.
Susan has consulted for a variety of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, providing guidance on program evaluation, program and fund development, strategic planning, board management, policy advice and grants assessment. She is the immediate past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Legal Aid Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of Illinois Legal Aid Online and the Illinois Equal Justice Coalition.
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Sarah Doire (2002)
 Sarah
was a summer research intern at the Center for Women Policy Studies, a
multiethnic feminist organization in Washington, D.C. Sarah's primary
project was to develop a survey for an impact evaluation of a national
women's volunteer organization. After graduating from the Humphrey School,
Sarah accepted a full-time policy associate position at the center, researching
the sexual trafficking of women and girls and efforts to combat such trafficking.
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Hodan
Farah (1998)
Hodan worked with a team of ENDA-SYSPRO researchers who
support agriculture and women in development in Dakar, Senegal. ENDA-SYSPRO
is part of ENDA-TM, an international nonprofit organization with diplomatic
status. Hodan pursued her fieldwork in a village 50 kilometers from Dakar,
where she provided technical support and supervision to several thriving,
small-scale woman-owned farms. She now works as an economist at the Economic
Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Tressa
Feher (2001)
 Tressa Feher is the Director of Leadership Network at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute; the nation's leading organization that identifies trains and supports openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates, campaign staff and officials. She is responsible for creating and managing professional development and political programs for LGBT candidates, as well as elected and appointed officials.
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Vinita
Jethwani (1995)
 Vinita Jethwani is a Research Administrative Manager at the Guttmacher Institute in New York City. The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health worldwide through an interrelated program of social science research, public education and policy analysis.
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Emari Dimagiba
Lavine (1994)
 Emari
worked for the Center for Policy Alternatives in DC between her first
and second years at the Humphrey. She worked on Women's Voices, a national
bipartisan survey of women's economic concerns, in which she coordinated
partnerships with five states to conduct corresponding state-specific
polls. She also participated in grant writing, and attended a planning
session with women state legislators in Michigan.
Upon graduating from the Humphrey School, Emari accepted
a position at the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention
and Parenting where she applied her expertise in the policy areas of comprehensive
sexuality education, adolescent reproductive health care, and youth development.
Emari now works for the Minnesota Department of Health in assisting community
organizing efforts to coordinate statewide media for two government-funded
teen pregnancy prevention initiatives.
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Laura McCarty (2001)
 Laura
created her own concentration in women's health policy by combining classes
from the Center on Women and Public Policy and from the School of Public
Health. She completed a paid internship with Metropolitan Health Plan.
Laura worked as the development director for NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota,
and now works as the Development Director of Outfront Minnesota, Minnesota's
largest GLBT organization.
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Chie
Michihiro (2003)
 Chie
conducted her summer internship at the Association of Women for Action
& Research (AWARE) in Singapore. Started in 1985, AWARE is the first
and remains the only feminist advocacy non-governmental organization in
the country. Her responsibility included collecting and analyzing empirical
data on violence against women and children from newspapers. She analyzed
the data for her professional paper, entitled "Criminal Court Response
to Violence against Women and Girls in Singapore: A Content Analysis of
Newspaper Reporting, 2000-2003."
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Susan Moore
Susan Moore has been a nonprofit management consultant for more than ten years now. She formed her own practice in 2005 after a brief stint at the Minneapolis Foundation and several years at LarsonAllen Public Service Group. She works with foundations and nonprofit organizations on grants review, program evaluation, financial and organizational assessments, and business planning. Among her recent engagements are an evaluation of the Bush Artist Fellows Program, grants review and program evaluation for the Bush Foundation, and an organizational assessment and business plan for the Jamestown Arts Center. She has taught in the Nonprofit Management Program at Hamline University's Graduate School of Management.
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Katie Peacock
 Katie Peacock lives in Minneapolis and works on civic engagement initiatives and community involvement at the University of Minnesota. She currently serves on the board of One Yoga and recently ended her term on the board of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. She is also involved in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, particularly around issues of safety.
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Amanda Sarata
After graduating from the Humphrey School, Amanda was
a senior research analyst at the Minnesota Department of Health working
on the policy issues of health quality and patient safety for two years.
She then re-located to Seattle where she received her MPH in Public Health
Genetics. In 2003, she moved to Washington, D.C. and accepted a position
with the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society
where she worked as staff to the Committee for two and a half years. Currently,
she works full-time at the Congressional Research Service as their analyst
in genetics policy. In addition to her work, Amanda is pursuing a PhD
in public policy, specializing in health policy, from the University of
Maryland Baltimore County.
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Melissa
Schmisek
 Melissa
interned for the Program Against Sexual Violence (PASV; now the Aurora
Center for Advocacy & Education) at the University of Minnesota, which
provides 24-hour crisis advocacy for victims of sexual assault, relationship
violence, and stalking. As an intern, Melissa developed a client intake
form for PASV and studied client case files to compile data on client
demographics, types of services received, and length of time clients spent
with PASV.
After completing her degree, Melissa started to work as the legal advocate
and direct services coordinator for PASV, and she supervised sexual violence
advocates and led training sessions. She also wrote restraining orders
for clients.
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Libby Sharrow
Libby Sharrow is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on gender in American political campaigns and social movements. She continues to work with the Center as a summer research assistant on the PATHS to political office in Minnesota study.
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Amy Strauss (2003)
Amy Strauss works as a Congressional Liaison Specialist for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Washington, D.C. on Appropriations issues. CBP is one of the Department of Homeland Security's largest and most complex components, with a priority mission of keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. It also has a responsibility for securing and facilitating trade and travel while enforcing hundreds of U.S. regulations, including immigration and drug laws.
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Sarah Taylor
Nanista
 Sarah Taylor-Nanista is the Executive Director of womenwinning, a Minneapolis-based organization organizations dedicated to leveling the playing field between men and women seeking elected office. Prior to joining womenwinning, Sarah served as Director of the StreetWorks Collaborative where she led a collaboration of ten nonprofit, youth-serving member agencies in the Twin Cities. In 2005, she served as acting director of the Humphrey School’s Center on Women and Public Policy, where she planned and implemented training for prospective women candidates, and in 2006 she received her master’s in public policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Sarah also earned a master’s in social work from the University of Minnesota with a concentration in community organizing and advocacy.
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Jessica Webster (2000)
 Jessica Webster is a full-time lobbyist for Legal Aid. She represents low-income Minnesota families at the Legislature regarding welfare, hunger, and unemployment issues. She also advocates for clients with Minnesota's state agencies. Jessica is working toward a J.D. at William Mitchell (expected 2010). She also serves on the board of directors of the Minnesota Environmental Fund.
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