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Alumni are listed by degree and entering year
1970s
Mark Andrew (MA '79), founder and president of GreenMark Enterprises, was featured in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal article "Former politico Mark Andrew continues to make his (green) mark" on October 19.
1980s
Patricia Alexander (MA '86) is employed by the federal government as a desk officer for the United States Agency for International Development.
Christopher Benjamin (MA '84) works as the special assistant for the program development branch at the Centers for Disease Control.
Paula Mazzacano (MA '80) is a financial analyst for the City of Minneapolis.
Patrick Mendis (MA '84) has been appointed dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Northern Virginia. Read the article in the November 6, 2007 edition of Asian American Press here.
Laurie Ohmann (MP '88) was recently appointed CEO of The Public Strategies Group. The press release was printed in the October 12 issue of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.
Tim Reardon (MA '87) was featured in the October 21 spotlight article "Today's spotlight: Tim Reardon" in the Star Tribune. In addition to teaching as an adjunct professor at the School of Management at the University of St. Thomas and at Metropolitan State University, he recently became executive director of the Bridge for Runaway Youth, Inc., in Minneapolis.
Sarah Stoesz (MA '85) gave a public lecture, Navigating Conflict: Planned Parenthood in South Dakota, at the Humphrey Institute on October 24.
1990s
Oscar Aliaga (MA '94) teaches as a professor at CENTRUM Catolica in Peru.
Keith Butcher (MS-STEP '98) has taken a new position with Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, based in Rochester.
Tom Daniel (MURP '98) left the City of Minneapolis Department of City Planning and Economic Development in November to accept a new planning position with the City of Salem, Massachusetts.
Gena Gerard (MA '95) has a new role as transition consultant for Restorative Justice Community Action, Inc., in Minneapolis.
Naomi Goodman (MA '97) works as a research analyst for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Washington, D.C.
Clarissa Jones-Winter (MPP '98) is an attorney in Berlin, Germany.
Julie Kutzke (MPP '99) left the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Denver regional office, and returned to Washington, D.C. She is employed as a program analyst for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Matilda Larson (MA '96) is a planner with the St. Lawrence County Planning Office in New York.
Julie Morrison Walker (MURP '99) started her own company, Strategy Finders, LLC.
Crysta Parkin (MPP '99) works as an attorney with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services in Rochester.
Michael Raja (MA '97) is an assistant vice president at Eurohypo AG in New York.
Kim Snyder (MA '93) is a consultant for Excelsior Bay Group, LLC.
Karla Twedt-Ball (MPP '99) has taken a new position as director of programs for the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Amy Wicklund (MP '92) is an economic development planner for the Fond du Lac Reservation.
Eric Willette (MA '93) accepted the position of property tax research director for the Minnesota Department of Revenue.
2000s
Luana Banu (MPP '01) left Heartland Health Outreach to become a senior consultant for Navigant Consulting, Inc., in Chicago, Illinois.
LisaBeth Barajas (MURP '02) is a planner with the Metropolitan Council in St. Paul.
Wenling Chen (MURP '01) completed a two-year Junior Professional Associate Program with the World Bank and recently took a policy planning specialist position with the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Megan Davis (MPA '05) is employed as a policy analyst for Boulder County in Boulder, Colorado.
Loren DeJonge (MPP '03) is the special assistant to the principal deputy under the Secretary of Defense for the Department of Defense.
Daniel DuHamel (MPP '03) took a position as state program administrative principal for the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Kerri Gordon (MPP '00) is the public relations manager at ClearWay Minnesota.
Mary Guerra (MPP '05) is the placement coordinator for the Student Placement Center with St. Paul Public Schools.
Jocelyn Hale (MPA '06) was appointed the new executive director of the Loft Literary Center. She is featured in an October 29 article in the Downtown Journal, "Lofty ambitions" and again in a November 19 article in MinnPost.com, "Love over money: the life and times of Jocelyn Hale."
Natalie Hoover (MPP '05) is the director of programs and administration for the Power of Free Enterprise-AGE3 Initiative, a joint project between the University of Chicago, the Yale Growth Center, and the MIT Poverty Lab.
Sarah Humpage (MPP '04) is a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota.
Bernadine Joselyn (MPA '00) is a member of the alumni board at the Humphrey Institute. She has joined the UMAA board as the northeast Minnesota representative. Bernadine lives in Grand Rapids, where she directs the Public Policy and Engagement Program for Blandin Foundation, Minnesota's largest rural-based philanthropic organization with a mission to strengthen rural Minnesota communities, especially Grand Rapids.
Stefanie Konobeck (MPP '03) accepted a new position in the taxpayer services division with Hennepin County. She is a strategic planner.
Nancy Lueke (MPP '01) took a leave of absence from the Government Accountability Office to participate in the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship program in 2006-2007. She completed work assignments at Germany's Supreme Audit Institute in Bonn as well as the German Institute for Town Center Development in Berlin.
Geoffrey Maas (MURP '06) took a position with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. He is the GIS manager.
Laura McCarty (MPP '01) is the manager of individual gifts for the Minnesota Orchestra.
Linnea Mirsch (MPP '04), Jennifer Menke Blanchard (MPP '01), and Christina Zeise (MPP '03) helped organize the second Midwest Government Performance Conference, which was held October 22 and 23 in Rochester.
Matthew Mohning (MPP '03) works as the executive budget officer for higher education with the Minnesota Department of Finance.
Craig Nelson (MS-STEP '04) was quoted in The New York Times article "Master's Degrees Abound as Universities and Students See a Windfall" on September 12.
Steve Peterson (MURP '05) recently started a position at SRF Consulting Group, Inc.
Joshua Schenck Winters (MS-STEP '03) is a public policy associate at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Melissa Reed (MPP '05) is now the political director for NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota. She manages the organization's lobbying and policy work, electoral strategy, grant oversight, and internal structure.
Rosa Tock (MPP '01) writes, "Since May, I am the legislative director at the Chicano Latino Affairs Council where I gather information and community input in various areas regarding Latinos in Minnesota. Part of my work is to disseminate this information to advise and educate state legislators and other policymakers about the socio-economic situation of Latinos in the state."
Traci Warnberg-Lemm (MPA '00) is president of her consulting company, Social Motion, LLC.
Deb Wilkens-Costello (MPA '04) left the University of Minnesota to become executive director of The Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul.
Academic notes
Assistant Professor Jodi Sandfort and alumnus co-author Tim Dykstal (MPP '05) received the first place award for their teaching case titled "Trust as an Asset" in the Maxwell School Collaborative Governance Initiative competition. It is a two part decision-forcing case developed to illustrate the tensions involved in working across organizational boundaries to develop important management innovations that improve how nonprofit organizations can effectively serve citizens.
Humphrey Institute Senior Fellow Jay Kiedrowsk (MA '71) received honorable mention for his case "Health Careers Institute," which analyzes informal cross-sector collaborations involving business, governmental, philanthropic, educational, and nonprofit organizations. Kiedrowski's submission was co-authored by alumna Allison Rojas (MA '96).
New additions
Michael Raja (MA '97) and his wife Theresa welcomed the birth of their second son Rasmus, born September 14.
Jeremy Schupbach (MPP '99) welcomed a son, Edwin David Schupbach, born November 19.
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