James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction with training & analysis

Praveen Abhayaratne (May 2003) was a Research Associate for the CNS WMD Terrorism Research Project. He is currently working at CARE International in Sri Lanka as a research and advocacy coordinator. 

Jeffrey Allan (May 2002) has begun working with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).

Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado (MA IPS 1993), has a tenure-track position teaching Latin American politics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado has also authored a book, titled Power to the People: Nuclear Energy Development in Communist Cuba.

Hilary Anderson (MA IPS 1999) has accepted a position with the US government.

Sandi Arnold (MA IPS 1999) is working for the Iraq Action Team at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

Alison (Barr) Ramirez was awarded a US Department of State Foreign Affairs Fellowship by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which led to a position as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State. She is currently working at CNS as the Country Profile Manager for the Nuclear Threat Initiative website.

Anjali Bhattacharjee (MA IPS 2002) is a Watch Operations Manager at the iJET Travel Risk Management in Maryland.

Michael Bedke (MA IPS 2001) is a foreign Affairs Specialist/Treaty Implementation at the US Department of Energy.

Paulette Blanscet is an International Trade Specialist with the US Department of Commerce.

Beth Anne (Bowers) Gillier (MA IPS 2001) is working as an Exercise Support Specialist, Homeland Security, at EG & G Technical Services, Inc.

Adam Brake is a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ).

Lara Cantuti (MA IPS 1994) works for the Science Application International Corporation's Weapons Proliferation Analysis Division in Washington, DC, as a Project Manager for the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense Program.

Janina M. de Guzman has been appointed to the position of Assistant Country Program Officer at the US Embassy's Public Affairs Section in Seoul, Korea.

Jody Daniel (MA IPS 2003) is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the Bureau of Verification and Compliance of the US Department of State.

Elizabeth “Liz” Dickinson (Keith) (MA IPS 1999) and husband David welcomed Hunter David Dickinson into their lives on July 14. Liz works for the US government analyzing military issues in the former Soviet Union.

Greg Dwyer (MA IPS 2001) is a Project Manager at the Office of Nuclear Material Protection, National Nuclear Security Administration at the US Department of Energy.

Ann Helen Dybwad (1998) is an instructor at the Norwegian Defense NBS School. Previously she worked as a Deputy Administration Officer for KFOR's multinational military police force in Kosovo.

Caroline Earle (May 1996) is a Research Associate with The Henry L. Stimson Center, working with the Committee on Nuclear Policy as well as the Cooperative Security Project. She also serves on the Stimson web development committee.

Christina Ellington was a Spring 1999 Scoville Peace Fellow.

Aziz Gaziev (MA IPS 1999) is a Field Researcher in Tajikistan, Krygyzstan, and Uzbekistan on Central Asia Security and Political Issues for the International Crisis Group.

Erin Christian Golsen (MA IPS 1997) is an International Programs Analyst at Techplan Corporation in Arlington, Virginia.

Erin Hammel Skootsky is Deputy Director of European Programs at The Center for Democracy in Washington, DC.

Brad Hammit (MA IPS 2001) is working at the Office of Nuclear Material Protection of the US Department of Energy.

Maria Haug (Bowers) (MA IPS 1994), is a researcher for the Small Arms Survey in Geneva, Switzerland.

Andrew Hay (MA IPS 2005) is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the Bureau of Verification and Compliance of the US Department of State.

Lisa Holtyn is an Intelligence Analyst for the US Department of State in Washington, DC, working on Russian organized crime issues.

Junko Horibe (MA IPS 2002) is working at the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo.

Lynn M. Huizenga is a Proposal Coordinator for DynCorp.

Paul Irwin (MA IPS 1999) has begun his Presidential Management Internship at the US Department of Energy's Office of Nonproliferation and National Security in Washington, DC.

Kent Jamison (MA IPS 1999) is employed by DynMeridian in Alexandria, Virginia.

Melissa Jennings (MA IPS 2005) is forking for Illinois Peace Action as a policy consultant.

Nikola Kim (2005) is working at the Canadian Foreign Ministry as a Program Officer for the Global Partnership Program.

Sarka Krcalova (MA IPS 2000) is working for the Czech Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sarah Lennon (Jacobson) (MA IPS 1995) works at the Department of Energy.

Susan King is Associate Director of the Moscow Office of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Annemarie Kuhn works for the Voice of America East Asia and Pacific Research Information Center in Washington, DC.

Stephanie Lieggi (MA IPS 2002) is a Research Associate at the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS.

Maria Lorenzo Sobrado (MA IPS 2004) is a legal officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Charles Mahaffey (MA IPS 2004) is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs of the US Department of State.

Eric Martens works for the Nonproliferation and International Technology group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Loretta Martin (MA IPS 2001) is working as a Senior Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Policy Analyst at SAIC.

Claudine McCarthy (MA IPS 2000) is a Research Associate with The Henry L. Stimson Center.

Shelby (McNichols) Childers is a proliferation specialist for the US government.

Sarah Meek, IPS 1994, is the head of the Arms Management Security Program at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa.

Brooke Milton has accepted a position with the US Department of State in the Nonproliferation Bureau/Office of Regional Affairs.

Risa Mongiello (MA IPS 2005) is working at National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy as a Nonproliferation Graduate Program fellow.

R. Adam Moody (1994) is a member of Senior Staff and Assistant Program Manager of Nuclear Transformation Support in the National Security Affairs Group at the Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.,  in Alexandria, Virginia.

Yoko Morita works at the Office of External Relations and Policy Coordination at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

Elisa S. Moskowitz is Director of Planning at The Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, DC.

Christine (Murphy) Buzzard is Deputy Director, Global Security Engagement & Cooperation of the US Department of Energy.

Oksana Myers works for Dresdner RCM Global Investors in San Francisco.

Mary Beth Nikitin (MA IPS 2000) is a Research Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Michiru Nishida is working at the office of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Yekta K. Noyan (MA IPS 2002) is working as a Political-Military Affairs Officer, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey.

Andrew Offenbacher (MA IPS 2001) is working as a Nonproliferation Fellow for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Peter O'Meara Evans (MA IPS1997) is CBW Section Chief at the Office of Chemical , Biological and Missile Nonproliferation, at the US Department of State.

Lisa Owens-Davis worked for the Nonproliferation Bureau in the Nuclear Energy Affairs Office at the Department of State.

Deborah Ozga is with DynMeridian Corp. in Virginia.

James Plotts received a new assignment from the US Department of State in August 2000 with the Bureau of Nonproliferation's Office of Chemical, Biological, and Mission Nonproliferation in Washington, DC.

Ole Reistad (2000) is a Project Manager with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority.

Erika Ribanszky is working for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Export Control Program.

Jenni Rissanen (MA IPS 1999) is an External Relations Officer at the Liaison Office of the IAEA in Geneva.

Tamara Robinson (1995), formerly a CNS Project Manager, now works for an organization in Washington, DC.

Liga Rozentals (MA IPS 2001) is an advisor to the State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Republic of Latvia.

Sammy Salama (MA IPS 2003) is a Research Associate at the CNS WMD Terrorism Research Project.

Heidi Schmidt works as a consultant for a multinational firm in Washington, DC.

Casey Sherman is an Arms Control Policy Analyst in the Security Studies and Arms Control Support Division of the Science Applications International Corporation in McLean, VA.

Thomas (Skold) Lorenz (MA IPS 2001) is an information analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.

Sarah Stevenson (MA IPS 2000) is serving as a US Fellow to Russia for 12 months under the Russian-US Young Fellows for Public Service program, sponsored by the US Department of State's Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau and administered by the International Research and Exchanges Board.

Maiko Tamagawa (MA IPS 2003) is working at the office of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jill Tatko Zubarev (MA IEP 1999), is working as an International Policy Analyst for the US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of International Material Protection and Cooperation.

Masako Toki (MA IPS 2000) is working for the Nonproliferation Education Group at CNS.

Viacheslav Turkin (MA IPS 2001) is working at the Nuclear Security Office of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.

Sebnem Udum (2002) is a visiting lecturer at the Turkish Army War Academy.

Meggen M. Watt is with the National Security Division of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working on nuclear transfer and supplier policy in Washington, DC.

Susan Welsh de Grimaldo is a Manager of International Telephony and Internet Publications for The Strategies Group, Inc. in Washington, DC.

Jeremy Wolff is working as a Policy Analyst in the US Department of Commerce's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office.

Tomoko Yasaka (MA IPS 2002) worked at the office of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.