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Knauss Alumni

Sea Grant Network and stories about past and present Knauss Fellows

Knauss Alumni

Legislative

Sheron Luk
Chandler Countryman
Edward Higgins
Carina Fish
Samm Newton
Nyla Husain
Sarah Pease
Bailey McCarthy Riley
Kate Shlepr
Alanna Greene
Charles Vickery
Violet Doucette
Ashlyn Spector
Morgan McCue
Janine Barr
James Tran
Spring Gaines

Executive

Alfonso Macias Tapia
Nikelene Alexandria Mclean
Becky Curtis
Schuyler Nardelli
Elizabeth McNamee
Sakinat Mojisola Ahmad
Roberto Jose Porro
Hannah Wellman
Lauren Howe Kerr
Ana Sosa
Jeffrey Kast
Nina Yang
Liang Wu
Eleanor Pierel
Steven Hein
Elizabeth Wright Fairbanks
Gabriella Kitch
John Conroy
Cynthia Garcia Eidell
Mariana DeSouza
Lincoln Rehm
Heather Z X Glon
Rebecca Atkins
Olivia Vill
Sergio Garcia Mejia
Sara Parkison
Jennifer Kenyon
Amber Fandel
Celeste Naoko Zumwalt
Michelle Nguyen
Caroline Rodriguez
Tyler Loughran
Sean Mahaffey
Madyson Miller
Elliott Matthews
Giselle Schmitz
Benjamin Frey
Kayla Williams
Ashley Hann
Patricia Perez
Theresa Vander Woude
Allyson Kristan
Colleen Baker
Brendan Philip
Andrea Miralles Barboza
Victoria Moreno
Kaitlen Lang
Elsa Gutierrez
Naomi Blinick
Caitlin Feehery
Michael Heard Snow

Legislative

Sean Mullin
Stephanie Houser
Hally Stone
Michaela Margida
Emma Taccardi
Brian Redder
Maya Becker
Andrew Shamaskin
Abigail Engleman
Arye Janoff
Elle Wibisono
Emily Long
Rachael DeWitt
Cameron Adams
Katie Lample
Megan McKeown
Emily Tucker

Executive

Margaret Beetstra
Joseph Fader
Derek Kraft
Danielle Weissman
Kayelyn Simmons
Catherine Tobin
So-Jung Youn
James Price
Shaelyn Patzer
Katherine Ball
Helena Pound
Matthew Smith
Nicole Rucker
Max Showalter
Shadaesha Green
Alma Vazquez Lule
Suzanne Webster Spitzer
Molly Cain
Noura Randle
Kerri Dobson
Lu Wang
Renee Richardson
Gabriella Marafino
Kenneth Erickson
Marina Cucuzza
Nicholas Anderson
Jashira Torres Pabon
Laura Ingulsrud
Haley Oleynik
Andrew Villeneuve
Rachel Johnson
Lucila Bloemendaal
Willem Klajbor
Cadijah Walcott
Sarah Zaunbrecher
Maya Whalen Kipp
Sandra Demberger
Demetra Panos
Anita Harrington
Caleb Taylor
Laurina Leach
Clea Harrelson
Kimberly Ohnemus
Kathryn Dalton
Alejandra Enriquez
Halle Berger
Alec Shub
Xinyi Zeng
Katherine Longmire
Amara Davis
Theresa Keith
Tammy Bleier
Shellby Johnson
Maria Mercedes Carruthers Ferrero

Legislative

Laura Almodovar
Sean McNally
Brittany Schieler
James LaChance
Vanessa Constant
Elizabeth Lenz
Katrina Chicojay Moore
Matthew Young
Celina Scott Buechler
James DelBene
Kat Montgomery
Christopher Pickens
Kelly Martin
Kristin Butler

Executive

Meredith Richardson
Victoria Luu
Gabrielle Corradino
Brianna Shaughnessy
Katherine Dziedzic
Alexandra Skrivanek
Leah Segui
Bryan Keller
Katherine Hornick
Amanda Dwyer
Pamela Hope Braff
Irvin Huang
Geoffrey Dipre
Shelby Butz
Charles Scaife
Katherine Morrice
Naomi Lewandowski
Aaron Macy
Christine Bassett
Wenfei Ni
Emily Horton
Michael Acquafredda
Ann Christine Zinkann
Kaitlyn Lowder
Jennifer Le
Emma Young
Samuel Fielding
Leanne Poussard
Jasmine Prat
Guy Eroh
Zuzanna Abdala
Rachel Hager
Hannah Lachance
Lauren Bonatakis
Amelia Grace Roskar
Michelle Harris
Kirsten Rhude
Katherine Darr
Brittney Parker
Caroline Wiernicki
Jesse Ross
Amanda Lawrence
Jennifer Joseph
Spencer Showalter
Josie Lindsey Robbins
Margaret Chory
Cheyenne Stienbarger
Joseph Naughton
Tiffany Atkinson
Taylor Goelz
Jessamin Straub
Katie Slattery
George Fagan

Legislative

Omanjana Goswami
Julia Mason
Megan May
Sandra Cutts
Amy Kirkham
Allison Matzelle
Andrea Annie Daly
William Chris Thaxton
Ben Hughey
Jillian Mayer
Michelle Chow
Rennie Meyers
Valerie Cleland
Kaitlyn Pritchard

Executive

Melanie Jackson
Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger
Marla Valentine
Andrea Chan
Katherine Wilson
Sam Chin
Kathryn Frens
Kathryn Lohr
Zachary Cannizzo
Maureen Brooks
Tyler Rohr
Roxanne Carini
Molly Grear
Marnie Riddle
Alison Agather
Bianca Prohaska
Audrey Maran
Anna Apostel
Amanda Carter
Chellby Kilheffer
Emily Russ
Christine Hayes
Eugenia Bey
Elizabeth Berg
Matthew Long
Lauren Swaddell
Daniel Takaki
Madison Harris
Larissa Lee
Stacy Weinstock
Jordan Rutland
Alessandra Burgos
Christine Hirt
Christine Burns
Sophie Godfrey McKee
Lisa Kim
Alicia Wilson
Justine Lundsted
Jill Hamilton
Amara Huddleston
Hollis Jones
Alicia Cheripka
Kelley Uhlig
Katharine Egan
Zoraida Perez Delgado
Emma Hollowell

Legislative

William Goldsmith
Maggie Nga Chan
Lauren Linsmayer
Skylar Bayer
Derek Southern
James Kralj
Ann Robertson
Sarah Lessard
Janan Evans Wilent
Lauren Tavar
Jillian K Farkas
Bret Sparks

Executive

Elizabeth Clark
Chante Davis
Laura Koehn
Lisa Peterson
Andria Salas
Ammar Hanif
Rebecca Certner
Mary Kate Rogener
Jessica Sherman
Heather Fair Wu
Emily Cira
Bridget Cotti Rausch
Matthew Oreska
Stacy Aguilera Peterson
Aixa Aleman Diaz
Katherine OReilly
James Murphy
Doug Bell
Sabra Comet
Lauren Gibson
Samantha Dowdell
Katelyn Szura
Kevin Staples
Sarah Margolis
Emily Farr
Grace Ferrara
Nicholas Sisson
Emily Markowitz
Noelle Olsen
Bethany Williams
Robin Czerwinski
Sarah Harrison
Carrie Schmaus
Brady ODonnell
Danielle Dodge
Brianna Elliott
Andy Muench
Bianca Santos
Janet Hsiao
Mattie Rodrigue
Meredith Kurz
Daniel Wolfe
Michelle Felterman
Ashley Stilson
Kathryn McIntosh

Legislative

Denise Devotta
Sarah Anderson
Noah Ben Aderet
Charlotte Regula Whitefield
Julia Snouck Hurgronje
Tori Bahe
Ariana Spawn
Martha Newell
Thomas Neal McMillin
Christine Sur
Emily Patrolia

Executive

Eleanor Bors
Emily Parker
Amber Bellamy
Elizabeth Cerny Chipman
Megan Hall
Ian Kroll
Yini Shangguan
Andrew Titmus
Kate McClure
Lauren Knapp
Emily Osborne
Lauren Gentile
Sarah Giltz
Max Kaplan
Adrienne Copeland
Molly Semones
Ali Mitchell
Maggie Allen
Kelly Cates
Miguel Figuerola
Sasha Doss
Shiyu Wang
Nicole Kanayurak
Melissa Karp
Aimee Hoover
Rebecca Peters
Stephen Gray Redding
Amanda Laverty
Emily Chandler
Erica Felins
Gina Digiantonio
Marian Howe
Kayla Miller
Emily Argo
Brendan Talwar
Leah Fine
Laura Satkowski
Matthew Dzaugis
Julia Luthringer
Barbara Katelyn Geddes
Maddie Kennedy
Christen Taylor Armstrong
Alvaro Armas
Katrina Tomecek
John Ryan Henry
Kaitlyn Kalua
Michael Harvey
Adrian Mahoney

Legislative

Paloma Aguirre, CA
Alec Bogdanoff, WHOI
Patrick Donovan, MI
Melissa Errend, OR
Zoe Gentes, RI
Rebecca Gilbert, CT
Eva Lipiec, OR
Anna Normand, FL
Noah Oppenheim, ME
Yareli Sanchez, USC
Erica Towle, FL
Katherine Tsantiris, CT

Executive

Alexandra Atkinson, MD
Monique Baskin, VA
Sean Bath, SC
Frances Bothfeld, DE
Jhoset Burgos-Rodriguez, PR
Rebecca Derex, SC
Dorothy Dick, OR
Laura Early, GA
Erin Eastwood, NY
Laura Ferguson, OR
Lauren Fields, ILIN
Kyrstin Fornace, WHOI
Shanie Gal-Edd, MD
Supriti Ghosh, NC
Simon Gore, CT
Alexandra Harper, FL
Symone Johnson, DE
Elizabeth Lewis, VA
Wencheng Liu-Slater, MD
Abby Lunstrum, VA
Matthew Lurie, HI
Jennafer Malek, GA
Trevor Meckley, MI
Amanda Netburn, CA
Laura Newcomb, WA
Brendan Newell, NH
Efeturi Oghenekaro, MD
Pua’ala Pascua, HI
Katheryn Patterson, VA
Karen Pianka, ME
Casey Pickell, LA
Kristin Raub, CT
Larry Redd, VA
Alexander Renaud, VA
Erin Shew, AK
Natalie Spear, TX
Ellen Spooner, MI
Sarah Stein, IL-IN
Erica Wales, DE
Yuntao Wang, GA
Matthew Womble, MS-AL

Legislative

Yvonne Baker (VA)
Allison Colden V(A)
Raymond Eliot Crafton (CA)
Thomas Farrugia (AK)
Rachel Gentile (ILIN)
Alexis Rudd (HI)
Andrew Strosahl (ME)
Kristina Surfus (WI)
Christos Tsiamis (NH)
Katherine Westfall (USC)

Executive

Amalia Almada (WHOI)
Amy Bowman (CA)
Sarah Bowman (OH)
Benjamin Carr (MIT)
Helen Cheng (NH)
Nichola Clark (NC)
Anne Clark Baker (WHOI)
Jeanette Davis (MD)
Laura Deighan (WA)
Casey Diederich (MIT)
Carolyn Doherty (NC)
Patrick Drupp (HI)
Meagan Dunphy-Daly (NC)
Robert Ellis (FL)
Luke Feinberg (USC)
Jessica Foley (MD)
Courtney Gerstenmaier (SC)
Alyssa Hausman (ILIN)
Rachel Jacobson (MI)
Liana James (ME)
Emi Kondo (OR)
Ayman Mabrouk (MI)
Michelle Maier (OR)
Stephen Manley (VA)
Brittany Marsden (MD)
Alexis Martin (DE)
Natalie McLenaghan (GA)
Wessley Merten (PR)
Caroline Mosley (WI)
Linda Novitski (MI)
Aaron Rosenberg (CT)
Andrew Rubin (FL)
Erin Schnettler (CT)
Kaitlyn Schroeder (TX)
Bridget Seegers (USC)
Shailesh Sharma (MSAL)
Catherine Simons (WI)
Emily Skeehan (VA)
Emily Smith (LA)
Alison Stevens (MI)
Scott Van Der Hyde (VA)
Jeffrey Vieser (ME)

Legislative

Katherine Allen (SC)
Whitney Bernstein (WHOI)
Brandon Elsner (RI)
Kiya Gornik (USC)
Leigh Habegger (RI)
Anna Killius (VA)
Angela Noakes (WA)
Zachary Penney (OR)
Jessica Ritter (NC)
Jennifer Sloan Ziegler (MSAL)

Executive

Sandy Aylesworth (CT)
Ivonne Bejarano (PR)
Elizabeth Bevan (MSAL)
Samantha Bickel (VA)
Kimberly Bittler (TX)
Melissa Carle (LA)
Sarah Close (OR)
Bonnie DeJoseph (WA)
Andrea Dell’apa (NC)
Alyson Fleming (CA)
Lisa Fong (USC)
Clarence Fullard (MI)
Bari Greenfeld (DE)
Li Ling Hamady (WHOI)
Shane Hanlon (PA)
Laura Henson (CA)
Anna Hermes (NJ)
Eimon (Emma) Htun (NC)
Alexis Jackson (CA)
Marissa Jones (WA)
Hunter Jones (NC)
Justine Kimball (USC)
Kenneth Lang (NY)
Anthony Marshak (MSAL)
Bonnie Myers (VA)
Tamara Newcomer MD
Sara Paver (ILIN)
Victoria Ramenzoni (GA)
Megan Stachura (WA)
Seth Sykora-Bodie (MD)
Emily Tewes (MD)
Katherine Touzinsky (ILIN)
Emily Trentacoste (CA)
Maya Walton (HI)
Chelsea Wegner (SC)
Kerry Whittaker (RI)
Sarah Wilkins (WI)
Laura Windecker (USC)
Chiara Zuccarino-Crowe (MI)

Legislative

Noah Chesnin (NC)
Miriam Goldstein (CA)
Kelsey Jacobsen (USC)
Ryan Orgera (LA)
Stephanie Owens (WHOI)
Sarah Parker (RI)
Gabrielle Saluta (VA)
Rachel Silverstein (FL)
Emily Smail (USC)
Daniel Sousa (NY)

Executive

Kristin Anderson (CA)
Jennifer Bosch (MD)
Nicole Bransome (MD)
Jared Brewer (CA)
Mele Coleman (HI)
Theresa Davenport (VA)
Tara Dolan (FL)
Gabriel Dunham (RI)
Katherine Farrow (ME)
Leah Fisher (SC)
Elizabeth Fly (SC)
Rachel Fontana (CA)
Marie Fujitani (HI)
Grantly Galland (CA)
Dave Gershman (MI)
Carrie Givens (GA)
Sepp Haukebo (TX)
Henry Hodde (TX)
Clifford Hutt (MSAL)
Leslie Irwin (PA)
Brittany King (USC)
Marin Kress (WHOI)
Umi Muawanah (CT)
Katherine Nixon (USC)
Najwa Obeid (ILIN)
Nicholas Obolensky (RI)
Erica Ombres (FL)
Santhiska Pather (MIT)
Jennifer Phillips (WI)
Wendy Dow Piniak (NC)
Kateryna Samoteskul (DE)
Zachary Schulman (NY)
Alana Smentek-Duerr (FL)
Courtney Smith (MSAL)
Carrie Soltanoff (MD)
Jennifer Thompson (OR)
Will Tyburczy (ILIN)
Erin Wilkinson (ME)

Legislative

Jillian Cohen (NY)
Jennifer Dresler (OR) 
Fern Gibbons (MIT)
Rebecca Jablonski-Diehl (WA)
Lindsey Kraatz (VA)
Kyle Molton (MI)
Ellen Tyler (WHOI)
Charlotte Weaver (VA)

Executive

Alyson Azzara (TX)
April Bagwill (TX)
Stacy Beharry (VA)
Jennifer Bennett (SC)
Liam Carr (TX)
Michaela Clemence (USC)
Sanya Compton (GA) 
Micah Effron (USC)
Deborah Fauquier (CA)
Julia Galkiewicz (FL)
Kristen Jabanoski (NC)
Robert Jones (FL)
Wan-Jean Lee (NH)
Eric MacMillan (MI)
Anna Manyak (SC)
Meghan Massaua (WA)
Pamela Michael (HI)
Christopher Prosser (VA)
Alexis Rife (CA)
Erin Sams (OH)
Katherine Segarra (GA)
Leah Sharpe (MN)
Brandon Sousa (LA)
Emily Susko (VA)
Dania Trespalacios (CT)
Tali Vardi (CA)
Emily Vuxton (NC)
Michelle Walsh (NH)
Kathleen Welder (TX)
Brooke White (MN)
Annie Yau (USC)

Legislative

Kristen Bor (USC)
Andrew Coleman (MS) 
Katie Cramer (CA) 
Hannah Dean (WHOI) 
Heidi Geisz (VA) 
Brett Hartl (OR) 
Nicole Rohr (RI) 
Jennifer Salerno (HI)
Nicole Teutschel (CA)

Executive

Becky Blanchard (FL) 
Kristin Carden (CA)
Ben Carswell (GA)
Hui (Cheng) Rodomsky(CT)
Anna Coffey (VA)
Chelsea Combest-Friedman (WA)
Bethany Craig (WA)
Jennifer Cudney (NC) 
Henry DeBey (CT)
Denise Ellis-Hibbett (WHOI)
Joseph Fillingham (WI)
Caitlin Frame (MIT)
Emily Gamelin (NH) 
Carrie Gill (RI)
Rosa Gonzalez (PR)
Abigail Graefe (VA)
Kathleen Haber (RI)
Christina Hoefsmit (RI)
Kimberly Holzer (VA)
Colin Hume (MI)
Ayana Johnson (CA)
Sierra Jones (SC)
Amanda Keledjian (CA)
Lauren Land (LA)
Olivia Lee (TX)
Matthew Lettrich (NC)
Ethan Lucas (WA)
Megan Mueller (MD)
Katrina Phillips (FL)
James Reinhardt (CT)
Staci Rijal (VA)
Amy Scaroni (LA)
Osvaldo Sepulveda-Villet (OH)
Joshua Stoll (NC)

Legislative

Leslie Abramson (USC)
Danielle Brzezinksi (ME) 
Ashley Erickson (NC)
Heather Havens (FL) 
Anna-Marie Laura (NC) 
Kelly Pennington (MN) 
Charles Rathburn (SC)
Corey Ridings (CT)
Joseph Tyburczy (OR)

Executive

Lisa Adams (HI)
Mike Allen(IN)
Jocelyn Brown-Saracino (ME)
Megan Campbell (LC)
Karen Carlson (CA)
Keith Cialino (WHOI)
Shannon Cosentino-Roush (LC)
Kornelia Dabrowska (OH)
Adrian Dahood (TX)
Jennie Dean (NC)
Amardeep Dhanju (DE)
Christina Durham (NC)
Jaqueline Haskell (RI)
Terill Anne Hollweg (CT)
Michelle Johnston (SC)
Galen Kaufman (GA)
Anne Marie LeBlanc Eich (MS_AL)
Sherry Lippiatt (CA)
Kari MacLauchlin (FL)
Wendi Morrison (GA)
Maria Murray (MD)
Meredith Ferdie Muth (VA)
Katie Nichols (CA)
Carl Nim (OH)
Joe Nohner (MI)
Delisse Ortiz (WA)
Tauna Rankin (FL)
Danielle Rioux (WA)
Margaret Robinson (MI)
Ian Smith (WA)
Caitlin Snyder (DE)
Kyle Vanderlugt (CA)
Lisa Vandiver (SC)
Pricilla Viana (IN)
Erika Washburn (NH)
Joseph Zelasney (WA)
Long Zhou (RI)

Legislative

Nicholas Battista (RI) 
Jeb Berman (NY) 
Annie Cooper (MN) 
Mark Gleason (WA) 
Elia Herman (NC) 
Adena Leibman (SC) 
Josh Madeira (CA) 
James Mueller (DE) 
Caroline Paulsen (WA) 
Daniel R. Reineman (HI)

Executive

Safra Altman (MD) 
Adam Baske (CA) 
Chelsea (Lowes) Berg(WI) 
Mary Bozza (AK) 
Alexandra Brown (CA) 
Joshua Brown (OH) 
Walter D. Cox (TX) 
Marvourneen Dolor (MD) 
Jennifer Dupont (FL) 
Stephen Durkee (NC) 
Jessica Dutton (CA) 
Abigail Fanklin (MIT) 
Rebecca Holyoke (MD) 
Li-Qing Jiang (GA) 
Tonya Kane (USC) 
Melanie D. King (FL) 
Daijiro Kobashi (LA) 
Shelly Krueger (GA) 
Benjamin Laws (HI) 
Sean Ledwin (MI) 
Celeste Leroux (AK) 
Elizabeth Livermont (NJ) 
Rebecca McMahon (ME) 
Steven McMurray (NC) 
Sarah Melton (OR) 
Kate Mulvaney (RI) 
Stephanie Oakes (CA) 
Sara Opfer (OH) 
Melissa Pratt-Zossoungbo (MS-AL) 
Catherine Purcell (USC) 
Anna Sawabini (WHOI) 
Mridula Srinivasan (TX) 
Courtney St. John (SC) 
Erin Steiner (AK) 
Brycen Swart (OR) 
Sue Vang (WI)

Legislative

Lynn Abramson (NY)
Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas (RI)
Ellen Bolen (NC)
Deborah Glickson (WA)
Charlotte Hieke (TX)
Karen Hyun (RI)
Katrina Lassiter (WA)
Amanda McCarty (SC)
Julie Palakovich (MN)
Joshua Steele (USC)

Executive

Courtney Arthur (SC)
Jessica Beck (TX)
Jessica Berrio (SC)
Angela Bobeldyk (IL-IN)
David Bylsma (WI)
Mark Carter (IL-IN)
Lora Clarke (NY)
Rebecca Feldman (NC)
Joselyd García (PR)
Edward Gorecki (TX)
MaryLee Haughwout (WI)
Christopher Hayes (VA)
Lara Hinderstein (TX)
Christopher Holmes (OR)
Ami Kang (DE)
Seanbob Kelly (AK)
Nicholas Klingensmith (OR)
Aaron Kornbluth (NH)
Luis Leandro (SC)
Terra Lederhouse (MD)
Staci Lewis (MS-AL)
Lisanne Lucas (NY)
Abby Lynch (VA)
Paulo Maurin (HI)
Vanessa Maxwell (LA)
Emily McDonald (SC)
Jennifer Mehaffey (RI)
Tina O’Connell (CT)
Frank Parker (VA)
Christine Fletcher (RI)
Rochelle Plutchak (MS-AL)
Allison Reed (OR)
Bronwen Rice (OR)
Glynnis Roberts (USC)
Jaclyn Taylor(NJ)
Thanh Vo dinh (NY)
Bret Wolfe (VA)
Kateryna Wowk (DE)

Legislative

Kassandra Cerveny (PR)
Lisa Iwahara (TX)
Molly Jacobs (WA)
Jennifer Kassakian (WA)
Stuart Levenbach (CA)
Martha McConnell (SC)
James Norman (GA)
Lia Protopapadakis (NC)
Jeffrey Watters (WI)
Ann Zulkosky (NY)

Executive

Greer Anderson (WA)
Shawn Arellano (OR)
Paul Bradley (VA)
Michela Burla (OR)
Jingjie Chu (RI)
Jihong Dai (GA)
Reagan Errera (TX)
Elizabeth Etrie (RI)
Po Chi Fung (USC)
Erin Gallagher (NJ)
Karla Garcia (OH)
David Ginsburg (USC)
Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff (LA)
Heather Halter (FL)
Anne Isham (WHOI)
Yong Jiang (RI)
Emily Kelly (MI)
David Kidwell (MD)
Lauren McChesney (MD)
Christopher Meaney (CT)
Nicole Morris (FL)
Andrea Neu (MS-AL)
Ingrid Nugent (NC)
Leonard Pace (VA)
Greg Pendleton (WA)
Anne Readel (IL-IN)
Kathleen Semon (SC)
Tom Smerling (MD)
Matthew Strickler (VA)
Christopher Uyeda (FL)
Augustus Vogel (USC)
Amy Wagner (TX)
Ryan Wulff (CA)
Adam Zitello (NC)

Legislative

Michael Conathan (RI)
Simon Gerrlofs (WA)
Letise Houser (DE)
Sheril Kirshenbaum (ME)
Emily Knight (ME)
Mark Lange (USC)
Amber Mace (CA)
John Meyer (NH)
Charlotte Stevenson (CA)

Executive

Abayomi Ademuwagun (NJ)
Heather Allen (CA)
Rebecca Asch (RI)
Jessica Barkas (WA)
Christian Barrientos (FL)
Laurie Bauer (MD)
Rachel Butzler (TX)
Emily Cloyd (NY)
Sahrye Cohen (CA)
Jason Didden (DE)
Juliette Finzi (USC)
Kathryn Fitzgibbons (USC)
Kristine Hiltunen (SC)
Wilhelmina Innes (NC)
Mary Jacobs-Spaulding (CA)
Liza Johnson (SC)
Margaret Knuth (NY)
Debra Lambert (VA)
Jonathan Lilley (DE)
Sheridan MacAuley (MD)
Sarah McTee (HI)
Meredith Mendelson (ME)
Ryan Prime (NJ)
John Primo (GA)
Lauren Ris (MI)
Kenli Schaaf (IL-IN)
Katherine Smith (GA)
Thomas Street (DE)
Adrienne Sutton (MD)
Cristina Urizar (TX)
Cynthia (Kate) Von Holle (IL-IN)
Li Zhang (TX)
Leigh Zimmermann (NC)

Legislative

Kristen Averyt (USC)
Chad English (CA)
Leila Hatch (NY)
Gene W. Kim (OH)
Christopher Krenz (OR)
Mary Austill Lott (WA)
Whitley Saumweber (RI)
Brie VanCleve (WA)
Allison Vogt (GA)
Stephen Workman (NC)

Executive

Melissa Andersen (WA)
Tim Birdsong (LA)
Laura Bozzi (CT)
Sarah Carr (NC)
Bridgett Chapin (IL/IN)
Marcia de Almeida (FL)
Kelly Denit (FL)
Gabrielle Dorr (NY)
Jean Ellis (TX)
Elizabethann English (NC)
Katherine Eschelbach (NC)
Dwight K. Gledhill (TX)
Kevin Grant (WA)
K. Alyssa Gundersen (VA)
Nancy Jamison (RI)
Emily Larkin (OR)
Kirsten Larsen (MS-AL)
Kristen Laursen (LA)
Christen Loper (DE)
Katherine McFadden (NY)
Chad McNutt (TX)
Jesse Mechling (RI)
Justyna Nicinska (NJ)
Sarah Beth (Owen) Bisson (CT)
Diane Pansky (WI)
Kristin Rusello (MD)
Gina Shamsak (RI)
Elizabeth Taylor (HI)
Kate Willis (TX)
Jacqueline Wilson (FL)

Legislative

Jennifer Brewer (MIT)
Bo Dame (NC)
Jenny Hernandez (WA)
Jess Maher (NC)
Eric Nagel (MD)
Corey Niles (WA) 
Jacques Oliver (VA)
Susannah Sheldon (SC)
Mike Snyder (NY)
Brian Weitz (NY)

Executive

Nicolas Alvarado (TX) 
Jen Bachus (MD)
Kristan Blackhart (CA)
Meredith Blaydes (DE)
Michael Clark (VA)
Colleen Corrigan (WI)
Jen Costanza (DE)
Shannon Dionne (CA)
Adrienne Harris (NC)
Julie Kellner (CA)
Rosemary Kosaka (RI)
Evaristo Liwa (LA)
Naomi A. Lundberg (MD)
Bernice McLean (DE)
Gustavo Rubio (FL)
Rebecca Shuford (SC)
Shauna Slingsby (NC)
Robyn Smyth (LC)
LeAnn R. Southward (OH)
Pamela Toschik (MD)
Noel Turner (SC)
Bruce Vogt (VA)
Vicki Wedell (OR)

Legislative

Carli Bertrand (RI) 
Bridget Ferriss (WA) 
Rachel M. Gallant (NH) 
Erica B. Goldman (WA) 
Julien Lartigue (MS/AL) 
Amanda Leland (ME) 
Sunshine Menezes (RI) 
Barbara A. Peichel (MN) 
Malia Ana J. Rivera (HI) 
Melissa K. Woods (MS/AL)

Executive

Rachel Adams (MIT) 
Jeffrey B. Augello (VT) 
Ramesh Baskaran (RI) 
Stefano Belfiore (DE) 
Carl R. Childs (FL) 
Neven-Stjepan Fuckar (TX) 
Cidney N. Howard (OR) 
Jennifer Jefferies (SC) 
Olaf P. Jensen (MD) 
Jennifer M. Linn (CT) 
Miguel Lugo (PR) 
S. Elizabeth Lumsden (TX) 
Carrie A. McDougall (CA) 
Lisa Manning (NC) 
Felix A. Martinez (OH) 
Larissa Nojek (NC) 
Vicki Lee Pilon (VA) 
Taconya D. Piper (MD) 
Laura V. Rear (CT) 
Laura J. Snow (OR) 
Melanie A. Spring (VA) 
James B. Sullivan (GA) 
Kevin R. Wood (WA)

Legislative

Megan Agy (MI) 
Seema Balwani (WA) 
Peter B. Fippinger (USC) 
Arminda L. Gensler (VA) 
Karl E. Gustavson (WI) 
Gerhard Kuska (DE) 
Kristine D. Lynch (MI) 
Jennifer R. Hauser (USC) 
Johanna Polsenberg (CA) 
Catherine C. Ware (VA)

Executive

David Bizot (RI) 
Kassandra Brown (OR) 
Erika L. Carlsen (NH) 
Winnie Chan (MA/MIT) 
Gonzalo Cid (DE) 
Angela E. Corridore(NC) 
Alyson Hartley Craig (GA) 
Alyne E. Delaney (PA) 
Elizabeth Fairey (SC) 
Erik A. Heinen (MIN) 
Aleria Jensen (MD) 
Laura L. Letson (CT) 
John W. McLaughlin (NH) 
Catalina Martinez (RI) 
Sara E. Mirabilio (VA) 
Laura Oremland (NY) 
Rachel Peitsch (OR) 
Jeremy Potter (NC) 
Nadia Sbeih (FL) 
David Scheurer (MD) 
Katherine Smukler (WA) 
Stacy Swartwood (MD) 
Lynn Takata (MD) 
Kathy Tedesco (SC) 
Jeanette Waddell (WA) 
Shelby E. Walker (VA) 
Rebecca M. Weidman (CT)

John Adornato, III (MD) 
Eileen Alicea (FL) 
Rebecca Arenson (VA) 
Krisa Arzayus (VA) 
Brian Badgley (MD) 
Sapna Batish (OH) 
Camilla Boyte (OR) 
David Canny (NC) 
Laura Cimo (MI) 
Sean Corson (CT) 
Alix Cotumaccio (CA) 
Katherine Croff (MIT) 
Antonia Fairbanks (WA) 
Melissa Feldberg (OR) 
Giselle Firme (DE) 
Deirdre Gilbert (ME) 
Melissa Haltuch (OH) 
Jamie Krauk (USC) 
Audra Livergood (FL) 
Kristen Long (NC) 
Lisa Max (CT) 
Katherine Mills (NY) 
Sarah Morison (VA) 
Wendy Morrison (MD) 
Elizabeth Mountz (VA) 
Micheal Peccini (TX) 
Kimberly Puglise (CA) 
Cynthia Smith (RI) 
Julilanna Weir (SC) 
Christopher Yates (FL)

Donna An  (CT) 
Barbara Bach  (SC) 
Lillian Becker  (FL) 
Kimberly Benson  (MD) 
Christopher Caldow   (TX) 
Tanya Dobrzynski  (NC) 
Nelia Badilla Forest  (CA) 
Adrienne Froelich  (IL/IN) 
Jason Goldberg  (VA) 
Allen Hance  (MI) 
Matthew Huggler  (NC) 
Ruth Kelty  (MD) 
Christian Lenhart  (WI) 
Daniel Lyons  (NC) 
Emily Lindow  (MI) 
Sally McGee  (RI) 
Jill Myer  (VA) 
Jennifer Murphy  (WA) 
Elizabeth Nicholson  (NC) 
David O’Brien  (MD) 
Amy Owsley  (CT) 
Michelle Pico  (WA) 
Jonathan Pundsack  (MN) 
Nicole Ricci  (SoCal) 
Hudson Roditi  (NY) 
Samantha Romanello  (OH) 
Kelly Shotts  (MS-AL) 
Jennifer Skidmore  (OH) 
Edward Stets  (MS-AL) 
Sean Willard  (WA) 
Lisa Wooninck  (CA)

Robert W. Aquirre III (LA) 
Tina Armstrong (MD) 
Jennifer Arnold (WHOI) 
Edmund R. Buckner (IL) 
Jena Carter (RI) 
Elizabeth A. Day (SC) 
Nikola M. Garber (MS/AL) 
Kirk S. Gillis (TX) 
Emily Hanson (OR) 
Dosoo Jang (DE) 
Christopher Jeffrey (GA) 
David W. Kerstetter (VA) 
Holly R. Koehler (IN) 
John Lopez (RI) 
Brian McLachlan (WA) 
Jennifer Z. Merrill (MD) 
Kathleen Moore (NC) 
Kirsten L. Prettyman (CT) 
Jennifer Rahn (FL) 
Jeffrey J. Ripp (WI) 
Ashley Simons (CA) 
Alison Sipe (DE) 
Susan Solarz (MN) 
Robert Sparkman (CA) 
Troy Sparks (TX) 
Marla A. Steinhoff (CT) 
Cynthia Suchman (RI) 
Tonna-Marie L. Surgeon (CT) 
Catherine Wannamaker (NC) 
Robyn Wingrove (SC)

Stephanie Bailenson (HI) 
Rebecca Boger (VA) 
Andrew Bruckner (PR) 
Katherine Colborn (NC) 
Nancy Craig (NY) 
David J. Detlor (CT) 
Milen Dyoulgerov (DE) 
John C. Field (WA) 
Patricia C. F. Geets (LA) 
Kelly A. Greene (MD) 
Douglas G. Hodum (ME) 
Mara Hogan (SC) 
Maria G. Honeycutt (DE) 
Matthew Kendall (NC) 
Martin J. Kodis (WHOI) 
David Lund (OR) 
Brett Melone (CA) 
Karen L. B. Newton (GA) 
Michael Oetker (MI) 
Kristopher Pickler (NC) 
Bonnie J. Ponwith (TX) 
Terry L. Schaefer (LA) 
Thomas A. Shyka (MD) 
Jeffrey Stein (IL) 
Lani M. Watson (CA) 
Eli Weissman (WA) 
Neng Yu (OH)

Gregory Balco (ME) 
Heather Benway (NH) 
Michael Coyne (TX) 
Anamarija Frankic (VA) 
Melissa Gordon (LA) 
Anne Gore (MI) 
Sara Gottlieb (MD) 
Ronald Hill (PR) 
Louise Kane (RI) 
Theresa Marsh (WA) 
Christos Michalopoulos (CT) 
A. Whitman Miller (CA) 
Sheri Moor (WI) 
Elisabeth Morgan (NC) 
Joy Mullinex (OR) 
Luke Nachbar (CA) 
Jennifer Newton (VA) 
Sean Powers (TX) 
James D. Reilly (NC) 
Paula Souik (WI) 
Jill Stevenson (MD) 
Dan Terrell (OR) 
Kate Wing (WA) 
Matthew Witten (NH)

Jennifer Aiosa (VA) 
Timothy Battista (MD) 
Sarah Bittleman (NC) 
Mark Chandler (OH) 
Patricia Cicero (WI) 
Debbie Colbert (CA) 
Lisa Dilling (CA) 
Lisa Dipinto (SC) 
Alexander Elkan (NC) 
Laura Ernst (RI) 
Marshall Hayes (NC) 
Coalter Lathrop (WA) 
Elizabeth Lauck (VA) 
Lynn Mizner Maher (MN) 
Catherine Marzin (WA) 
Reyhan Mehran (NY) 
Glenn Merrill (WA) 
Nina Mollett (AK) 
Patrick Moran (DE) 
Andy Oliver (RI) 
Adelaide Rhodes (FL) 
Ms. Margo Schulze (WHOI) 
Rebecca Smyth (WHOI) 
Rochelle Sturtevant (OH) 
Samantha Woods (MIT)

Thomas Ardito (RI) 
Glenn Boledovich (OR) 
Karen Brubeck (VA) 
Lynette Cardoch (FL) 
Robert Childers (NY) 
John D. Christensen (TX) 
Charlotte de Fontaubert (DE) 
Michael Devin (FL) 
Eric Dolin (MIT) 
Erika Feller (AK) 
Brenden Holland (TX) 
Justin LeBlanc (MIT) 
Fernando Leyva (NC) 
Rebecca Metzner (DE) 
Anthony Murphy (OH) 
Michael Murphy (OR) 
Sharonne O’Shea (OR) 
Chris Pallister (WA) 
Cinnamon Rogers (NC) 
Erik Schmidt (CA) 
Macol Stewart (CT) 
Catherine Stokes-Wazniak (MD) 
Gabrielle Tenzer (MI) 
Sidney W. Thurston (FL) 
Juli Trtanj (CT)

Finlay Anderson (OR) 
Peter Barile (FL) 
Christopher Behr (WI) 
LT. Thomas Boyd, PhD (CA) 
Mara Brown (OR) 
Mark Brown (FL) 
Bonnie Bruce (VA) 
Christopher Carr(CA) 
Robert Cho (NY) 
Jessica Cogan (NC) 
Abby Friedman (RI) 
Roger Griffis (LA) 
Ellen Hawes (SC) 
Katharine Hornbarger (MI) 
Elizabeth Lamoureaux (NY) 
Holly Lynch (MI) 
Donald MacLean (MD) 
Pamela T. Plotkin (TX) 
Nancy Roth (MI) 
Paul Salop (OR) 
Amy Santin (MD) 
Elizabeth (Keane) Shea (VA) 
Greg Smith (TX) 
Alton Straub (WA) 
Steven Whitesell (NC)

William Archambault (RI) 
Martha Balis-Larsen (VA) 
Mary Beth Beetham (MD) 
Gustavo Bisbal (RI) 
Susan Boa (FL) 
Robert Boyles (DE) 
J. Jed Brown (NY) 
Craig Czarnecki (MI) 
Sean Downing (NY) 
Stephanie Krone Firestone (VA) 
Robert Fletcher (OH) 
Brenda Hood (WA) 
Frank Lockhart (WA) 
Shane Merz (MIT) 
Brita Otteson (OR) 
Brady Phillips (OR) 
Jean-Pierre Plé (DE) 
Jenny Plummer (SC) 
Victor Pyle (LA) 
Julie Roberts Furgerson (VA) 
Ramona Schreiber-Butchko (MS/AL) 
Heather Weiner (FL) 
Erik Zobrist (SC)

Pam Baker (RI) 
Wade Bryant (FL) 
Russell Callender (TX) 
Jodi Cassell (OR) 
Kristin Churchill (DE) 
Joseph Cione (NC) 
Alessandra Conversi (CA) 
Cynthia Decker (NY) 
Sanjay Gupta (NY) 
Benjamin Haskell (MD) 
David Jansen (WA) 
Carol Collinson Kahl (MD) 
Deidre Kimball (MIT) 
Ellen Morris (RI) 
Diana Olinger (DE) 
Barbara Jeanne Polo (VA) 
Susan Pultz (CT) 
Carl Rebstock (AK) 
Peter Rice (NH) 
William S. Robie (AK) 
Nathaniel Stevens (MI) 
Laurie Sullivan (MS/AL) 
Lauren Wenzel (MI) 
David Wilmot (CA) 
Benjamin Witherell (MI)

Colleen Baggot Henson (MN) 
Jill Brady (AK) 
Ned Cyr (SC) 
Mark Eakin (FL) 
David Engel (DE) 
Ashely Evans (AK) 
David Forman (HI) 
Doug Helton (WA) 
Suzanne Jones (MI) 
Aaron King (CA) 
Steve Kokkinakis (OR) 
Lee Langstaff (CT) 
Brenda Mills (MI) 
Elizabeth Moore (FL) 
Dan Olson (MN) 
Anne Petrenko (CA) 
Sam Pett (MIT) 
Carol Richardson (WI) 
Terry Schaff (NC) 
Janice Sessing (HI) 
Robert Shavelson (OR) 
Margaret Spring (NC)

Catherine Cekolin (MS/AL) 
George Dennis III (PR) 
Frances Eargle (SC) 
Maureen Eldredge (RI) 
John Epifanio (IL/IN) 
Jean Flemma (WA) 
Peter Hill (VA) 
Matt Huston (MIT) 
Robert June (MI) 
Chris Mann (RI) 
Michele Monti (VA) 
Dawn Parks (NC) 
Victoria Pebbles (MI) 
Andrea Ray (DE) 
John Rosapepe (MI) 
Steven Stone (OR)

John D. Baker (NC) 
Jeffery Ballweber (OR) 
M. Grant Cunningham (SC) 
Wendy Graham (WA) 
Daniel Grosse (WA) 
Keren Holtz (WA) 
Gabrielle Kardon (MI) 
Josh Kardon (NC) 
David (Moe) Nelson (MN) 
Robin Rice Peuser (RI) 
Doreen Robb (OH) 
Paul Scholz (SC) 
Heidi Sherk (MI) 
Susan Sponaugle (NY) 
Greg Stone (RI) 
Edward Urban (DE) 
Judy Wells (MI) 
John Wickham (FL) 
Donna Wieting (LA) 
Marc Wilson (MS/AL)

Megan Bailiff (HI) 
Eleanor Bochenek (VA) 
Richard Chinman (RI) 
Steven Connor (TX) 
Eileen Curry (NH) 
Allen Dietz (CA) 
Kelly Faulkner Countouris (TX) 
Mark R. Fisher (TX) 
Stephen Frerichs (MN) 
James Hoff (VA) 
Dennis Lassuy (OR) 
Michael R. Nelson (MIT) 
Debra Prybyla (MI) 
Alan Risenhoover (TX) 
Vernon Ross (WA) 
Leslie Sherman (MN) 
Jack Sobel (NY) 
Dolores Wesson (WA) 
James Witkowski (FL)

Pablo Arenas Fuentes (CA) 
Ivar Babb (RI) 
Marci Bortman (FL) 
Jeffrey Busch (WI) 
James Camp (NC) 
Alison Craig (TX) 
Darlene Finch (NC) 
Laura L. Geselbracht (WA) 
Carol Iancu (NY) 
Susan Jackson (RI) 
Christopher Nelson (NY) 
Steven Olson (TX) 
Reynaldo Patino (OR) 
Marjorie Pless (OH) 
Danny Rasch (NC) 
Wendy Smith Leo (WHOI) 
Brian A. Sweeney (VA) 
Matthew Wells (WA)

Xanthippe Augerot (WA) 
Celia Y. Chen (RI) 
Carolyn Creed (NJ) 
Keith Criddle (CA) 
Lee Crockett (CT) 
Mark Freeberg (MI) 
Stewart E. Holm (FL) 
Ronald B. Landy (NY) 
Mary A. Munson (VA) 
Stephanie Ralph Meadows (VA) 
Stephanie Sanzone (SC) 
Regina Sheen-Ridgway (VA) 
Gary Shigenaka (WA) 
Daniel W. Smith (CA) 
Marlene Stern (LA) 
George Townsend (FL)

Mark Aspinwall (RI) 
Penelope Dalton (MD) 
Lise Knelson Fondren (NC) 
Jeanne M. Grasso (SoCal) 
Donna A. Johnson (CT) 
Justin Lancaster (CA) 
Vernon Robert Leeworthy (FL) 
Martin B. Main (FL) 
Daniel Margulies (MD) 
Tim Osborn (LA) 
Constance Sathre (OR) 
Lucia Susani (WHOI) 
Deborah C. Trefts (WA) 
Jill M. Zucker (SoCal)

Thomas Armitage (VA) 
James Buizer (WA) 
Paul Carothers (TX) 
Candyce Clark (RI) 
Victoria Fabry (CA) 
Daniel Farrow (WI) 
Marcus Hepburn (FL) 
Paul Kemp (LA) 
Catherine L. Mills Houlahan (MS/AL) 
Katherine Minsch (NY) 
Mark Monaco (OH) 
David Pyoas (SC) 
Nancy Reichley Higgins (RI) 
Christina Terpak-Malm (VA) 
Patience Whitten (SC)

Charles Alexander (LA) 
Timothy Bartish (OH) 
Helen S. Brohl (OH) 
Robert Deibel (CA) 
Kimberly Grane (VA) 
LT. Commander John T. Lamkin (TX) 
Kevin McManus (WA) 
Mary Margaret Overbey (FL) 
Edward Richardson (RI) 
Rebecca Rootes (TX) 
Carolyn Rumery (WI) 
Monique Trainor Rutledge (WA) 
Susan O’Malley Wade (WA) 
Andrew Zacherle (VA) 
Craig Zamuda (MD)

David Allen (MI) 
Dan Ashe (WA) 
Michael Brody (TX) 
Brian Burby (OH) 
Glen DeLaney (VA) 
William H. Horns (WI) 
Dan Jacobs (MD) 
Elizabeth Carnahan O’Sullivan (TX) 
Steven Risotto (LA) 
Erik Stromberg (WA) 
Christophe A. Tulou (RI) 
Wim J. van Teeffelen (FL) 
Heather Wicke (MI)

Dale Brown (RI) 
Cynthia Carlson Beckham (OR) 
Gail Chmura (RI) 
Gina Deferrari (WA) 
Michael P. DeLuca (VA) 
Onno Husing (WHOI) 
Tom Potts (TX) 
David Smith (TX) 
Paul Vincent (WA) 
Donald West (LA)

Darrell Brown (WA) 
Paul Davis (RI) 
Ann Hochberg (OR) 
Thor Lassen (VA) 
Bill McCluskey, Jr. (RI) 
Joanne Peterson (TX)

Robert Bolus (NH)
Carroll Curtis (VA)
Christine Dawson (WA)
John Kermond (TX)
John Kosmark (RI)
Douglas Lipton (VA)
Fredrick C. Paine, Esq. (NY)
James (Trip) Rendall (WA)
Allen Stayman (WA)
Arthur Wilson (DE)

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OF FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT*

1052

OFFICES HAVE HOSTED FELLOWS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS*

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Academia to Government

Reelin’ in the Years

In my Knauss fellowship so far, one of the most meaningful pieces of advice I’ve heard is to “think of your career as a journey, not a destination.” As the

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