Incoming!
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Sarah Marusek
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Sarah holds a
masters degree from
the Graduate Program
in International
Affairs (GPIA) at
The New School in
New York City, where
her concentration
was socioeconomic
development. She is
researching the role
of religion and
charities in Muslim
societies,
specifically
focusing on Islamic
foundations that
provide welfare
services in Iran.
She served as the
editor of GPIA's
student journal and
was a Kosciuszko
Foundation scholar.
Ms. Marusek received
her bachelors degree
in literature and
art history from
Goldsmiths College
in London. Before
her graduate study
she ran a boutique
agency that provided
media relations for
books, exhibitions
and events relating
to art, music,
design, fashion and
photography and
represented actors,
musicians,
photographers and
writers to the
publishing industry.
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Dana Hill
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Dana received a BS in
Psychology from Florida
State University before traveling to the
Dominican Republic to
volunteer for a year. In
addition to running a
girl's empowerment
program, she swapped
ballet for meringue
lessons with the girls
in town and taught
English. Returning from
the DR, she moved to
Washington DC and worked
with illegal immigrants.
Next stop was France
where she lived in Taize,
an international
monastery focused on
peace and
reconciliation. She
then returned to DC
where she got her
Master's Degree in
International
Development from
American University and
did advocacy work
promoting economic
justice in Latin
America.
Following graduation
Dana traveled to Ecuador
to work with the
community development
organization, designing
and implementing a youth
empowerment program, and
producing a photo essay
and impact study of the
organization (she also
took salsa lessons). She
currently works for the
New York Public Interest
Research Group in
Syracuse, where she
advocates for
environmental and
consumer protection and
teaches students
organizing and activism
skills.
Curious about the power
of communities in
creating positive change
and sustainable
development, she will
focus on social
movements in developing
countries while at
Maxwell. |
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Nabeel Mere
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Nabeel received a B.A.
in Political Science and
International Relations
from Syracuse University
in 1991, and an M.A. in
International Relations
from the Maxwell School.
He is excited to be
returning to the Maxwell
School, although it is
quite different than
when he left (Eggers
Hall was still under
construction and they
did not have cell phones
or the internet at the
time). As a
longtime fan of SU
basketball, his favorite
SU team is the one that
included at the same
time Derrick Coleman,
Billy Owens, and Sherman
Douglas.
Nabeel's
research interests
include American
politics, U.S. foreign
policy, and the Middle
East. Any nation’s
foreign policy is
reflective of its own
domestic reality
(history, politics, and
culture). Therefore, my
research on
American-Arab relations
(for example, the Iraq
War of 2003 and
Washington’s quest for a
pro-American Arab
democracy at least
during 2003-2006)
requires analyzing
America’s domestic
politics, Arab history,
and political culture
(including modern
secular Arab
authoritarianism and the
challenge from radical
and moderate Islamists).
Peace-building and the
constructive
transformation of
conflict are relevant to
my research on the
Middle East, which is
aided by my native
Arabic proficiency. |
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Alma Lowry
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Alma Lowry grew
up in Nebraska,
graduated from
Nebraska
Wesleyan
University with
a degree in
mathematics in
1987, and spent
the next two
years teaching
high school math
in Togo, West
Africa as a
Peace Corps
Volunteer. In
1991, she
returned to
graduate school
at the
University of
Michigan, where
she earned a law
degree and a
Masters’ in
Natural
Resources and
Environment.
Since then, she
has been
practicing law
in a variety of
public interest
positions,
mostly focusing
on environmental
and
environmental
justice law in
the District of
Columbia,
Michigan and New
York State. As
an environmental
justice
attorney, her
clients were
primarily
low-income and
minority
communities with
environmental
concerns and
much of her work
involved helping
those
communities
navigate the
public comment
and public
participation
processes
created by
federal and
state
environmental
laws. She plans
to focus her
research in this
area.
In addition to
her direct legal
practice, Alma
has taught as a
fellow or
visiting
professor in
clinical
programs at
various law
schools and has
taught a course
in environmental
justice law and
policy as an
adjunct at
Hamilton
College. Her
husband is a
biology
professor at
Hamilton College
and they live
with their
8-year-old twins
in Clinton, NY.
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Syracuse University
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