NELLIE BASSETT DAVIS (Russian). With the help of a Russian Study Award, Nellie recently spent six months in Moscow, working in Russian puppet theaters, a very advanced art form in Russia and one close to Nellie's heart and talents.
Nellie pretty much abandoned puppetry after Jim Henson Production's financial troubles a couple years ago. But she is eternally grateful to the Russian Department alumni who made my post-graduate internship at the Obraztov puppetry theatre possible. She and her husband run a fine arts serigraphy studio in Brooklyn, NY. They work mostly for NY artists and publishers to print limited edition artwork. Nellie's job is primarily color mixing, while her husband, Luther (class of '93) is the master printer and printshop director. They just bought their first apartment.
Nellie can be contacted at: nelliedavis@excite.com.


EMILIE DICKSON (REES and Political Science). ...

GRETCHEN EICHENBERGER AIYANGAR (Russian). Gretchen recieved her MA in Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. She then took 2 1/2 years off, did some tutoring, some translating, some carpentry work, some temp jobs... and then went to India and got married! Now she is back in Madison and her husband, Ameet, is here too. She has another year of coursework left and them prelims!! and then she'll have to think about her dissertation. Yikes! She can be contacted at aiyangar@wisc.edu

TOVAH FLYGARE (Russian). Tovah is in her 2nd year of law school at the University of Minnesota. Previously she was working in health insurance dispute resolution and interpreting for the Russian-speaking population in the twin cities. She interns with Civil Society helping immigrant victims of crime, is research assistant for the law clinics at U MN law School (projects include workers rights and victims rights issues) & is starting Spanish as her next language!
Tovah can be contacted at: koshka@bust.com.

KARI GEISLER-PAETZOLD (REES and Political Science). After Grinnell, Kari returned to Berlin, Germany, and completed a Master's in Social Sciences at Humboldt University. Following graduation in 2002 (and getting married to her longtime German boyfriend, Thorsten), she joined the State Department and is coming to the close of her 2 year tour in Dubai, UAE. It's off to Damascus next in October 05, but they're hoping to get back to Eastern Europe someday.
Kari can be contacted by e-mail at: karipaetzold@hotmail.com.

LAJUNG LEE (Russian). Lajung graduated from Northeastern law school in May 2003, and she is currently working in the litigation department of Deutsch Williams Brooks DeRensis & Holland, a law firm located in downtown Boston. On a personal note, she got married in 2002. Her husband Ken will be graduating from Harvard Business School this year. They're both hoping that he'll find a job in Boston so that Lajung won't have to take another state bar exam anytime soon.

DEREK McNICOLL (Russian). Derek participated in the Fall 1998 ACTR Semester in Russia.

HANNAH IMANKULOV (Russian). With the help of a Russian Study Award, Hanna participated in the Fall 1998 ACTR Semester in Russia. She is now working a Master's degree in information science at the Univeristy of Iowa.

SARAH PETERSON (Russian and Physics). Sarah has an MS in Applied Math from the University of Washington. She did research studying climate variability. Now, she's currently a middle and high school math teacher in Seattle, where she and her partner Margie live.

RACHEL ROLFS (Russian). Rachel has been teaching Russian in a number of elementary schools in Chicago.

JESSICA RACH SIEREN (Russian and Economics). ...

ERIN CHILDRESS THAKKAR Esq (Russian and Political Science). ...