MARGO CRANDALL (Economics and Technology Studies and REES). ...

MICHAEL K. HARMAN (Russian and Math and REES). Michael from '87 to '91 worked for Andersen Consulting, primarily out Chicago, but with projects in Dallas, Panama, and the last year in Finland.
From '91 to '93 he studied and received his MBA (Finance) at the Wharton Business School and MA in International Studies, Russian from the University of Pennsylvania. Michael spent both those summers in Russia. In the summer of '91, he was in Moscow on Russian training. He left the day of the coup. In the summer of '92, he was working for a company called Sun Brewing, which was investing in recently privatized breweries. Over the course of the summer they signed 5 joint ventures and saw a lot of rural Russia and drank some really bad beer.
From '93 to '96, Michael worked at the KPMG Barents Group in Washington, DC. He worked with the Merchant banking arm of KPMG's privatization consulting group on projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. He moved to Moscow full-time in 1994 to manage the Moscow office.
From '96 to '98 Michael was the Finance Director of the Cherkizovsky Meat Processing Group in Moscow, the only Western employee out of staff of 6,000.
Since '98, he's worked at SABMiller. From '98 to '02, he was Finance Director of Kaluga Brewing Company in Moscow, Russia. From '02 to '04, he was Director of Financial Projects at Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee. And starting in '04, he's been the VP Finance for Kompania Piwowarska SA in Poznan, Poland, where he studied Polish and got relatively good.
In August '07, he was transferred to Panama, where he is now President of a Brewery. He reports, "Slavic to Latino is a huge transition, though I'm finding the weather, beaches and nature to be wonderful. I keep up my Russian with a couple Russian friends here, but definitely feel my tongue getting lazy. On the Spanish language track now, and interestingly finding the verbs to be very similar. Strange thing is that I find myself not going from English to Spanish, but Russian to Spanish. They all wonder why I don't use my definite and indefinite articles, and always forget my verb 'to be'"...
Mike can be contacted by e-mail at: Harmangrin87@aol.com.

MEGHAN E. HAYS (Russian and REES). After graduation Meghan spent a year on a Watson Fellowship in Nicaragua, Cuba, Poland and Yugoslavia. She then volunteered for the Bob Kerrey for Senate campaign in Nebraska, and after his win moved to Washington, DC and worked for Share Our Strength (SOS), a hunger relief fundraising organization. In 1993 Meghan earned an M.A. in History at the University of Michigan, and in 1995 and 1996 did research for her dissertation in history in Zagreb, Croatia (on women teachers). In 2000 she entered the School of Information at the University of Michigan, where in 2002 she earned her Master's of Science in Information (Library Science) with a specialization in Archives and Records Management. In 2002 she also completed an M.A. in REES at the University of Michigan. In the summer of 2002 she and her family moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio. After two years in various positions, including working as a project archivist at the NASA-Glenn Research Center and as a substitute reference librarian in two public libraries, in September 2004 she was hired as the Local History Librarian at the Shaker Heights Public Library. You can reach her at meghanh@umich.edu.

BETH A. JOHNSON (Russian). ...

ELLEN M. MANGAN (Russian and Religious Studies). ...

MAREN L. PROULX (Russian). ...

DEB L. SAEGER (Russian). ...

PAULA POWELL SAPIENZA (Russian and Political Science and REES). Paula earned an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies at University of Michigan in 1992. She earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in 1997. Paula worked as an Adjunt Professor of Russian at Union College in 1998, an Adjunt Professor of Russian at Fairfield University from 1998-1999, and as Associate Director, Collegium, at Fairfield University from 1998-2000. Paula has also done work as an interpreter and translator. For the past three years, she has left the field to raise her daughter and has also been working as a web designer. Paula can be reached at paulasapienza@hotmail.com.