CIE Off Campus

Jan Droegkamp (Ed.D. 1982) droegkamp@uis.edu
Margaret McLaughlin (Ed.D. 1983)

Jan and Margaret were together at a Peace Corps conference in Cambodia in early 2008 and Jan sent along this picture. Clearly they were enjoying their work! Jan is assistant Peace Corps Director in Albania now and Margaret is with Peace Corps Washington. [March 2008]

Steve Grant (Ed.D. 1972) sgrantmail@verizon.net
Steve & Arthur Steve signed up for a "Paris through the Ages" tour led by Arthur Gillette in October, 2007. The two are pictured here on rue Mouffetard, tour no. 12 of 16 different tours Arthur has created. Steve's daughter Sylviane joined the party. She is studying for her masters at the Sorbonne. Steve earned his masters at the Sorbonne in 1964. [October 2007]

Chikondi Maleta cmaleta1@yahoo.co.uk
Upon returning from his nondegree study at CIE, Chikondi joined the new Masters degree in planning at Chancellor's College. He is now in the Policy and Planning section of a newly reorganized Department of Education where he is currently working on the Joint Financing Arrangement and SWAp in collaboration with collegueas in the Ministry & Development Partners. He is also in the involved in the finalization of the National Education Sector Plan. His Master's topic is Financing of Public Primary Schools within Inadequate Resources: Policy agendas and alternatives. [January 2007]

Jan Droegkamp (Ed. D. 1982) droegkamp@uis.edu
Gail von Hahmann (Ed. D. 1984) Gvonh@aol.com
Julio Ramirez (Ed.D. 1985 )
Three CIE members from the 1980s recently were in Bangladesh with others on a World Learning exchange tour to discuss parental involvement in schools.They were joined by John Phillips (not shown) a former CIE employee who worked on CIE's Sudan Basic Education project. Thanks to Jan Droegkamp for sending the picture along. [October 2006]

Vicente Arredondo (Ed.D. 1982) varredondo47@prodigy.net.mx
I live in Cuernavaca city, nearby Mexico city, with my second wife. She works at the state public university, and I am a free consultant, since 2001, on matters such as formal education, local development, civil society empowerment, and ethic in business. As you see, many areas of interest. Click on the picture for an article on City Life by Vicente. [August 2006]

CIE Muskie Reunion
The US Embassy in Georgia and American Councils organized 2006 Regional Muskie Alumni Conference: “Building Democratic Societies and Market Economies in Eurasia ” on March 24-27, 2006 in Gudauri, Georgia. The conference topic was the political, economic and social concepts that are essential to the functioning of a democratic society. This was an exciting cross-cultural experience for Muskie alumni from Eurasia revolving around the ideas of democracy and market economies. Out of 36 invited participants, seven participants were UMass/Amherst alumni of whom five were CIE graduates so there was kind of UMass-CIE reunion. The Education and Social Issues panel was presented by the CIE alumni.

Suzi Kindervatter (Ed.D. 1978) skindervatter@interaction.org
Suzi is Director of Gender and Diversity at InterAction. She has led InterAction’s work since 1994 in expanding the capacity of InterAction members to integrate a gender perspective into their operations and programs and in promoting gender equity in donor and UN agencies. She says

This has been a year when a lot has come to fruition. I produced a CD ROM facilitator's training tool for our organizational Gender Audit methodology and directed a study in Africa on the impact of gender mainstreaming, which we've published.
She recently sent copies of these materials to CIE for the resource center. [December 2005]

Duong van Chu (Ed.D. 2004) (1944-2005)
Duong passed away on Nov 21, 2005 in Springfield MA. While at CIE, Duong combined academic work with participation in the CIRCLE program working on developing community leadership in Asian communities in the Pioneer Valley. Mr. Chu, a resident of Springfield worked for a number of years as a community outreach health educator for local Asian communities and was affiliated with the Mass Dept of Public Health. He is survived by his wife and four children. (11/05)

James Key (M.Ed. 1979) jameskey@post.harvard.edu
James recently visited CIE. He recently spent more than a year in Cuenca Spain where he had been awarded a scholarship to study at the International Museum of Electrography. James is a free-lance artist who now works solely in digital images like the small one shown here. His work is often displayed in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico and he has been featured in a number of local and international art shows and cultural events. (7/05)

Sue Tatten suetatten@hotmail.com
Sue writes recently that she is leaving Washington and moving to Khartoum. I will be leaving USAID to join the UN as Senior Rule of Law Advisor for UNDP in Darfur region of the Sudan. I'll be involved in providing human rights training to judges, administration of justice officials, and others as well as working closely with traditional leaders and communities in IDP camps and affected villages on justice and accountability issues.This is a wonderful position and will allow me to do what I love - promote the rights of people to live a life of peace and prosperity within their families and communities on the African continent. (7/05)

Deborah Golub (Ed.D. 1979)
Deborah published an article on Social Action Art Therapy in the Spring 2005 issue of Art Therapy, the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. In the article she draws upon her work at CIE as a framework to reflect on three examples of her approach to art therapy in Brazil, China and Denmark. The cover of that issue is picture of one of a series of miniature collages that Deborah had constructed. The cover collage is
entitled “Gli Abitanti” (The Dwellers). (6/05)

Menzi Mthwecu
In May 2005, Menzi was killed in an automobile accident in South Africa. His sudden passing abruptly ended a very promising career as an advocate for the workers in the mining industry of South Africa. He was the founding CEO of the Mining Qualifications Authority and had already begun to have an impact on the industry. (6/05) more

Fulgence Swai (Ed.D. 2004) swai@alumni.umass.edu
The Tanzania Teacher Union in its Annual General Conference on May 18, 2005 elected Swai to be one of the three Trustees of the organization. Swai says

It was a great contest and I was so excited to win the election. It is just an honorary position which has some status without financial gain. The position will enable me make use of the skills I gained at the Center for International Education in strengthening the union. My ambition is to have the Tanzania Teacher Union stand as a role model for teacher organizations in Africa.

He has also been able to track down three CIE members there: Oliver Mhaiki who is the Director of Primary Education in the Ministry, Clement Kisusange who is the Headmaster of Iyunga Boys Secondary School in Mbeya. and Antonia Tingitana who is also doing well. All have promised to write! (6/05)

Babacar Mboup (M. Ed. 1997) mboup@educ.umass.edu
Babacar was at the first CIE Tuesday meeting of Spring 05. He announced that he was defending his dissertation in the French Department the same day. His dissertation is titled: Negro African Theatre: Beyond traditional boundries, development and new challenges. His defense was ten years to the day from when he arrived at CIE to begin his master's program! He is now an assistant professor of French at Valdosta State University in Georgia where he is also active in outreach, working with local churches to bring a more accurate understanding of Islam to the local community particularly in light of current world affairs.(1/05)

Kaki Rusmore (M.Ed. 1995) krusmore@cruzio.com
Kaki is currently a Program Officer for management assistance with the Community Foundation of Monterey County in California. She runs workshops on Organizational Development, manages a small library and provides informal consulting on OD issues. A highlight this year was a neighborhood leadership institute working with 19 grassroots organizations over a period of six months. Next year she hopes to do a longer institute on social entrepreneurship. (December 2004)

Doc Coster (M.Ed. 1989) coster85@link.net
In September I made the decision to leave CARE USA and CARE Egypt in order for me and my family to stay on here in Cairo. I've taken a position with an education project and am working with World Education. My wife, Ann, is the elementary librarian at the international school that our 3 children attend. Life is good here and so we've decided to stay on for a spell. (October 2004)

Kay Pfeiffer (Ed.D. 95) - kay@primetimepbc.org
Kay is now the Director for Research & Technical Assistance at Prime Time in Palm Beach County, Florida. She says: I'm really enjoying south Florida and working in youth development. (July 2004)

Sherry Russell (M.Ed. 1999) srussell@np.peacecorps.gov
Sherry retuned to CIE from Nepal in July 2004 to defend her dissertation which deals with a US-based participatory adult education research project. She will be returning to Kathmandu where she is now the Program and Training Officer for Peace Corps, where she has two more years. She, her partner Frances, and their one lovely Pug are doing well. Frances is doing interesting teacher training work and we're both still enjoying Nepal despite the current stresses. (7/04)

Bérengère de Negri (Ed. D. 1988) bdenegri@aed.org
Bérengère has recently co-authored a publication entitled Making Sense of Focus Group Findings: A Systematic Participatory Analysis Approach. The manual provides practical guidance for researchers and program managers in low resource settings who are faced with the difficult task of analyzing focus group data. The book contains both a review of concepts and a case study from Zambia that allows readers to practice their skills with specific exercises. The full text of the manual (http://www.aed.org/publications/Making%20Sense_final.pdf) is available online. (4/04)

James M. Dawson [1944-2003]
James was stricken with pulmonary fibrosis as he approached his 59th birthday in late November. His family sought solace by embracing a Circle of Friends who shared in writing their memories of interacting with JD. For a while JD was able to hear the many messages from all over the world and to know how many people he had affected. When he finally passed away on December 6th, he was honored by those who celebrated his accomplishments. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.For more details click on his name. (12/03)

Jan Droegkamp (Ed. D. 1982) jdroe1@uis.edu
Edgardo Rothkegel & Jan Droegkamp Jan sent this picture of herself and Edgardo Rothkegel from the 25th reunion of CHP International, a training organization specializing in training volunteers for Peace Corps. She has worked for them periodically, but is on the faculty at University of Illinois in Springfield. Edgardo works for Peace Corps in Paraguay. Jan is going to Botswana on sabbatical from October to December of 2003 where she will be a visiting professor at the University of Botswana. While there she will live in the house of Mercy Montsi - who will be at Stanford also on Sabbatical! (10/03)

Mansour Fakih (Ed. D. 1995)
Mansour was back in Amherst in September doing training with ITD for a group of Indonesian educators - leaders of pesantrans - a type of moslem school common in Indonesia. He was eager to explore the possibility of having INSIST, his NGO for social transformation, serve as a satellite base for CIE in Indonesia. Mansour is also active in the Helsinki Process - a forum formed to deal with the effects of globalization in the South. (10/03)

Elizabeth Psychas (M.Ed. 1988)
We regret to announce the passing of Elizabeth Psychas on July 2nd at the age of 67. She is survived by her husband George Psychas whom she met while they were both teaching in Tanzania. George received his doctorate from the School of Education at UMass with George Urch as his chair. After Liz got her degree at CIE she and her husband lived and worked in Westfield, Massachusetts.

Becky Bunnell (M.Ed 1989) rbunnell@cdc.gov
DRE dropped in on Becky recently at her office in CDC in Entebbe, Uganda where she is now the Associate Director for Science and Research. She has been in contact with Hema Abeygunawardena who she is bringing to Uganda to do some training in use of a computer-based program for analyzing qualitative research data. (3/03)

Renuka Pillay rpillay@imul.com
Seen here recently in a fashionable lunch spot in Kampala, Uganda - Renuka continues to be very busy working with USAID on supporting and maintaining the Teacher Development and Management System (TDMS) that CIE had a big part in creating in Uganda. She vows that she will be returning to CIE soon to finish her dissertation. (3/03)

Judy Hofer (M.Ed.) judy@nmcl.org
I just started a new job January 1st as the ABE Professional Development Coordinator for the state of NM. It's a wonderful position for me as the need is enormous and teachers are hungry to learn. I think of David Kinsey often in my position and miss him dearly. She has recently completed a sourcebook Take on the Challenge. It's about the work that adult basiceducation programs in New England did to address the impacts of violence on women's learning. (3/03)

Tamara Mikadze (M.Ed. 2000) tm625@nyu.edu
Tamar is from the Republic of Georgia. She received her M. Ed. from the Center in May, 2000. After two years working in Georgia, she has now returned to the US where she is studying for a Master's in Public Administration at NYU. Tamara promises to come visit us soon especially now that we have so many Muskies at CIE! (12/02)

Natalia Oleshko (M.Ed. 2001)
A Christmas card from Natalia says she is still in Cherkassy, Ukraine, but will soon be moving to Kiev to take up a position with USAID in the department of economic growth. (12/02)

Aukram Burton aburton1@jefferson.k12.ky.us
Currently working as the Diversity and Multicultural Education Specialist for the Jefferson County School system in Kentucky, Aukram returned to CIE to get his doctoral program back on active status. He commented to the Tuesday meeting that the Jefferson County system was now highly diverse with large language groups other than English - the top five of which are Spanish, Somali, German and Arabic. (11/02)

Chuck Harns (Ed. D. 1992) charns@iom.int
We recently received a job notice with the International Organization for Migration (http://www.iom.ch/) in Geneva courtesy of Chuck. He is currently the Head of their Technical Cooperation for Migration Service. (9/02)

Harold Weaver (Ed.D. 1985) weaverhal@yahoo.com
I work at W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and am currently busy curating and preparing for The ChinaFilm Project 2002, our annual celebration of Chinese films at the Harvard Film Archive, 15-17 and 22-24 November 2002. In the past few years I have interviewed major Chinese filmmakers and have collected over 300 videos of feature films from Greater China for education and research in the U.S. After the festival, I expect to accept the visiting professorship I've been offered at a Taiwanese university for the coming semester (10/02).

Rita Raboin (M.Ed. 1997) indbelem@amazon.com.br
Rita emailed us to let us know she was recently in France attending the Irmas de Notre Dame International Chapter which is held every six years. (8/02)

Karen Elam (M.Ed. 1997) talanga91@hotmail.com
Karen writes: Yesterday was my first day as the new Director of Planning and Development for AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. It's a great organization: Jewish college grads in their 20's spend a year working at anti-poverty organizations in NYC and, soon, in Washington, D.C. I will be working with the board and staff on expanding the program to other cities and will be doing fundraising. I'm very excited at the opportunity. (7/02)

Michael Frith (Ed.D. 88 ) michael@frith.com
Michael Frith and his wife Kathy are settled in Singapore and doing well. Michael recently visited Rus Dilts in Jakarta. (7/02)

Lilian Goytia-Marin (M.Ed. 84) - lgoytia@entelnet.bo or causavih@yahoo.com
From La Paz, Bolivia - Lilian says that she loves reading the news on our CIE website. Also she wanted information about how to order CIE shirts, bags, etc. She especially would like email addresses of CIE people such as Nancy Maklan, Michael Basile, Joan Dixon, Deborah Golub, Juan Aulestia, Vicente Arredondo and Nanette Brey. (6/02)