Our Sanford Inaugural Series continues with a variety of spring events:
A March 2 talk by CNN
National Security Analyst Peter Bergen on
Obama’s Al-Qaeda strategy. Katherine Tiedemann PPS’07 works with Bergen at
the New America Foundation and helped arrange Bergen's visit.- An April 23 event, "To Right These Wrongs: Continuing the Work of Terry Sanford" features discussion panels led by Sanford faculty on key state issues including education, racial equality and poverty. Also, a keynote speech, reception, and presentation of a new book about the North Carolina Fund.
5,000 Hours of Service Initiative:
Katie Owen PPS'06 volunteers with an advocacy
center for the homeless in Atlanta. Find out more and sign up to participate.
The Sanford School community is raising money for Mercy Corps' humanitarian work with earthquake survivors in Haiti. Mercy Corps is headed by Neal Keny-Guyer PPS'76. Check out our progress!
Elisa Siegel PPS’80 serves as chief communications officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, serving hundreds of thousands of members. Read more about her work in this Alumna Profile.
The career of W. Stacey Rhodes MIDP’91 has come full circle with his new position of Chief of Staff to the Director of the Peace Corps. He began working in international development nearly 40 years ago with the Peace Corps in Bolivia.
The photo
exhibit "Who Knows Tomorrow?" by Peter
Lemieux PPS’93, a Dorothea Lange Fellowship
recipient, opened Jan. 28 at the World Affairs Council in San
Francisco. The exhibit focuses on the daily realities of poverty
and the work of the nuns of the Daughters of Charity.
Money Makers, a new book by David Snider
PPS’07 and Chris Howard, features interviews
with top executives to craft an insider’s view of the
history, mechanics and challenges of the financial sector.
Jennifer Gordon PPS’98 has chosen a less-traveled path for a life of public service by taking her vows as a nun with the Sisters of Charity. Read more in the Raleigh News & Observer.
Find more alumni news and notes on the Sanford alumni news section and the MIDP alumni page.
David Schanzer, associate professor, co-authored “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-American Communities” which discusses how such communities are dealing with radicalization among their members. The report garnered national and international media attention, including Time.com and CNN.
Kathryn Whetten, associate professor, has new research showing that orphans in several African and Asian countries can thrive in institutional care. Hear more in her interview on WUNC-FM’s program “The State of Things.”