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Chris Backley
After graduating from the Humphrey Institute, Chris accepted
an Analyst position with the Government Accountability Office in Washington
D.C.
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Johanna Bond (1993)
Johanna spent her Humphrey Institute 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 Institute).
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
graduated from the Humphrey Institute in 2005 and accepted a job with
the Population Center in Washington, D.C. In early 2006, after volunteering
with Planned Parenthood Federation of America since her move to Washington,
Rebecca accepted a position as their Public Policy Associate. At Planned
Parenthood, she supports the Government Relations Department, aids the
office's lobbyists' work, and helps local affiliates with their policy
strategies.
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Katie Burns (1997)
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her summer internship at the Humphrey Institute, Katie researched welfare
reform policies and their impacts on women across the United States for
the Institute for Women's Policy Research. She collected data and resources,
conducted literature reviews, and attended congressional hearings. IWPR
is a non-profit scientific research organization that works primarily
on issues related to equal opportunity and economic and social justice
for women.
After completing her degree, Katie worked for the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services as a Presidential Management Intern. Katie worked
on various projects addressing the needs of low-income populations, and
she then worked in the Immediate Office of the Secretary where she analyzed
veteran policy recommendations related to the Medicaid program. Since
moving back to the Twin Cities in November 2002, Katie has been employed
at the Minnesota Department of Finance on health care and human service
budget issues. Katie also volunteers with Project Foundation, an organization
that provides emergency and longer-term assistance to homeless youth.
She was the recipient of a prestigious 2005 German Marshall Memorial Fellowship.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States created the Marshall Memorial
Fellowship program in 1982 to introduce the next generation of Western
Europe's leaders to the United States, its institutions, politics, and
people, and to reinforce the transatlantic relationship. She traveled
to Brussels, Hamburg, Leon, Bucharest, and Paris in February and March
2005. She has been on the Humphrey Institute alumni board of directors.
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Susan Curry (1995)
 Susan
is a 1997 graduate of the Humphrey Institute and also holds a law degree
from the University of Notre Dame School of Law. After finishing her degree,
she accepted a position as an executive director of the Minnesota Justice
Foundation--a nonprofit organization that serves the legal needs of low-income
Minnesotans by linking law students with attorneys who serve under-represented
clients.
Susan also consults 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 served on the board of directors for the Loan Repayment
Assistance Program of Minnesota, on the Minnesota State Bar Association's
Legal Assistance to the Disadvantaged Committee, and as an advisory panel
member to the University of Minnesota's Task Force on Civic Engagement.
Susan moved to the Twin Cities in 1995 from Chicago where
she practiced for six years in the public interest law arena, serving
as the executive director of the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, and as
an attorney with Legal Advocacy Service of the State of Illinois' Guardianship
and Advocacy Commission. Before joining Minnesota Justice Foundation in
1998, Curry served as the first executive director of Philanthrofund Foundation--the
Twin Cities' gay and lesbian community foundation.
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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 Institute,
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
was a graduate intern in the Washington, DC, office of the Drug Policy
Alliance, an organization committed to a more compassionate alternative
to the present war on drugs. She analyzed the affect of the proposed legislation
on women. After completing her degree, Tressa took a position as the external
affairs director of the National Women's Political Caucus in Washington,
a bi-partisan organization committed to recruiting, training, and supporting
pro-choice women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all levels.
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Vinita
Jethwani (1995)
 In
her second year at the Humphrey Institute, Vinita received a Congressional
Fellowship from the Women's Research and Education Institute and spent
one year working as a legislative assistant in DC for New York Congressman
Charles Rangel.
After completing her degree, Vinita accepted a position
as a research analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton, New
Jersey, where she worked extensively on a Social Security Administration
project evaluating services to improve return to work efforts for people
with disabilities and other under-served populations. She also co-authored
a policy brief on conducting local evaluations of family service programs.
Prior to working at MPR, Vinita worked for a non-profit
domestic violence organization for South Asian women in the New Jersey/New
York area, and she continues to be involved with the organization as an
active volunteer, grant writer, and member of the organization's Board
of Directors. She is also a Board Representative to the Women's Fund of
New Jersey.
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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 Institute, 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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Amanda Sarata
After graduating from the Humphrey Institute, 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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Sarah Taylor
Nanista
 Sarah
interned in the campaign office of Congresswoman Betty McCollum and for
state representative and minortiy whip Conie Bernardy where she researched
and wrote policy briefs, helped with fundraising efforts and helped to
solidify a campaign infrastructure. Sarah also volunteered with the MN
Women's Political Caucus and the MN Women's Campaign Fund and wrote her
professional paper on the efforts of parties and organizations to recruit
women to the local offices of County Commissioner, School Board and City
Council in the state of Minnesota. Sarah currently sits on the NARAL Pro
Choice Minnesota Board.
Sarah graduated in May 2006 with a masters of Public Policy and a masters
of Social Work. Upon graduation Sarah took a job as the Director of StreetWorks,
the largest collaborative of youth serving agencies in Minnesota.
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Jessica Webster (2000)
 Jessica
interned with the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce Community
House (SWEAT) in Cape Town, South Africa. SWEAT is an NGO that offers
non-judgmental support and services to sex workers in Cape Town. Jessica
helped with a weekly drop-in center for sex workers and participated in
street-based sex worker outreach. She built a violence intake computer
database for SWEAT.
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