Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016...5:51 pm
IPSS, IONP, DPMI Plus, IEM Practicum, FMS, and Student Exchange Placements for 2016 Announced
For spring 2016, a total of 61 Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey students will participate in our distinguished semester long immersive learning programs, to be placed around the country and the globe. Domestically, students are as close as the San Francisco Bay area and as far away as Washington, D.C. Internationally, they are spread across five continents.
Programs include the International Professional Service Semester (IPSS), the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program (IONP), DPMI Plus, the International Education Management (IEM) Practicum , the Student Exchange Program, and the Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) Program.
Below is a list of current participants, their organizations, and their locations.
International Professional Service Semester (IPSS) |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Shen Li | WTO | Geneva, Switzerland |
Melis Okter | CA Sea Grant: Coastal Commission | San Francisco, CA |
Jennifer Adams | State Dept. ASST SEC, OCEANS & INT L ENVIR & SCI AFFS and Montery Bay Aquarium Policy Division | Washington, D.C. |
Emma Tonge | NOAA | Oakland, CA |
Mairi MacEachern | UNGC Network office | Toronto, Canada |
Whitney Berry | IUCN | Geneva, Switzerland |
Zachary Foco | FAO | Rome, Italy |
Marina Binsack | San Francisco Bay Joint Venture | Sacramento, CA |
Sophia Kirschenman | Conservation International Social Policy and Practice Division | Washington, D.C. |
Thomas Stagg | NOLS Patagonia | Chile |
Jamie Stanton | UNIDIR | Geneva, Switzerland |
Elin Orre | UNODA CAB | New York, NY |
Hussain Alhowaidi | UN Office at Geneva: Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit | Geneva, Switzerland |
Margaret Coleman | US State Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor |
Washington, D.C. |
Daniel Pavitt | Conservation International Peace and Development Partnerships | Washington, D.C. |
Miranda Salinas | Alliance for Peacebuilding | Washington, D.C. |
Li Ma | Stimson Center | Washington, D.C. |
Kathleen Lucitt | IRS Criminal Investigations Branch (International Operations division) | Washington, D.C. |
Stephanie Gentle | IUCN SEE | Belgrade, Serbia |
Jenny Cho | Council on Foreign Relations | Washington, D.C. |
Phil Goldstein | Department of Defense/Pentagon | Washington, D.C. |
Emily Summerlin | San Francisco Business Council on Climate Change | San Francisco, CA |
International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program (IONP) |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Hussein Alhowaidi | United Nations Implementation Support Unit of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC) |
Geneva, Switzerland |
Geraldine Mande | United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) | New York, NY |
Satomi Tamura | United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD) | Geneva, Switzerland |
Irene Yu | Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) | Vienna, Austria |
DPMI Plus |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Judie Henderson | Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) | Rwanda |
Laura Preston | Peace Corps | Cameroon |
Madison Shepard | SHE-CAN | Mill Valley, CA |
Sophie Dresser | OneVillage Partners | Sierra Leone |
Jeanine Willig | Social Impact | Washington, D.C. |
Alina Aslanian | International Organization for Migration | Bangkok, Thailand |
Sonia Esquibel | Catholic Relief Services | Zambia |
Karla Gregorio | Program Fellow | Oakland, CA |
Susan Asselin | Peace Corps | Senegal |
Alcide Guillory III | GSIPM Immersive Learning Team | Monterey, CA |
Julia Meli | International Organization for Migration or Search for Common Ground | Middle East and North Africa |
Tom Ford | Peace Corps | Nicaragua |
Amanda Kruse |
Peace Corps |
Burkina Faso |
International Education Management (IEM) Practicum |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Kaela Conroy | Brown University – Office of International Programs | Providence, RI |
Tessa Fancher | Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT |
Maria Gleason-Maddox | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Center for Global Education | Madison, WI |
Michelle Gloster | PLUS Education U.S. Corp | USA |
Talia Gottlieb | Pearson College UWC | Canada |
Emily Greenblatt | Intercultural Communication Institute | Portland |
Alcide Guillory III | GSIPM Immersive Learning Team | Monterey, CA |
Courtney Jackson | American International Recruitment Council (AIRC) | Bethesda, MD |
Sydney McLoughlin | To be determined | |
Peter Seilheimer | California State University at Monterey Bay | Monterey, CA |
Abbey Wallace | CIEE | Portland, ME |
Student Exchange Programs |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Jordan Fernandez | Middlebury Schools Abroad | Amman, Jordan |
Janet Addoh | Middlebury Schools Abroad | Madrid, Spain |
Eli Hatch | Waseda University | Tokyo, Japan |
Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) |
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Name |
Placement |
Location |
Julianne Scott | Pulsera Project | Granada, Nicaragua |
Tony Chow | To be determined | |
Angelina Skowronski | To be determined | |
Ben Grimmig | To be determined | |
Clover van Steenberghe | To be determined | |
Kenji Tabery | To be determined | |
Nenneya Shields | To be determined | |
Sherry Sybertz | To be determined | |
Best of luck to all of you!!!