Directory of Scoville Peace Fellows, 1987-Present

Taylor Jo Isenberg

Fall 2010 Fellow, Partnership for a Secure America

Education: University of North Carolina, BA Peace, War, and Defense and International Studies, 2010

Mark Donaldson

Spring 2010 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Education: Amherst College, BA Political Science, 2009

Issues Covering: START, warhead modernization, defense budget

Meg McDermott

Spring 2010 Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

Education: University of St. Andrews, M.Litt, International Security Studies, 2009
Emory University, BA International Studies, 2008

Issues Covering: Arms trade, cluster munitions treaty, genocide prevention treaty, and global peacekeeping

Mary Slosson

Spring 2010 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: University of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs and French, 2008

Issues Covering: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, CTBT, START follow-on treaty

Michael Tu

Spring 2010 Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: University of Pennsylvania, MS Engineering, 2008
Swarthmore College, BA History and BS Engineering, 2005

Issues Covering: Chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation, regulatory strategies for dual-use biotechnologies

Jessica Anderson

Fall 2009 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Tufts University, BA International Relations, 2008

Issues Covered: Peace operations and security sector reform

Current Activities: Anderson is pursuing a masters degree in forced migration and is a researcher at the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa through a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.  

Matthew Buongiorno

Fall 2009 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists

Education: Texas Christian University, BA Political Science, 2009

Issues Covered: Small arms trafficking and conventional weapons issues, U.S. arms transfers, and nuclear issues

Current Activities: Beginning in fall 2010 Buongiorno will teach high school math in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, as a 2010 Corps Member with Teach For America. He will enter Stanford Law School in fall 2012.

Lisa Putkey

Fall 2009 Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund

Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA Peace and Conflict Studies, 2008

Issues Covered: Nuclear weapons, disarmament, and human security

Cole Harvey

Spring 2009 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of Pittsburgh, B.Phil Politics and Philosophy, 2008

Issues Covered: Russia, nuclear weapons, and international agreements

Current Activities: Harvey is a research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.  His responsibilities include conducting research and writing analyses regarding the spread of weapons of mass destruction and means for their control.

Adam Lichtenheld

Spring 2009 Fellow, National Security News Service

Education: University of Wisconsin at Madison, BA Political Science, International Studies and African Studies, 2008

Issues Covered: Organizations and lobbying groups that are representing Iraqi interests in Washington

Current Activities: Lichtenheld is an Associate in the Afghanistan/Pakistan division of Chemonics, where he is managing development projects related to trade, democracy and governance and crisis management in Afghanistan.  He was previously an environmental policy reporter at Inside Washington Publishers.  He is the chair of the Human Rights and Immigration Discussion Group of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and a member of the Society for International Development.

Brian Klein

Fall 2008 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Education: University of Notre Dame, BA Political Science, 2008

Issues Covered: Nuclear nonproliferation

Current Activities: Klein is a consultant with the World Bank's Energy Unit, where he performs research and analysis for the concentrating solar power and carbon sequestration and storage initiatives.  He also assists with event logistics and copyediting of reports and other documents.  He previously worked as a Staff Intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  He wrote for ECSP's blog, The New Security Beat, assisted with the logistics of ECSP's events, researched materials for the annual report, and maintained the contact database.

Vrinda Manglik

Fall 2008 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council

Education: Sarah Lawrence College, BA Environmental Studies & International Development, 2008

Issues Covered: Environmental security

Current Activities: Manglik is a Research Associate with the Environmental Law Institute.  She is conducting policy and legal research on issues including wetlands restoration and environmental justice, and helping to organize related meetings and events.  After her fellowship she was hired at NRDC in their International program for a month continuing the work she had done on the India project.

Rebecca Bornstein

Spring 2008 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Kalamazoo College, BA Political Science, 2007

Issues Covered: Homeland security and terrorism prevention, nuclear nonproliferation

Current Activities: Bornstein is Lead Analyst for Afghanistan at the Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative (NSOI) at the State Department.  NSOI is a U.S. government effort to enhance international partnerships to combat smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials.  She was previously a Defense Analyst at BAE Systems where she wais part of a team leading defense reform studies in the Balkans and conducted research and analysis for the Missile Defense Agency.  After her fellowship she was hired as a research fellow with the Stimson Center’s Nuclear Weapons in International Security program through the end of 2008, where she researched and wrote on verification and enforcement scenarios, both historical and hypothetical in the case of a new treaty for complete disarmament of global nuclear arsenals. This work was done collaboratively with the Stimson team and for use in the Global Zero nuclear disarmament project. He re search resulted in the chapter “Enforcing a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty” that appeared in the in the Stimson book Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty that was published in January 2010.  She is a member of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and is a volunteer in the Iraq Section of its Refugee Assistance Program.

Kingston Reif

Spring 2008 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: University of St. Andrews, M.Litt. International Security Studies, 2007
London School of Economics and Political Science, Msc. International Relations, 2006
Brown University, BA International Relations, 2005

Issues Covered: Nuclear nonproliferation and arms control, U.S.-India nuclear deal, the war in Iraq, and the defense budget

Current Activities: Reif is Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferatin where he focuses on arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear weapons, and preventing nuclear terrorism.  In addition to writing, blogging, and media on these issues, he shares information and does outreach on these issues on Capital Hill, particularly on the Senate side.  He was previously a Commissioner's Assistant to Morton Halperin, one of the twelve Commissioners on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.  The commission, chaired by William Perry, had a mandate to “broadly review the nation’s strategic posture, including an array of capabilities and military programs such as conventional strategic systems, nonproliferation and counterproliferation programs, missile defense systems and the future of nuclear weapons.”  Reif drafted memos for Dr. Halperin on such issues as the evolution of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, the CTBT, the U.S. nuclear stockpile size, the U.S. nuclear infrastructure, Russian and Chinese nuclear modernization programs, and extended nuclear deterrence.  He also liased and arranged meetings with congressional staff, department of defense officials, and nuclear laboratory officials in support of Dr. Halperin and the Commission.  

Katarzyna Bzdak

Fall 2007 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists

Education: Columbia University, MA International Affairs, 2007
University of Southern California, BA Political Science and International Relations, 2004

Issues Covered: Small arms and light weapons

Current Activities: Bzdak is the Membership Coordinator and Project Manager of the Energy, Security, and the Environment Initiative with the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles.  In the later capacity she is laying the groundwork for the incipient program by identifying potential task force members, reaching out to relevant media sources, civic and non-profit organizations, and beginning to organize the first task force meeting. 

Danny Hosein

Fall 2007 Fellow, Friends Committee on National Legislation Education Fund

Education: Trinity University, BA Political Science, 2006

Issues Covered: Reliable Replacement Warhead: Presidential candidates’ views on nuclear weapons

Current Activities: Hosein is the Coordinator for Skilled Volunteering and Nonprofit Relations at Greater DC Cares, the largest volunteer center in the DC/MD/VA region, which mobilizes volunteers and strengthens nonprofits to better impact communities in the Washington, DC region.  He helps coordinate pro bono consultants, who assist nonprofits with big projects and helps train and place people with nonprofit boards of directors. He previously was a Legislative Program Assistant with FCNL's Nuclear Disarmament Program.  He tracked legislative developments related to nuclear weapons and lobbied at the grassroots and congressional levels to promote nuclear reductions and eventual disarmament.  He also edited the FCNL Nuclear Calendar.

Alex Bollfrass

Spring 2007 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA Political Science, 2006

Issues Covered: Chemical and biological weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Bollfrass focused on chemical and biological weapons.  He wrote “Tests, Arrests Draw Attention to Indian Missiles,” “Iran-Iraq Chemical Warfare Aftershocks Persist,” “Libya Backs Out of CW Destruction Agreement,” “France, Libya Sign Nuclear Desalination Deal,” “Details Bedevil Libyan Grand Bargain,”“GAO Issues Warning on Biodefense Research,” and “Nuclear Material Consolidation Schedule Lags” for Arms Control Today.  He updated and added content to factsheets on a variety of nonproliferation issues.  He wrote “Grounds for Optimism and Action on Chemical Weapons Convention’s 10th Anniversary,” an ACA press release.  He compiled a 27-page bibliography for an ACA Educator’s Guide that will be distributed to professors and covers all arms control aspects.  He wrote two-page summaries of five nuclear weapon states’strategic positions, the status of their weapons programs, and their stances on various treaties and arms control regimes.  He moderated a panel (whose participants included Daniel Ellsberg) on International Nonproliferation at the Think Outside the Bomb conference.

Current Activities Bollfrass was a Research Assistant with the International Security and Nuclear Weapons project at the Henry L. Stimson Center from March 2008 until June 2010.  He assisted Barry Blechman by providing research to develop a treaty for the elimination of all nuclear weapons by a date certain.  He researched and wrote on the political, strategic, and technical obstacles to multilateral nuclear disarmament as part of Stimson’s "Unblocking the Road to Zero" series.  He co-wrote chapters and co-edited several books in that series, and created the video game Cheater’s Risk on the Stimson website.  He also contributed to the arms control community's work to promote the CTBT.  In fall 2010 he will begin a graduate program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he will continue his focus on nuclear weapons and explore technical issues.

Richard May

Spring 2007 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: University of Florida, MA International Relations, 2006
California State University, San Bernadino, BA Social Sciences, 2001

Issues Covered: Counterinsurgency; post-conflict reconstruction; Near East and South Asian issues

Major Fellowship Activities: May focused on counterinsurgency, post-conflict reconstruction, and Near East and South Asian issues. He wrote a monograph on the U.S. military’s focus on U.S.-based or multi-national corporations for logistical contracting at the expense of host nation contractors during stability and support operations abroad. He wrote several articles and op-eds for both CDI and other publications. He wrote “Analysis: The 2007 State of the Union Address” for CDI’s Weekly Security Review, “Petraeus: Right Guy, Wrong Time” and “Misdirected Tactics: Counterinsurgency Focus Misses Big Picture in Iraq,” both op-eds in Defense News (the later article was selected by the Council on Foreign Relations as a “Must-Read” for its “seminal analysis and inquiries into foreign policy and national security issues”), “New Justice, No Peace,” an op-ed in the New York Times (reprinted in the International Herald Tribune), “Wasting Money in Iraq” and “Buildup, Not Surge,” both op-eds published by UPI, “Mind the Gap: U.S. Military Structure,” in the International Security Network, and “Opportunity Missed: Logistics Support Contracts with Locals Would Help Stabilize Iraq” in Armed Forces Journal, and was interviewed on Al Jazeera (English) about the surge in Iraq and on Voice of America. He was an invited participant at a conference hosted by the Carr Center for Human Rights of the Kennedy School of Government and the Center for Army Lessons Learned entitled “Escalation of Force,” which sought to resolve the escalation of force tactics of the military with peacekeeping/making operations. He participated in the Carnegie Junior Fellows conference and in the World Security Institute’s board meeting.

Current Activities: May is a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department of Treasury where he is working as an Intelligence Research Specialist.  He works to provide intelligence analysis to Treasury leadership that allows them to take appropriate actions as it relates to threat finance and counter-terrorism efforts.  In fall 2008 he will begin an MBA program part-time at George Washington University as a recipient of the Iranian Relations and Affairs Fellowship.

Alex Stolar

Spring 2007 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs, 2006

Issues Covered: South Asia; space security

Major Fellowship Activities: Stolar worked with Michael Krepon on Stimson’s South Asia Program and Space Security
Project. He factchecked articles and talks by Krepon and coordinated his meetings with Congressional staffers. He co-wrote “What Legacy Will Musharraf Leave?” for the Stimson Center website, which was later reprinted in The News (Pakistan). Stolar wrote “The Implications of Unrest in Pakistan for Nuclear Security,” also for the Stimson Center website and reprinted in Rediff and the Daily Times (Pakistan). That report was quoted in two Pakistani publications and another in France. He scheduled meetings for the Stimson Center’s visiting fellows, first for a Lieutenant Colonel in the Pakistani Army and then for a physicist who is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority. Stolar attended those meetings with and took notes for the visiting fellow. They attended briefings and meetings at think tanks, the Defense and State Department, and other government agencies, and with Congressional staffers. He also helped organize a meeting hosted by the Stimson Center Space Security Project on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Space-Faring Nations.

Current Activities: Stolar is a National Security Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation.  He is working on a contract supporting the Cooperative Threat Reduction programs at the Department of State.  Before that he provided research support for a Department of Defense agency working on counterproliferation issues.  He is also pursuing a Masters in Security Studies at Georgetown University.  Following the conclusion of his Fellowship Stolar was hired as a Research Assistant at the Stimson Center and authored a report entitled To The Brink: Indian Decision-Making and the 2001-2002 Standoff.
  

Julia Fitzpatrick

Fall 2006 Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

Education: University of Notre Dame, BA Political Science and Peace Studies, 2006

Issues Covered: Darfur; UN peacekeeping  

Major Fellowship Activities: Fitzpatrick focused on peacekeeping and Darfur.  She monitored the efforts of the U.S. and others to pressure the Sudanese government to allow for a UN peacekeeping force in the region.  She corresponded with fellow organizational members in the Save Darfur Coalition and attended meetings with other members of the D.C. Darfur advocacy community.  She tracked the progress of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, including the launch of the Peacebuilding Fund and the first Peacebuilding Commission meetings for the Sierra Leone and Burundi cases.  She created a new webpage and wrote and updated numerous content and news pieces for the CGS Darfur Resource Center.  She co-authored a briefing paper on Darfur and the ICC entitled “Darfur and the ICC: Ensuring Accountability,” and created and collected information for CGS “10 Things You Can Do For Darfur” page.  She wrote several pieces for the CGS website, including “International Bodies Discuss Darfur and President Bush Appoints Special Envoy," “Worldwide Events to Mark Global Day for Darfur,” “World Leaders, Celebrities Call for Action on Darfur,” “African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS),” “President Bush Names Special Envoy for Darfur,” “U.N. Resolution Calls for Peacekeeping Troops,” “President Bush Signs Darfur Peace and Accountability Act (DPAA), Issues Executive Order,” “Sudan Agrees "In Principle" to a Stronger Hybrid U.N.-AU Force For Darfur,” “Chad Declares State of Emergency Due to Attacks in Darfur and Eastern Chad,” “Sudanese President Accepts Peacekeeping Package for Darfur, Questions of Size and Strength Remain,” and "Diplomatic Pressure Mounts on Khartoum,” wrote a background paper on Darfur and U.S. policy options, entitled “Crisis in Darfur: Options for U.S. Policy.” She also updated the website with news stories.

She spoke at a George Washington University event on genocide, about the role of the United Nations and the ICC in genocide prevention. Other speakers included staff from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Islamic Congress, Genocide Intervention Network, and Save Darfur Coalition.
She assisted in planning for CGS’ annual meeting entitled “Building a Bipartisan U.S. Foreign Policy for the 21st Century,” and spoke on Darfur policy options and challenges at an issues training workshop entitled “Peace, Security, and Human Rights” for CGS members and participants.  She attended numerous Congressional hearings and policy briefings, including an off-the-record, invitation-only meeting including former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, and former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake on the topic of “How to Stop the Genocide in Darfur.”

Current Activities: Fitzpatrick is working as a Program Officer at American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), an international humanitarian and development NGO, in Jerusalem.  She completed one semester at Georgetown University's MA in Arab Studies program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where she received the Foreign Language and Area Studies scholarship.  In fall 2010 she will enter the MA in Law and Diplomacy program at The Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where she has received the Board of Overseers Scholarship. She won a graduate Boren Fellowship from the National Security Education Program to study and conduct research in Syria, Israel, and the West Bank in 2010.  She previously worked as a Programs Assistant at ANERA, where she supported the work of the Middle East Representative on all their programming in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem and worked with their project managers on project development, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation.  She attended Middlebury College's Arabic Language School for an intensive nine-week program in summer 2008.  In 2007-2008 she was a Human Rights Advocacy Fellow working with Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. After her fellowship she worked as the Peace and Security Program Coordinator at Citizens for Global Solutions. 

Travis Sharp

Fall 2006 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: University of San Francisco, BA History and Politics, 2006

Issues Covered: Iran; Iraq; nonproliferation

Major Fellowship Activities: Sharp focused on the Iraq War, Congress, defense budget, and nuclear weapons issues. He founded and was the sole contributor to the Iraq Insider blog, writing nearly 200 posts and attracting over 10,000 page views during his fellowship. He published letters on Iraq in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and helped draft a letter on unsecured fissile material for the New York Times. Sharp’s research on limiting American troop deployments was cited indirectly in a New York Times editorial and directly in a Salt Lake Tribune editorial. His research article “The Audacity of Rearmament: Complex 2030” was published in Foreign Policy in Focus and syndicated in Asia Times Online and Alternatives International. His research article “Moving the Chains: Congress and the War in Iraq” was published in Foreign Policy in Focus. His op-ed “Perspectives: Bloodshed in Iraq” was published in the International Relations and Security Network. His op-ed “No More New Nukes, Please” was published in the Topeka Capital-Journal and syndicated in Counterpunch and Alarab Online. His op-ed with Lt. Gen. Robert Gard “The Flawed Surge” was published in Madrid11.net and syndicated in Middle East Online and Common Dreams.

Sharp wrote a number of analyses for his organization’s website, including: “Analysis of House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Markup: FY2008 Defense Authorization (H.R. 1585),” “Iran and Congress,” “The Folly of New Nukes,” “Risky Business: Why Attacking Iran Is a Bad Idea,” “GOP Senators Voted To Limit Troops in 1990s,” “Analysis of New Iraq Legislation in House and Senate,” “The New Warner Resolution vs. The Old Warner Resolution,” “Troop Surge in Iraq: Just Another Escalation,” “Beyond the Executive Summary,” and “Baker-Hamilton May Be The Catalyst For Change In Iraq.”

Sharp was quoted in a One World news article on Reliable Replacement Warhead that was later syndicated in Common Dreams and Antiwar.com. He was interviewed on War News Radio about the Iraq Parliament’s progress on benchmarks. He was involved in the formation of the Progressive Foreign Policy Breakfast group, served as rapporteur, and was commissioned to write a commentary piece summarizing the group’s findings. He served as primary editor for the “2007 National Security Briefing Book,” a 65-page resource organized by 13 peace and security organizations. He moderated a panel on nuclear weapons and Congress at the 2007 Think Outside the Bomb conference and attended the 2007 Carnegie Junior Fellows Conference and the fall 2006 Peace and Security Initiative conference.

Current Activities: Sharp is a research associate at the Center for a New American Security where he focuses on defense budgets, weapons procurement, nuclear weapons policy, cybersecurity, and related issues.  From the conclusion of his fellowship through December 2009 he was the Communications Director and Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World where he directs print, TV, and radio communications strategy and performs policy work on national security spending, military policy, and Iraq.

Erin Blankenship

Spring 2006 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education:
King's College London, MA International Peace and Security, 2009
King's College London, MA Conflict, Security and Development, 2008
Trinity University, BA International Studies and Chinese, 2004

Issues Covered: Yucca Mountain nuclear repository; health aspects of energy security

Major Fellowship Activities: Blankenship worked on PSR’s Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository project and its Energy Security programs, and coordinated PSR’s student chapters. She attended Congressional hearings and conferences as well as meetings with NGO staff focusing on nuclear non-proliferation issues, and participated in over twenty Senate and House staff educational meetings with other organization’s representatives. She represented PSR at these meetings and voiced its concerns over the health and security risks posed by the issue. She wrote three factsheets that have been published online and distributed at meetings, “Dealing With Spent Nuclear Waste,” “A New Level of Hazardous Risk,” and “Bringing Hiroshima Home: Concerns for the Transport of Nuclear Waste,” about transport risks, dry-cask storage, and the proposed EPA standards. She wrote an analysis of transportation issues associated with commercial waste at Yucca Mountain that was submitted into the official record for the Supplemental Yucca Mountain Repository EIS scoping to the Department of Energy.

She also focused on a range of PSR’s Energy Security programs. She wrote “Oil’s Impact: The Role of Oil in Health and Security,” a report on the health and security consequences of continued oil dependency, continuing a project started by a former PSR Scoville Fellow. She wrote a second report, not yet published, exploring some of the wider security implications of global oil dependency, focusing on issues such as resource conflict, petroviolence, anti-democratic movements and climate change.

She coordinated the PSR national student campaign entitled “Prescription for a Secure and Healthy World,” which focuses on both nuclear proliferation issues and on global warming and energy security. She created resource materials, including factsheets and two 45 minute PowerPoint presentations, contacted speakers, distributed materials, helped coordinate events in nine states, and helped start Student PSR chapters in Iowa, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin.

Current Activities: Blankenship received an MA in international peace and security in 2009, awarded as a combined degree by the law school and war studies department of King's College London.  After graduating she worked as a research analyst for Janusian (Risk Advisory Group), a security intelligence/risk analysis firm, where she worked in the political risk wing on terrorism issues monitoring, conducting analysis, and writing briefs.  She monitored global terrorist activity, counter-terror operations and threat indicators, analyzed the material and distilled the meaningful intelligence for senior analysts and clients including multiple government ministries.  She was responsible for writing all the relevant information in briefs and reports, as well as inputting the information into the central database, and managing all the interns related to the project.  She received an MA with honors in Conflict, Security and Development from the War Studies Department at King's College, University of London in 2008.  Her dissertation was on transnational security threats in the Balkans, primarily focused on organized crime and the illegal arms/narcotics trade. She was awarded a King's graduate scholarship for partial tuition coverage.  She was previously a research and editing intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London where she worked for Mark Fitzpatrick in the Non-proliferation Programme.  She primarily focused on Middle Eastern nuclear programmes and North Korea.  She is a member of Women in International Security and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Prior to graduate school she was an energy and security analyst and the national student coordinator at PSR, where she continued the work she did during her fellowship. She focused on Iran, energy security, oil related-foreign policy, NPT/nonproliferation, global warming, and was the lead organizer for PSR’s 30 national student chapters.  She also volunteered as a research assistant at the Pugwash Conference working on Iran diplomacy, Middle East regional security, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Amy Buenning Sturm

Spring 2006 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Illinois Wesleyan University, BA Political Science & Diplomatic Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: Iraq; Gulf security

Major Fellowship Activities: Sturm worked on the Southwest Asia Regional Security Project as an assistant to Ellen Laipson, the President and CEO of the Stimson Center. Her primary responsibilities were to provide research support to Laipson and the other Southwest Asia staff. She served as the coordinator for the editing of the book Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences.  She attended and took notes at the brainstorming and paper review conferences, provided commentary to her supervisor on the book’s content, and corresponded directly with authors as they submitted their chapters.

She researched and authored “Edging Towards Reform: Kuwait’s Security Sector” and “The Challenge of Holding Iraq Together” for the Stimson Center’s website. She also was a contributing writer and editor for a joint Army-Stimson report “Security Sector Reform in the Gulf,” a publication for the U.S. Army’s Eisenhower National Security Series. In the course of that project she researched and developed an Appendix profiling the militaries of Gulf nations. She reviewed and corrected publications in-house, and provided significant research and publications support to various projects including “Lessons from India: Confronting the Sociological Causes of Terrorism,” “Hurricane Katrina: Managing Multi-Level Complexities;” and “The United Nations in 2015: Some Alternative Futures.”  She wrote brief summaries of Stimson’s programs and their impact on various public and private activities for online publication. Additionally, she served as an initial point of contact with subject matter experts, Ambassadors, diplomats, civil servants, intelligence, and military officials in conjunction with conferences, events, and projects.

She helped plan and organize several conferences, including “Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences Workshop 1,” “Security Sector Reform in the Gulf,” “Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences (Workshop 2),” “The United Nations in 2015 (whose participants included staff from the National Intelligence Council and the U.S. State Department),” and “Hurricane Katrina, Managing Multi-level Complexities," the goal of which was to apply lessons learned from the Katrina disaster to a possible terrorist attack..

Current Activities: Sturm will begin her second year at an M.A. program in Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service with a concentration in terrorism and substate violence in fall 2009.  She is a recipient of the Truman Scholarship, which funds graduate study for people interested in careers in public service. She is also working part-time as a research assistant for Dr. Bruce Hoffman, a professor in the Security Studies Program. She was previously a Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Army Garrison Darmstadt, U.S. Army Europe. She wrote articles and news stories for the Army’s website. While serving at USAG Darmstadt, she was awarded the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, as well as 1st Place for Contribution by a Stringer (Writer) in the IMCOM-Europe Keith L. Ware Journalism Award (2007).

William Huntington

Fall 2005 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Brown University, BA International Relations and Middle East Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, proposed U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, tactical nuclear weapons issues

Major Fellowship Activities: Huntington focused on the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the proposed U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He wrote several articles for Arms Control Today including “Threat Reduction Program Extends Reach to Ukrainian Biological Facilities,” "Brazilian Regulator Denies Uranium Claims,"  “Czech Uranium Removed,” “Congress Boosts Threat Reduction Funding,” “Congress Amends Iran Nonproliferation Act,” “President Gains Permanent CTR Waiver Power,” “Bush Plans Changes in Threat Programs,” “France, Libya Agree to Nuclear Cooperation,” “U.S. , Libya to Restore Full Diplomatic Relations,” and “Indo-Pakistani Talks Advance.”  He and Miles Pomper interviewed Odair Goncalves, the president of Brazil's Nuclear Energy Commission, and published the interview in ACT.  Huntington wrote a news-analysis piece about the interview and related recent news events entitled “Brazilian Regulator Denies Uranium Claims.”  He also compiled and maintained the Arms Control Association resource page on the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal.    

Current Activities: Huntington is a Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. Ed Markey.  His portfolio includes defense, foreign policy, arms control and nonproliferation, intelligence, international trade, and taxes.  He is also Executive Director of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, which organizes events for Members and staff on various nonproliferation issues.  In 2008, among other events, it has sponsored talks on Iran, the Russia 123 Agreement, the India 123 Agreement, and a presentation by Rogelio Pfirter, the Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. 

Farah Mahesri

Fall 2005 Fellow, National Security News Service

Education: George Washington University, MA International Affairs, 2007
University of California at Berkeley, BA Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: A. Q. Khan smuggling network

Major Fellowship Activities: Mahesri worked on a chronology on the A.Q. Khan network that covers not only Khan's life, but also the names of others persons and companies involved in both the procurement and proliferation of nuclear technology, key moments in history when decisions were made, and investigations into these networks and trials that have occurred over the past several decades. As part of this project, she spoke with experts, including nuclear physicists; regional experts; government agencies and embassies both in the U.S. and abroad; and current and retired government officials. The chronology will be published on the website. Additionally, she researched or investigated several other stories, including examining if there was damage done to Pakistani nuclear sites during the 2005 earthquake; she helped with research on a 60 Minutes story on contracting fraud in Iraq; she also looked into lobby and other records, as well as other stories concerning border security.

Current Activities: Mahesri is a Business Development Associate for the Middle East at Chemonics International.  Chemonics International is an international development consulting firm that works with donor agencies (such as USAID) to implement development projects around the world in every sector from health to economic growth to natural resources management. She works on the business development team, helping to design new projects and prepare bids for donor agencies for the Middle East region.  In 2007 she received an MA in International Affairs with a focus on Conflict Resolution and International Law/International Organizations from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.  She wrote her graduate thesis on Peace-Building in Lebanon through Education Reform.  In summer 2006 she taught English and developing curriculum in a newly rebuilt non-religious school in the earthquake zone in Kashmir, Pakistan.

Victoria Johnson

Spring 2005 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of London, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MS Public Health, 2006
Cornell University, BA Government, 2001

Issues Covered: Cooperative Threat Reduction, biodefense

Major Fellowship Activities: Johnson worked with Libby Turpen on the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) project where she is contributing research for the Pathogens for Peace Initiative to convert former bioweapons facilities in the former Soviet Union to vaccine production facilities for the developing world.  She did background research on International Science and Technology Center projects in Russia that relate to vaccine and drug development, on the most pressing medical needs in the developing world, and on the private pharmaceutical industry in Russia.  She also researched potential international donors that may be interested in underwriting a Canadian bio-redirect project.  She developed background reports about the activities of agencies and NGOs involved in vaccine procurement for developing countries, which will be added to the CTR website.  She interviewed companies across the U.S. that are involved in cooperative projects with Russian scientists and compiling CTR "success stories" that will be posted on the website.  She organized and developed briefing materials for Roundtable Meetings focused on specific impediments to cooperative threat reduction programs run by DOE and DOD.  To date they have held meetings with U.S. Industry Coalition (USIC) members, U.S. Department of State officials, Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) members, and subcontractors of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contracts (CTRIC).   She has compiled summaries of some of the roundtable meetings which will eventually be used for a comprehensive report on impediments to cooperative threat reduction from the perspective of the private sector.

She also worked with Peter Roman on a sustainable biodefense project and wrote an essay on "The Need for a Sustainable Biodefense Strategy" that addresses the lack of sustainability and long-term outlooks in the present deterrence, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery plans for biological weapons attacks and emerging diseases.  She directed an invitational brown bag luncheon seminar series for young professionals in biosecurity, which took place weekly beginning on July 20th.  The participants are a small group of invited young professionals, who have 2-5 years full-time work experience in the fields of public health preparedness, bio-nonproliferation, biotechnology or biodefense research.  The participants represent the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), The National Association of County and City Health Officials, The Federation of American Scientists, The Department of Defense, The National Institutes of Health, The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, The American Public Health Association, The National Academies of Science, The Heritage Foundation and the Henry L. Stimson Center.  The first scheduled speakers include Jonathan Tucker of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Elin Gursky of ANSER, Bruce Gellin of HHS, and Mark Smolinski of the Nonproliferation Threat Initiative. There were seven luncheons from July 20th through August 31st.

She  attended several conferences and meetings of interest to the CTR project: "Russia's Loose Nukes" at Georgetown University; "Making Markets for Vaccines: From Ideas to Action" at the Center for Global Development; "Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime: Challenges and Prospects for      Global Security.' on Capitol Hill," "Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities" at the National Academy of Sciences; "BioShield II: Biosecurity, Public Health and the Role of Industry" at the Center for American Progress.

Current Activities: Johnson is Director of Policy for the National Commission on Children and Disasters at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  In this capacity she directs governmental affairs and manages the Commission's research agenda, as the Commission prepares a comprehensive study that examines and assesses children’s needs as they relate to preparation for, response to, and recovery from major disasters and emergencies. The Commission will review and prepare policy, legislative, regulatory, and administrative recommendations, which will be provided to President Obama and Congress through an Interim Report in October 2009 and a Final Report in October 2010.  She has been awarded an Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy to spend seven months in New Zealand in 2011.  She will be doing a policy research project on their national school disaster preparedness program, as a potential model for the U.S.  She is President of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Alumni Chapter of Washington, DC.  She was previously a Senior Analyst for Public Health Preparedness with the National Association for County & City Health Officials, the national organization that represents local health departments. She worked as their liaison to the federal government to advocate for sustained funding and support, appropriate evaluation, and effective practices in the field of public health preparedness. The organization provides the federal government with local-level stakeholder input on national preparedness and homeland security policy and planning.  During graduate school she received a travel grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to complete her Master's thesis at the Robert Koch Institute, the German federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention, located in Berlin.

Fatema Abdul Rasul Haji-Taki

Spring 2005 Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

Education: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, BA Political Science, 2004

Issues Covered: Peacekeeping

Major Fellowship Activities: Rasul focused on peace operations, UN reform, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She helped prepare materials for several Congressional staffers on the situation in Darfur and wrote several articles for the CGS website including "What Next for the African Union in Darfur?" "Time For A UN Emergency Capacity," "The United Nations Responds to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo," and "UN Management Reform In Progress," and co-authored "Towards A Comprehensive U.S. Agenda For UN Reform" and "Gingrich-Mitchell Report: A Viable Approach to UN Reform." She also wrote news summaries and updated web articles on several UN reform proposals, the UN Oil For Food Program and the Convention on Nuclear Terrorism. She interviewed the UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations and wrote about Kofi Annan's plan for the UN for the Summer 2005 issue of Global Solutions Quarterly.

She attended numerous policy briefings and meetings at the Arms Control Association, Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, Georgetown University, State Department, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, U.S. Institute for Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has participated in coalition meetings with other peace and security groups. She regularly helps prepare materials for the monthly meeting of Partners for Effective Peacekeeping.

Current Activities: Haji-Taki will begin her second year at Northeastern University School of Law in fall 2010.  She previously worked as a Program Associate for Civil Liberties with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.  The key focus of the civil liberties program is to defend individual rights, freedoms, democratic processes and institutions threatened and eroded by the so-called global war on terror.  They work with partner organizations both nationally and internationally in pursuit of their goals of defending civil liberties as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and other similar national charters.  She worked with the Program Manager and assisted in program development; partnership development; and programmatic responsibility for administrative tasks.  She was profiled in the Boston Globe and wrote an op-ed in that newspaper in May 2009 regarding organizing and participating in workshops in Morocco for thirty young professionals from Middle Eastern countries who are all involved in working for civil liberties and interfaith community programs.  She also co-led UUSC's first Building Bridges for Civil Liberties Workshop in June 2009 in a Chicago suburb where thirty Unitarian Universalists and Arab and Muslim Americans met to discuss how Arabs and Muslims in this country have seen their civil liberties eroded by policies adopted after 9/11 and how UUs can work in solidarity with Arab- and Muslim-American communities to restore those rights.  In Fall 2009 she will begin law school at Northeastern University.  She previously worked as a Program Coordinator for Peace & Security at Citizens for Global Solutions.  She primarily focused on the crisis in Darfur and the broader impact of failed and failing states on global security.  She also worked on the “Campaign for a 21st Century UN” and tracked the following reform taking place at the UN: responsibility to protect, the Peacebuilding Commission, management reform and mandate review.  She was co-director of The Qunoot Foundation, an organization based in Washington, DC to provide a platform for marginalized Muslim voices, and was a Policy Coordinator for SustainUS, a U.S. youth network that works on sustainable development.  Prior to that she served as an Edward Rawson Fellow at Citizens for Global Solutions.

Claire Applegarth

Fall 2004 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Harvard University, MPP International Security, 2009
Smith College, BA Government, 2004

Issues Covered: Nuclear Nonrproliferation Treaty; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals; cooperative threat reduction programs

Major Fellowship Activities: Applegarth co-wrote a report titled Major Proposals to Strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: A Resource Guide as part of ACA's "Campaign to Strengthen the NPT."  The report describes key government proposals in 14 areas relating to the global nuclear nonproliferation system and analyzes the positions of major states and blocs on the proposals.  It demonstrates that there is widespread agreement among world leaders that the nonproliferation system must be reinforced, but that there are also significant differences as to how to achieve that goal.  The report was distributed to ACA members, members of Congress, and to UN diplomats.  She has written several news articles for Arms Control Today: "Foreign Ministers Affirm CTBT Support," "Russia, U.S. Bolster Regional Nuclear Security Following Terrorist Attacks," "Brazil Permits Greater IAEA Inspection," "G8 Global Partnership Selects Ukraine for Nonproliferation Funds," "Brazil, IAEA Reach Inspections Agreement," "U.S. Says It Will Complete Russian Nuclear Security Upgrades by 2008," "Modest Hike in Threat Reduction Budget," "U.S., Russia Seek Help on Plutonium," "Threat Reduction Budget Detailed," and "UN Adopts Nuclear Terrorism Convention; Treaty Seven Years in the Making."  She co-wrote "Iran Agrees to Suspension of Uranium-Enrichment Activities" for the ACT news update and compiled "The 2000 NPT Review Conference And the 13 Practical Steps: A Summary" for ACT.  She helped organize a strategy meeting on the CTBT attended by close to 30 experts in the field that produced a work plan addressing testing issues.  She helped organize a briefing on the NPT Review Conference that ACA, the Carnegie Endowment, and Reaching Critical Will hosted for diplomats at the UN on April 20, 2005.  She also assisted in the April 5 press conference where ACA released a statement on the NPT signed by over 20 experts in the field.

Applegarth attended many policy briefings, including "The Proliferation of Uranium Enrichment Technology" sponsored by WIIS, "U.S. Foreign Policy After the Elections: Where Do We Go From Here?" by the World Affairs Council with the American Academy of Diplomacy, an NGO/DPI Briefing on WMD at the UN, a "Weaponization of Space" panel of NGO experts at the UN, "The Top Threat to America's Security: A Nuclear 9/11" at Democratic Leadership Council-Blueprint Magazine luncheon featuring Graham Allison, a talk entitled "The Road to Nuclear Security" on Lawrence Korb's new publication of the same name, featuring panelists Korb, Joe Cirincione, and Robert McNamara, a lunch presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center on "Nuclear Nonproliferation: Change and Challenges," by Graham Andrew of the IAEA, a Wilson Center lunch talk entitled "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy" by Michael Nacht of UC-Berkeley, a CTR working group roundtable session on nuclear submarine dismantlement at Global Green USA, and the International Nuclear Materials Policy Forum in Alexandria, Virginia. She also attended one day of the Peace and Security Community Annual Strategy Retreat, a Peace and Security Initiative meeting, attended and helped put together the follow-up summary/briefing to ACA's strategy meeting on nuclear testing and attended ACA's press conference entitled "Controlling the Spread of Ballistic Missiles," a briefing by Cato Institute scholars called "The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Prospects and Problems," a RANSAC briefing entitled "Evolving Russian Nuclear Security Risks and U.S.–Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation," a briefing on the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, a Global Green USA CTR working group roundtable talk on nuclear submarine dismantlement, a Woodrow Wilson Center talk on "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy," a Carnegie Endowment luncheon talk launching Universal Compliance, ACA's February 3 panel on the NPT, and a Department of Energy briefing on the budget release. She attended the opening week of the NPT Review Conference in New York from May 2-6, including many side panel events held by NGOs and some governmental briefings. She has also participated in a couple informal roundtable discussions on the NPT Review Conference, including one with Brazilian Ambassador Sergio Duarte, the President of the Review Conference, and another with Paul Meyer, Canada's disarmament ambassador to the UN.  She also participated in a four-day Model UN Conference, where she represented the United States in the NPT Review Conference.

Current Activities: Applegarth is a Senior Consultant with the Analytics Team at Booz Allen Hamilton.  She received a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2009, where she focused on international security policy.  She had a Deans' Fellowship for both years of study at the Kennedy School.  In Summer 2008 she received a fellowship with the Council of Women World Leaders that enabled her to work in the Office of the Foreign Minister of Liberia in Monrovia.  She helped organize the International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, and International Peace and Security, a landmark event that co-convened by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and President Tarja Halonen of Finland in March 2009.  Prior to graduate school she was a volunteer for five months for the Benin Education Fund, a nonprofit that seeks to improve access to education for Beninese youth.  She helped develop and write project proposals and provided guidance on the organization's management. Previously she was a Research Analyst with the Homeland Security/Intel team at DFI International. where she researched and wrote lessons learned and best practices in emergency response and homeland security for the Department of Homeland Security's Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program.  She also interned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the International Security Program where she worked on the "Strengthening the Global Partnership" project, which focuses on nonproliferation and threat reduction issues.

Elizabeth Eraker

Fall 2004 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: Stanford University, BA History, 2004

Issues Covered: Dual-use export controls, including Missile Technology Control Regime; chemical and biological weapons; WMD terrorism

Major Fellowship Activities: Eraker co-wrote a report, "Duelfer Report Uncovers Complex Arms Procurement Network; Links to Asian Countries and Companies," analyzing the contents of the Duelfer Report and its implications for multilateral and national export control efforts, that was published in the October/November 2004 issue of Asian Export Control Observer. She conducted research on the Department of Homeland Security's new guidances on emergency response and recovery in the event of radiological terrorism.  The resulting article she wrote, "Cleanup After a Radiological Attack; U.S. Prepares Guidance' appeared as special report in the Fall/Winter 2004 issue of The Nonproliferation Review. A shorter version of the report will be posted on the CNS website as a Research Story of the Week.  She worked with Dr. Lawrence Scheinman on a research project assessing the impact of dual-use, nonproliferation export controls on the economic development of industrializing countries.  She focused primarily on the Missile Technology Control Regime and conducted a literature review on the issue of dual-use technology transfer within the MTCR, developed a historical timeline of the regimes' efforts to control missile technology, and developed a record of developing countries' complaints about discrimination within the regime.  She assisted senior CNS staff members with an interview of Ambassador Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, the most recent chair of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), helped develop questions for the Ambassador, attended the interview, and prepared a transcript of the proceedings that she edited into a special report that will be published in the December/January edition of the CNS NIS Export Control Observer.  She researched the recent passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540, which obligates member states to criminalize the possession of WMD and related materials and enact domestic export controls to restrict the transfer of such items.  She focused on the April 2004 debate between the sponsors of the resolution and certain developing countries, exploring how objections to the resolution relate to a larger set of concerns about access to dual-use technology in the face of increasing efforts to control WMD.  She wrote up her findings in an article that will be published by CNS.  In collaboration with a CNS research assistant, she interviewed a technical expert at the Wassenaar Arrangement's Secretariat on dual-use technology transfers as well as corresponded with several experts on this issue.  She maintained the CNS listserv on chemical and biological weapons and WMD terrorism, which involves reviewing multiple news sources and compiling relevant articles to send to over 3,000 subscribers, three times a week. She also archived the list serve materials in a CNS database that is available for public reference. She helped to organize and publicize a press briefing on the recent CNS book, The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, which was held August 19, 2004.  She created publicity materials for the event, and updated the CNS press database.  She also attended the event, which featured a panel discussion about the risks of nuclear and radiological terrorist attack and strategies for protection against those risks.  She helped Leonard Spector prepare for an interview on ABC's Nightline on the nuclear proliferation risks facing the new CIA Director and then attended the taping of the interview.  She researched the Jordanian export control system in preparation for a State Department training session on that system, conducted by Leonard Spector, and assisted him with the preparation of training materials for a briefing on the threat of weapons of mass destruction and the role of export controls in countering that threat.  She participated in CNS's training seminar for the Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor assigned to work in Jordan, for which she had previously prepared the training materials.  She attended a full day of the training, which was taught by Leonard Spector, and contributed to discussions about the status of export controls in Jordan.

She attended the public symposium "Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground," which was sponsored by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at The National Academy of Sciences, as well as a lecture by Senator Richard Lugar at the National Press Club on nuclear nonproliferation priorities in an election year.  She attended a congressional briefing by Dr. Charles Ferguson on the book on nuclear terrorism as part of CNS' Security for a New Century briefing series, and attended a lecture by Graham Allison on his new book, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.  She attended "The Road to Nuclear Security," a panel discussion on current U.S. nuclear strategy with Robert McNamara, Lawrence Korb, and Joseph Cirincione at the Center for American Progress.

Current Activities: Eraker is attending law school at the University of California at Berkeley where she will begin her second year in Fall 2009.  In summer 2009 she clerked with the House Energy and Commerce Committee and then the Federal Trade Commission.  She is focusing on Internet and technology policy issues.  Previously she was a Policy Analyst at Google Inc.  She worked on a wide range of public policy issues impacting Google and the Internet community.   Her work involved developing corporate policy strategy, performing government outreach, and researching federal policy developments. 

Toby Berkman

Spring 2004 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Harvard University, JD/MPP, 2010
Harvard University, AB History & Literature, 2002

Issues Covered: UN peacekeeping; peace operations in Africa; European Union peace operations; global security spending; the protection of civilians during cases of ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass death

Major Fellowship Activities: Berkman worked on the Stimson Center's "Future of Peace Operations" program that looks for practical solutions to improve international peace operations and post-conflict reconstruction worldwide. Mr. Berkman's research focused on three main project areas: improving peacekeeping in Africa; evaluating the operational readiness of international militaries to uphold the "Responsibility to Protect" civilians in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass death; and collecting data on international security spending for the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

For the project on building regional peacekeeping capacity in Africa, Berkman completed a 500-entry bibliography on African peacekeeping including sources from African, European and U.S. NGOs, scholarly journals, and various national governments. He also wrote summaries of all the current peace operations in Africa for the Stimson Center website, and helped organize a roundtable discussion with Dr. Joseph Collins, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, on the Global Peace Operations Initiative, a presidential initiative to train international peacekeepers, mostly within Africa.

The "Responsibility to Protect" project dealt with the protection of civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass death. This project attempted to evaluate the operational capacity of national militaries and multinational organizations to engage in "civilian protection missions," which would be carried out in non-permissive environments, where populations are at risk for large-scale violence. He helped to interview experts on the rule of law and military intervention, and conducted research for a paper evaluating the international response to cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing. He wrote or co-wrote and designed the section of the Stimson Center website on "Operational Capacities for Civilian Protection Missions." He also organized a workshop with international military and civilian experts.

For the project on European Union peace operations, he wrote a Stimson Fact Sheet entitled "Funding for Post-Conflict Operations: NATO and the EU" and edited a number of Stimson publications. He also worked on a project for the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, collecting, organizing and evaluating statistics on global security spending in support of the Panel's research division. Together with Stimson Senior Associate William Durch, he devised a comprehensive matrix for tabulating security spending worldwide that includes spending data on efforts to counter a number of security threats, from civil wars, to terrorism, to weapons of mass destruction. He was the primary author of a summary report of the statistical findings entitled Guide to Using the UN High-Level Panel Data CD. This analysis was recently utilized by the Panel in its recent report "A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility."

He attended numerous conferences on peacekeeping and conflict in Africa. These included "The Great Lakes Policy Forum" with the Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ruberwa, at SAIS; "Preventing the Next Wave of Conflict: The Political Instability Task Force," "Sexual Violence in the DRC," talks on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan and a talk by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, all at the Woodrow Wilson Center; "Planning for Peace in Sudan," testimony from the House Foreign Relations Committee by Gen. Romeo Dallaire on lessons from the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and "Addressing Gaps in Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration: Cases from the Field," both at CSIS; "Elections in Afghanistan," and "The Lone Ranger: America and Post-Conflict Stability Operations," both at the U. S. Institute of Peace; and several Congressional hearings. More recently he attended a conference on Responsibility to Protect at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Great Lakes Policy Forum on rule of law in the Great Lakes region of Africa at SAIS, a U.S. military briefing on the situation in Afghanistan at CSIS, a Partnership for Effective Peace Operations meetings at CSIS May 19 and June 17, the Great Lakes Policy Forum at SAIS, a conference on constabulary forces in peace operations at CSIS, a conference at USIP on US civilian capacity for post-conflict operations, a conference on peacekeeping in Africa at USIP, and a Center for Global Development conference at SAIS on "Promoting Human Security and Development in Weak States." He wrote a summary of each conference for the other members of the Future of Peace Operations project team.

Current Activities: Berkman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he earned a Master of Public Policy and focused on international law, security, and dispute resolution, in 2010.  In fall 2010 he will start as an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, a clinic at Harvard Law School offering services in dispute resolution, mediation, and negotiation.  The clinic offers service related to international peace and security. In summer 2010 he will be delivering a conflict resolution training program to teenage victims of political violence from countries around the world.  He was a Notes Editor on the Harvard Law Review, and published a student Note entitled "The Pakistani Lawyers' Movement and the Popular Currency of Judicial Power" in the May 2010 issue of the Harvard Law Review and another in February 2009 entitled "Compensating Victims of Wrongful Detention, Torture, and Abuse in the U.S. War on Terror."  He was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship, a full scholarship to the Kennedy School.  In summer 2009 he worked at the ACLU's National Legislative Office in Washington, DC, doing work on national security and detention issues.  In summer 2008 he worked at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Lahore.  He worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in summer 2007.  Prior to entering graduate school he worked as a Research Assistant with the Stimson Center's Future of Peace Operations Project since the completion of his fellowship.  He researched the rule of law in peacekeeping operations, U.N. sanctions regimes, and arms control in regions of conflict.  He co-authored two Stimson Center reports that were published in Fall 2006, Who Should Keep the Peace? Providing Security for 21st Century Peace Operations with William Durch and The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect, and Modern Peace Operations with Victoria Holt.

Andrew Prosser

Spring 2004 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, PhD International Relations, 2010
Graduate Institute of International Studies, MA International Relations, 2002
Villanova University, BA Political Science and BS Mathematics, 2000

Issues Covered: Nuclear weapons and missile proliferation, non-proliferation and counter-proliferation policies; nuclear technology export controls; U.S. arms trade policy (especially regarding South Asia); humanitarian and human rights issues associated with the arms trade and armed conflict

Major Fellowship Activities: Prosser focused on the nexus between export control, non-proliferation policy and U.S. counterproliferation policy, and wrote several articles and reports for CDI that are posted on its website.  He researched and wrote a short analysis piece on U.S. arms transfers and military policy towards Pakistan, entitled "U.S. Arms Transfers to America's Newest 'Major Non-NATO Ally.'"  He also contributed case studies on U.S. military assistance to both Pakistan and India to CDI's "Arms Trade" web page.  His research for these pieces included interviews with experts from several think tanks and government officials.  He attended a hearing of the House International Relations Committee and heard testimony from Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf on the potential admittance of China to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a multilateral export control regime that coordinates nuclear export guidelines among supplier countries.  He subsequently wrote another article for CDI's "Nuclear Issues" web page entitled "Considering China as a Potential Member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group."  He wrote two articles about nuclear proliferation and means to curtail such activity.  The first is entitled "The Proliferation Security Initiative in Perspective," on a U.S.-led effort to interdict illicit sea, air and land-based WMD shipments. He conducted research on nuclear smuggling in South and Southeast Asia, and the role of international intelligence cooperation and export control efforts in curtailing the illicit trade in NBC weapons, materials and equipment.  He wrote "Nuclear Trafficking Routes: Dangerous Trends in Southern Asia," which detailed nuclear and missile trafficking activities in South and Southeast Asia during the past 10 years; this research article was posted on CDI's "Nuclear Issues" page.  He drafted an op-ed on the inadequacy of measures taken to bring to a halt the Khan nuclear smuggling network and associated agents' activities.  He also authored a research piece titled "Iraq: Civilian Suffering in the Fallujah Assault" about the humanitarian effects of the fighting in Fallujah, Iraq in November 2004.  In addition to the articles for CDI, he co-wrote an op-ed, "The Need for Arms Transfer Restraint," which was published in Defense News.  The op-ed voiced concerns about the U.S. delivery of major conventional weapons systems to authoritarian allies in the war on terrorism.  He was quoted in an article in Sea Power magazine ("Proliferation Security Initiative Seen as Start to Curbing Trade in Weapons of Mass Destruction," November 2004).  In June 2004, he served as a rapporteur for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at its annual Nonproliferation Conference, which hosted talks by leading nuclear experts, including Hans Blix and Mohammed El-Baradei. He also spoke to a class of students at American University about careers in the field of peace and security.

He attended a lecture by the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, on U.S.-Pakistan Counterterrorism Efforts, at the Heritage Foundation.  He attended a Congressional briefing, "Pakistan and the Nuclear Supermarket: Assessing the Damage," given by Husain Haqqani, former adviser to Prime Minister Bhutto, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a conference at the National Academy of Sciences (CISAC summer symposium), "Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground," and a briefing, "Nuclear Security Strategy for the 21st Century," by General Eugene Habiger (ret.), USAF, at the Center for International Trade and Security.  He also attended and participated in a meeting of the Arms Transfer Working Group, at which his article on Pakistan was circulated to the Group's members.  He attended various segments of CDI's annual Board meeting, including the CDI Board dinner where General Anthony Zinni gave a speech about the situation and U.S. policy in Iraq.  He attended the Luxembourg Group conference on Transatlantic Relations, held at the Woodrow Wilson Center and SAIS, as well as two panel discussions--one on failing states, and another on weapons proliferation.

Current Activities: Prosser received a PhD in International Relations in 2010 from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, which is affiliated with the University of Geneva. He researched U.S. nonproliferation policy and nuclear policies in emerging nuclear states.  His thesis is entitled "Nuclearization and Its Discontents: Status, Security, and the Pathways to Nuclear Reversal."  His doctoral thesis examines the question of why so many states have forsworn nuclear weapons. It applies quantitative methods and sociological insights on status and prestige to comprehend states' nuclear choices.

He is currently a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Analyst with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Security Governance and Counter-Terrorism Laboratory in Turin, Italy. UNICRI's major goals include advancing security, serving justice and building peace. Prosser’s position entails analysis and elaborating the methodology for a UNICRI project entitled "Knowledge Management System on Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Trafficking in South-East Europe, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Middle East."

He worked as a Graduate Assistant in the Political Science Department of the University of Geneva. In November 2006 he received first prize in the American Academy of Diplomacy's 2006 Leonard Marks Essay Contest for Creative Thought and Writing on American Foreign Policy for his essay titled "Engaging Iran to Impose Limits on its Nuclear Program."  As part of the prize, he met with Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns at the State Dept. to discuss his essay, and he also defended the essay before a distinguished panel of former US ambassadors at the American Academy of Diplomacy.  He wrote “Criminal Pursuits,” a letter to the editor in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March/April 2007) about the A. Q. Khan network and state incentives to acquire nuclear weapons. He presented "The Paths to Restraint: Explaining Why States Abandon (or Embrace) the Nuclear Option," Annual Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam in June 2007.  In February-March 2006, he traveled to India with the help of a grant from the Tokyo Foundation (SYLFF Fellows Mobility Program).  In India, he was a visiting fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University and interviewed nuclear policy experts in New Delhi in support of his academic research.  He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Peace Science Society International.

Sarah Chankin-Gould

Fall 2003 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists, Strategic Security Project

Education: Tufts University, MA Law and Diplomacy, 2008
Occidental College, BA Diplomacy and World Affairs, and Spanish, 2003

Issues Covered: Nuclear and conventional weapons in Latin America; Missile Technology Control Regime

Major Fellowship Activities: Chankin-Gould wrote an issue brief, The OAS Firearms Convention: Curbing Illicit Arms Flows for a More Secure Future for the FAS website.  She co-authored an issue brief on shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles entitled MANPADS Proliferation for the FAS website.  She contributed research to and helped edit a report by Matt Schroeder entitled Small Arms, Terrorism and the OAS Firearms Convention.  She translated the press release for the report into Spanish and served as the contact for Spanish- speaking press on the subject of the report, allowing FAS to reach a broader audience.  She represented FAS as an Observer at the XVIII General Conference of OPANAL (the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean), held in Havana, Cuba on November 5-6.  She did a presentation on the conference to FAS's staff, and wrote an article on the conference, "Preventing Nuclear Proliferation in Latin America: The Treaty of Tlatelolco," that appeared in the FAS Public Interest Report (Winter 2004).  She researched and co-wrote a paper on the Missile Technology Control Regime.  She researched voting records of Senate Foreign Relations Committee members on firearms issues.  She edited a paper written by Ivan Oelrich entitled "Missions for Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War."  She updated the Arms Sales Monitoring Project Bills and Public Laws webpage, and updated ASMP database on Notifications to Congress of Pending U.S. Arms Transfers.

She has attended numerous meetings, including a briefing on the Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, a Defense Security Cooperation Agency conference, a Defense Trade Advisory Group meeting at the State Department, a "Control Arms" campaign meeting sponsored by Amnesty International and Oxfam, a CITS Briefing "The Missile Technology Control Regime and Multilateral Export Control Reform: A Briefing by Ambassador Mariusz Handzlik, recent MTCR Chairman," a Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting, and a House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, hearing on "Nonproliferation: Assessing Missile Technology Export Controls," and an Organization of American States panel on "Arms, Drugs, and Terrorism in the Western Hemisphere,"and Arms Transfer Working Group meetings.  Recently, she attended a House Bi-Partisan Task Force on Non-proliferation panel, the New America Foundation book forum on America's Empire Problem, a Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation briefing "Pakistan and the Nuclear Supermarket: Assessing the Damage," represented FAS at a booth at the American Association for the Advancement of Science fair, and attended their Vision 2033 Conference.

Current Activities: Chankin-Gould will begin the third year of a PhD program at the Fletcher School in fall 2010 where her fields of study are international security and public international law.  Her PhD dissertation will aim to understand the causes and consequences of small arms proliferation and misuse, and examine the potential of initiatives designed to mitigate the threat.  Her Master's thesis was titled "Weapons of Individual Destruction: Understanding and Addressing the Small Arms Threat."    In summer 2007 she worked as an intern on the International Affairs and Trade team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office.  She previously worked at CACI as a Document Management Analyst for DOE’s Yucca Mountain Project  as a Research Assistant in the Center for Defense Information's Challenging Conventional Threats Project, and as a Research Assistant at FAS following the completion of her fellowship there. 

Molly Farneth

Fall 2003 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Harvard University Divinity School, Masters in Theological Studies, 2007
Bowdoin College, AB Government and Religious Studies, 2003

Issues Covered: Military and foreign policy implications of U.S. energy policy

Major Fellowship Activities:  Farneth served as the coordinator of PSR's Energy Security Initiative, a multidisciplinary project addressing the security implications of the U.S. energy policy.   She helped forge a coalition of PSR staff from both the security and environmental programs, and planned and facilitated the coalition's meetings.  She helped present the initiative's concept paper to PSR's Board of Directors in November 2003.  She wrote three fact sheets for the Energy Security Initiative: "Military and Foreign Policy Impacts of U.S. Oil Dependence,"  "Nuclear Power and the Terrorist Threat," and "Environmental Health, Global Security, and Fossil Fuel Dependence."  She organized four Energy Security Initiative briefings.  The first was entitled "U.S. Energy Policy and Human Health," focusing on the security and environmental health impacts of fossil fuel and nuclear-based energy, and served as the panel's moderator.  The second briefing she organized was entitled, "The Pentagon Report: Global Security and Climate Change," which was attended by Congressional staff, embassy staff, representatives of a wide range of public policy organizations, and media.  The third briefing, entitled "Threats to U.S. Energy Infrastructure," addressed a variety of threats, including radiological terrorism and security vulnerabilities in oil/gas shipment.  She organized the final Energy Security Initiative briefing, entitled "Geopolitics of Oil," which featured Professor Michael Klare discussing the coupling of U.S. energy policy and military policy through the twentieth century.   She also created the Energy Security Initiative website.  She submitted a resolution on the security and health risks posed by U.S. energy policy for adoption by the American Public Health Association (APHA), and was invited by APHA's Peace Caucus to submit an abstract for a presentation during a session on War, Terrorism, and Public Health at APHA's 2004 National Conference in November.  She has written articles about the Energy Security Initiative for PSR's Security Activist Update and the Environment & Health Update, and an article for the Environment and Health Update, "Global Climate Change: New Pentagon Report Turns Up the Heat," outlining the threats to international security associated with climate change.  She also wrote an article, "PSR Unites Environment, Security Expertise in New Initiative," for PSR Reports, PSR's quarterly newsletter.  In addition to her work on the Energy Security Initiative, Farneth wrote a fact sheet on bioterrorism and public health, "How Secure is the Homeland?: Biological Terrorism and U.S. Preparedness."  She compiled presidential candidates' statements and positions on energy security issues, which will be combined with other issue scorecards and released by the Arms Control Advocacy Collaborative  She wrote a factsheet entitled "No Safe Harbor: Security Threats of LNG."  She also helped PSR's Security Program prepare for the Congressional briefing, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing: Health Effects and Policy Implications.". She also provides a daily news service to the PSR Security Program.

Farneth attended several meetings and briefings.  These include the Alliance for Health Reform's briefing on bioterrorism and public health, a Resources for the Future seminar by the lead author of a recent MIT study on the future of nuclear power, a WIIS panel on the security threats associated with centralized energy infrastructure, and a forum examining American foreign policy at the Center for American Progress.  She represented PSR at the Institute for Policy Studies' PetroPolitics National Summit in January.  She has had meetings with several leaders in the field of energy security, including experts from the Energy Future Coalition, Center for Energy and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Resources for the Future.  She also participated in the PSR Security Program 2004 Planning Retreat and in PSR's Leadership Conference, where she fielded attendees' questions about the security vulnerabilities associated with nuclear power. She attended the PSR/WAND/CACNP briefing on terrorism prevention and preparedness.  She attended the press conference on the Smart Security Resolution, which was introduced by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and written, in part, by PSR.  She also attended a Women In International Security briefing, "Energy and Security: Challenges for Russia and the Baltics,' at the Brookings Institution.  More recently she attended "Peaking of World Oil Production: What are we Willing to Risk?" at the Atlantic Council, "The Great Energy Efficiency Debate," and "Renewable Power: On the Brink of a Revolution?" hosted by Worldwatch Institute.  She also represented PSR at the Take Back America conference organized by Campaign for America's Future.

Current Activities: Farneth will begin her second year of a doctoral program in the Religion Department (Religion, Ethics, & Politics subfield) at Princeton University in fall 2009.  She received a Graduate Research Fellowship for 2009-2010 from Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion.  She previously worked as a Program Assistant with the Education & Youth Development program and the Criminal Justice program at the Open Society Institute in Baltimore.  She conducted research and wrote, as well as organized a series of educational forums.  She earned a Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard University Divinity School in 2007.  The focus of her studies was religion and politics.  Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Energy Security Initiative at PSR.

Krista Nelson

Spring 2003 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: University of London (King’s College), PhD War Studies, 2009
University of Chicago, BA Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: International criminal court

Major Fellowship Activities: Nelson researched the current U.S. policy towards the International Criminal Court (ICC).  She wrote a briefing book on the subject, Closing the Door: The U.S. Effort to Shield Itself from the International Criminal Court, that was published by CDI.  She conducted interviews with experts, attended relevant lectures and conferences, and read the pertinent literature on the topic.  She wrote "Iraq: Questions Regarding the Laws of War" for the CDI website, which includes discussion of conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and human shields.  She contributed a quote on Belgium's "Anti-Atrocity Law" to the April 8th edition of CDI's "Insights" dispatch.  She wrote an article on Options for the Prosecution of War Crimes and Atrocities in Iraq for the Weekly Defense Monitor, and a forthcoming article on the prospect for trials for the detainees in Guantanamo Bay.   In October she presented her paper on the International Criminal Court at the International Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, held in Chicago.  She attended two United Nations Association conferences on "Post-Conflict Law and Order," one focusing on maintaining the peace and the other focusing on creating a working legal system; and a lecture at the National Press Club on war crimes in Iraq in honor of the release of the Arabic edition of a book on the law of armed conflict and violations thereof.  She attended a Center for Defense Information/Physicians for Social Responsibility conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation, which included a panel on international law; a briefing on the law of armed conflict and a potential war in Iraq; two meetings with Supreme Court Justices; and a lecture on war crimes tribunals at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.  She attended the two-day Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which included lectures on international criminal law and military law; a press conference at the National Press Club on the International Criminal Court's Victims Trust Fund; a "Law Day" lecture at the Library of Congress; a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute on U.S.-Russian Relations after Iraq; and a panel discussion at the US Institute of Peace on the Military and the Making of Foreign Policy.  She also attended a panel discussion on "Establishing Justice and the Rule of Law in Iraq" at the United States Institute of Peace; a lecture on and release of the new book Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions; and a discussion of external security and the use of force at "The Changing Role of the State: A Franco-American Dialogue" conference.  She attended a debate on "Prosecuting Terrorists: Civil or Military Courts?" at the American Enterprise Institute; a Women in International Security (WIIS) meeting on Baltic Regional Security Challenges; the presentation of the National Endowment for Democracy's "Democracy Award" to North Korean gulag survivors; and a "Captive Nations" meeting held by Victims of Communism. 

Current Activities: Nelson was a Research Associate at the University of Chicago during 2009-2010 where she focused on international law and security, especially on the law of armed conflict.  In fall 2010 she will enter Yale Law School.  She received a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King's College, University of London in 2009 where she received the "Defence Studies PhD Studentship."  She also received an Overseas Research Student Award from the United Kingdom government. She wrote her doctoral thesis in the area of the law of armed conflict.  In fall 2005 she started teaching at a training facility for British officers.  In July 2005 she participated in Columbia University's Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), and in September 2005 she presented a paper on "NGOs and the Creation of Laws of War Treaties: A Democratization of Negotiation?" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.  In 2005 and 2006 she presented papers at the International Studies Association (ISA) and the British International Studies Association (BISA) conferences. Nelson presented a paper on the laws of war at "Transformation and Convergence: Armed Forces and Society in the New Security Environment," a conference held in Toronto in October 2004.

Kaleb Redden

Spring 2003 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education:  University of Cambridge, M. Phil International Relations, 2004
North Carolina State University, BS Chemical Engineering, and BS International Studies, 2002

Issues Covered: IAEA weapons inspections

Major Fellowship Activities: Redden worked with Sandy Spector on an op-ed piece about the need to get international inspectors back in Iraq to verify WMD finds.  He provided support for Sandy Spector to prepare for an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on reasons to readmit UN inspectors, and provided research support to Dennis Gormley on an article that he posted as a Research Story of the Week.  He also distributed briefing materials to congressional offices in anticipation of a vote on the Dirty Bomb Prevention Act (HR891).  He is co-writing a piece for the NIS Export Control Observer with Dennis Gormley on export control violations by some U.S. companies for transferring technology that could improve Chinese missile capabilities.  He has also provided editing support to Dennis Gormley on another article, and has provided some support to CNS's nuclear terrorism project and a project examining possible opportunities for increased export control assistance within the bounds of export control arrangements.  He provided assistance to Leonard Spector to help him prepare for a panel discussion on Russian cooperation with Syria and Iran, held at the Heritage Foundation and attended the discussion.  He provided research assistance to Dennis Gormley on regarding the nature and details surrounding the recent North Korean anti-ship cruise missile tests.  He also attended a conference sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies (based at Duke University) on "The Media and Wartime Challenges," and attended the PSR/CDI Conference on Nonproliferation.  His largest project is a paper focusing on funding and other constraints on the IAEA that make providing a credible inspection regime difficult.  He began the paper before beginning his Fellowship, and has drawn on the expertise of several CNS staff members and has been amplifying the paper based on their comments.  He took over responsibilities for the Chemical and Biological Weapons listserv, which is compiled three times a week to a distribution list of over 3,000 people.  In addition to creating and distributing this document, h manages the listserv subscriptions and archives each distribution's articles into CNS's private databases so that they might be searched later by researchers or graduate students.  He also began doing research for Sandy Spector and Charles Ferguson for their Nuclear Terrorism Project. He provided research assistance for an articles Spector is writing on Iran's nuclear program, and is expanding it into a more formal paper for publication on the CNS website.  He co-authored a piece with Dennis Gormley, on Boeing and Hughes export control violations ("Boeing and Hughes Settle Over Export Control Violations Regarding Technology Data Transfers to the People's Republic of China") for the May 2003 issue of the CNS Export Control Observer.   He attended congressional testimony given by CNS' Dr. James Clay Moltz, and lectures on nuclear liability by Spector and on life on the USS Carl Vinson by Dr. Moltz.  He also provided research support for several ongoing CNS projects, including one on the NPT, and compiled legal treatments on the weaponization of space. He provided support for Leonard Spector for his interview on NPR's Weekend Edition (which Redden attended) on the looting in Iraq.  He is researching the complaints of nations with regard to peaceful technology transfers under Article IV of the NPT as part of a project for Larry Scheinman, keeping track of the Proliferation Security Initiative, and beginning an independent project looking at the changing nature of nonproliferation tools employed by states. 

Current Activities: Redden is Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy where he is responsible for providing his boss with advice and assistance with the formulation of national security and defense policy and the integration of DoD policy and plans to achieve national security objectives. His focus areas include: Security Sector Assistance Reform, Export Control Reform, Political-Military Issues, Oversight of the Commanders' Emergency Response Program, and OSD(Policy) Human Capital issues.  He was awarded the OSD Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service for contributions to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security Affairs.  In fall 2009 he was selected as a member of the inaugural class of the Center for a New American Security's Next Generation National Security Leaders Program for people under 35, in which he participated in a series of discussions on various national security topics.  He was previously a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), which selects only seven PMFs per year.  His first rotation was in the OSD Base Realignment and Closure office where he helped with the Secretary's BRAC Recommendations; he is now working in the Regional Assessments and Modeling Division, where he serves as an assistant to the division director who is playing a major role giving structure and managing elements of the process for the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review.  His master's thesis was entitled "From Nonproliferation to Intervention: Representations of Weapons Proliferation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy."     

Martha Clark Dunigan

Fall 2002 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Cornell University, Ph.D. Government, 2008
Cornell University, MA International Relations, 2005
Vassar College, BA Political Science, 2002

Issues Covered: Role of missile defenses in counterproliferation doctrine; Bush Administration policy  of preemption; Iraq; North Korean nuclear program

Major Fellowship Activities: Clark researched and wrote a long policy paper, A False Sense of Security: The Role of Missile Defense in Counterproliferation Doctrine in light of current Bush Administration policies.  She wrote fact sheets and issue briefs about missile defense "Bush Administration Missile Defense Deployment Linked to Preemptive Counterproliferation Policies"; the Bush Administration policy of preemption   "The Bush Doctrine: Preemption and Dominance: 4The National Security Strategy of the United States of America," and  "Doctrine of Global Hegemony and Preemption: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."; Iraq "How We Got Here: Post-Gulf War U.N. Security Council Resolutions Pertaining to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction," and "War in Iraq: The Implications for Missile Defense"; and the
North Korean nuclear program  Dealing With the North Korean Nuclear Problem, The North Korean Nuclear Program and Timeline of Major Events in the North Korea Crisis.  

She was involved in organizing and handling the participant list for a major policy conference put on by PSR in conjunction with the Center for Defense Information on February 26, 2003. This conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation was held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and drew prominent speakers including foreign government ministers, a member of Congress. The conference addressed concerns about counterproliferation and preemptive war, new weapons systems and their implications for stability and security, the health and environmental consequences of weapons of mass destruction in wartime, the implications of counterproliferation and preemptive war for international legal norms, and the effectiveness of past nonproliferation policies in light of new Administration initiatives. She was also heavily involved in compiling and editing the proceedings from this conference, which are currently being printed in book form and will be distributed to all participants, some legislative offices, and the press.  She attended weekly meetings of the Monday Lobby arms control coalition, bi-weekly meetings of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group (NWWG), and monthly meetings of the Nuclear Policy Taskforce. She also attended several hearings of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill pertaining to U.S. domestic response capabilities to WMD terrorism, and a legal hearing pertaining to the Bush Administration's withdrawal from the ABM Treaty without Congressional consultation. She also attended several press conferences on the Iraq war put on by PSR and others at the National Press Club, and distributed press materials. She attended lectures and documentary showings about the issues she worked on at the Cato Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

She worked with PSR's Security Program National Field Director to create several factsheets ("Preemptive War, Unilateralism, and a Quest for Empire," and "Bush Nuclear Policy,") for a new grassroots campaign entitled "SMART Security."  She created a table of all countries either possessing WMD or who had at one time attempted to acquire WMD, for a PSR booklet on counterproliferation and nuclear weapons. She wrote an op-ed for the North Korea issue that will be sent to PSR members and activists as a sample op-ed to encourage them to contribute to their local papers on this issue.  She attended PSR's program planning retreat, which consisted of a day-long intensive planning meeting where the program members discussed their goals and strategies for the next six months.  She assessed and edited the PSR Security program's web content, including the addition of many resources that had been written years ago.   She is working on designing a PSR webpage on missile defense, and conducting extensive research on a variety of issues related to missile defense, including the history of missile defense, weapons in space, technical aspects of missile defense, testing and oversight of the program, international missile defense, and current developments.  She will be writing a series of issue briefs on these and related issues.

Current Activities: Dunigan is an Associate Political Scientist in the International Security Policy Group at the RAND Corporation which she joined in September 2008.  She is engaged in research and writing on a number of national security issues, including security privatization, civil-military relations, irregular warfare, nuclear nonproliferation, and other defense-related matters.  She received a PhD from Cornell University's Government Department with a concentration in International Relations and a self-designed minor in Military Studies in 2008 and also co-wrote a book chapter on the use of private military and security companies in warfare. Her dissertation is titled "In the Company of Soldiers: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness & The Democratic Advantage."  She was the recipient of a U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for the 2007-08 year, which supported her dissertation research and writing.  In summer 2006 she worked as a summer associate at the RAND Corporation on a project on deterring nuclear terrorism. She received Cornell’s "Peace Studies Fellowship" for Fall 2006 that enabled her to conduct dissertation field research.  In summer 2005 she participated in Columbia University's "Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy" (SWAMOS), a three-week conference-style workshop held at Cornell, and run by professor from SAIS, Columbia, and the Army War College.  She had a short commentary published in an edited volume on the Iraq War that resulted from a conference at Cornell; the book was titled "Partners or Rivals?: European-American Relations After Iraq," and was published in Italy by Vita e Pensiero publishers (2005).  She also wrote an article titled "Deadly Chemicals, Domestic Politics, and Dissent: The Case of Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction and Lessons for Regime Theory" that was published in the Cornell International Review (Spring 2005).  She presented an earlier version of this paper at the Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA) Annual Conference in Boston in November 2004. She began her first teaching assistantship, and is teaching three separate sections for the Introduction to International Relations course at Cornell.  She received a Foreign Language Areas Studies Scholarship (full tuition, plus a stipend for the year, to study Russian in addition to regular coursework). She authored a paper on the domestic political aspects of Russian chemical weapons demilitarization last semester, and is currently sending it out to political science conferences in hopes of presenting it later in the year.  She is a member of the American Political Science Association. After her fellowship, she was hired as a Research Assistant at PSR through July 2003.  She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and Women in International Security.

Jonathan Davis

Fall 2002 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School, MPA International Relations, 2009
New York University School of Law, JD, 2009
University of Georgia, BA International Affairs, 2002

Issues Covered: The transfer of technology from American and European companies to China and its implications for national security and proliferation

Major Fellowship Activities: Davis worked on a project entitled "Foreign High-Tech R & D in China," which focuses on the transfer of technology from American and European companies to China and its implications for national security and proliferation.  He provided background research, collected data, and wrote some of the sections of the project report.  He helped present the project findings to a group of eight experts on US-China relations, US- China trade, export controls, and R&D, and discussed their impressions of the project's data and conclusions.  He co-wrote "Risking a Repeat: Export Controls and Post-Conflict Iraq," on the need to consider export controls for trade with a post-Saddam Iraqi regime, which is included in New Angles on Iraq: View of the Stimson Center's Experts, and co-wrote "Export Controls and Post-Conflict Reality, Again," an op-ed that appeared in Defense News (November 4, 2002).  Additionally, he wrote an in-office briefing on the status of the Export Administration Act in Congress and the prospects for export control reform efforts in the coming year.  He co-wrote an opinion piece on the Stimson Center's homepage, titled, "Doing It Right: Post- Iraq Export Control Reforms".  He was the point-person for, and helped prepare the summary, of a conference titled "Improving Multilateral Export Controls and Technology Access for the Developing World," held on December 12, 2002 at the Carnegie Endowment's Conference Center. This conference addressed reform of the multilateral export control regimes and the impact of these regimes on development in the third world.  As part of Stimson's China Tech Transfer project, he prepared an assessment of China's compliance to its WTO accession agreement after researching China's commitments and the major evaluations of China's performance to date. The brief will be used as a resource for an upcoming monograph for the tech transfer project.  He conducted an assessment of the 108th Congressional leadership with an eye on the prospects for passing an Export Administration Act (EAA) in 2003/2004.  He has attended several conferences and meetings, including the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference; a meeting of the American Bar Association's Committee on Export Controls and Economic Sanctions; the October 21 China Forum (prior to Jiang Zemin's visit with President Bush in Crawford, Texas) at the National Press Club; a meeting with a delegation from the Shanghai Institute of International Studies at the Henry L. Stimson Center on Iraq, Sino-US cooperation, and North Korea's nuclear program admission; "The Chinese Communist Party: The End of the Line?" at the Woodrow Wilson Center; "Taiwan and US Policy: Toward Stability or Crisis" on October 9 at the Russell Senate Office Building; and "The U.S. and Korea: Endless Entanglement or Crossroads for Change?" at the CATO Institute.  Additionally, he met with Dr. Jean- Francois Garbuzan from the Foundation for Strategic Research (Paris) to discuss U.S. export control reform, multilateral export controls, and the post-9/11 use of export controls to combat the terrorist threat.   He helped organize the Stimson Center Fellowship in China event given by the Center's most recent fellow, Alan Tonelson, on "A Necessary Evil?: Current Chinese Views of America's Military Role in East Asia" (February 20).  He served as Rapporteur for the 34th United Nations Issues Conference on "Global Disarmament Regimes: A Future or a Failure?" at the Arden House Conference Center in Harriman, New York from February 28 to March 2.  He has been working on condensing and re-writing his notes from the conference into an official rapporteur's report which will be published by the Stanley Foundation.  He attended a conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center on the sustainability of China's economic boom, titled "Will the Bubble Burst?" (February 12).  He attended the CDI/PSR "US Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation" conference on February 26 and wrote an in-house summary of the discussion and issues.  He designed two Stimson Center websites, one for the China Technology Transfer project and the second for the U.S. and Multilateral Export Controls project.  He is drafting a proposal for a new Stimson Center project on national security and intangible technology that would bring together government and industry representatives for a series of roundtable forums. He has been writing a piece on the future of the NPT in light of recent developments in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.

Current Activities: Davis is an Associate in the New York office of the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.  He works in the firm's Dispute Resolution Group, which includes both litigation and arbitration practices.  He focuses primarily on international arbitration matters, particularly investor-state disputes, representing both sovereign States and investors, and has participated in international arbitrations based in Paris and The Hague.  He earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University and a law degree from New York University in 2009.  At NYU he won First Place at the 2007 National UCLA Moot Court Competition and was the Global Issues Chair of the International Law Society Board and Volunteers Chair of the Public Service Auction. At Princeton he focused mostly on security issues and conflict resolution, and received the John Parker Compton Memorial Fellowship, which provides full tuition plus stipend based on academic merit.  In summer 2008 he worked as a Graduate Intern in the Political-Economic Section of the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  In summer 2007 he worked as a summer associate for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in both New York and Hong Kong.  In summer 2006 he worked on human rights and legal aid in Monrovia, Liberia with the Foundation for International Dignity.  He previously worked as a research analyst with the Center for International Trade and Security in their Washington, DC office, where he conducted research and analysis on nonproliferation export controls, and wrote reports for government departments and private foundations.

Asma Khan

Fall 2002 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of Notre Dame, MA Kroc Institute, Peace Studies, 2002
University of Karachi (Pakistan), MA International Relations, 1999
University of Karachi (Pakistan), BA International Relations, 1998

Major Fellowship Activities: Khan wrote a factsheet on nuclear-weapon-free-zones; an essay/op-ed on "The Nonproliferation Regime and Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone," and an issue brief on landmines.  She worked on a factsheet entitled "Pakistan and India's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons." She attended press conferences on "Countering the Axis of Evil," "Disarming Iraq: How Weapons Inspections Can Work," "Nuclear Deterrence and Chinese Strategic Thinking," "A Rough Neighborhood: Afghanistan and its Neighbors," and the Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference. 

Current Activities: Khan is a Research Officer at the Pakistani NGO PILER (Pakistan Institute for Labor Education and Research).

Regina Lennox

Fall 2002 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: Duke University, JD, 2006
Boston College, BA Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: Terrorism Prevention; Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Lennox worked with both the Terrorism Project and the Non-Proliferation Project.  She wrote the on-line Briefing Book on Tactical Nuclear Weapons.  She proofread and fact-checked "The Terrorism Prevention Handbook: A Guide to U.S. Government Terrorism Prevention Resources and Programs."  She is compiling a weekly update on terrorism prevention-related events occurring around the Washington, DC area, and wrote or contributed to  the "Daily Play-by-Play" of important developments in the Senate debate on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, both of which are sent out via e-mail.  She completed an on-line briefing book on tactical nuclear weapons for the Non-Proliferation Project and designed the Word and HTML pages for publication.  She helped design and compile a table comparing the House, Senate, and final versions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (distributed to House Appropriations Committee staff).  She attended a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Iraq with testimony from Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell; a luncheon discussion on The Threat to America from Offshore Missile Attacks held by the George C. Marshall Center; and a Woodrow Wilson Center Director's Forum with Bill Clinton.  She created webpages about the Department of Homeland Security and the Senate DHS debate.

Current Activities: Lennox is an Associate in the litigation department at Bingham McCutchen LLP.  She litigates complex financial transactions and fraud cases, and advises clients on the interpretation of transaction documents.  She also participates in pro bono activities including defending an Afghan detainee in prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.  She was previously a Law Clerk to the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Chief U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.  She handled a mixed docket of civil and criminal cases.  During law school she was a Robert Netherland Miller merit scholar and executive editor of the Alaska Law Review, a scholarly publication that examines legal issues affecting the state of Alaska, published by students from Duke's School of Law, and received a Public Service Award at graduation.  During law school she twice attended the annual National Security Law conference and took National Security Law with Scott Silliman.

Devon Chaffee

Spring 2002 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 2006
Hampshire College, BA International Relations, 2001

Issues Covered: Transparency of tactical nuclear weapons; U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba and Colombia

Major Fellowship Activities: Chaffee conducted research and wrote a monograph on increased transparency in tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) arsenals.  Part of this research has included looking at how NATO expansion and the new Russia-NATO council will affect security concerns and possibilities for negotiations on TNWs.  She has also been researching the wide array of verification techniques that have been used in the past and that could be used in a TNWs transparency regime.  She attended the first week of the 2002 Preparatory Committee session for the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN and wrote an article entitled "Nuclear Disarmament Efforts Evaluated at NPT PrepCom," that appeared in the May 2002 The Defense Monitor.  She was invited to revise a paper she wrote previously on Strengthening Nuclear Weapon Free Zones for a small seminar on Nuclear Weapons Free Zones attended mostly by country delegates.  She has written several articles for the Weekly Defense Monitor, "Lifting Restrictions on Aid to Colombia," "Crucial Nonproliferation Assistance to Russia Hangs in The Balance, Again," "Bush's Cuba Policy Under Fire" and "United States and North Korea to Resume Talks."  She also wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in The Wall Street Journal ("Limiting Nuclear War Risk Will Never Be Outdated," May 17, 2002).  She has attended a congressional briefing by FAS and CDI experts on the nuclear earth penetrating weapons, a meeting at CDI with (Ret.) Russian Maj. Gen. P.S. Zolotarev about potential for increase in US-Russian transparency, relating mostly to strategic weapons and possibilities for de-alerting, a Carnegie Endowment function on the U.S.-Russian Summit, a congressional hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review, a meeting on the Urgent Call to End Nuclear Danger organized largely by Representative Kucinich and a briefing by RANSAC on Cooperative Threat Reduction.  

Current Activities: Chaffee is Advocacy Counsel at Human Rights First (formerly Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights), where she previously worked as a Kroll Family Human Rights Fellow.  She works in their Washington office advocating for U.S. counter-terrorism policies that respect human rights while protecting national security.  She earned a JD from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2006.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude, was a Public Interest Law Scholar, recieved a Dean's Certificate for service to the Law Center community, and recieved a Certificate in Humanitarian Emergencies and Refugees.  She was a founding member of Georgetown University Law Center's Human Rights Action Group.

In summer 2004 she worked at the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which works on genocide prevention.  She  traveled to Chad to interview Darfurian refugees from Western Sudan on a State Department-funded project organized by the Coalition for International Justice.  She was previously the Washington DC representative for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Prior to attending law school she was the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA.  She wrote on arms control and nonproliferation issues and was the primary editor of their monthly e-newsletter The Sunflower, an update on issues related to nuclear weapons, energy and waste as well as missiles and missile defense.  She attended the 2003 NPT PrepCom in Geneva, and distributed an article she co-authored with NAPF President David Krieger entitled "Facing the Failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Regime" was published in this September/October 2003 issue of The Humanist.

Youliana Ivanova

Spring 2002 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute

Education: American University, MA International Economic Policy, 2004
University of Georgia, BA Speech Communication/Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: Demilitarization of former Soviet WMD sites; nonproliferation; biological and chemical weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Ivanova worked on the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program where she conducted research on the current and future projects of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), concentrating on the time period from March 2001 to the present. She researched the plans of Minatom to import and process spent nuclear fuel from foreign countries and assessed the possibility of these plans becoming a reality. Her research was used as the basis of a paper written by Dr. Sonia Ben Ouagrham, for the Russian "Nuclear Regionalism" and Challenges for U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance Programs Workshop. She helped organize the conference on Russian Nuclear Regionalism, held on April 5, 2002 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She completed a chart on Minatom hierarchy with the names of the departments and department heads.  She also worked on CNS' Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program where she compiled a listserve three times a week with articles pertaining to chemical and biological weapons. The listserve was distributed to subscribers in the nonproliferation field.  She also worked on the Missiles in Bulgaria project, which she developed. She researched the situation with Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe, and wrote an article for the CNS website about the destruction of SS-23 missiles by Bulgaria as a part of the country's bid for NATO membership. She wrote "Bulgaria: Goodbye Missiles, Hello NATO," which appeared in the September/October 2002 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  She helped organize several events and conference s sponsored by CNS, including: "Expert Workshop on the Conduct of Challenge Inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention," "Keeping Track of Anthrax: The Case for a Biosecurity Convention," "Russia's Nuclear Submarine Fleet: Environmental and Proliferation Threats," "U.S. Security and the Future Environment in Space: Managing Debris and Radiation," and "U.S.-Japan Track II Meeting Arms Control, Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Verification,"

Current Activities: Ivanova is a Foreign Affairs Officer with the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where she works as a Cuba desk officer.  She carries out U.S. policy toward Cuba, and is responsible for enforcing the U.S. embargo.  She also develops options and alternatives for changes in policy and coordinates with the private sector on business opportunities in Cuba.  She was previously a Serbia Desk Officer in the Office for South-Central Europe, where she served as the focal point for formulation, coordination and implementation of policies and initiatives regarding Serbia for State Department and other U.S. Government principals to advance U.S. interests and promote regional stability.  She monitored and promoted close cooperation with European and other allies on Serbia policy initiatives, including cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, military reform, economic assistance, democratization and other reform efforts.  She was previously a Presidential Management Fellow and a desk officer for Senegal and Guinea-Bissau at the Department of State where she followed political and economic developments in those countries and served as a liaison between the State Department and the U.S. embassies in those countries, as well as between the State Department and the embassies of those countries in Washington, DC.  Previously shw worked as a Policy Analyst with the Export-Import Bank of the United States. She has also worked at the Institute for International Economics as a research assistant to a senior fellow.  During graduate school, she worked part-time at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control where she was responsible for their Iraqwatch website.

Ingrid Staudenmeyer

Spring 2002 Fellow, Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council

Education: University of Cambridge, M. Phil., 2006
American University, BA International Studies, 2001

Issues Covering: Russian nuclear weapons programs and facilities

Issues Covered: Staudenmeyer helped plan and served as Rappatour and wrote summaries of RANSAC Congressional Security Seminars on "U.S.-Russian Relations in the post-September 11 World,"  "A Decade of Nunn-Lugar: U.S.-Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Cooperation," "Proliferation Dangers in Russia's Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons Complexes," and "A Briefing on the Dangers and Benefits of Russia's International Nuclear Cooperation."  The summaries of these events were incorporated into the final study entitled Reshaping U.S.- Russian Threat Reduction: New Approaches for the Second Decade.  She helped to write the report on the RANSAC-Carnegie Endowment conference "Further Assessing the Scale of the Problems in the Russian Nuclear, Chemical, Biological and Missile Complexes: What More Needs to Be Done to Downsize the Complexes?"   Following the Bush-Putin Presidential summit in late May, she wrote a critical analysis of the summit's goals and achievements, and a summary of the criticisms of the Treaty of Moscow/Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty.  She also helped plan and organize a series of dual-sponsored RANSAC-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace events which will be taking place this summer.  She helped RANSAC compile FY03 budgetary analysis and wrote a summary of the Senate Armed Services Committee's Sub-Committee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.  She represented RANSAC at a variety of conferences, seminars, and hearings, including the Arms Control Association's "Moving Beyond 'MAD'? A Briefing on Nuclear Arms Control and the Bush-Putin Summit," the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review, and the Brookings Institute's "Preview of President Bush's Trip to Russia: Assessing Current Relations Between Moscow and Washington."

Current Activities: Staudenmeyer received an M. Phil. in European Studies from Wolfson College at Cambridge University in 2006 where she focused on  European Security.

Kendra Park

Fall 2001 Fellow, World Federalist Association

Education: Columbia University, Master of International Affairs, 2007
University of the Pacific, BA International Relations and French Studies, 2001

Issues Covered: International Criminal Court; Globalization and its effect on peace and security

Major Fellowship Activities: Park worked on the International Criminal Court and on globalization and its effect on peace and security.  She researched different treaties on terrorism that the U.S. could ratify to help deal with future problems.  She helped write talking points on the War on Terrorism that was sent to WFA's Partnership Program members, and updated WFA's Campaign to End Genocide website with the latest legislative information.  She researched the International Criminal Court and the role the UN should play.  She compiled material and wrote web pages for the USA for ICC website and specifically the "Get the Facts" page.   She wrote background material on legislative actions regarding the ICC for WFA's March Activist action packet.  She worked on a new WFA project focused on grassroots advocacy in favor of the democratization of global institutions.  She researched the work of other NGOs on this topic and gave updates to the WFA staff on this information.   She prepared materials for WFA's January Activists packet mailing, whose topic was globalization, and specifically how economics, the environment, and international security affect each other.  She attended an issue briefing at the United States Institute of Peace, given by the head international prosecutor in Kosovo, about lessons learned about arms trafficking and international organized crime and how they can be applied in Afghanistan.  She attended a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Bioterrorism and also attended the Monday Lobby meetings, and the working group on the International Criminal Court.  She also attended a meeting of the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping, an initiative by WFA to establish a coalition that analyzes, and works toward improving UN Peacekeeping, and a conference by the Society for International Development to make contacts for WFA.  She spoke to two classes at Sherwood High School during their "Peace and Human Rights Day" about the International Criminal Court, genocide, and the importance of international treaties. She attended meetings for Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping; Washington Working Group on the ICC; and a program at the Holocaust Museum on "Justice after Genocide in Rwanda" which looked at the roles national and international law can play in peace building after war and atrocity occur.

Current Activities: Park is Information Manager of the Gender-Based Violence Program with the International Rescue Committee in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  She oversees monitoring and evaluation and data management for IRC’s gender-based violence programming in the DRC.  The IRC provides holistic case management services to survivors of sexual and other gender-based violence against women and girls, primarily in the conflict-affected east of the country, specifically in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.  The IRC also conducts activities in communities meant to contribute to the long-term and sustainable prevention of violence against women and girls in DRC.  She was formerly a Grants Coordinator with the IRC in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. where she managed a multi-year grant portfolio of $22 million.  She monitored project progress, both financially and technically, across an array of sectors – return of internally displaced persons, water and sanitation, fighting gender-based violence, economic recovery, education, child and maternal health, and governance.  In 2007 she received a Master of International Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.  She completed a concentration in Economic and Political Development with a focus on post-conflict situations. In summer 2006 she was an Evaluation Assistant at the United Nations Development Program's Evaluation Office.  In summer 2005 she worked on education issues in rural Senegal. Previously she was a Program Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa at Search for Common Ground, an organization conducting long term conflict resolution, community development, and peacebuilding programs around the world.  There she co-wrote an article about conflict media and peacebuilding in Burundi titled "The Heroes Summit" published in June 2004 in Demain le Monde, an international development magazine produced under the auspices of Belgium's National Centre for Development Cooperation.  She was formerly the Director of the Africa Committee of the United Nations Association National Capital Area Young Professionals Group.

Jessica Scanlan Bailey

Fall 2001 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear/Security Program and Center for Global Security and Health

Education: Yale University, MA International Relations, 2004
University of Notre Dame, BA Government/International Studies, 2001

Issues Covered: Small arms; changes in U.S. military policies and diplomatic alliances as a result of the 9/11 attacks

Major Fellowship Activities: Scanlan researched and wrote extensively on small arms for PSR's Nuclear/Security Program and on U.S. responses to the 9/11 attacks for PSR's Center for Global Security and Health. She focused on changes in U.S. military policies and diplomatic alliances as a result of the 9/11 attacks. She researched and wrote PSR issue briefs including "War on Terrorism: The United States' New Allies," "War on Terrorism: The Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan," "War on Terrorism: Update on The Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan," "The War on Terrorism: The Implications of Lifting Military Sanctions on India and Pakistan," "Arming Afghan Refugees in Pakistan," "Guns Shows: Toy Stores for Terrorists," "Arms for Allies: U.S. Military Policy Since September 11," and "Increases in Military Training and Arms Transfers Since September 11."

She researched and wrote about U.S. small arms policies and the related landmine campaign. Because PSR had never directly worked on the issue of small arms, she was the sole staff member on the issue. She was given responsibility and the opportunity to launch and lead a project. She wrote fact sheets or issues briefs on "Small Arms and Light Weapons," "Small Arms: U.S. Policy and the Role of the Medical Community," "Landmines," and co-wrote "Regulation of .50 Caliber Sniper Rifles," She represented PSR at an international conference on the health effects of small arms trafficking in Helsinki, Finland entitled "Aiming For Prevention: International Medical Conference on Small Arms, Gun Violence, and Injury."

During the joint International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War/Physicians for Social Responsibility conference she organized a plenary session that included a panel of experts to discuss U.S. policies on small arms transfers, and was a speaker on an additional small arms panel that discussed U.S. legislation relating to small arms transfers.

She attended a congressional hearing on the effects of the humanitarian/military involvement of the U.S. in Afghanistan; a conference with the Gun Violence Prevention department of PSR about ways in which the domestic and international campaigns could be linked; and a speech by the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan. She also attended bi-weekly meetings of the Arms Transfer Working Group and the Small Arms Working Group. In these coalitions, she tracked legislation, drafted sign-on letters, scheduled meetings with legislators, and submitted letters to editors.

Current Activities: Bailey is the Program Officer for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Sustainable Development program, where she focuses on climate change. She also manages the RBF’s Cross-Programmatic Initiative on energy, which explores the security and sustainability dimensions of energy policies. Prior to joining the RBF in 2004, she completed her master’s degree in International Relations from Yale University, where she concentrated on International Security Strategy primarily focusing on issues of U.S. foreign policy. Ms. Bailey interned in the Developing Policy Planning Office of the United Nations in 2003.  She is a co-chair of the steering committee of the Climate and Energy funders group, and Secretary of the Board of Directors of 1Sky, an organization dedicated to encourage federal action to reverse global warming by 2010.  She was previously the Special Assistant to the President at RBF.  During graduate school she was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies grant from the U.S. government to study Spanish and Latin America. 

Masako Toki

Fall 2001 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security

Education: Monterey Institute of International Studies, MA International Policy Studies and a Certificate of Nonproliferation Studies, 2000
Mukogawa Women’s University (Japan), BA English Language and Literature, 1988

Issues Covered: Missile Defense; Nunn-Lugar Programs

Major Fellowship Activities: Toki worked with the Global Security Program where she conducted research and updated UCS' website on a variety of security-related topics including national missile defense and Nunn-Lugar programs. She updated the National Missile Defense resources webpage and the webpage entitled U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Timeline. She wrote a brief summary of the Tests of Exoatmospheric Missile Defense Systems (IFT-6, July 2001 and IFT-7, December 2001). She helped to create the website of Resources for the 2001-02 NFISDA High School Debate Topic, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," and worked on the list of key terms. She updated the webpage of Arms Control and Nonproliferation Resources, which includes official sources and non-governmental resources on arms control and nonproliferation. She helped update several nuclear weapons webpages following the Bush-Putin Crawford, Texas summit in November 2001, and the Nuclear Posture Review issued in January 2002. She wrote a brief summary of aspects of the Nunn-Lugar programs, and created resource pages of the Nunn-Lugar programs.  She also researched the history of the Strategic Defense Initiative, warhead dismantlement, deeper reductions in nuclear arsenals, and the 2005 NPT Review Conference.

Current Activities: Toki is a Project Manager and Research Associate in the Nonproliferation Educational Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California.  She develops online educational resources, including the NPT Tutorial and Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Tutorial.  She wrote an issue brief for the Nuclear Threat Initiative, “Sixty Years After the Nuclear Devastation, Japan's Role in the NPT,” in December 2005, and co-wrote "How We Think About Peace and Security: The ABCs of Initiatives for Disarmament & Non-Proliferation Education," for the IAEA Bulletin in March 2005.  She is a content teacher for the Japanese section of the Monterey Model Course "Current Issues in Nonproliferation" during the spring 2005, and 2003 semesters.  In the spring 2004 semester, she was a teaching assistant for the Arms Control Simulation (for the 2005 NPT Prepcom) taught by William Potter. 

Eva Blaszczynski

Spring 2001 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Johns Hopkins University, MA International Relations, 2004
Northwestern University, BA Political Science and International Studies, 2000

Issues Covered: European Security and United Nations Peace Operations

Major Fellowship Activities: Blaszczynski worked on three separate projects: a study of the European Union's efforts to coordinate the policies of the respective members states on arms control and nonproliferation; an annual conference on "U.S. and European Export Controls," co-hosted with the German Council on Foreign Relations; and a Congressionally-mandated high-level Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls for U.S. National Security.  She assisted with the preparation of meetings for the study group on export controls, researched the companies that were invited and/or attended the conference, edited papers commissioned for the study, did news-tracking on European security and export controls and research on Europe and nonproliferation.

Current Activities: Blaszczynski works for Booz Allen Hamilton with their Economics and Business Analysis Team.  Prior to graduate school she worked as a Policy Analyst at the Council for a Livable World where she researched and wrote policy briefs on biological weapons, UN funding and the B2 Bomber.

Fleur Burke

Spring 2001 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Monterey Institute for International Studies, MPA International Management, 2000
University of Southern California, BA International Relations and French, 1998

Issues Covering: U.S. End-Use Monitoring system

Major Fellowship Activities: Burke researched and wrote a report entitled How Little Is Enough? : U.S. End-Use Monitoring and Oversight of the Weapons Trade, which was released in January 2002.  The defense items that the project addressed are both military items/equipment (those items included in the U.S. Munitions List), which are under the legal jurisdiction of the Arms Export Control Act, and dual use items, which are under the legal jurisdiction of the Export Administration Act.  The project analyzed specific U.S. EUM programs, such as the Blue Lantern Program. An important element in clarifying the current EUM system, which will be included in the case analysis, is in regards to confusing jurisdictional aspects (i.e., which agency has jurisdiction in which cases).  She attended meetings of the Small Arms and Arms Transfer working groups.  She wrote an article for CDI’s Weekly Defense Monitor entitled "Powell Reaches Out to Africa, But On What Terms?"  She compiled "Evolution of U.S. Policy on Small Arms," a survey of speeches, official documents, and policy notes by U.S. government officials on small arms from 1995-2001, which shows the evolution of U.S. governmental policy.  This document was distributed at a Senate briefing on the UN 2001 Conference on Small Arms that will be held July 9-20 in New York.  It was also distributed at a press briefing at the National Press Club. 

Current Activities: Burke recently passed the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Associate exam and plans on working as a green building consultant for a construction company.  In 2009 she worked for the University of Maryland as a Defense Department contractor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, where she was a research assistant involved in a study to remake the Defense Language Aptitude Battery.  She is a member of the Monterey Bay chapter of the United Nations Association. 

Kristin Thompson Sharp

Spring 2001 Fellow, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies/British American Security Information Council

Education: Duke University, MA Political Science, 2006
University of Michigan, BA Political Science, 2000

Issues Covered:  Project on Congress and Nonproliferation (role of Congress in setting and implementing U.S. nonproliferation policy)

Major Fellowship Activities: Thompson worked with Sandy Spector on the Project on Congress and Nonproliferation examining the central role of Congress in setting and implementing U.S. nonproliferation policy.  The project focused on several areas in which Congress affects U.S. policy regarding the nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, including directive legislation, appropriations, authorizations, and oversight activities to determine which (if any) issues have broad bipartisan support.  She helped create and maintain a web site on the confirmation status of Bush Administration appointees to nonproliferation-related positions. Similarly, she maintained a website listing Congressional testimony relevant to nonproliferation.  She charted the different government agencies and departments with responsibilities toward researching, preventing and responding to terrorism with weapons of mass destruction.  The chart was used as a visual aid in a three-day joint congressional hearing on terrorism.  She coordinated logistics for a seminar entitled "U.S.-NATO Relations Regarding Missile Defense: Concepts, Architectures and Perspectives," which received extensive coverage in newspapers and on C-SPAN, and took notes of the seminar for publication on their web site.  She created and updated a power point presentation on Monterey Institute and CNS nuclear, chemical and biological projects and databases for use at Carnegie Non-proliferation Conference.  She also researched Congressional legislation for reference in papers and presentations for Sandy Spector.  She planned and organized the visit to DC of Dr. Alexei Arbatov, Russian Duma Defense Committee Deputy Chairman.  She arranged meetings for Dr. Arbatov with members of Congress and several key Presidential aides including Condoleeza Rice and John Bolton.  She researched some of Arbatov's arms control articles and forwarded them to all appointments.  She also organized talks by Dr. Siegfried Hecker, Senior Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Additionally, she planned and organized a luncheon with over 80 participants entitled, "Russian National Security at Home and Abroad."  She also prepared and summarized notes for several briefings on subjects ranging from the IAEA to Security at US nuclear labs and posted the notes on the web.  She researched the motivations and types of BW and WMD terrorist groups for John Parachini and researched, fact-checked and edited a variety of papers and lectures prepared by Leonard Spector.  At BASIC she researched export controls, Missile Technology Control Regime and National Missile Defense.  She also attended coalition meetings for BASIC, planning sessions for European strategy against NMD, set up meetings with Congressional staff members, and wrote MTCR talking points and fact sheets.

Current Activities: Sharp is Legislative Director for Senator Mark Pryor.  She advises the Senator, manages his legislative priorities and supervises a staff of 16 LAs, LCs, and fellows.  Senator Pryor has an active interest in national security policy, particularly through his memberships on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, and the Senate Appropriations Committee.  She was previously the Staff Director of the Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.  In this capacity she oversaw Department of Homeland Security programs related to planning and preparedness, developed preparedness strategies and related legislation, and manages a busy Subcommittee office.  She graduated from Duke University in 2006 with an MA in Political Science specializing in international security. She was a Legislative Assistant with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focusing on energy security issues.  At Duke, she was a teaching assistant for classes on International Security and International Relations, was the organizer of the Department of Political Science Speaker Series "Emerging Topics in International Relations" and a graduate student representative for the International Relations Faculty Search Committee.  She also worked on a paper on nuclear command and control for the Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, a Swiss think tank that deals with civil-military relations.  Previously, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies where she worked on projects on nuclear, chemical and biological nonproliferation, and managed the CNS project on Congress and Nonproliferation.

Michael Bhatia

Fall 2000 Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Education: Oxford University, MS International Relations Research, 2002
Brown University, AB International Relations, 1999

Issues Covered: Peace Operations; Revolution in Military Affairs

Major Fellowship Activities: Bhatia researched and wrote a book entitled "The Contemporary Environment of Peace Operations: A Global Survey of War and Intervention," to be published by the Kumarian Press in January 2003.  He also wrote "The Western Sahara Under Polisario Control: Summary Report of Field Mission to the Sahrawi Refugee Camps (near Tindouf, Algeria)," which appeared in the Review of African Political Economy in its June 2001 issue.  The article was written as a result of a trip he took to the Western Sahara in April 2001.

Current Activities: Bhatia is a Field Anthropologist in an Army Combat Brigade in Afghanistan working for BAE Systems.  He is part of the Human Terrain Team initiative, which seeks to improve the culture and political awareness of deployed Army brigades in Afghanistan.  He is currently training in Fort Leavenworth, KS prior to deployment in December 2007.  He is also pursuing a doctorate at St. Anthony’s College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University as a 2001 Marshall Scholar.  In 2006-2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University where he taught a class on the American Military.  He taught a course on "The Causes of War" at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON in Winter 2006.  His doctoral research is an examination of individual motivations for combatant mobilization in cases of prolonged conflict.  In summer 2004 he traveled to Kandahar to research a briefing paper on security in Afghanistan for the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, which was presented at the NATO Commander's Conference.   He edited a special issue of the Third World Quarterly In March 2005 on "The Politics of Naming: Rebels, Terrorists, Criminals, Bandits and Subversives."  After completing his Scoville Fellowship he traveled to northern Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the Overseas Development Institute's "Political Economy of War" research team, the results of which were published in the summer of 2002.  His book War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations (Kumarian Press; March 2003) was based on research he conducted during his Fellowship.

Jeremy Bratt

Fall 2000 Fellow, Council for a Livable World Education Fund

Education: Augustana College, BA Political Science, 2000

Issues Covered: Military budget and weapons systems

Major Fellowship Activities: Bratt researched weapons systems and budgetary information, and wrote analyses of military budgets up for a vote in Congress.  He focused on the pork projects that are included in the military budget, and tried to determine the Congressional district each project benefits.  He published a letter to the editor to the Washington Post entitled "Military Spending Adds Up,"  written in response to an opinion-editorial piece by former Defense Secretary Perry and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Shalikashvili, which argued that current levels of military spending are sufficient to solve any military readiness problems that may exist.  He wrote another letter to the editor which appeared in the Washington Times entitled "Passing The Buck On Military Readiness," written in response to an op-ed piece by Representatives Bill Young and Jerry Lewis.  He wrote a letter to the editor which ran in The Florida Times-Union as "Military Readiness: Time to Abandon Two-War Strategy."  He wrote an op-ed entitled "Osprey Is a Bad Bird" which appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper.  He wrote another op-ed, "Preparing For Tomorrow's Conflicts With Yesterday's Strategies" which was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune.  He wrote a letter concerning National Missile Defense which appeared in American Outlook (published by the Hudson Institute) in its May/June 2001 issue entitled "Bombs Away."  In December he appeared as an expert on military spending on the Tom Clark News Hour, a radio show broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio, where he spoke primarily about the military's two-war strategy and answered questions from listeners for an hour.  He drafted several press releases about the nomination of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, and recent developments with the V-22 Osprey.  As a result of the press releases, Council staff were quoted in The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times.  Following the nomination of Colin Powell as Secretary of State and Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, he helped draft prospective questions for Senators to ask the nominees at the committee hearings and attended the nomination hearings for Secretary Powell.  He researched and wrote several sections for the Council's military spending Briefing Book regarding military spending as corporate welfare and about several weapons programs.

Current Activities: Bratt is Legislative Director for Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND).  He manages the Senator’s legislative portfolio and a staff of nine.  Senator Dorgan is the Chairman of the Energy and Water Subcommittee on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which funds Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs.  Bratt previously worked as a Senior Professional Staff member on the House Agriculture Committee, where he provided strategic advice to the Chairman, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and worked with the Committee's members to advance their legislative agenda, as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to Congressman Tim Walz (MN-01), and before that as a Legislative Assistant to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and as a Legislative Aide for Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN).

Scott Cantor

Fall 2000 Fellow, Lawyers Alliance for World Security/Committee for National Security

Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, MA International Economics and Strategic Studies, 2008
Emory University, BA International Studies, 2000

Issues Covered: National Missile Defense; the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Major Fellowship Activities: Cantor conducted research for several LAWS White Papers.  He assisted LAWS Vice President Jack Mendelsohn in completing final editing and helped to compile the bibliography, author biographies and a list of acronyms for a White Paper on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.  He also developed a cover letter for the CTBT white paper and distributed it to the Bush Transition Team, members of the new Congress, and the new administration. He assisted in the transcription of tapes recorded at a LAWS roundtable discussion at Stanford University on the future of the CTBT which included President Carter, William Perry, General Shalikashvili and Paul Nitze. He worked on a press release to send to the media to announce the publication of the transcript.  For the White Paper on nuclear weapons use policy he focused on the use of nuclear weapons in deterrence of conventional, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and has collected background materials on Sea-Based NMD, Boost Phase NMD and GPALS.  He conducted research on Tactical Nuclear Weapons to assist Jack Mendelsohn in his presentation for a United States Air Force Conference hosted by SAIC on November 2-3, 2000.  He accompanied LAWS President Thomas Graham, Jr. to Charlottesville, VA for a debate sponsored by the Charlottesville Council on Foreign Relations, where Graham engaged Ambassador Hank Cooper, a former Reagan official, on the topic of National Missile Defense.  He drafted several letters of correspondence for Ambassador Graham, including a memo to the Eminent Personas Group (EPG) regarding a proposal to limit the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, written in preparation for the June 2001 UN Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons.  The memo was circulated to the EPG board of directors, which includes former heads of state, ambassadors and defense ministers.  He worked with LAWS board members John Rhinelander and Alexander Yeriskovsky and Thomas Graham to publish an op-ed in the Moscow Times on September 1, 2000 entitled, "Caution on NMD, " which probed the nuanced legal language of the 1972 ABM Treaty. He worked on a background briefing to send to LAWS’ board members on the North Korean proposal to swap peaceful missile technology for its ballistic missile program.  He sat in on several board meetings to take notes while Robert McNamara, Stansfield Turner, and John Holum, would discuss LAWS’ approach to issues. He attended the Coolfont retreat as LAWS representative, where he had an opportunity to hear a wide array of speakers about nuclear weapons issues and to interact with leaders of the field.  He also worked on an ongoing project to develop new content for the LAWS website.

Current Activities: Cantor is a Carbon Finance Analyst at The World Bank.  He works as a fund analyst helping to broker carbon finance projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol.  During graduate school at Johns Hopkins he received the Class of 1959 Scholarship (2006), Philip Thayer Scholarship (2007), and Smet Leadership Award (2008).  He spent his first year at SAIS’ Bologna Center. In summer 2007 he is doing an internship at the Institute of International Finance. 

Kelly Turner

Fall 2000 Fellow, Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council

Education: George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, MA International Affairs, 2001
Middlebury College, BA Russian and East European Studies, 1996

Issues Covered: Russian plutonium production reactors; Department of Energy’s Second Line of Defense program (preventing nuclear smuggling from Russia)

Major Fellowship Activities: Turner focused on Russian plutonium production reactors and the Department of Energy’s Second Line of Defense program (preventing nuclear smuggling from Russia).   She helped Kenneth Luongo research an article entitled "The Uncertain Future of U.S.-Russian Cooperative Security," which appeared in the January/February 2001 issue of Arms Control Today.  She prepared a RANSAC Congressional "Strategic Stability and Security Seminar Series" on Russia's Nuclear Cooperation with Iran and China.  She also prepared a summary of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on the Department of Energy Nonproliferation Programs with Russia, whose panelists included Howard Baker Jr. and Lloyd Cutler, co-chairs of the Task Force on DOE Nonproliferation Programs with Russia.  She worked on three reports for RANSAC publications: one  on the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense Program; the second on International Cooperative Efforts in Russian National Security; and the final report on DOD efforts to convert the three remaining plutonium reactors (weapons-usable material).

Current Activities: Turner will become Chief of Staff of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Satellite and Information Service.  She will provide senior policy and program guidance to senior leaders in NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, an office that represents 40% of NOAA’s annual budget.  She will provide oversight to operations, communications, and engagement with external stakeholders.  She was previously Special Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  She provided program and policy guidance in the areas of satellite and Earth observation to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (the NOAA Administrator).  She joined NOAA as a Presidential Management Intern where she worked as an International Relations Specialist in the Office of International and Interagency Affairs.

Loulena Miles

Spring 2000 Fellow, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

Education: Golden Gate University, JD, 2003
University of California at Santa Cruz, BA Environmental Studies, 1999

Issues Covered: Stockpile stewardship; health impacts of weapons production; Yucca Mountain

Major Fellowship Activities: The bulk of her work included attending hearings and scientific forums, developing analyses on the subjects covered at these events, and disseminating this information to member organizations across the country.  She attended congressional hearings on the potential external regulation and reorganization of the DOE, the oversight and progress of a permanent nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain; and the urgent environmental health concerns of many DOE sites. She reviewed the Yucca Mountain Draft Environmental Impact Statement and responded with final comments on its adequacy on behalf of the ANA network.

A major focus of Loulena’s work was on the ongoing health impacts of releases from DOE nuclear weapons production sites. She has worked to compile evidence of community exposure at these sites by interviewing local residents, reading agency reports, compiling environmental data, and meeting with high level DOE officials.  She has assembled a historical chronology of compensation cases involving radiation exposure, including such exposures as the Marshall Islands case, the Paducah-Kentucky case, the human radiation experiments, and the Utah downwinders.  This chronology will be used as evidence that there are many precedents for compensation cases and the communities surrounding DOE weapons production sites should not be excluded from compensation.  Moreover, she attended a Community Research Network conference in Atlanta, Georgia to learn more about new methods for establishing causal relationships between environmental contamination and community illness.  This material will be used in a workshop designed to establish compelling evidence that DOE should provide physician training, medical monitoring and health care compensation for these communities.  Further, she attended several BEIR VII (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) forums and delivered ANA position statements on the committee’s composition and objectivity.

Concerning disarmament issues, Miles co-organized an educational campaign on the technical, fiscal and serious proliferation problems of the National Ignition Facility (NIF).  This involved authoring a fact sheet on NIF and a second on Common Myths and Facts on the NIF, coordinating many visits with officials, and informing grassroots members about this irresponsible project. Additionally, in May 2000, Miles represented the Back from the Brink de-alerting nuclear weapons campaign at the Non Proliferation Review Conference at the United Nations.  She participated in many workshops, and demonstrations while building alliances with others in the NGO community.

Current Activities: Miles is an Associate Attorney with Adams, Broadwell, Joseph and Cardozo. Its clients include a broad range of labor unions, environmental, consumer and other nonprofit organizations and public agencies in administrative proceedings before local, state and federal regulatory and permitting authorities, before legislative bodies and in judicial proceedings.  The firm's practice areas include the California Environmental Quality Act, energy and public utility regulation, air quality, endangered species, water and wetlands, public agency law, land use, building and construction codes and standards, legislation and project labor agreements.  She was a recipient of the 2003 New Voices Fellowship that enabled her to serve as Staff Attorney at Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore, CA.  She headed up a project to oversee the environmental review of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  and conducted investigative reporting on U.S. nuclear weapons and biological agent activities.  Her work primarily focused on the Livermore Lab's Site-Wide EIS, which is the lab's 10 year planning document.  She provided analysis of the lab's impacts from nuclear weapons development to clean up and monitoring of nuclear and hazardous waste.  She was involved in litigation challenging the lab's proposed bio-warfare agent research center.  She also participated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty preparatory conference in 2004 and the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India.  During law school she received specialization certificates in Environmental and Public Interest Law. She has spoken several times on behalf of the organization on topics such as nuclear nonproliferation and the nuclear waste cycle.  She is a board member of Tri-Valley CAREs.

Edward Palmisano

Spring 2000 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of Cambridge, M Phil International Relations, 1999
University of Sydney, LLB, 1997
University of Sydney, BA Modern History, 1994

Issues Covered: United Nations peace operations

Major Fellowship Activities: Palmisano worked with Dr. William Durch on the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, a comprehensive evaluation of the U.N.’s engagement in peace and security related field missions.  The panel was chaired by Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi at the request of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The recommendations went directly to Secretary-General Annan who tabled the report at the Millenium Summit.

Palmisano helped research and write the Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations.  Specifically, he wrote the section of the paper dealing with international law.  He recommended to the Brahimi Panel that the UN create a Justice Package: an interim legal code to reestablish the rule of law in post conflict zones until the local rule of law is secured.  He recommended that the Justice Package should include: an interim criminal code, drawing on universal principles; the appointment and training of legal professionals; an interim legal infrastructure; the recruitment and training of police; and should strive to build human rights and humanitarian law into every peacekeeping operation.

In its report to Secretary-General Annan, the Panel on UN Peace Operations adopted part of Palmisano’s recommendations. The Brahimi Panel recommended that international legal experts evaluate the feasibility and utility of developing an interim criminal code to reestablish local rule of law in peace operations (Recommendation 83 A/55/305-S/2000/809).

United Nations Secretary-General Annan urged world leaders at the Millennium Summit to consider the Brahimi Panel’s Report very seriously. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, "the Brahimi Report is right.  We should implement it and do so within a twelve month timescale."  U.S. President Bill Clinton said the Brahimi Report set the agenda on the UN’s responsibilities to peace operations.

In the preparation of his report to the Brahimi Panel, Palmisano corresponded with world experts in the area of rule of law in peacekeeping operations.  He formed part of the fourteen person Panel meetings at UN headquarters in New York convened by Kofi Annan.  Following the Report’s release on 21 August 2000, he was engaged in follow-up work at the Stimson Center, including the bringing together of international legal experts to design an interim criminal code.  

Current Activities: Palmisano is working as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Madrid, Spain.  His work includes making government to government representations on a range of political, economic and international law issues.  On disarmament related issues, he is actively involved with the Australia Group - a mechanism to minimise the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons.

Philipp Bleek

Fall 1999 Fellow, Arms Control Association/Federation of American Scientists (program on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament)

Education: Harvard University, MPP International Security and Political Economy, 2004
Princeton University, AB Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a certificate of proficiency in Environmental Studies, 1999

Issues Covered: Ballistic missile defense and proliferation; de-alerting of nuclear weapons; the comprehensive test ban, and fissile material protection, control, and accounting

Major Fellowship Activities: While at FAS, Bleek focused on ballistic missile defense and dealerting of nuclear weapons. He published three op-eds on national missile defense: "Missile Defense: A Dangerous Move" in the Washington Post and International Herald Tribune (with Frank von Hippel); "Missile Defense: A Threat to US Security"  (with Charles Ferguson) which was carried by the Knight-Ridder Syndicate and ran in the Miami Herald, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and Rome (GA) News-Tribune; and "Nuclear Dominoes," through Scripps Howard News Service which was printed in the Deseret News and Nando Times.  Bleek also published two letters-to-the-editor: "Nuclear Stalemate" in the Washington Post and "More Reaction to the Test Ban Treaty Vote" in the Washington Times (with Charles Ferguson).  At ACA, Bleek worked on strategic nuclear issues, missile defense, the comprehensive test ban, and fissile material protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A) efforts in the former Soviet Union.  He published several short articles in Arms Control Today including "US, Russia Negotiate Spent Fuel Reprocessing Moratorium," "US, Russia Reassess Reactor Conversion Agreement," "Russia Adopts New Security Concept; Appears to Lower Nuclear Threshold" and "After Stumble, HEU Deal Back on Track."  He helped one of Senator John Kerry's aides write a foreign policy speech in which the senator compared the U.S. and Chinese nuclear arsenals.  He was cited in an "Inside the Air Force" article: "Senate Armed Services Chief Declares Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Dead" arguing that while the CTBT may not be 100% verifiable, ratifying it is nonetheless in the best interests of the United States.   He attended the Carnegie Endowment's International Non-Proliferation Conference 2000, and served as a rapporteur for the "Missile Defense: Will It Work?" panel.   He published a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times: "U.S. Nuclear Missile Shield" (with Charles Ferguson).

Current Activities: Bleek is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Government at Georgetown University where he is focusing on a range of nuclear weapons issues, from proliferation through deterrence.  His doctoral thesis is entitled “Does Proliferation Beget Proliferation? Why Nuclear Dominoes Rarely Fall.” 
During the 2009-2010 academic year he was a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University to conduct dissertation research and writing.  In fall 2010 he will be post-doctoral Research Fellow there, after defending his dissertation at Georgetown. Beginning in January 2011, he will be assistant professor of nonproliferation studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and research affiliate of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, in Monterey, CA.

He volunteered for the Obama Presidential campaign where he was a member of Nonproliferation Policy Committee.  He staffed the Missile Defense sub-group and participated in Strategic Nuclear Weapons, NPT/CTBT/FMCT, and Threat Reduction/Nunn Lugar sub-groups, and worked on talking points for debates and speeches.  In summer 2009 he was a Visiting Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institut at Freie Universitat in Berlin, where he delivered a lecture entitled “President Obama: The Campaign and National Security Policy and Process,” and a Visiting Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute also in Berlin where he spoke about “Assessing Reactive Proliferation: Why Nuclear Dominoes Rarely Fall.”

He was also a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where he worked with former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig on U.S. bioterrorism strategy.  He previously worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he also worked with Danzig on bioterrorism issues.  He was a recipient of the Hopper Memorial Fellowship that enabled him to teach an advanced undergraduate course at Georgetown University in fall 2007 entitled “Nuclear Weapons in International Politics: Theory, History, Technology, and Policy.”  He was a participant at Columbia University’s Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS).  In summer 2004 he worked at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, completing work on a paper on securing civil nuclear material stockpiles, whose working title is "Global Cleanout: An Emerging Approach to the Civil Nuclear Material Threat," which was published as an Occasional Paper by Harvard University.  A draft version of the paper was used as the basis for an episode of the TV program The West Wing that first aired on November 10, 2004.  Prior to attending graduate school he was a Research Analyst with the Arms Control Association where he researched and wrote about arms control and non-proliferation developments, and provided information and analysis on arms control policy to the media, the public and government, and wrote regularly for Arms Control Today.  He wrote "Missile Defense is a Pipe Dream" which appeared in The Boston Globe.  He attended the Carnegie Endowment's International Non-Proliferation Conference 2000, and served as a rapporteur for the "Missile Defense: Will It Work?" panel.  Bleek has been interviewed on security issues by CTV (Canadian television network), Voice of America, DeutschlandRadio (national German radio), Radio New Zealand, and Radio Netherlands, among others.  He has been cited on security issues in news stories published in the Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Canada's Globe and Mail, and other newspapers. 

Stephanie Broughton

Fall 1999 Fellow, Women’s Action for New Directions

Education: University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa), M Phil Conflict Management, 2003
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA Political Science and Economics, 1999

Issues Covered: Mixed-oxide fuel; nuclear waste

Major Fellowship Activities: Broughton's primary issue areas were mixed-oxide fuel, nuclear waste and Project Abolition, a series of public awareness activities surrounding the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, for which she helped construct the "Wall of Denial," a 200-foot plywood replica of the Berlin Wall built on the National Mall.  She helped mobilize support for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, developed an action alert for WAND’s email list and a model press release for state legislators to use in preparing for CTBT-related press conferences, and attended hearings of the Senate Armed Forces Foreign Relations committees.  She assisted in coordinating the involvement of WAND and WiLL members in meetings on MOX in southeastern states.  She prepared organizational testimony for WiLL on the Yucca Mountain Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which will be included in the public record.  She met with state legislators from North and South Carolina about MOX, nuclear waste, and plans to build a reactor in their states.  She prepared folders about MOX targeted to North and South Carolina residents including basic fact sheets and local newspaper clips.  She co-wrote a short article about the Parallex plutonium shipment scheduled to go through Michigan for the NIX MOX Bulletin, a monthly email report.  She prepared state-specific flyers about nuclear waste transportation issues for distribution at information tables at concerts of the Indigo Girls.  She worked on researching National Missile Defense, military spending and stockpile stewardship in preparation for a series of factsheets for the women candidates that WAND will endorse or consider endorsing in the coming year.  She attended a symposium at the Brookings Institution about the end of the Cold War, a day-long Project Abolition meeting with all project participants and the Coolfont retreat for peace and arms control groups. She wrote and designed an informational flyer on nuclear waste for use in a WiLL action.  She spoke about mixed oxide fuel at FCNL’s "First Friday" lecture series for interns.  She began working with a WAND activist on preparing a postcard directed at Duke Energy shareholders.  She wrote two articles for the WAND Bulletin on CTBT activities and Project Abolition.  She also attended the launch of the Women Waging Peace program through Women in International Security.  She helped prepare for the organization’s biannual national conference with its sister organization, the Women Legislators’ Lobby (WiLL) by scheduling visits in Congressional offices for the visiting state delegations, and helping prepare briefing materials for conference attendees.  She attended the conference, including a lecture on federal budget priorities, and a dinner centered on nuclear weapons and waste issues.

Current Activities: Broughton is the West Africa Gender Project Manager at International Alert, an independent peacebuilding organization that works directly with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels, to lay the foundations for lasting peace and security in communities affected by violent conflict.  She manages two regional programs in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to promote the participation of women in peacebuilding processes and the effective redress for victims of gender-based violence.  She was previously Interim Director of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO).  EPLO is the platform of European NGOs, networks of NGOs and think tanks active in the field of peacebuilding, who share an interest in promoting sustainable peacebuilding policies among decision-makers in the European Union.  She has also worked as a Policy Officer responsible for coordinating and facilitating advocacy on thematic peacebuilding issues such as gender, development, and investment, among other issues, as well as representing the network in various public fora, and as a Program Support Officer and Administration and Finance Officer with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where she worked on a post-conflict transition program in the Republic of Haiti.  This followed on to work as a Program Assistant in a similar program in Macedonia, also with IOM.  She completed her Masters Degree in Conflict Management form the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa where she worked with the Center for the Study and Resolution of Conflict on a series of non-violent communication training in public schools.  These studies were made possible by a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Immediately following her Fellowship, she was hired by WAND where she worked as the Director of the Nuclear Abolition Resolution Project.  In this capacity she worked to facilitate cooperative efforts between grass-roots activists and state legislators in order to pass resolutions calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Denise Groves

Fall 1999 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Georgetown University, MA National Security Studies, 1999              
Ohio State University, BA International Studies and History, 1997

Issues Covered: Conventional arms trade; conflict prevention and resolution

Major Fellowship Activities: Groves researched and wrote a monograph entitled "Rebuilding the Future: Child Soldiers and Sustainable Development."  The monograph outlines the challenges associated with and the need for practical and sustainable disarmament programs for child ex-combatants.   She also wrote several articles for CDI's Weekly Defense Monitor, "The Kosovo Liberation Army: Demilitarized or Transformed?" "Protecting Civilians in Somalia," and "Waging the Peace in Kosovo." She attended a reception for a psychotherapist from Mozambique who runs an organization devoted to caring for former child soldiers.  She also attended a press briefing on Capital Hill on the campaign to increase the international legal age of military service to 18. 

Current Activities: Groves works for Transparency International in Berlin.  She will begin a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship in September 2002 that will allow her to do two internships, one each in a private and a public institution in Germany.  Previously she worked as a Project Manager at the Conflict Prevention Network in Berlin, Germany.  CPN is  an organization funded by the European Commission which works directly for the European Union institutions.  They focus specifically on analyzing and reporting to the EU on conflict prevention issues.  Prior to her current position, she worked as a researcher at the Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security (BITS) in Berlin, on the issue of the Common European Security and Defense Policy.   While at BITS she wrote a research report entitled "The European Union's Common Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy," and several Policy Notes including "National Missile Defense: An Issue for the World - But Not for America,"  "The True Meaning of Failure"   and "National Missile Defense Under Attack."  She co-wrote an article entitled "Europe's NMD Dilemma" which appears in the Global Beat Syndicate, an on-line publication of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at NYU, some of which are distributed by the Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) News Service as part of their Op-Ed service.  She also wrote two articles which appeared (in translation) in Freitag, a weekly German newspaper: "Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen" about U.S. election politics and the Bush and Gore foreign policies; and an article entitled "Raketenabwehr unter Beschuss."  The article describes the American, European, and Russian points of view on NMD and the significance of the issue for international security.   A version of the monograph written during her Fellowship appeared in the National Security Studies Quarterly (Autumn 2000) as "Child Soldiers and the Transition to Peace."

Christina Ellington Arnold

Spring 1999 Fellow, National Security Archive

Education: Monterey Institute for International Studies, MA International Policy Studies, 1998 
Santa Clara University, BS Political Science, 1995

Issues Covered: U.S. nuclear history; India-Pakistan nuclear project

Major Fellowship Activities: Ellington conducted research for two projects, U.S. nuclear history and an India-Pakistan nuclear project.  She did background reading on U.S. nuclear weapons policy, U.S.-Soviet relations, India's perspective on the nuclear issue, and India's nuclear history.  On both projects she cataloged declassified government documents and worked on chronologies of events. On the India-Pakistan project, she prepared several Freedom of Information Act requests.  She conducted a literature search in order to put together a bibliography of recent publications on India-Pakistan nuclear developments in the 1990s.  For the Nuclear History project, she used government documents dating from 1968 forward to work on the chronology.

Current Activities: Ellington is an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.  Prior to her Fellowship she worked at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies on a project entitled "South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program."

Christopher Gagne

Spring 1999 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Boston College Law School, JD, 2005
Dickinson College, BA Anthropology and Policy Studies, 1998

Issues Covered: Effects of the nuclear tests in India and Pakistan on the non-proliferation regime; confidence building measures in South Asia

Major Fellowship Activities: Gagne worked on a project dealing with confidence building measures in South Asia.  He assisted with the South Asia International Forum web site, helped to organize talks delivered at the Stimson Center, attended meetings and press conferences on South Asia and occasionally transcribed them, attended meetings on Theater Missile Defense at the Stimson Center, and edited publications and op-ed pieces for Stimson Research Associates.  He helped to organize a talk by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Kashmir.

Current Activities: Gagne is an Associate with Crowell & Moring, LLP in Washington, DC.  He works in their Government Contracts and International Trade practice groups. Much of his work is for defense contractors with a particular focus on contract litigation and export control compliance.  Through Crowell & Moring's pro bono program, he is also involved with the Project on National Security Reform, a broad-based, non-partisan effort to facilitate agency integration in the national security arena.  He was a Legal Intern with the Military Analysis Team in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Spring 2005.  While at BC Law School, he was a writer and articles editor for the BC Third World Law Journal.  He published a Note in the BC Third World Law Journal entitled "POTA: Lessons Learned from India's Anti-Terror Act" which was released this spring. From Jan to May 2005, he worked as a legal intern with the military analysis team in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands.  He previously worked as a Research Associate at the Stimson Center where he was hired at the end of his Fellowship.  He worked as a research assistant to Michael Krepon, monitoring India and Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programs.  He moderated the Southern Asia Internet Forum, a cross border Internet dialogue on Southern Asian security issues, where he was responsible for editing comments, deciding which ones to post and posting questions to participants.  He also coordinated the Stimson Center’s visiting fellows program, helping to arrange meetings with prominent people in the security field for journalists, academics, researchers and military officers from India, Pakistan, China and Japan.  He co-edited a Stimson Center report with Michael Krepon entitled "The Stability-Instability Paradox: Nuclear Weapons and Brinksmanship in South Asia" and wrote one of the chapters.   He also co-edited a Stimson Center report entitled "Economic Confidence-Building and Regional Security."  He serves on the Fellowship's board of directors.   

Kalev Kaseoru

Spring 1999 Fellow. World Federalist Association

Education: University of Maryland, BA Government and Politics, 1998
University of Maryland, BA Psychology, 1997

Issues Covered: International Criminal Court;  Campaign to End Genocide Project 

Major Fellowship Activities: Kaseoru focused on the International Criminal Court and the Campaign to End Genocide Project.   He worked on projects to decrease defense spending, and supported preventive diplomacy and peace building.  He produced a survey of alternative proposals for funding U.N. peacekeeping, ("The Cost of Peace: Alternative for Funding U.N. Peace Activities") which was circulated and used for a talk at the Hague Appeal for Peace.   He wrote a short paper on the ICC, arguing that it is not contrary to U.S. interests.  He also wrote and provided research for two articles for WFA’s quarterly newsletter (July 1999).

Current Activities: Kaseoru will begin his third year at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in Fall 2010.  He has been selected to be a Senior Articles Editor on the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal and been elected Treasurer of the Student Government.  He was named Co-President of the General Assistance Advocacy Project, which consists of helping low income and marginalized citizens obtain benefits and otherwise advocating for them, and volunteers with Hastings Homeless Legal Services.  In summer 2010 he is a Summer Law Clerk at the Prince George's County Public Defender's Office and in fall 2010 he will be a certified law student at the San Francisco Public Defender's Officer.  In summer 2009 he interned at the Stanislaus County Public Defender's Office in Modesto, CA.  Previously, he graduated from the Georgetown University Summer Intensive Paralegal Certificate Program and worked as a litigation Paralegal with O'Melveny & Myers, LLP in Washington, DC.

Nisha Baliga

Fall 1998 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear/Security Program

Education: Columbia University, MS Urban Planning, 2005
Ohio Wesleyan University, BA International Studies/Sociology-Anthropology, 1998

Issues Covered: Nuclear disarmament

Major Fellowship Activities: Baliga co-wrote an issue brief on Ballistic Missile Defense and wrote a BMD Update for the PSR activist newsletter.  She helped put together an extensive presenters kit to accompany a new PSR slide presentation on nuclear abolition, which she showed to a group of 25 people at the University of Maryland.  She wrote and designed a brochure advocating nuclear abolition, over 15,000 copies of which have been distributed to citizens groups in the United States and abroad.  She represented PSR at a conference at the United Nations hosted by the NGO Committee on Disarmament focusing on the need for a new agenda for nuclear abolition and disarmament.  She also updated the PSR security program website, and attended meetings of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group, NixMOX and the CTBT Working Group.

Current Activities: Baliga is an Urban Planner at the Architecture and Planning firm Beyer Blinder Belle in New York.  During graduate school she did her field work in Kenya and wrote her thesis on Community Upgrading in Slums in Nairobi, Kenya.  She received the Urban Technical Assistance Project prize for Community Service achievement.  She also was part of a group of six students who worked on a Report on Community Upgrading of Slums in Kenya at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia and received the Gitelson Award.

She previously worked at Mulhauser and Associates, where their clients included Association for Women in Development, International Center for Research on Women ,Campaign for Eleanor Holmes Norton and GORE 2000.  In the summer of 2000, Baliga participated as a counselor in The Youth Peace Initiative, a Seeds of Peace  summer conflict resolution program held at the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece.  At YPI, Seeds of Peace teamed up with the Andreas Papandreou Foundation to host 66 youth from eight Balkan nations to engage directly with each other since the region descended into conflict in 1989.  She was also involved in helping Seeds of Peace prepare for their summer session in 2001, where for the first time they hosted youth from India and  Pakistan.

Thomas Birmingham

Fall 1998 Fellow, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: Bowdoin College, AB Government with a concentration in international relations, 1998

Issues Covered: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, chemical and biological weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Birmingham completed work on the chemical and biological weapons resource page on the Internet.  He worked to set up an informal meeting between a former Pakistani representative to the IAEA, and a group of arms control community members, and took notes and distributed a summary of what was said.   He also researched and collected documents on de-alerting.  He was involved in planning and follow-through with two briefings, one with Ambassador Ekeus and one with a visiting scholar from China, both of which included working with the press.  He was the primary author of a brief for the Ekeus event.

Current Activities: Birmingham is a vice president in the credit risk department at RBS Greenwich Capital, in Greenwich, Conn.

Kevin Kavanaugh

Fall 1998 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists, Biological Weapons Verification Program

Education: Monterey Institute of International Studies, MA International Policy Studies, 1994
Norwich University, BA History and Government, 1981

Issues Covered: Biological weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Kavanaugh organized and spoke at a Biological Weapons Conference on Capital Hill on the history of the BWC and current negotiations.  He produced an internal analysis of Yugoslavia's nuclear program and the problems and prospects for the future.  He delivered presentations on the BWC and the problems and challenges it faces at two conferences, an International Studies Association Conference (International Security Section) in Monterey, CA and an International Asian Physicians Conference in Nagano, Japan (which he delivered in Japanese).  He has been contacted by representatives of the press, (NY Times, Village Voice, International Herald Tribune, LA Times, Defense News, Washington Times and Jane's International Defense Review) on BW and associated topics.  He produced a Daily Intelligence Brief on worldwide events for in-house use to monitor FAS programs in high risk areas and for the general FAS membership.

Current Activities: Following his Fellowship, Kavanaugh was hired as a Research Scientist at the Federation of American Scientists, where he focused on defense affairs, including chemical and biological weapons, and the environmental impact of the air war against Serbia.

Michael Kraig

Fall 1998 Fellow, British American Security Information Council

Education: State University of New York at Buffalo, PhD Political Science, 2001
State University of New York at Buffalo, MA Political Science, 1996
Moorhead State University, BA Political Science, 1993

Issues Covered: Y2K and nuclear weapons systems

Major Fellowship Activities: Kraig wrote a report on The Bug in the Bomb: The Impact of the Year 2000 Problem on Nuclear Weapons.  The report has been cited in articles in several U.S. and British newspapers and magazines, including The International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, Defense Week, Inside the Pentagon, Agence France-Press, and broadcast on the BBC World Service and CNN National and Headline News.  He adapted the report for an article entitled "Safe or Sorry: The "Y2K Problem" and Nuclear Weapons" which appeared in the March/April 1999 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  He wrote an article which appeared in the Baltimore Sun entitled "Nuke Launch Ultimate Y2K Nightmare; U.S., Russia Cooperating on Early-Warning System" and another in the Toronto Star entitled "Y2K and the U.S.-Russian Arsenals."  Kraig also did two live one-hour radio interviews, one on KQED in San Francisco and the second on KSCJ-AM in Sioux City.  Kraig has appeared on ABC World News Tonight.  He coordinated the content and structure of a BASIC-sponsored symposium on Capitol Hill that addressed both nuclear power and nuclear weapons Y2K issues. He traveled to Australia for a similar symposium sponsored by Dr. Helen Caldicott.

Current Activities: Kraig works as Director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Iowa.  He is currently managing two new areas for future Stanley Foundation policy projects in international security: Regional Approaches to Proliferation Prevention (RAPP) and U.S. Strategies for National Security (SNS).  RAPP will work toward the improvement of regional security and stability in the Middle East, South Asia, and Korean peninsula, while SNS will explore the potential for US national security policies that are integrated and balanced across different types of policy options (military, legal-diplomatic, and economic), involving a complementary mix of unilateral and cooperative methods.  He was principal editor for "Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime: The Challenge of Regional Nuclear Arsenals," and co-editor of "Ballistic Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security: Views from Washington, Beijing and Tokyo."   Prior to his current position, Kraig wrote a BASIC Research Report entitled "Y2K and Nuclear Arsenals: A Final Report."   He was a consultant at BASIC working on a project entitled "Missed Opportunities for Conflict Prevention in Kosovo: A European and American Evaluation."   He interviewed current and former public officials of the State Department, National Security Council and non-governmental organizations in order to build a chronology of missed opportunities in Kosovo since 1989.  He was also a consultant to the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies where he wrote for the Arms Control Reporter, an information resource on worldwide arms control negotiations.

Jared Feinberg

Spring 1998 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Georgetown University, Master of Science in Foreign Service, 2001
University of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs, 1997

Issues Covered: Central Asian and Eastern European security issues

Major Fellowship Activities: Feinberg wrote a monograph entitled "The Armed Forces in Georgia."  He also wrote several articles for CDI's Weekly Defense Monitor, on Armenian Presidential Elections Herald Continued Tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan, The Russian Dilemma in the CIS, Turkmenistan President’s Visit Leaves Sour Taste, Security Hinders Cooperation in Central Asia: the Economic Cooperation Organization, GUAM’s Potential Outside of the CIS, Abkhazia: Where did all the Peacekeepers Go?, Caspian Oil: Great Riches or a Great Quagmire, The Georgian Military: Nowhere to Go but Up, and GUAM: Creating Perceptions in the Caucasus.  He also had a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post, 'Clay Pigeons,' Sitting Ducks.

Current Activities: Feinberg is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton's Virginia office.  He is a member of the advisory board of the Harold Rosenthal Fellowship, which provides summer employment opportunities for graduate students of international affairs to work in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government.  He is also involved with the Social Entrepreneur Assistance Program, a volunteer program for U.S.–based consultants to support social innovators in the Middle East with strategic planning, business planning, and communications services to support their ventures.  He was a member of the Scoville Fellowship board of directors from 2001-2007.  He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Carolyn Magill

Spring 1998 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council

Education: University of Pennsylvania, MBA Healthcare Management, Wharton School, 2004
Harvard University, AB Social Studies, 1997

Issues Covered: US broken arrows, accidents involving nuclear weapons

Current Activities: Magill is Vice President for Everard Community Products at UnitedHealth Group. She is responsible for managing health plans that serve more than 80,000 frail elderly and chronically ill individuals, as well as people who have both Medicare and Medicaid.  She was awarded a 2005-2006 Fellowship in Public Policy from the Hubert Humphrey Policy Institute at the University of Minnesota.  The aim is for Fellows to develop an understanding of complex public policy issues while forging relationships with other emerging leaders.

David Oprava

Spring 1998 Fellow, 20/20 Vision

Education: Southern Connecticut State University, MS Political Science, 1997
School for International Training (VT), Bachelor of International Studies, Peace Studies, 1996

Issues Covered: CTBT; UN funding; NATO expansion

Major Fellowship Activities: Oprava spoke to students and professors at several colleges and universities in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts (Yale, Southern Connecticut State University, University of Rhode Island, Brown, Wellesley and Tufts) on citizen activism in the area of peace and security issues, including the CTBT, UN funding, and NATO expansion. He also attended a conference on student activism in Columbia, South Carolina where he spoke about 20/20 Vision.  He attempted to revive "Roots on the Radio," a program which encourages activists to place telephone calls to talk radio shows on the subject of peace issues.  He worked to promote a national call-in day on the CTBT, and wrote his suggestions for improving the program.  He also wrote several pieces for the monthly 20/20 Vision legislative update on U.N. funding and NATO expansion and encouraged many of the activists to write letters to their local newspapers on these issues.

Current Activities: Oprava is a writer living and working in Wales.  He has published two books of poetry and has a third coming out in summer 2010.  He is also completing a PhD in Creative Writing working on a groundbreaking poetry project entitled Once America: 50 expats, 50 interviews, 50 poems, which will be completed in 2011.

Joan Whelan

Spring 1998 Fellow, Council for a Livable World Education Fund

Education: New York University, Wagner School of Public Service, MPA Public Policy/International Development,  1999
Oberlin College, BA Art History, 1983

Issues Covered: Conventional Arms Trade in South Asia

Major Fellowship Activities: Whelan researched and wrote a report entitled Foreign Aid and the Arms Trade: A Look at the Numbers. The report analyzed U.S. foreign aid in Fiscal Year 1997 and found that almost half of the aid went for military purposes, and often works against stated goals of protecting health and fostering economic growth.  Her report was used as the basis for a feature on the front page of USA Today (USA Snapshots) called "Who Buys American Arms?" which appeared in November 1998.  Information she sent to U.S. News and World Report on the sale of fighter jets to Thailand was used in a short article in that magazine (May 11, 1998).  She also wrote several articles for Arms Trade News.

Current Activities: Whelan is Communications Director with the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2). FANTA-2 supports integrated food security and nutrition programming to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in developing countries. The $100 million, five-year project, managed by the Academy for Educational Development and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides technical support to USAID Missions and host governments, private voluntary organizations and non-governmental and international organizations to improve nutrition policies and strategies, as well as program design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.  She was previously a manager at Chemonics International, a large international development consulting firm.  She coordinated the organization's response to avian influenza, worked with experts in health, poultry and agribusiness, food security, and trade. She was also on the steering committee of the organization's Crisis Prevention and Recovery community of practice and on the Fragile States Working Group.

Frances Bourne

Fall 1997 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Haverford College, BA Political Science, 1997

Issues Covered: Landmines; nuclear issues

Major Fellowship Activities: Bourne worked on issues related to landmines, and helped put together a resource guide on humanitarian de-mining.  In her work with the Nuclear Policy Project, she scheduled Admiral Stansfield Turner’s speaking tour of Boston and San Francisco, where he spoke to the media about his book on the importance of large reductions in the nuclear stockpile. She also attended various meetings on nuclear terrorism, and helped publicize a public opinion poll on nuclear weapons in a report titled Public Attitudes on Nuclear Weapons: An Opportunity for Leadership.  The poll found broad support for reductions in the nuclear weapons. She scheduled a Voice of America "Talk to America" program regarding nuclear terrorism.

Current Activities: Bourne is Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at Amtrak.  She handles the company’s legislative and policy strategy with state and local government, business, environmental, rail, passengers, and other advocacy organizations.  She works with these external partners and every department within the company, the CEO and Board of Directors.  Following her Fellowship she worked as the Director of Policy for the Presidential Members of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board based at the Census Bureau.  In this capacity she monitored local government relations with the Census Bureau in an effort to improve the census process.

Elise Keppler

Fall 1997 Fellow, National Security News Service

Education: University of California at Berkeley, JD, 2001
Brown University, BA International Relations, 1997

Issues Covered: Arms trafficking in Africa; NATO expansion

Major Fellowship Activities: Keppler researched and wrote "Central Africa: The Influx of Arms and the Continuation of Crisis."  She co-wrote an editorial advisory on "Who Will Pay and Who Will Profit from NATO Expansion."

Current Activities: Keppler is Senior Counsel in the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, where she conducts research and advocacy regarding efforts to ensure justice for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.  Her work currently focuses on accountability for crimes committed during the Sierra Leone civil war at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and crimes committed in the Darfur region of Sudan.  She has also worked on justice for serious past crimes committed in Iraq and Security Council resolutions on the International Criminal Court.  She worked part -time during law school as a research associate for the Arms and Conflict Program based at the Fund for Peace, where she researched all aspects of arms trafficking to conflict zones.  This organization specializes in investigative research on small arms trafficking to better inform policy choices on these issues.  She co-wrote Casting the Net? The Implications of the U.S. Law on Arms Brokering with Loretta Bondì.

Salome Samadashvili

Fall 1997 Fellow, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: American University, MA Public Policy, 2001
Central European University, LLM Comparative Constitutional Law, 1999
Allegheny College, BA Political Science, 1997

Issues Covered: Export controls and nonproliferation/security issues in the Republic of Georgia; the conflict in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia

Major Fellowship Activities: Samadashvili focused on issues of her native Republic of Georgia.  She gathered information on the nuclear facilities, governmental bodies and export regulations of Georgia for the CNS database.  She translated and summarized the Georgian export control regulations.   She also wrote a piece about the conflict in Abkhazia.  This conflict is salient to nonproliferation efforts because Georgia contains a nuclear facility which reportedly has uranium and could therefore be subject to nuclear smuggling.  She also monitored the Georgian press for articles related to nuclear and security issues and translated articles on proliferation.  She created a directory of bookmarks for the Internet on nonproliferation and security concerns in Georgia.  Finally, she scheduled visits for two CNS visiting fellows, from Armenia and Georgia, attending meetings with U.S. officials and scholars.

Current Activities: Samadashvili is the Republic of Georgia's Ambassador to the Benelux Countries and Head of the Mission to the European Communities.  Prior to that position she served in the Georgian Parliament where she was a Deputy-Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.  She previously worked as a Parliamentary Program Coordinator for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Tbilisi, Georgia.  NDI works with political parties, NGOs and the Parliament of Georgia in order to promote democracy.  She designed and implemented Parliamentary programs with the goal of strengthening the Parliament as an institution, and promoting key democracy building legislative initiatives.

Eric Sohn

Fall 1997 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists, Arms Control and International Security Program

Education: Monterey Institute of International Studies, MA International Policy Studies with a concentration in Russian Language and Politics and International Security Issues, 1997
Colby College, BA Russian/Soviet Studies, 1992

Issues Covered: Russian START II ratification, development of START III; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Major Fellowship Activities: Sohn co-wrote an article in the UCS journal Nucleus (Winter 1997) on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty entitled A Test Ban for All Seasons.

Current Activities: Sohn is pursuing an MBA at the University of California at Davis where he expects to graduate in June 2003.   He is concentrating in International Management and Finance.  Prior to graduate school, he worked as an International Trade Specialist at the Department of Commerce, where he administered a $1.1 million annual budget to foster trade with the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union and contributed to reports to Congress and the Vice President on regional economic assistance programs.  He has also been a policy analyst at SAIC in the Security Studies and Arms Control Support division, where he did work on START implementation and compliance for the Army, and conducted research on the effects of the Russian political climate on US-Russian arms control, the prospects for START III, and the ABM Treaty.  He has also worked at the Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council.

Rachel Stohl

Fall 1997 Fellow, British American Security Information Council, Project on Light Weapons

Education: Monterey Institute of International Studies, MA International Policy Studies, 1997
University of Wisconsin at Madison, BA Political Science and German, 1995

Issues Covered: U.N. issues, Destruction of Surplus Weapons in Central America, Small Arms and Light Weapons, and Ammunition.

Major Fellowship Activities: Stohl focused on surplus weapons in Central America, and tracked the flow of ammunition to the region.  The research resulted in a paper entitled Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Light Weapons Destruction in Central America which she co-wrote.  She also covered the U.N. First Committee on disarmament by attending its meetings in New York in preparation for an article in a BASIC Reports on the results of the Committee (First Committee Debates Small Arms and Transparency in Armaments).  Finally, she wrote a 42-page report on Deadly Rounds: Ammunition and Armed Conflict focusing on ammunition in handguns, rifles and machine guns.

Current Activities: Stohl is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and an independent consultant on issues related to the conventional arms trade, including small arms and the arms trade treaty.  She is currently the consultant to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms.  Her new book The International Arms Trade will be published by Polity Press in August 2009.  She worked for over a decade as a Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information researching and analyzing the arms trade, small arms, children and armed conflict, and landmines.  She wrote extensively for CDI's many products, as well as for outside journals and other publications.  She also writes op-eds on her research topics that have been published in periodicals such as Defense News. 

Gaurav Kampani

Spring 1997 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Program

Education: American University, School of International Studies, MA International Relations, 1998
Delhi University, New Delhi, India, Masters in Political Science, 1995
Delhi University, New Delhi, India, BA History, 1991    

Issues Covered: Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program; India's nuclear policy in the post-Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty era; and policy recommendations to strengthen the nonproliferation regime.

Major Fellowship Activities: Kampani contributed to End Run: The U.S. Government's Plan for Designing Nuclear Weapons and Simulating Nuclear Explosions Under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and to The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons.

Current Activities: Kampani is a PhD student in the Department of Government at Cornell University where he is focusing on International Relations and specifically on security studies.  His dissertation is entitled "The Weaponization Paradox: Why Some Emerging Nuclear Powers Delay Building Operational Forces" and examines the lag between nuclear weapons-related hardware development and software management in India's case in the decade prior and post-1998.  He is currently doing field research in India.  In fall 2010 he will join Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation for the academic year as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow where he will work with Scott Sagan.  During graduate school he was a consultant for the Center for Nonproliferation Studies on WMD proliferation-related issues concerning South Asia.  In 2006 he contributed a book chapter for an SSRC project on nuclear weapons and South Asia.  He previously worked as a Senior Research Associate in the Proliferation Research Analysis Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, CA, where his regional focus was South Asia.  He wrote issue briefs, commentaries, and articles for peer-reviewed journals and web publications; maintained nuclear and missile databases; created weapons of mass destruction country profiles for India and Pakistan; taught graduate classes; delivered guest lectures in workshops and seminars for mid-career professionals and graduate students; briefed the media; and conducted local public outreach activities.  He has written chapters on India-Pakistan nuclear issues for two forthcoming books.  He co-wrote "Pakistan: Shift Away from Indo-Centricism?"  He wrote a CNS report entitled "How a U.S. National Missile Defense Will Affect South Asia."  He co-wrote "The Forthcoming Perry Report" about U.S.-North Korea relations.  He wrote "Barking Up the Wrong Tree" about India and nuclear deterrence for the on-line publication Nuclear Watch.  He wrote an article entitled "From Existential to Minimum Deterrence: Explaining India's Decision to Test" and contributed to "Nuclear- and Missile-Related Trade and Developments for Selected Countries," both of which appeared in the Fall 1998 issue of The Nonproliferation Review.  He contributed to chronologies of North Korea’s nuclear program and nuclear safeguards and inspections.  He also wrote "The Escalating War in Kashmir,"  "Hammering out an Indo-US nuclear deal" and "Behind India's Veil of Nuclear Ambiguity"  which appeared in Rediff on the Net.  Prior to his current position, he worked at the U.S. Institute of Peace as a Research Assistant.

Christina Lindborg

Spring 1997 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists, Space Policy Project

Education: University of South Carolina at Columbia, MA Political Science, 2000
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, BA International Relations and Political Science, 1996

Issues Covered: Ballistic missile defense, military spending and missile transfers.

Major Fellowship Activities: Lindborg learned Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) for creating and updating FAS' web sites, and utilized it as a new way of publishing and a new method of activism.  She updated the web page on Congressional floor debate on ballistic missile defense for 1997 and for 1996.  She attended hearings on missile-related issues and then transferred the statements from those hearings to the web site.  She wrote arguments against the instant implementation of the Joint Strike Fighter and F/A-18 E/F attack aircraft programs, and updated the "Stop the B-2 Bomber" homepage.  She helped create an on-line space guide that includes an overview of image intelligence, signals intelligence, missile defense, and antisatelite activities of nations in Europe and Asia.  The Federation of American Scientists was the first organization to put a comprehensive guide of the Corona military satellite photographs on-line. She transferred photographs of the Corona military satellite to the web site--scanning and enhancing the images so they could be more clearly seen by internet audiences.  She helped to redesign and update on-line guides to the Monday Lobby Group and the Military Spending Working Group and attended their meetings.

Current Activities: Lindborg is an Analyst at the British American Security Information Council.  She monitors transatlantic security issues, with an emphasis on multilateral institutions, U.S. foreign policy and arms control.  She is currently focusing on BASIC’s “Getting to Zero” project on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.  She previously worked at the Overseas Development Council.

Loung Ung

Spring 1997 Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, Weapons Trafficking Campaign

Education: Saint Michael's College (VT), BA Political Science, 1993

Issues Covered: Landmines

Major Fellowship Activities: Ung updated a Peace Action Education Fund fact sheet entitled "Landmines: Mass Destruction in Slow Motion."  She then organized a Landmine Activist kit, which included her factsheet and other related materials produced by PAEF and other groups.  This kit was distributed to grassroots groups and members of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) to gain support for the "Ottawa Treaty," a landmine treaty outside of the United Nations forum.  She then worked with the USCBL to organize a rally at Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House (on May 16, 1997) to ban landmines.   She helped with the logistics, including the gathering of thousands of shoes to represent people who lost their lives to mines, and also was the emcee of the rally.   The rally received coverage on Voice of America.  Ung also attended many meetings of the USCBL and the Arms Transfer Working Group of the Monday Lobby Group.

Current Activities: Ung is a part-time Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.  She travels extensively in the United States and overseas speaking on the issues relating to landmines, child soldiers and other human rights.  She serves on the U.S. board of directors of Grapes for Humanity, an organization that raises funds for humanitarian efforts, including for victims of landmines.  Her autobiography, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, was published in January 2000 by Harpercollins.  The sequel, Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, was published by HarperCollins in April 2005

Luke Warren

Spring 1997 Fellow, Council for a Livable World Education Fund, Conventional Arms Transfers Project

Education: University of Edinburgh, MSC Philosophy, 1995
St. John's College (NM), BA Liberal Arts, 1992

Issues Covered: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: START III: conventional arms transfers.

Major Fellowship Activities: Warren researched and wrote several articles for the Arms Trade News on issues such as the proposed Code of Conduct on arms sales, landmines and weapons profiles.  He also wrote news advisories and press releases, and as a result appeared on several radio programs to discuss these issues, including stations in Dover, DE, Indianapolis, Duluth and Rochester, MN, Columbus, GA and San Francisco.  He also had a letter to the editor published in the Washington Times.  In addition to his work with the CAT project, he co-wrote a position paper with John Isaacs on START III entitled "The Clinton-Yeltsin Summit Meeting: The Need To Negotiate A Framework Agreement On START III," and an informational pamphlet on the excessive costs and redundancies of Stockpile Stewardship.   Additionally, he was able to attend several CTBT coalition meetings, a forum at the CATO Institute on nuclear weapon abolition, and congressional hearings concerning Ballistic Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty.

Current Activities: Warren is Media Director, Head of Sales for Specialty Market, and Project Manager at North Star Games, a Bethesda, MD based start up company that makes board games, the most well known of which is Wits & Wagers.  He also writes Progressive Movement, a political blog focused on improving how progressives talk about messaging.  Previously he was a press secretary for the Union of Concerned Scientists focusing on global warming and national security.  In 2004 he worked for the John Kerry for President campaign on their Internet team, where he answered e-mail, identified voter concerns and translated that into e-mail responses, and went to Iowa for a week before the caucuses to do field work for Kerry.  He has also worked as media coordinator and analyst at the Council for a Livable World Education Fund, where he focused on Ballistic Missile Defense, military spending and the conventional arms trade.  He wrote a report entitled "Human Rights and Weapons: Records of Selected U.S. Arms Clients."  He was an assistant editor of Arms Trade News, a monthly newsletter that covers U.S. weapons export policy, legislative proposals and action, and international arms trade developments, and writes for the Arms Trade Insider.  He has written op-eds or been quoted in the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and NPR’s All Things Considered.

Yurika Ayukawa

Fall 1996 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Security Program

Education: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Mid-Career MPA, 1996 (on a Fulbright Scholarship)
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, BA English Language, 1971

Issues Covered: Fissile materials issues

Major Fellowship Activities: Ayukawa created an electronic newsletter to combine issues of plutonium disposition from dismantled nuclear warheads and the civil use of plutonium.  It intends to provide the readers an inter-connected relations of civil and military use of plutonium. She also worked to support PSR's public education efforts on fissile material disposition policy issues.

Current Activities: Ayukawa is a professor at Chiba University of Commerce in the Faculty of Policy Informatics teaching environmental issues.  In 2009 she worked as a consultant for Greenpeace International to follow the negotiations towards Copenhagen COP15 in December 2009.  She serves on the board of the Green Energy Certification Center, a private organization partly funded by the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy.  She served as Vice Chair of the 2008 G8 Summit NGO Forum of Japan.  She focused on climate change and energy, and is a board member of Kiko Network, a Japanese NGO whose goal is the practical implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the prevention of dangerous climate change.  She was a Special Professor at Osaka University Research Institute for Sustainable Science, and a part-time lecturer at several other universities.

She was previously a Special Advisor to the Climate Change Program at the World Wide Fund for Nature in Japan.  She was also the Deputy Representative of the "2008 G8 NGO Forum, " Deputy Director of the Climate Action Network Japan, and a member of the Japanese Ministry of Environment's "Capacity Building of Environmental Human Resources at Universities in Asia" Committee.  She previously worked as the Group Leader on Climate Change at WWF where she was involved with the international negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and its future, trying to introduce a cap and trade emissions trading scheme within Japan, working with businesses to initiate a voluntary reduction scheme (Climate Savers), and informing the public about the urgency of the issue. She has appeared on NHK TV in November 2005 speaking about WWF’s Climate Witness Project and was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in April 2006 in an article about Toyota. She is affiliated with Greenpeace Japan, the Institute on Sustainable Energy Policies, and the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo.  

Lauren Barbour

Fall 1996 Fellow, Institute for Science and International Security

Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, MPH, 2008
Mount Holyoke College, BA Chemistry and Asian Studies, 1996

Issues Covered: Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty; nuclear safeguards; South Africa's uranium stockpile.

Major Fellowship Activities: Barbour traveled to Geneva and Vienna for ISIS-sponsored workshops on the Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty, the next nuclear arms control agreement to be negotiated in the Conference on Disarmament. For the workshops she prepared a chronology detailing events surrounding past treaty proposals.  She prepared tables and graphs which were distributed at the events.

Barbour also began writing a short introduction to safeguards for an upcoming ISIS book entitled Proliferation Critical Paths: Trends and Solutions.   She toured the Safeguards division of the IAEA while in Vienna.  She conducted research on the 93 + 2 Program, the most stringent safeguards program now being implemented by the IAEA, which includes a provision for improving the detection of clandestine nuclear activities through environmental monitoring.  She researched the materials release from uranium enrichment and processing facilities in the U.S. during the 1940's and 1950's in order to understand the types of releases that might be characteristic of fledgling nuclear weapons programs.

Barbour also worked on a project concerning the possible conversion of the South African Safari-1 civil nuclear reactor from High Energy Uranium to Low Energy Uranium fuels as part of the Reduced Enrichment Research and Test Reactors program.  She interviewed a series of U.S. government officials in order to document the Safari-1 conversion effort.

Current Activities: Barbour is a Senior Project Analyst at Johns Hopkins Hospital where she provides analysis and develops projections of inpatient and outpatient services including volumes, procedures and patient mix to Department of Medicine administrators and physicians. She previously worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development as a Team Leader/Senior Program Manager in their Office of Transition Initiatives.  Previously, she was a staff scientist at the Institute for Science and International Security, where she worked on technical assessments for nuclear nonproliferation.  She co-wrote "Ending the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons: Background Information and Key Questions." 

My Fellowship at ISIS was a wonderful opportunity. I accepted the Fellowship because it offered me the opportunity to apply my scientific training to concrete and pressing problems. The Fellowship has realized my expectations in that respect. ISIS gave me the freedom to intellectually pursue my interests...I was immediately given responsibilities, both organizationally and intellectually; I was writing for publication and allowed to participate fully in some of ISIS' most exciting work.

Rhodora Velasquez

Fall 1996 Fellow, World Federalist Association

Education: American University, School of International Service, MA, International Affairs with a concentration in International Law and Organization, 1997
University of California, San Diego, BA History, 1994

Issues Covered: Preventive Diplomacy and the International Criminal Court

Major Fellowship Activities: Velasquez wrote a briefing paper on the election of the U.N. Secretary-General, titled "The U.N. Secretary-General Election: Multilateralism or Power Politics?", which examined the controversy over Boutros-Ghali's bid for re-election, the selection process in general, the U.S.'s position on and role in the selection process, and WFA's position on the issue.  She wrote an article examining the views expressed in the national platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party with respect to current and future U.S.-U.N. relations titled "Defining the U.S.'s Role in International Relations: The Democratic and Republican Platforms."  She also wrote a paper examining the U.S.'s proposals for funding the International Criminal Court.

Velasquez conducted research on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) past, present, and future efforts at preventive diplomacy.  The purpose of the paper was to study the role of regional organizations within the field of preventive diplomacy.  It also examined how the OSCE's work in conflict prevention contributes to the institutionalization of preventive diplomacy capacities on a national and international level.  She also wrote a paper examining statements made by U.N. Missions to the opening of the 51st Session of the General Assembly; the purpose of the paper was to compare how various countries view their engagement with the U.N., what their international priorities are, and how the U.N. helps to fulfill them within a multilateral framework.  She attended the U.N. Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) Meeting on the International Criminal Court in New York as WFA's representative to the Coalition for an International Criminal Court.  She also attended House and Senate hearings related to U.S.-U.N. relations.

Current Activities: Velasquez works as a Compensation Coordinator in the Office of Human Resources at the National Academies.

Jordan Urstadt

Spring 1996 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council, International and Nuclear Programs

Education: New York University Law School, JD, 1999
Dartmouth College, AB History, 1995

Issues Covered: Specifications and uses of nuclear weapons materials; the safety of Soviet and American nuclear reactors; and the technicalities and economics of nuclear materials reprocessing.

Major Fellowship Activities: Urstadt worked on an NGO nuclear safety summit held in conjunction with the G-7 and Russian nuclear safety summit.  He wrote a comparison of the task force's proposals to the results of the nuclear safety summit.  He also worked on an economic analysis of the costs of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, and helped prepare an NRDC presentation for the G-7 summit in Lyons, France on the proliferation dangers of Russia's plutonium stockpiles.

He helped prepare the materials for an NRDC-sponsored conference of international nuclear safety experts in Moscow the week before the summit, and for a press center conducted during the summit, including fact sheets, the press releases and the report stating the position of NRDC and the panel on the issues that arose at the summit.  After the summit, he wrote the follow-up report that was sent to the press and the foundations that funded the event.

He also worked on a paper analyzing the economic costs of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, and on a memo to the head of the Russian Affairs Bureau of the State Department summarizing the four worst environmental problems of global concern in Russia.

Current Activities: Urstadt is the General Counsel for Capital Dynamics, a private equity manager headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. He was previously a vice president of LGT Capital Partners AG, in Zurich, Switzerland.  He serves on the board of directors of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, an organization based in Florida and Costa Rica which is devoted to scientific research on and advocacy for sea turtles.  At NYU Law School he was president of the Public Interest Law Foundation.

Exposure to the political advocacy process was the most meaningful aspect of my Scoville Peace Fellowship...Although I studied and researched the specifications of and uses of nuclear weapons materials, the safety of Soviet and American nuclear reactors and the technicalities and economics of nuclear materials reprocessing, I benefitted most from observing the manner in which successful advocates push their issues. The Fellowship has not only taught me how to translate my social concerns into direct action, but it has shown me the direction I need to take to begin doing so. I could not have been more pleased with my Scoville Fellowship.

David Andersen

Fall 1995 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists, Arms Sales Monitoring Project

Education: University of Maryland, PhD, Political Science, 2004
University of Maryland, MA Political Science, 2002
Hampshire College, BA Peace Studies and International Security Policy, 1995

Issues Covered: Global diffusion of light weapons and its effects on global violence

Major Fellowship Activities: Andersen wrote articles for the Arms Sales Monitor; helped create a project on light weapons diffusion by collecting and organizing data on international light weapons production, sales and use, and created a database that contains over one hundred incidents of black market transactions involving light weapons.  He established a home page on Light Weapons Diffusion and Global Violence.  He also co-authored a book-length monograph with Prof. Michael Klare entitled A Scourge of Guns: The Diffusion of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Latin America, which shows how many and by what means arms have been pumped into Latin America, and what destabilizing effect these arms have had.

Current Activities: Andersen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at California State University, Sacramento,  and coordinator of the peace and conflict resolution minor.  He teaches classes in international politics, U.S. foreign policy, conflict processes and research methods.  He has written articles on nuclear warfare, nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Prize, war, and peace movements, that will appear in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences in 2007.  He was previously a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and at St. Mary's College of Maryland.  His PhD dissertation was entitled "Foreign Policy Decision-Making and Violent Non-State Actors: Processes, Behavior, and Output."  He was previously an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University where he taught a course on "Military Force and Foreign Policy."  Prior to entering graduate school he was the Associate Director/National Campaign Coordinator at Student Pugwash, USA where he worked with college and high school students to explore issues of science, technology and social responsibility on their campuses.

The Scoville Fellowship allowed me to do some very unique things just out of college, and I am very glad I was given this opportunity.

Heather Hamilton

Fall 1995 Fellow, World Federalist Association, Preventative Diplomacy Project

Education: American University, School of International Service, MA International Peace and Conflict Resolution, 1999
Hood College, BA Political Science, 1995

Issues Covered: Preventive diplomacy initiatives in the United Nations and the U.S. government.

Major Fellowship Activities: Hamilton worked as the Project Coordinator for WFA's Preventive Diplomacy Project, where she designed, planned and executed all aspects of WFA's new Preventive Diplomacy Advocacy and Education Project in support of strengthened United Nations preventive diplomacy capabilities.  She developed background materials for a variety of audiences, including grassroots activists, Congresspersons and other non-profit organizations. She developed a set of draft proposals which included information from interviews with experts in the field and wrote a grassroots action packet for a Partners Program action, which involved convening panel discussions on U.N. preventive diplomacy, and establishing the foundations for a coalition.  Hamilton also wrote a Briefing Book on United Nations Preventive Diplomacy for Members of Congress, activists and non-profits, and met with the U.N. Under-Secretary General for the Department of Political Affairs.

Current Activities: Hamilton became Executive Director of the Connect U.S. Fund in July 2009.  She previously served as its Senior Policy Advocate.  The Connect U.S. Fund promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world through grantmaking and activities that advance foreign policy objectives and support an effective, collaborative community of individuals and organizations working toward common goals.  As Senior Policy Advocate, she spearheaded efforts to create a network, help NGOs achieve their policy goals, and advance the policy debate on critical foreign policy issues.  She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict.   She was previously Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff at Citizens for Global Solutions.  She coordinated the work of CGS’ staff and managed cross-departmental initiatives and advocacy campaigns; led the process of determining organizational priorities and monitored the implementation of the strategic plan; and served as a primary external representative of the organization with the media, non-profits, coalitions, foundations and other stakeholders.  She was formerly the director of programs, where she oversaw the Campaign to End Genocide and the International Criminal Court project.  Prior to that she worked as Manager of the Community Education Center at OMB Watch working on nonprofit advocacy issues.  She spent six months as an intern with the Women and Habitat Programme of the U.N. Centre on Human Settlements (Habitat) in Nairobi, where she worked to establish women's rights to land and property in situations of conflict and reconstruction.  She also conducted research and wrote "Rwanda's Women: The Key to Reconstruction," which was published as a chapter in the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance's online book, The Future of the African Great Lakes Region.  She received a Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Area in 2001.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for U.N. Reform Education and a member of Women in International Security..

The fellowship was perfect for me. My experience far exceeded my expectations; I was basically given direction over an entire project, which gave me a tremendous amount of experience and skills. I had intended to study conflict resolution in grad school, so this fit perfectly into my career goals, and even helped me to pinpoint early resolution of conflict as the area which most fascinates me.

Michael Lopez

Fall 1995 Fellow, Lawyers Alliance for World Security/Committee for National Security

Education: George Mason University, MBA, 2002
Occidental College, BA Political Science, 1995

Issues Covered: National Security Syndicate, CNS Field Project

Major Fellowship Activities: Lopez helped prepare a short report on the status of Lithuanian export control legislation. He worked in the CNS Field Project, where he scheduled a field visit for the late William Colby, former Director of Central Intelligence, to go to Portland, Oregon and speak about the defense budget and other relevant foreign policy issues.

He also helped coordinate the National Security Syndicate, a syndicated op-ed service that seeks to expand public debate on national security issues through the placement of op-eds in national newspapers.  In this capacity, he devised a system to distribute op-eds with the greatest efficiency.   Lopez became the editorial contact for many of the newspapers, contacting the Op-Ed Page Editors of these papers and discussing the individual pieces with them.  He edited many of the pieces, and was active in deciding which issues should be addressed and when they should be sent.

Current Activities: Lopez is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton in California, where he leads Booz Allen's economic and financial services business in the greater Los Angeles region.  

I found the Scoville experience invaluable. Over the course of my six months, the countless advantages of the Scoville Fellowship have been revealed to me....The Scoville Fellowship has given me an occasion to grow as a practitioner in the field of arms control...Moreover, it has given me an opportunity to work in Washington, DC, a city that not only has a wealth of political venues that one can explore, but also offers a variety of educational and cultural activities that have complemented my work as a Scoville Fellow...The opportunities and the experience that the Fellowship has provided me will undoubtedly be the foundation on which my career in either politics or business will be based... Entering a professional field is often a difficult and stressful process; the Fellowship has smoothed that transition for me considerably. I will continue to be a participant in the fellowship and a supporter of its program.

Hisham Zerriffi

Fall 1995 Fellow, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Education: Carnegie Mellon University, PhD Engineering and Public Policy, 2004
Carnegie Mellon University, MS Engineering and Public Policy, 2002
McGill University, MSC (Applied) Chemistry, 1997
Oberlin College, BA Physics, 1995

Issues Covered: The future of the nuclear weapons complex, focusing on tritium and the Department of Energy's stockpile stewardship program; non-proliferation

Major Fellowship Activities: Zerriffi worked primarily on the future of the nuclear weapons complex.  His major activity was his research project on two aspects of the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex: tritium production for nuclear warheads and the stockpile stewardship program to replace nuclear testing.  His research on the DOE's tritium production resulted in a report entitled "Tritium: The environmental, health, budgetary, and strategic effects of the Department of Energy's decision to produce tritium," an op-ed, and an article in the Institute's newsletter, Science for Democratic Action.

He also conducted research on the Department of Energy's Science Based Stockpile Stewardship program which resulted in a report which he co-wrote entitled "The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program."  He co-authored "The U.S. Can't Have It Both Ways," an article drawing on some aspects of this work which was published in the March/April Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Current Activities: Zerriffi is an Assistant Professor and the Ivan Head South/North Research Chair in the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.  He teaches and conducts research on the links between energy, environment and development with on-going research projects in China, India, Cambodia and Brazil.  He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.  He was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar  at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford where he led a project on the use of small-scale electric power systems for rural electrification in the developing world.  He was also a visiting fellow at the World Resources Institute in their Climate and Energy Program.  His doctoral thesis was on electricity systems under stress (e.g., electricity systems in areas of conflict or war).  The research examined the reliability and economic impact of using wide-scale distributed generation (small power generators located close to users rather than current paradigm of large power plants and long-distance electricity transmission), particularly under stress.  He worked for several years as a senior scientist at IEER.  He co-wrote "Magical Thinking" which appears in the March/April 2001 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  He co-wrote "Nuclear Alchemy Gamble: An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy."   He wrote comments on the Department of Energy Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility.   He spoke at a forum about technical and legal issues relating to the CTBT and ABM treaty at an IEER-sponsored conference entitled "Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT, and the Rule of Law" at the U.N.  He co-wrote a report entitled Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest: The Potential of Explosive Fusion Research for the Development of Pure Fusion Weapons.   He co-wrote Pure Fusion Weapons? which appeared in the October 1998 issue of Science for Democratic Action. Research he conducted during this time resulted in an article which appeared in the September/October 1996 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled "The Stewardship Smokescreen."

The Scoville Fellowship was an excellent opportunity for me...without the Fellowship it would have been very difficult for me to get experience in the non-profit sector working on these issues. By providing a paid position, the Scoville Fellowship removed a major hurdle towards getting work experience that is crucial for my professional and career goals. IEER provided a great work environment, substantive and challenging work, and Arjun Makhijani was and continues to be a great role model for an aspiring scientist concerned about the world...the lessons that I have learned here about the role of science and scientists will stay with me throughout my career. All in all I think the Scoville Fellowship program is excellent and I am very thankful for having had the opportunity to participate.

Tini Duong

Spring 1995 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists, Program on Arms Control and International Security

Education: Stanford University Law School, JD, 1999
University of California at Berkeley, BA History and English, 1993

Issues Covered: Collective security issues, particularly U.S. funding for U.N. peacekeeping and the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program.

Major Fellowship Activities: Duong focused on grassroots education and mobilization on collective security issues.   She also produced a briefing paper on United Nations peace operations, worked to build coalitions in support of U.N. peacekeeping, and followed State Department reorganization by attending hearings of the House and Senate.

Current Activities: Duong is an Enforcement Attorney in the Los Angeles Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  She investigates possible securities law violations, including insider trading, financial fraud, and bribery of foreign officials.  She previously worked as an associate in the litigation department of Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman, LLP in their Los Angeles office.  She has experience in entertainment and intellectual property litigation, as well as complex commercial litigation.  During law school she was Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law.

My participation in the program enabled me to come to Washington, DC, learn about arms control issues, interact with the peace and disarmament community, and impact public policy in a positive way. Hence, I consider my experience as a fellow enriching, both personally and professionally. I look forward to applying the skills and knowledge I gained through the fellowship in my future endeavors.

Chen Jiang

Spring 1995 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Program on Science and International Security

Education:George Mason University, MA Computer and Information Systems, 1998
Yunnan University, Kunming, China, MA International Affairs, 1986
Yunnan University, Kunming, China, BA English, 1983

Issues Covered: China's Strategic Goals and Weapon Systems

Major Fellowship Activities: Jiang wrote a paper on China's evolving strategic goals compared to its weapons capacity, which covered the challenges facing the Chinese leadership including their political transformation.  He also tracked China's nuclear program and Sino-U.S. relations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Current Activities: Network engineer, IMED Link.

...I chose to work at AAAS...because I wanted to learn more technical knowledge concerning international security, like advanced conventional weapons systems, missile technology, and nuclear tests...I chose this topic because I felt there was strong misunderstanding about China's intentions and strategic goals. China's weapon systems had also been overestimated by the Western countries. As a Chinese analyst I felt obliged to convey my observances to an American audience. Overall, I am proud to be a Scoville Fellow.

Elizabeth Powers Lynch

Spring 1995 Fellow, Natural Resource Defense Council

Education: Columbia University, MA Political Science, 1999
Mount Holyoke College, B.A. Russian and Eurasian Studies, 1994

Issues Covered: Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing in Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States

Major Fellowship Activities: Powers conducted an international survey of all civilian nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe and the NIS.  The results culminated in a report which she co-authored entitled "Difficult Legacy: Spent Fuel from Soviet Reactors" detailing spent fuel outputs for each country, as well as their positions in regard to commercial spent fuel reprocessing.  She participated in daily projects for both the nuclear and international programs, translated numerous documents from Russian to English, contributed to the research concerning the Iran-Russian nuclear reactor deal, as well as the campaign against completing the Mochovoc Nuclear Reactors in the Slovak Republic.

Current Activities: Lynch is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation which awards grants to non-profit organizations in Massachusetts that provide civil legal services to the poor.  She oversees the MBF’s operations, grantmaking, and strategic development activities.  Prior to graduate school she was a Program Associate for the Eurasia Foundation, which provides grants for economic and democratic reform initiatives in the former Soviet Union.

My Scoville Fellowship provided a wonderful welcome to the arms control community and to Washington, DC. Those involved with the fellowship, especially former fellows, proved a wealth of information and advice. I look forward to continued active involvement with the program.

Lara Cantuti

Fall 1994 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Monterey Institute, MA International Policy Studies, 1994
University of Wisconsin at Madison, BA Political Science, 1990

Issues Covered: Political, military, and economic relations among the countries of the former Soviet Union; clandestine removal of fissile materials from the FSU.

Major Fellowship Activities: Cantuti researched the political, military, and economic relations among the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU).  She tracked and analyzed the clandestine removal of fissile materials from the FSU.  She wrote a number of articles for ACA's Arms Control Today.

Current Activities: Cantuti is a Project Manager in the Weapons Proliferation Analysis Division at Science Applications International Corporation focusing on proliferation forecasting and intelligence analysis of countries of proliferation concern. Prior to that she focused on the second line of defense, a Department of Energy program with Russian customs to prevent nuclear smuggling out of the Russian Federation.

At ACA, the analysts and staff were very helpful not only in assisting me to prepare my work for a professional audience, but also in getting to know who that audience was....My ombudsperson was...outstanding both as a role model of career choices and as a friendly concerned face in a city which can be a bit harsh to a new-comer....This Fellowship was instrumental in taking me from a student of arms control to a professional in arms control.

Pat Ortmeyer

Fall 1994 Fellow, Council for a Livable World, Project on Peacekeeping and the United Nations

Education: University of Montana at Missoula, BA Environmental Studies, 1986

Issues Covered: U.S. military budget; United Nations peacekeeping

Major Fellowship Activities: Ortmeyer investigated the War Powers Act and how regional organizations are authorized to do peacekeeping.  She also worked with the Military Spending Working Group, part of an aggregation of arms control organizations, helping to prepare a section on the military budget for their annual briefing book on arms control.  She wrote fact sheets on the U.S. military budget and the U.N.  She also conducted research for the "Briefing Book on Peacekeeping: The U.S. Role in United Nations Peace Operations."

Current Activities: Ortmeyer is Director of Development and Communications for the American Land Conservancy.  She oversees all fundraising and development efforts for ALC, which is a land trust working nationwide to conserve wildlife habitat, open space, and working farms and ranches.  She also assists with program development and strategic planning, and oversees all communications, including press releases, website, and newsletters.  She was previously the Director of Grants Administration with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

Following her fellowship she was Field Director for Nuclear Issues with Women’s Action for New Directions, working especially on plutonium disposition issues and coordinating activist efforts to stop the Department of Energy's MOX (mixed oxide fuel) program from moving forward.  She edied the Nix MOX Bulletin Board and contributed regularly to the WAND Bulletin. She also ghost-wrote several letters-to-the-editor for legislators and other activists.  In 2000 she was a delegate with the American Delegation on Plutonium Fuel, which traveled to various communities in Russia to assist in conducting People’s Hearings on the use of MOX fuel. The delegation was sponsored by the Center for Safe Energy.  Prior to that she was Outreach Coordinator at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and Managing Editor of IEER's Science for Democratic Action.  She co-wrote "Worse Than We Knew" (aka Let Them Drink Milk) which appeared in the November/December 1997 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Subsequent to her Fellowship, Ortmeyer was hired by the Council for a Livable World Education Fund as a research analyst with the Project on Peacekeeping and the United Nations, and also worked with CLW's "Target 2000" project, a public education effort to increase understanding about military spending, the federal budget, and domestic priorities.

The experiences and contacts I gained through the program are what allowed me to begin a career in arms control and disarmament. Prior to the fellowship I had wanted to pursue such work, but the Northwest offered few, if any, paying jobs in security studies. For years I was told my interests in this field were "unrealistic" but due to this fellowship I was able to make my preferred career choice a reality.

Alex Slesar

Fall 1994 Fellow, Lawyers Alliance for World Security/Committee for National Security

Education: Principia College, BA Soviet/Russian Political Studies, 1994

Issues Covered: Arms sales regulations and export controls in the former Soviet Union

Major Fellowship Activities: Slesar worked on the development and practical implementation of the LAWS export control project entitled "Lawmaking for Security: Export Control Development in the NIS."  This project aims to assist the newly independent and Baltic states in their effort to create national export controls based on international non-proliferation and export control norms.  He assisted a LAWS senior analyst in developing a trip report to Latvia and Ukraine, which was published and distributed among U.S. officials, export control experts, think tanks, and foundations.  He also interacted with senior export control officials from the NIS and Baltic States, as well as private U.S. lawyers and experts working in the field of international security and export controls.

Current Activities: Slesar is a Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group where he advises clients on energy and infrastructure development projects in Russia and other CIS countries. Working as an in-country member of the Scowcroft Group team, he provides due diligence, business and political risk assessment services as well as general business support for client efforts in the region. He was previously Vice President for International Operations of Thorium Power at Thorium Power where he worked on the company’s strategic planning and business development and was the main business liaison between Thorium Power and its international associates, particularly in Russia.  From the completion of his Fellowship in 1994 until 2001, Slesar worked at the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) as a Senior Program Associate and later as LAWS' Director of Administration.  During that time he was in charge of fundraising and management of the LAWS’ main office in Washington, DC.  He directed LAWS’ programs in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, China, Japan, South Korea and South Africa.  He also managed the implementation of the Lawmaking for Non-Proliferation and Moving Toward Nuclear Disarmament Projects.  Since 2001 he has been a member of the board of directors of LAWS.

Without the financial support and assistance from the Scoville Fellowship, it would have been extremely difficult for me to achieve my professional goals and further develop an interest in the field of international security.

Arthur Atkins

Spring 1994 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Georgetown University, MA National Security Studies, 1998
Lewis and Clark College, BA International Affairs, 1993

Issues Covered: Nonproliferation issues, specifically regarding North Korea and the former Soviet Union; U.S. conventional arms transfers; Asian arms market

Major Fellowship Activities: Atkins became involved with tracking the developing dispute with North Korea over its suspected nuclear weapons program.  He updated and expanded a factsheet on North Korean nuclear facilities and a chronology of the ongoing North Korean dispute.  He became the acting staff member responsible for tracking and maintaining office resources on conventional arms control issues.  He tracked international events and U.S. domestic and foreign policies in regard to conventional arms control and export control issues.  He attended press conferences, congressional hearings, and briefings on related topics.  He wrote numerous news articles for Arms Control Today and maintained their existing arms transfer register.

Current Activities: Atkins is the Director of  the Office of Weapons Material Protection in the Office of International Material Protection and Cooperation (MPC&A Program) at the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. He manages an office within the cooperative Material Protection, Control, and Accounting Program that focuses on upgrading security systems at Russian nuclear weapons development and material production facilities to prevent the theft and/or diversion of highly-attractive fissile material.

...The opportunity to work with ACA solidified my interest in security studies. I hope to continue to work in research and analysis on issues related to this field. Through the Fellowship, I have been able to familiarize myself with conventional arms transfers issues and hope to continue working on this issue.

David Schwarzbach

Spring 1994 Fellow, Natural Resources Resource Council

Education: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, MA 1997
University of California at Davis, BS Plant Science, 1992

Issues Covered: Israeli Nuclear Forces, nuclear power in Eastern Europe, government secrecy

Major Fellowship Activities: Schwarzbach worked intimately with a senior ranking delegation of a European government, represented NRDC at meetings with White House officials to discuss G-7 policy, directed a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill, communicated regularly with the major print media, and drafted a report that received wide circulation within the Clinton Administration.

Current Activities: Schwarzbach is Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he works with companies to raise capital.   Subsequent to his Fellowship he wrote a report entitled "Iran's Nuclear Program: Energy or Weapons?"  After completing his Fellowship, he worked at NRDC as a program associate for nuclear policy.  He primarily focused on energy issues in Europe and continued the research he began during his Fellowship.

...When I applied for the Scoville Fellowship, I hoped to find an opportunity to make the transition from grassroots activism to national policy making. The Fellowship provided just that--an introduction to lobbying, the politics of the Executive Branch, the importance of technical information, and most of all the community of people working to stand-down the war economy.

James Baker

Fall 1993 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Education: University of Cambridge, Ph.D. candidate
University of Cambridge, MA International Relations, 1992
Harvard University, AB Government, 1990

Issues Covered: Peacekeeping; Counterproliferation; Control of fissile materials; ABM Treaty/Ballistic Missile Defense; Export Controls; IAEA funding; North Korea's nuclear program

Current Activities: Baker is pursuing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.

...After spending almost six years studying international security issues from the confines of the Ivory Tower, I had the opportunity to explore and experience the interaction between the major players in policy formalization--executive agencies and departments, Congress, the media, NGO's. More importantly, I worked with people who had an acute understanding of the issues, processes, and stakes which impact global security. The passion and dedication shown by the majority of these individuals encouraged me to continue working in these issues ...

Jon Elliston

Fall 1993 Fellow, National Security Archive

Education: University of North Carolina, MA School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000
University of North Carolina, BA Peace, War and Defense, 1993

Issues Covered: "Iraqgate"; 1954 CIA-orchestrated coup in Guatemala

Major Fellowship Activities: Elliston cataloged information from recently-received documents on the Archive's database, wrote FOIA requests and appeals, and edited the chronology of events that would accompany the published set.  He studied the details of the Reagan and Bush administrations' policies toward Iraq prior to the Gulf War.  He also sorted documents relating to the CIA-sponsored overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacabo Arbenz in 1954, as well as assisting with other projects relating to U.S. relations with Latin America.  Over time he became increasingly involved with the Archive's Cuba Documentation project.

Current Activities: Elliston was awarded a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation research grant in 2010 to support his work on a new book that will tell the story of the 1963 attack on Camp Summerlane in North Carolina.  He previously worked as Managing Editor of  the Asheville, NC Mountain Xpress.  He is the editor of  "Psywar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda" (Ocean Press, 1999).  He worked at NSA following his fellowship before entering graduate school.

...The Fellowship has been extremely valuable, and I can't imagine a better way to get started in this line of work. The program provided me with options that would have taken years of graduate school, at the least, to otherwise develop. In addition, I'd be surprised if any graduate program succeeded in teaching me as much as I've learned in the last six months.

Peter Kokopeli

Spring 1993 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Education: University of Washington, BA International Studies, 1992

Issues Covered: Strategic Defense Initiative; International Atomic Energy Agency; Nuclear nonproliferation

Current Activities: Kokopeli is an Environmental Protection Specialist in the Clean Air Markets Division with the Environmental Protection Agency where he was formerly an Information Technology Specialist. From 1994-96, he served as the alumni Fellow on the Scoville Fellowship board.

...In my case the Fellowship served dual purposes: for myself, to try out a new and rather different career, and for my family, to try out a new (and very different) city. The venture was successful on both counts. We were going to come to DC in any case, but there is no question the Fellowship enhanced the experience. The support offered by the staff and board helped me settle in those first few weeks, and the stipend allowed us to double our stay. I found that simply being a Fellow carried a cachet. I have no doubt that it will make the difference in finding a job.

Joel Spoonheim

Spring 1993 Fellow, Defense Budget Project (now the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments)

Education: University of Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, MP Urban Planning, 1998
Luther College, BA Peace Studies, 1992

Issues Covered: Researched Department of Defense and Department of Energy programs for military pollution and waste.

Current Activities: Spoonheim is President of the Spoonheim Group LLC, a company dedicated to improving the economic and physical vitality of companies and communities. They lead and coach leaders of multi-sector projects that impact policy, practice, and budgets for greater efficacy  He was previously Director of Health Initiative at Blue Zones where he led a groundbreaking initiative, established by explorer and author Dan Buettner, to create a comprehensive community wide health and longevity program for towns and cities.  He was previously Vice President of Development for Bellisio Foods, an international food manufacturer where he was responsible for systems improvements and strategic growth of the company, and before that was the Economic and Redevelopment Director of the City of Brooklyn Park, MN, where he was responsible for managing all development activities in a growing older suburb of Minneapolis.  In May 2004 the Minnesota Business Journal named him one of "40 under 40" -- one of the top young leaders in the state under age 40.   He has been an advisor and trainer to democratization programs in Bosnia with Catholic Relief Services.  He speaks periodically about democratization issues to different groups in Minnesota.  He is a cofounder and board member of Civics Connection, a civic leadership training program for young adults who are committed to improving the institutions where they work, volunteer, or spend time, and is a member of Citizens for Global Solutions.  He is a 2001 recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship sponsored by the German Marshall Fund.  The program is designed to educate a new generation of American leaders on the importance of international relations, and to provide an educational experience structured to acquaint them with European institutions and societies.  He traveled to Brussels, Amsterdam, Lyon, Budapest and Berlin.  He spoke at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum about "How to Change the World When You Are Not In Charge."  He formerly worked as a city planner with the Department of Planning and Economic Development for the city of Saint Paul, MN working on urban redevelopment.  

...When I applied to the Scoville Program, I had never spent any time in Washington, but rather had devoted my previous work for peace in the grassroots out West. As a Scoville Fellow I took the next logical step in my development and became familiar with some of the many resources in the Capitol...The Scoville Program was a great spring-board for pushing me onward in my work for peace.

Nick Birnback

Fall 1992 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, MPP International Relations, 2003
Tufts University, BA History, 1992

Issues Covered: Conventional weapons proliferation; tactical aviation; gays in the military

Current Activities: Birnback is Chief of the Peacekeeping Public Affairs Section with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where he is working primarily on UN-EU relations, and on the Kosovo Desk.  Prior to that he held several position with the United Nations, most recently as a Special Assistant with the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea.  He previously served as Acting Spokesman and Officer-in-Charge with the U.N. Mission in East Timor, Political Officer/Special Assistant to the International Police Task Force at the U.N. in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Press Officer with the U.N. in Liberia.  Along with several colleagues he received the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity 2000 Humanitarian Award for their refusal to abandon the people that the UN Mission in East Timor was protecting from the local militias.

...I think what makes the Scoville Program different from other fellowships is the sense of being embraced by an already existing community. As a new Scoville Fellow, I found many of my predecessors still working in Washington and eager to provide me with all kinds of guidance...

Mark Sternman

Fall 1992 Fellow, British American Security Information Council

Education: Columbia University, MA International Affairs, 1992
Dartmouth College, AB Government and Philosophy, 1990

Issues Covered: Conventional arms trade

Current Activities: Sternman is Vice President, Communications & Policy, for MassDevelopment, a quasi-public agency that works to strengthen the Massachusetts economy.  He writes op-eds, speeches, and statements on economic development issues for their President/CEO; helps frame policies and strategies on communications and government relations matters; and serves as a media spokesperson for agency and manages the Communications Director.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Council for a Livable World.  He was previously a Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry on economic-development (banking, R&D, small business, and transportation) and foreign-policy issues.

...The Scoville Fellowship provided me with the opportunity to work in Washington when such opportunities were scarce. I was able to interact with a large peer group and to familiarize myself with many arms control organizations. I enjoyed the work that I did during my fellowship but most of all appreciated the connections that it helped me make--connections that enabled me to obtain my first permanent job in the arms control field.

Karen Cramer Peterson

Spring 1992 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council

Education: University of California at Berkeley Law School, JD, 1995
Dartmouth College, BA Anthropology, 1991

Issues Covered: Proposed recisions to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; EPA

Current Activities: Peterson is Chief Operating Officer at Peterson Economics, a real estate economics consulting firm that performs economic feasibility studies primarily for the resort industry. Her work involves conducting interviews with real estate brokers and other market experts and writing reports.  Previously, she was Assistant Regional Counsel with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Regional Counsel, where she focused on the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act and advised the engineers, geologists, and biologists who work for EPA regarding enforcement and permitting matters, particularly at mines in Arizona and Nevada.

...The opportunity to work at NRDC was fantastic. It opened my eyes to a whole network of organizations and individuals working to reduce nuclear arms and make nuclear power safer. The experience sparked my interest in energy (as well as broader environmental) law....

C. K. Logan

Spring 1992 Fellow, British American Security Information Council

Education: London School of Economics and Political Science, MA Political Economy, 1993
Loyola University, BA Political Science, 1990

Issues Covered: French Nuclear Policy; arms trade

Current Activities: Logan is water conservation officer for a municipality in New Mexico.  In this capacity she develops educational programs and city ordinances designed to encourage conservation of water.  Prior to that she was a Project Assistant at the World Bank, in the Agriculture and Environment Division for West Central Africa, where she worked on environmental management, natural resource management, rural development and social impact of World Bank Projects in this region.

...The Scoville Fellowship was a fantastic opportunity to broaden my knowledge of political science and international relations...I was able to delve into two diverse and interesting specific issues--the arms trade and French nuclear policy....It wasn't just the knowledge--it was being welcomed in Washington into the arms control community...I am back in Washington in the hopes of impacting policy and making the world a better place!

Barbara Guy

Fall 1991 Fellow, Professionals Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control

Education: University of Utah, BA Political Science and Women's Studies, 1991

Issues Covered: Nuclear testing, arms budget, redirection of the "peace dividend"

Current Activities: Guy is a freelance writer/public relations consultant.  She writes a regular column for the Salt Lake Tribune's Sunday Opinion section, often on topics related to peace and security issues, and takes on varied freelance writing and public relations assignments.  A May 2009 column she wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune helped save the urban open space next to the main branch of the Salt Lake City Library.  She was named honorary chair of the 2009 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Salt Lake City.  She serves on the board of several non-profits, including Odyssey House (drug treatment) and Alliance House (mental health), and is an officer in the Utah Women's Forum.

...The Scoville Fellowship gave me an opportunity to live outside my hometown for the first time. It enabled me to do meaningful work in our Capital and meet lots of people I had known of and admired for years. I was able to work on important issues from within the center of our government for a change, rather than from 2000 miles away. It was a tremendous growth experience and one that I'll carry with me always.

Hugh Moag

Fall 1991 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Evergreen State College, BA Liberal Arts, 1991

Issues Covered: Department of Defense toxic waste

Current Activities: Moag is a Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician for the City of Bothell (WA) Fire Department and president of the Bothell firefighters' union  He is putting some of his Washington, DC experience to work as the PAC committee chair for his International Association of Firefighters Local.

Emily K. Green

Spring 1991 Fellow, 20/20 Vision

Education:  University of Minnesota, MS Conservation Biology, 1999
Grinnell College, BA English Literature, 1989

Issues Covered: Arms control; national security; military budget and budget process; arms trade; proliferation

Current Activities: Green is a Managing Editor at Bellwether Media where she writes and edits non-fiction science books for early readers. She was previously the Statewide Coordinator of the Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships at the University of Minnesota.  She managed led the U of MN's efforts to facilitate greater, more effective participation of citizens of outstate MN in advising and guiding the sustainable agriculture and natural resources research agenda of the University.  She has been selected as a Donald A. Williams Soil Conservation Scholar and a Women’s National Farm and Garden Association Sarah Bradley Tyson Fellow.

...The Scoville Fellowship provided me an invaluable opening into Washington, DC arms control and legislative work...[and] gave me an opportunity to gain the knowledge and expertise necessary for my current position...I am extremely indebted to the fellowship program for giving me these opportunities and consequently opening up a multitude of possibilities for me both personally and professionally...

James H. Walter

Spring 1991 Fellow, Council for a Livable World

Education: College of the Holy Cross, BA Religious Studies/Pre-Law, 1990

Issues Covered: B-2 Stealth Bomber and Star Wars; the Strategic Defense Initiative

Current Activities: Walter is a Senior Vice President / Public Policy Issues Manager in the Corporate Affairs Department at Bank of America.  He provides strategic counsel and recommendations to senior management on company policies, positions and activities, and works closely with the government relations and media relations teams to anticipate and respond to inquiries from policymakers and the press.

...In college, I belonged to a community of arms control activists [who] relied on arms control organizations in Washington for information. Coming to Washington to contribute to the work being done on arms control was a dream for me...I arrived a few days after the start of the Gulf War and quickly began sorting out all of the information coming out of the Middle East and the Pentagon. [Later] my focus shifted to the big ticket items of the defense budget: the B-2 Bomber and Star Wars.

Stacy Stubbs

Fall 1990 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: University of California at Berkeley, MS Environmental Engineering, 1995
Stevens Institute of Technology, BS Electrical Engineering, 1988

Issues Covered: Department of Energy cleanup

Current Activities: Stubbs is a stay-at-home mother to three children, ages 14, 11, and 4.  She is also working on the early stages of a project to design and build a community of energy-efficient, healthy, "green" homes.  This will promote peace by allowing people to rely on locally available energy sources and thereby decrease dependence on foreign oil.    

...My experience as a Scoville Fellow was a valuable part of my career transition. After two years of working as an engineer for a large corporation, I was searching for a concrete way to use my technical skills in support of arms control and environmental issues. [At PSR] I was able to use my technical skills to expose linkages between nuclear weapons production and environmental destruction. The Fellowship enabled me to develop a unique insight into effective methods of influencing policy. After my Fellowship, I continued to apply my skills to arms control issues as a Staff Engineer at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

Leslie Allen

Spring 1990 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Education: Boston University, MBA, 1992
Drew University, BA Russian Studies, 1987

Issues Covered: B-2 Bomber

Current Activities: Allen is Director of Communications and Development at Global Greengrants Fund.  Global Greengrants Fund is a public foundation that raises money and makes small grants (between $500 and $5,000) to environmental activists in the Global South.  She supervises a team of six people who raise nearly $5 million per year to make grants.  Previously Allen worked as Deputy Director of Development at Greenpeace USA where she led the major gifts, annual giving, and planned giving teams that raised $10 million for Greenpeace in the U.S.  She served on the board of the Center for Environmental Politics in Missoula, Montana.

...The Scoville Fellowship was a valuable transition into graduate study in the field of non-profit management. I was able to study the "marketing techniques" of lobbying organizations, while at the same time working on issues that were very important to me personally.

Mary Jo Hoeksema Robinson

Spring 1990 Fellow, Council for a Livable World

Education: George Washington University, MPA, 1993
University of New Mexico, BA Political Science, 1989

Issues Covered: B-2 Bomber, economic conversion, Department of Energy cleanup

Current Activities: Hoeksema is a Public Affairs Specialist with the Population Association of America/ Association of Population Centers (PAA/APC) She represents PAA/APC, a social/behavioral research organization, comprised of over 3,000 scientists, primarily demographers, economists, and sociologists, who conduct population-based research.  Specifically, these scientists study trends in population changes and assess what those changes mean for the health and well being of the nation and world.  She previously held several senior positions at the National Institutes of Health from 1995-2004, including Legislative Analyst for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine where she responded to congressional inquiries, analyzed proposed legislation, and briefed Members of Congress and their staff..  She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding, Executive Committee of the Friends of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Executive Committee of the Friends of the National Institute on Aging, and a member of the Wolf Trap National Park for the Arts Associates Board of Directors.

Kathryn R. Schultz

Spring 1990 Fellow, British American Security Information Council

Education: Ripon College, BA Politics and Government, 1989

Issues Covered: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; nuclear weapons; Europe; NATO

Current Activities: Schultz is the Senior Advisor on South Asia Nonproliferation Issues in the Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Regional Affairs, and also serves as Team Leader.  She crafts policy proposals and implements policy decisions designed to advance and protect U.S. nonproliferation and security objectives in the South Asia region.  Since she began her federal service in 1997, first at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and now at State, she has received six Superior and three Meritorious Honor awards.  Prior to joining the government, she served as Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Defense Information.

...The Scoville Fellowship has had a tremendous impact on my life. It launched my career by bringing me to DC, giving me Washington experience in my field of dreams, and providing me with a support network of Scoville Board members and former fellows. I've always known that whatever I do for a living, I want to do something that will make the world a better place. The Scoville Fellowship has helped me to make this idealistic goal a reality.

Daryl Kimball

Fall 1989 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Miami University, BA Political Science and Diplomacy/Foreign Affairs, 1986

Issues Covered: Health and environmental impacts of the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex

Current Activities: Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association.  Prior to that he was the  Executive Director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, which was an alliance of 17 leading nuclear non-proliferation and arms control organizations.  He participated in a press conference on the "Implications of the Duma’s Approval of START II" which was published in the May 2000 issue of Arms Control Today.  He wrote "How The U.S. Senate Rejected CTBT Ratification" which appeared in the September/October 1999 issue of Disarmament Diplomacy.  He wrote In Focus: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy at the End of the Century: Lost Opportunities and New Dangers in the September 1999 issue of Foreign Policy In Focus.  He co-authored Accelerating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty--The Article XIV Special Conference.  He participated in a panel discussion, hosted by the Arms Control Association, on arms control issues in 1999.   He wrote "Holding the CTBT Hostage in the Senate: The 'Stealth' Strategy of Helms and Lott" published in the June/July 1998 issue of Arms Control Today.

...Receiving a Fellowship was a turning point in my early career as a professional peace activist. The Fellowship gave me the opportunity and the experience to be a part of the effort to stop weapons production and testing at the United States' nuclear weapons complex and establish myself in a permanent position at PSR. If it were not for the Scoville Fellowship, I do not believe I would be here in Washington making what contribution I can to the nuclear disarmament cause. Without the Fellowship, many other bright and committed men and women would be unable to gain the experience to develop careers in peace...

Cindy Sanford Potter

Fall 1989 Fellow, Committee for National Security

Education: University of Wisconsin at Madison, MS Water Resources Management, 1994
Oberlin College, BA Geology, 1989

Issues Covered: Economic diversification/conversion

Current Activities: Potter is home full-time with two young children and is also active with a volunteer neighborhood organization she founded to reduce crime and enhance community in north Seattle.  She is also PTA president of her children's elementary school.  Previously, she worked as a Naturalist for the King County Park System.  She presented nature programs to the general public and K-8 classrooms throughout King County, Washington.  She specialized in stream ecology, salmon, pond dipping, slugs/worms and beavers.  She developed and presented more than 150 programs annually, on 50 different topics to 3,500 children and adults and initiated and managed Stream Connection, a new school-age classroom and field education program focused on healthy streams and salmon.

...The Scoville Fellowship brought me to DC. I probably would never have had the courage to start my career in the nation's capital, but receiving the Fellowship gave me the incentive (and the confidence) to do so. I spent four months at the Committee for National Security, broadening into environmental protection issues after my stint as a fellow.

E. Scott Adler

Spring 1989 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists & Center for Defense Information

Education: Columbia University, Ph.D. Political Science, 1996
University of Michigan, BA Political Science, 1988

Issues Covered: B-2 Bomber

Current Activities: Adler is an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder where his areas of expertise include American politics, political institutions, and the legislative process and structure.  His current research uses theoretical models of legislative organization to examine congressional committee reforms.  Other projects include a study of surges and slumps in the production of legislation in Congress and an examination of the effect of constituency characteristics on the behavior of legislators across various policy arenas.  He has articles forthcoming and published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review.  He is a recipient of two National Science Foundation research grants.  His book Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System was published in spring 2002.  During the 2006-2007 academic year he was a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University.  He is the co-editor and co-author of a chapter of The Macropolitics of Congress, published in 2006 by Princeton University Press.

...There is little doubt that my Scoville Fellowship had a profound impact upon my choice of graduate studies and career path. Subsequent to finishing my fellowship, I came to realize that I was not only concerned with important political issues such as arms control and the defense budget, but I was also fascinated by the mechanics of government and the structure of the policy-making process...

Chris Blake

Spring 1989 Fellow, Council for a Livable World

Education: University of Oregon, JD, 1993
Winthrop College, BA Political Science and Philosophy/Religion, 1988

Current Activities: Blake is Senior Contract Counsel at Synthes, Inc. where he focuses on contracts and general corporate matters.
Synthes is a leading international medical devices company.

Richard Wiley

Spring 1989 Fellow, Defense Budget Project

Jessica R. Aberly

Fall 1988 Fellow, Committee for National Security

Education: Northeastern University School of Law, JD, 1994
Brown University, BA International Relations, 1988

Issues Covered: Education and outreach (primarily with women's organizations) regarding military budget, specific weapons systems and Russia/Gorbachev.

Current Activities: Aberly is the principal of the Aberly Law Firm, which specializes in representing Indian tribes and pueblos in protecting their water resources.  In addition to her water law work, she is currently assisting Santa Clara Pueblo in that tribe's efforts to ensure environmental and cultural resource impacts from Los Alamos National Laboratory operations are properly addressed and in opposing the Department of Energy's efforts to increase and make permanent plutonium pit production at LANL. 

William Stassen

Fall 1988 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Program on Science and International Security

Education: Boston College Law School, JD, 1996
Earlham College, BA Political Science, 1987

Issues Covered: Arms control verification research issues

Current Activities: Stassen is a partner in the law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP in Philadelphia.  His practice areas are commercial litigation, trust and estate law and condemnation litigation.

Felicia J. Wong

Fall 1988 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Political Science, 2000
University of California at Berkeley, MA Political Science, 1990
Stanford University, BA English/Creative Writing and Political Science, 1988

Issues Covered: Arms control agreements

Current Activities: Wong is Vice President of Operations at Teachscape, a technology-enabled K-12 teacher professional development company.  She is responsible for delivering the annual operating plan, including budgeting, staffing, and overseeing all client work.  She received the American Political Science Association 2000 Dissertation Award in the category of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section for her dissertation titled The Good Fight: Race, Politics, and Contemporary Urban Education Reform.  Previously, Wong completed a White House Fellowship, serving as Director of the Federal Support to Communities Initiative, an interagency task force that used information technology to bring federal information and assistance to children, families, and educators.  She also held a political appointment in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, where she worked on major education projects and the design and procurement of the multi-billion dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.  Wong has taught history and philosophy at the College Preparatory School in Oakland, California and has taught English to children in a Tibetan orphanage school.  She serves on the California Advisory Board of College Summit, a national non-profit that helps low-income students apply to and attend college.

Randy Divinski

Spring 1988 Fellow, Council for a Livable World

Education: Clark University, Graphic & Web Design Certificate, 2006
Syracuse University, MA Political Science, 1991
St. John's University (MN), BA Government, 1985

Issues Covered: MX rail-garrison, Star Wars, Midgetman programs

Major Fellowship Activities: Divinski worked on countering the "rail-garrison" scheme to shuttle MX missiles around the country on trains.  He researched and wrote the Council's MX rail-garrison factsheet and talking points for environmental impact hearings on the project.  He also wrote background documents on the Star Wars and small-ICBM ("Midgetman") programs.

Current Activities: Divinski is is a Grants Officer at the Highland Street Foundation in Framingham, MA.  HSF is a private family foundation that awards about $10 million in grants to non-profit organizations (mostly in MA).  Education support for disadvantaged and under-served children, environmental conservation, healthcare and the arts, are among the diverse programs funded.  He serves on the USA National Coordinating Committee of Peace Brigades International/USA and on the advisory board of Peacework Magazine (published by Cambridge MA office of AFSC), and was an antiwar delegate to the 2007 Massachusetts state Democratic Party convention.  He is also a board member of Save Fenway Park, which in 2007 received Preservation Massachusetts’ Charles W. Elliot Award for a citizen's group that has shown "Exceptional Vision and Excellent Planning" in the cause of historic preservation.

During my tenure as a fellow, I learned a lot about how arms control organizations work... about how the military budget gets hammered out (and how $100 million here or there is small change within the beltway) including how much of it is pork and sheer nonsense....I enjoyed the "team spirit" and collective work of the arms control community. This experience was key in my later decision to pursue a career in the world of non-profit political organizations instead of academia.

John Feffer

Spring 1988 Fellow, Nuclear Times

Education: Haverford College, 1986

Issues Covered: Alternative defense: peace education; U.S. policies

Current Activities: Feffer became Director of the Global Affairs Program at the International Relations Center and co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus in June 2006.  He previously worked as a freelance writer and editor in Washington, DC.  He contributed an essay on U.S. government subsidies of the arms trade for a project sponsored by FAS and CDI.  He worked for three years for the American Friends Service Committee in Tokyo where he co-directed the East Asia Quaker International Affairs Program . He focused on two areas: conflict resolution and the arms trade.  He conducted a conflict resolution training program in South Korea.  He also worked closely with groups in Europe and Asia on the Asia-Europe Meeting process to get Europe-Asia arms trade issues higher on the agenda, and wrote booklet, Linking Arms, on this topic.  He worked extensively on peace and disarmament issues along with groups in Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan, and organizes regional exchanges.  He has also worked for the World Policy Institute. He wrote Progress on the Korean Peninsula? and North Korea Reaches Out which appeared  in Foreign Policy in Focus.  He coedited Europe's New Nationalism ,which was published by Oxford University Press, and State of the Union: The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile, and wrote Shock Waves: Eastern Europe After the Revolutions and Beyond Detente: Soviet Foreign Policy and U.S. Options.

...Having an opportunity to be in DC and meet with policy makers was enormously instructive for me, not to mention professionally helpful. The work I did at Nuclear Times, particularly a long paper on alternative defense that became a chapter in my first book, helped me to shape my subsequent writing career enormously. Even though the Cold War is over, the need for arms control and disarmament specialists has never been greater. I'm glad to see that the Fellowship is still going strong!

Dan Galpern

Fall 1987 Fellow, Freeze Voter Education Fund

Education: San Francisco State University, BA Philosophy, 1984

Issues Covered: Educated potential delegates to Presidential campaigns about arms control issues; wrote briefings, articles on counterforce nuclear weapons

Current Activities: Galpern is a Senior Policy Analyst with the California Budget Project.

Jennie Jones

Fall 1987 Fellow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Sherri Schultz

Fall 1987 Fellow, SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action)

Education: University of Oregon, BA Political Science, 1986

Issues Covered: Star Wars; SANE/FREEZE publications

Current Activities: Schultz is the founder and principal of Words with Grace, an editorial services firm in San Francisco that serves nonprofit organizations, book publishers, individuals, and businesses.  Her clients include Northwest Environment Watch and Island Press, a leading environmental publisher based in Washington, DC.  She founded the Northwest Independent Editors Guild, a professional and social network for Northwest freelance editors, which now has more than two hundred members.  During a several-year stay in San Francisco, Sherri played a leading role in saving the University Mound Ladies Home, a 125-year-old nonprofit that provides an affordable, beautiful, and supportive living environment for older women of modest means, from closure and demolition.  She served briefly on the board of directors and continues to be involved with outreach and fundraising.

...After I graduated...bearing a degree in political science with a focus on arms control, I knew I wanted to apply my skills and energy in DC (but it was a long way from Eugene, Oregon). The fellowship gave me a job with the group I most wanted to work for--and an income to pay the rent so I could focus on work! The chance to see how politics really worked and to meet the ...dedicated people doing political work was invaluable. And of course, at SANE/FREEZE I had my first paid job...writing and editing, which has developed into a career I love.

James Rise

Spring 1987 Fellow, Council for a Livable World

Education: Oregon State University, 1986

Issues Covered: Star Wars; nuclear testing

Current Activities: Rise is Vice President and General Manager of the Office Printing Business at Xerox Corp.
where he is responsible for their black and white and color printer business.

Kathy Simmonds

Spring 1987 Fellow, Coalition NFP

Carla Williams

Spring 1987 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility