INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Volume IX: Spring 2010 The Unofficial Newsletter of the Presidential Interns

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THE INSIDE THIS ISSUE: PRESIDENTIAL INTERNS ? The K‘anna Society 2

Coming Home 2

AUC Recycles Cairo 2

A Tale of Two Egypts 3

Lessons with Arwa 4

LA to Cairo 5

The Big 3-0 6

Interns, 1981-2009 7-8

The 2009-10 Interns 9

The 2009-2010 Presidential Interns traveled the watching BBC Arabia.

Middle East and Europe, while still finding time This year‘s interns elected to hold special seminars with AUC experts, to work hard and enjoy their lives in Egypt. including Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Where in the world are the 2009- Skype to the usual Arabic Dr. Jerry Leach, Director of the 2010 Presidential Interns? homework, naps, and music made AUC‘s Center for American the commute bearable. On the New studies, and Dr. Lisa Anderson, At any given moment during the Campus, the interns took advantage AUC Provost. All interns agreed year of their internship, it was of the many spectacular resources that they benefitted enormously difficult to pin down the many available to them. From sports and from the scholarly discussions, activities each intern was juggling. choirs, to plays and films, the New career advice, and esteemed Whether it was quenching the never Campus offers many activities to company. ending travel bug in the region and unwind with after a long work day. beyond, or checking out baladi Together, the interns traveled to bread factories and the camel Sam and Ellen were the star Alexandria and Ain El Sokhna, but market within Cairo, the interns athletes, joining the basketball team once the initial weeks turned into were always moving. and swim team respectively, but months, travel plans became Laura could often be found on the tailored to each intern‘s individual In the second full year on the New tennis courts if she wasn‘t on the interests. Often Saturday and Campus, we rode the bus from AUC farm or campaigning for Sunday nights were spent recapping Zamalek, our commute taking about campus-wide recycling. Kavita activities, as the interns returned two hours out of our days. But joined the choir, and was asked to home to the hostel upon the luckily for all commuters, wifi was sign the AUC school song at completion of journeys. And on the installed on the buses this year, so Commencement, while Steve and rare weekends when all interns the introduction of the New York Henry could often be spotted in the Times, Gmail, Facebook, and Faculty Lounge, gossiping and (See Interns, page 3) 2

AUC R ECYCLES C AIRO

LAURA HANNA They transport it home, sort it, and are able DESERT DEVELOPMENT to recycle up to 80% of what is collected. CENTER It has been daunting to realize that in Cairo – The organic waste, which makes up to 50% a city of an ever-growing population of 22 of Cairo‘s total waste, was used to feed the million that produces 14,000 tons of trash pigs. When the pigs were slaughtered, the per day – there is little emphasis on waste Zabaleen who had already been management. Egypt‘s preemptive solution experiencing pressure from the government back when the H1N1 virus hit over a year to move further outside of town, were at a ago was to kill all the pigs in Cairo. This loss. The government had already tried to may seem of little significance, but when ‗formalize‘ the sector of waste management you actually look at the broader system, you by bring in international companies to realize the consequences which Cairo is only implement new systems, there was of course now really beginning to face. The pigs were no proper economic assessment and so the part of the largest informal trash collection system fell to the wayside. So for the noticeable trash build in certain places that system in the world based in a community Zabaleen, the political pressure, geographic we frequent. Downtown, Coptic Cairo, even called the ‗Zabaleen,‘ or trash people who constraints and physical limitations they had on the drive to New Campus; it is live in the Manshiyet Nasr district of Cairo. been placed under uprooted their disheartening to experience the waste of a The Zabaleen are an informal group who productivity and the rest of Cairo is still city piling up in real time and to realize that collect trash for profit throughout Cairo. feeling it. From when the interns first arrived in Cairo this past August, there has been a (See Recycle, page 6)

W ELCOME H OME …TO E GYPT ?

HENRY AGBO is a simple equation that equals from?‖ would come, I often paused for OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS distinctiveness. After all, I was born and moments, racked with indecision. ―I‘m AND MARKETING raised in St. Louis, Missouri, but it just so American.‖ It would spill out of me. The A chorus rang out. ―Welcome home, happens that both of my parents came from regret would rain down. Being American brother,‖ the men all shouted in quick Nigeria. One element that was always means being different, oppositional, or a succession. Those proclamations of greeting missing from this conception of the self, ―them‖ in the ―us versus them‖ dichotomy. were eventually replaced by the more though, is that I had never been to Nigeria or Of course, it is not without its rewards. An expected entreaties and questions as one even Africa before. American passport has cachet. It means meanders through a marketplace, such as access, privilege, connections and power in a ―Come shop in my store!‖ or ―How can I Thus, when I came to Egypt for the first country where these things are hard to gain. take your money?‖ or even ―Mister Obama, time, it was sort of a homecoming. While I It sparks curiosity and a barrage of questions do you want a t-shirt?‖ My initial feelings of had yet to venture into sub-Saharan Africa about music, movies, and New York City elation at instant belonging were quickly which is my true ancestral home, this was a (even if you‘re not from there). Separation replaced with the unease of being just start for me, the beginning of a journey that and distinction, however, persist. another foreigner seemingly with an undoubtedly meant shedding light for myself inordinate amount of money to waste in an on the place that European scholars used to On the contrary, being Nigerian does not overwhelming and incomprehensible new disparagingly refer to as the ―Dark bear a wide range of benefits. The status place. Welcome to Egypt. I wondered what Continent‖. I thought that Egyptians could does not exist. In those choice moments in that really meant. see my desperation to belong, to be in which I have decided to answer the question communion with my African brothers and of ―Where are you from?‖ with one simple I am Nigerian-American, and in adopting a sisters. It was as if I had a sign taped to my word, ―Nigeria‖, the outcome has been hyphenated identity I am careful to never forehead. noticeably different though. A smile has place a stronger emphasis on either of the often sprouted across the face of my current requisite parts of my cultural composition. I I soon saw those expectations dashed – at interrogator. ―Foooooootball,‖ he would am Nigerian wholly. I am American fully. It least insofar as I am a Westerner. When the inevitable question of ―Where are you (See Home? page 6)

T HE K’A NNA S OCIETY

STEPHEN KALIN friend, guide, interpreter, teacher, traffic cop. skills despite being a product of the OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT (When crossing the street, he urges me not to inhibiting Egyptian public school and I met Ahmed Shawket during my second fear oncoming traffic. ―They‘re university system. He taught himself English month in Egypt. Initially connected through professionals!‖ he says about the drivers who from reading books, watching TV, listening the famous Cairo Scholars listserv, we began speed up when they see us crossing.) to American music, and meeting foreigners. as language exchange partners and became His speech is flawless and his cultural quick friends. For a few months, we sat in a Ahmed is 26 and a master‘s student at Cairo fluency is excellent, though he has never baladi café once a week where he would University. He studies anthropology, but he been outside of Egypt. read aloud in English and I in Arabic to hates it and actually reads more philosophy practice pronunciation and comprehension. than anything else. In one of our first Through Ahmed‘s eyes, I‘ve learned more Since then, we have met more regularly and meetings, he read from a book of about Egypt than I ever could have by for no particular reason other than to spend contemporary philosophical theories; I made reading books. He rarely goes to class, time together. Ahmed has been one of the him switch to a novel. He‘s a really bright guy–somehow he developed critical thinking best parts of my life in Cairo, acting as (See K’Anna, page 4) 3

W HERE IN THE W ORLD ARE THE P RESIDENTIAL I NTERNS ?

Interns (Continued from page 1) Horreya Coffee Shop, L‘Aubergine, We will cherish our memories and Pub 28, or Odeon. friendships from this year, and they were in town, the terrace became a will stay with us, no matter where dance floor, and interns could be The interns will always remember life takes us. spotted hopping to Cairo Jazz Club, their overnight stay at the Desert After 8, the British Consulate, Development Center‘s South Tahrir farm, potluck terrace parties, 2009-2010 Interns’ Travel: Laura‘s birthday cakes and breakfast treats, Lunch at the Countries visited: Zewail House, Steve‘s valuable France, Jordan, Italy, command of Arabic — so helpful in Lebanon, Syria, Kenya, early taxi rides, New Year‘s Eve at Ethiopia, Morocco, Spain, the Swiss Club, Henry‘s obsession Turkey, Germany, Greece, with candy, Algeria-Egypt football Israel, Nigeria. matches and the subsequent riots, Kavita‘s fantastic enthusiasm for

nearly everything, Egyptian friends (lost and found), Sam‘s Arabic Within Egypt: accent and special relationship with Luxor, Rosetta, Siwa, his office-mates, and Ellen‘s Dahab, Sharm el Sheikh, insatiable desire to find a pool. Bahareya, Aswan, Ismailia, Suez, Alexandria, Ain el The year went by both quickly and Sokhna, Nuweiba, Fayoum, slowly, but all would agree that it South Tahrir. was an unbelievable experience. The Interns at the AUC Farm in South Tahrir

A T ALE OF TWO E GYPTS

SAM LEVINE resources like running water and OFFICE OF THE PROVOST One of the most interesting parts a clean home that I take for of my year-long journey living granted, and in my teaching and working in Cairo has been experiences--by the poor finding a way to connect, what I educational tools that give my would call, the 'two-Egypts' that students little opportunity to I immerse myself in on a daily reach success. And then, an hour basis. Let me explain: I work at or two later--it's back to the American University's Zamalek or to AUC, back to the beautiful new campus, interact other, more privileged world in Steve and his friend Ahmed with the elite of Egypt's Egypt. It's a difficult divide, and one that I have struggled to about it. Next year, I will be population, and most nights teaching in an underachieving return to my cushy apartment in come to terms with while living school in Washington D.C, Zamalek, an expat, more- here. But it has also left me determined to do something where students are faced with expensive hub in the middle of some of the same challenges Cairo. And yet, three times a that my students face here. It is week I teach English to my hope that I can bring the Egyptians and Refugees who skills and experiences I learn live in poorer communities in teaching in the States back to Heliopolis and Nasr City, and in the Middle East one day, and travel around the country and in perhaps to Egypt--where I can certain parts of Cairo I am also help fight for educational exposed to a very different equality and for a better future, lifestyle than that at AUC and in one in which I am no longer Zamalek. I am shocked by the Henry, Laura, Steve, Mohamed and Sam exposed to these two, very after Algeria-Egypt football match poverty; by the lack of basic different Egypt's. 4

L ESSONS WITH ARWA KAVITA KANNAN Sharia Talat Harb to the Nile. (―La nil illa al OFFICE OF PLANNING AND -nil,‖ Ahmed would say in emulation of the ADMINISTRATION shahada. ―There is no nile but the Nile.‖) My search for an Arabic (fusha) teacher was We have gone clothes and book shopping, much more complicated than I expected including to the Cairo Book Fair in Nasr upon arriving here in Cairo. I was originally City in January where I picked up a free placed with a male teacher, who was told to copy of Qaddafi‘s green book. We meet to contact me to set up our first class. After not watch the crowds after a big football game, receiving a phone call from him, even and we go to lectures together. Once he took though Stephen Kalin had been contacted, I me to his anthropology class at Cairo gave up and requested a particular Arabic University, and I listened as the professor teacher upon the recommendation of a droned on for two hours in Arabic about the friend. physiological differences between two tribes in southern Sudan. Arwa, a Libyan who is seeking political Interns at the Zuweil House refuge in Egypt, was not what I was Arab mindset during these months here, One of the most unusual experiences that expecting. With fantastic fusha – hard to find Ahmed has enabled me to have was visiting here in Egypt – she can explain grammar in a mostly through Arwa. his home in the Cairo suburb of Giza. One way that a Type-A American can easily afternoon in November, I took the metro to grasp and understand; her vocabulary is the Cairo University stop and met Ahmed on expansive, but she‘s very good at knowing K’anna (Continued from Page 2) the street. These streets were unpaved and which words we already know and which filled with garbage, people, and tuktuks, or words we don‘t; and she‘s very empathetic, doesn‘t work and doesn‘t particularly like the automated rickshaws. Ahmed and I took a understanding, and desirous of connecting at neighborhood where he lives, so he spends minibus about half an hour along one street a deep, personal level with her students. hours upon hours losing himself in English and that sat below a highway flyover, weaving Arabic books, meeting with friends, and around other minibuses, cars and tuktuks; She‘s also a little bit crazy. Our classes don‘t walking around downtown. He confirms for me navigating potholes the size of refrigerators have end times – we schedule them at night that intellectual curiosity is still alive among in the unpaved streets, as barefoot children so that they can go on for as long as we can some of Egypt‘s youth. and covered women carrying loads on their last. My longest class so far has been for six heads ran past. At the end of the route, we hours, and that‘s not many standard Ahmed‘s nature is cynical, which is perhaps disembarked and walked another fifteen deviations from average. With her why we get along so well. He has developed a minutes to Ahmed‘s apartment, past indefatigable love of Arabic, Arwa feels that way of explaining why things in Egypt are donkeys, sheep, and cows, vendors selling Arabic should be a priority to all her students broken, dysfunctional, corrupt, illogical. He rotten fruit, huge piles of tires, and trash. It as it is to her. Even mentioning studying calls Egypt the k’anna society, which derives was chaotic. Ahmed lives with his family in another language, or, God forbid, practicing from a word in the Arabic language. K’anna is a modest apartment and has his own it while you‘re in Egypt, will merit a a conditional phrase which literally means ―as bedroom. An old desktop computer which scolding that my own mother would want to if,‖ but it implies that the condition it sets up is he uses to listen to music, watch movies and emulate. unlikely or unreasonable. For example–this surf the web sits on his desk in a room year passed as if it were a month. When which sunlight rarely reaches. One of the She also has no issues with discussing very applied to Egypt, Ahmed intends it to describe walls is lined from floor to ceiling with personal topics in class. As I mentioned situations where there is the appearance of books in Arabic and English that he has before, Arwa is a political refugee from normalcy and functionality, but right below the read. He‘s an anomaly; I‘m not quite sure Libya; her father was an active protestor surface it is obvious– everybody knows- that it where he came from. against the Libyan government, many of her is one big farce, similar to how a year can be a relatives and family friends have spent over month long. Recently, Ahmed and I have taken to sitting half their lives in prison, and her husband is in a baladi café near the Ramses Hilton and currently actively involved in supporting anti There are countless examples of k’anna: 30% playing dominos. His friend Tareq, who -Ghaddafi movements. While she has some of young people go to university on the serves in the Egyptian army, taught me how horrendous memories of Libya, she has no government‘s dollar, but classes are crowded, to play and imparting some of his strategy. I problem speaking about them, and she professors are poor, resources are limited, similarly doesn‘t hesitate to ask us about our intellectual freedom is snuffed out, and beat Ahmed (the pro) in my first game, but I opinions on a variety of things, ranging from employment is unavailable upon graduation; haven‘t won a game since then. He and I sit American foreign policy to the prevalence of education in Egypt therefore is k’anna. Police together, talking in Arabic and English about sex in American society to Disney movies. are posted on practically every corner, yet they the past week and the week to come, Anything and everything is fair game, and demand baksheesh from everyone, don‘t exchanging trash talk about the game, and we‘ve certainly learned how to be prepared follow the laws themselves, and actually create singing favorite Arabic songs. Cars rush past for anything during our classes. more trouble than they prevent; therefore security in Egypt is k’anna. The Egyptian in the street, and smoke plumes up from With these very personal topics floating Antiquities Museum contains thousands of Ahmed‘s cigarette into the clear Cairo night. around class, I will say that not only does my relics from the pyramids and other ancient After a few games of dominos, we walk to vocabulary include a very odd assortment of ruins, yet everything is lumped together the 6th October bridge, which connects haphazardly, without attention to order and words, I also believe I‘ve learned more than downtown and Zamalek and is famous for preservation; therefore preservation in Egypt is the young couples that stroll its sidewalks. just how to discuss these matters in Arabic. k’anna. The government is democratic, but We gaze down at the feluccas passing by on I‘ve also learned what Arabs – Libyans and Mubarak wins the election every five years; Egyptians alike – think of certain issues, how therefore democracy in Egypt is k’anna. Cairo the Nile filled with dancing Egyptians and they perceive the world, and how eager and is a city of contrasts and contradictions— the occasional foreigners. When it gets late, excited they are to learn more. Though I impossible to really understand or explain. we part ways. Ahmed descends to the bus could have had much more tame and station next to the Ramsis Hilton, and I walk Over the past few months, Ahmed and I have politically correct classes, I will always across the bridge to Zamalek, humming the spent hours reading and talking in coffee latest Arabic song he‘s taught me. value the important exposure I‘ve had to the shops downtown, then walking down 5

LA TO C AIRO ELLEN BROOKS It is here that I beg you, my reader, The highways that cut through the OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT to take a seemingly impossible leap minarets and sand-worn Haussmann When I first moved to LA, I hated within the following comparison. -like buildings are a tragically it. I went to California, like many For what I have realized, and want beautiful reminder of this story. before me, in search of gold. That to share with you, is that we are all They unwind the tale of Cairo‘s is, golden-haired boys, the perfect more similar than we give each conquerors and colonizers, much tan, and an endless summer that other credit for. like Wilshire Boulevard and its low breathed surfer chic cool. But I had -lying architecture cuts across to learn the hard way that things do To appeal to the technical side of America‘s journey west, not always turn out as we expect the argument, Cairo and Los proclaiming the endless, albeit them to. Most of the time, our Angeles offer some simple flattened, optimism of the carefully incubated preconceptions geographical comparisons: a shared automobile and the ever-cliché fail us. latitude, a desert, and a powerful American Dream. river that has been harnessed to But sometimes, if we are lucky, we give life to arid lands. But I did not Upon reaching Cairo‘s newest learn from these mistakes, and choose Cairo for endless sunshine; I frontier, the sprawl reaching into things turn out better. After four had learned from my superficiality. what else if not the desert, we find years in LA, I left with my eyes it takes its cues from this California opened. It was as if a yogi had Next comes the chaos of dream. The gaudy Rococo, and red- poured his knowledge into my civilization: the unpredictably roofed hacienda-inspired body, washing out the stress with terrible traffic, the extreme heat, the McMansions that crowd the streets calm. I grew to love the west dirt, the thick blanket of smog that to New Cairo exude a hilarity just coast‘s mere acknowledgment of wraps its filthy arms around the as superficial as, and even more time; as something that cannot be Nile. These problems make the two precocious than, their Orange controlled, but instead should be cities sisters; contributing to my County counterparts. appreciated. I learned to love the eerie feeling of being home. My good moments, so that when the pathetic fondness for the pretty pink It is a less complicated exercise to bad ones came I would be able to shades at sunset fuels my inability point out the cultural differences survive. to comprehend what smog really is. between these two sisters; they Not a technicolored dream coat-- glare out from billboards and street instead the product of too much corners. But why make life harder exhaust, and too many people than it has to be? It‘s so much crammed into too small an area. easier to survive when we realize that we are all just here, in the Egypt, more than any other place, places we end up, trying to make understands that we have no power the best of what we have, and over time. Home to more history counting our blessings. One golden than is comprehendible, it remains, apple at a time. no matter how much in shambles. Los Angeles Skyline Its existence is a reminder that no matter what we do, there are forces I watched the crazy city around me greater than us that will win out in fondly-- amazed at its hidden the end. beauty and the incredible chameleon-like performance of this on-looker herself. Feeling successful at conquering change 3,000 miles away from home, I decided to move 3,000 miles in the opposite direction. Onward to Cairo.

I arrived expecting the worst. Everyone who heard of my decision had offered their negative opinion, and I had weighed each carefully, as if inspecting apples in the grocery. Some were bruised, some were not yet ripe, but none were just right. Cairo by Night 6

I NTERNAL A FFAIRS

Recycle (Continued from page 2) bins for different items, like aluminum, glass and trash. As AUC produces over two tons the potential for rectifying the situation is a of trash per day, contributing to the greater long way away. 14,000 tons is important to understand what our trash is and how we may reduce our Certain streets have literally become their output. own landfill. You can watch children carrying buckets of trash from their homes The DDC and the Sustainable Campus to dump on the edge of the expanding pile. Committee set forth to engage the AUC Where else are they to put it, the people of community in a week-long celebration Manshiyet Nasr no longer receive financial around Earth Day. It was deemed ‗Earth gain from collection organic matter? It is Week‘ on the AUC campus and there was a ―We have Christians and Muslims living in even more unnerving and upsetting to walk series of events on campus focusing on Egypt and while things are not perfect we around the AUC campus and see the amount inspiring environmental awareness and aren‘t mass murdering each other.‖ I‘ll be of trash students leave behind. appreciation. The weeks‘ festivities sure to pass the message along. consisted of an educational video to learn As the topic of waste management is a about the current AUC trash system where For me, it boils down to a shared fate. pressing issue for all of Egypt, it has also volunteers went into many classrooms and Having visited Nigeria in December, I can become an important issue for the AUC departments. A survey was conducted to confidently say that it is certainly not Egypt campus. There seems to be an unconscious learn about the level of awareness of nor is the reverse true. The language, sense of entitlement among students to be students about waste management in Cairo climate, politics, economics as well as the able to leave their trash anywhere on and Egypt. There were lectures, games, a cultural and social mores – among many campus. This year as the Desert flower planting, sustainable campus tours other things – are extremely different. We Development Center began its first volunteer and a performance titled ‗Trash This‘, where are brothers, however, in the sense that we and work study programs to encourage student drummers perform on recycled are African. Beyond geography, as these two student involvement, waste management materials to culminate the week-long event. countries and others like them attempt to was at the top of the list. develop in order to secure a social, political From the events that took place on campus it and economic livelihood for citizens, shake In the Fall the DDC began its first work was clear that education and awareness is off a colonial legacy, and move toward a study and volunteer programs focusing on the key factor. Students and faculty seemed better future, we are brothers (and sisters) in water management issues and for the spring keen on the idea of recycling, but skeptical a common and protracted struggle. we decided to focus on waste management. about the end result, which is less tangible From the preliminary research conducted, it and demands understanding of the full So yes, I am a brother, and Egypt is my was concluded that an educational system. It is important to promote the home. Having lived here, I care about the awareness campaign on campus was recycling process as a whole, and to instill a future of Egypt just as having lived in the necessary for students, staff and faculty alike responsibility for the environment that is United States of America and having been to understand the trash system that AUC has lacking in Egyptian culture, so that we can born with Nigerian blood I am invested in put in place as there seemed to be little ensure better futures for everyone. the futures of these two countries. While the understanding of the concept of different communion might be selectively employed by shopkeepers trying to make a quick buck, I prefer to dig deeper. There, I find an increasingly nuanced conception of who I Home? (Continued from page 2) am that is comprised of skin color, ancestry, shout. The scream would send my ears and forged identity. That relates to the way ringing. As I used it more and more, though, in which many Egyptians that I have spoken the topics have extended beyond football. to see themselves: as black, as African, as One taxi driver demanded that I explain to disadvantaged, as unique, as powerful, as him why there is religious conflict between human and ultimately as diverse people who Christians and Muslims in parts of Nigeria. I are working to accept others like them and had no answer. Demanding that I take this unlike them. Good. Together, there‘s back to my homeland, he said pointedly, strength in numbers.

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Frank Packard 1981-82 Syed Sadiq Reza 1986-87 Tina Lount 1990-91 Randa Kayyali 1993-94 Princeton University Princeton University Harvard University Oberlin College Prentis Goodman 1986-87 Christian Dean 1990-91 Celka Straughn 1993-94 Elizabeth Thompson 1982-83 Princeton University Mt. Holyoke College Stanford University Harvard University John Oei 1990-91 Pamela Lee 1993-94 Heather Grady 1982-83 Jamie Wiesman 1987-88 Northwestern University Texas A&M University Harvard University Brown University Sean McCann 1990-91 Rebecca Holub 1993-94 Roy Oppenheim 1982-83 James Kershaw 1987-88 Princeton University Texas A&M University Princeton University Dartmouth College Aamer Mumtaz 1990-91 Anne Marie Deal 1993-94 Bridget McNamer 1987-88 Stanford University University of Chicago Joseph Brown 1983-84 Harvard University Bradley Cook 1990-91 Georgetown University Alicia Sams 1987-88 Stanford University Jennifer Kimpton 1994-95 Eve Troutt 1983-84 Harvard University Kevin Hight 1990-91 Brown University Harvard University Linda Bishai 1987-88 Whitman College Stephanie Ray 1994-95 John Marks 1983-84 Harvard University Connecticut College Kenyon College Regan E. Ralph 1987-88 Sutherland Miller III 1990-91 Alliniece Taylor 1994-95 Heather Skilling 1983-84 Harvard University Brown University Florida A&M University Williams College Susanna Shankland 1987-88 Arah Erickson 1991-92 Lynn Burke 1994-95 Harvard University Brown University Harvard University Ted G. Osius 1984-85 Chuck O. Gnaedinger 1987-88 Hanif Vanjara 1991-92 Caton Gates 1994-95 Harvard University Stanford University Duke University Haverford College Janina Safran 1984-85 David S. Johanson 1987-88 Patricia Lally 1991-92 Sombra Davis 1994-95 Harvard University Stanford University Fordham University Texas A&M University Clifford Cole 1984-85 Nicholas Griffin 1987-88 Michael Vollmer 1991-92 Willa Thayer 1994-95 Harvard University University of Notre Dame Harvard University Victoria University Maria Luis Fernandez 1984-85 Kathryn Hanser 1991-92 Harvard University Jennifer Tower 1988-89 Princeton University Sarah Sullivan 1995-96 William Haynes 1984-85 Columbia University Hillary Chura 1991-92 Georgetown University Princeton University Roberta Dougherty 1988-89 Smith College Heather Henyon 1995-96 Jane Bliss 1984-85 Georgetown University Bradley Johnson 1991-92 Connecticut College Harvard University Adrian Goldstein 1988-89 Stanford University Kristine McNeil 1995-96 Rebecca Gaghen 1984-85 Harvard University William Hill 1991-92 Stanford University Harvard University Beverly Gordon 1988-89 Texas A&M University Junaid Rana 1995-96 Ann Reed 1984-85 Harvard University Traci Hill 1991-92 Texas A&M University Harvard University Carol Emert 1988-89 Texas A&M University Roycelyn Bolden 1995-96 Harvard University Jennifer Wierman 1991-92 Texas A&M University Susan L. Gibbs 1985-86 Lisa Patton 1988-89 University of Massachusetts Brendhan Hight 1995-96 Brown University Harvard University U. of California, San Diego Mary Ann Fay 1985-86 Susan Arena 1988-89 Mitra Mehr 1992-93 Georgetown University Harvard University Brown University Eric Winograd 1996-97 Barry Ford 1985-86 Lisa Scholnick 1988-89 Mark Kennedy 1992-93 Dartmouth College Harvard University Harvard Univesrity Brown University Fariba Nawa 1996-97 Elizabeth Lightfoot 1985-86 Bryce Giddens 1988-89 Patricia Smith 1992-93 Hampshire College Harvard University Princeton University Brown University Alexsa Alonzo 1996-97 Moye Thompson 1985-86 Tara Joseph 1988-89 John Speaks 1992-93 Harvard University Harvard University Smith College Columbia University Alex Dessouky 1996-97 Brett O‘Brien 1985-86 Nathan Martin 1988-89 Simon O‘Rourke 1992-93 Middlebury College Harvard University Stanford University Connecticut College Lisa Bernasek 1996-97 Sarah Albee 1985-86 David Tavarez 1992-93 Princeton University Harvard University Katherine Bennison 1989-90 Harvard University Rachel Anderson 1996-97 Joseph W. Warren 1985-86 Cambridge University Betsey Johnson 1992-93 Smith College Princeton University Lori Duke 1989-90 Oberlin College Mara Kronenfeld 1996-97 Karen P. Boyle 1985-86 Cornell University Vivian Henein 1992-93 Stanford College Princeton University William Rowe 1989-90 Smith College Daniel Olson 1996-97 Carter Abel 1985-86 Georgetown University Susan Fry 1992-93 Texas A&M University Princeton University Nagla Bassiouni 1989-90 Stanford University Georgetown University Michael Barsa 1992-93 Marcie Handler 1997-98 Ian Todreas 1986-87 Elizabeth Logsdon 1989-90 Stanford University Dartmouth College Brown University Harvard University Anjum Akhtar 1992-93 Alanna Shaikh 1997-98 Catherine Stryker 1986-87 Peter Vrooman 1989-90 University of Kansas Georgetown University Georgetown University Harvard University Elizabeth Smith 1992-93 Michelle Garrett 1997-98 Peter Miller 1987-87 Suzanne Malveaux 1989-90 University of Wisconsin Hampshire College Harvard University Harvard University Sarah Thompson 1997-98 Kathleen Hanson 1986-87 Karin Anderson 1989-90 Mary Nachtrieb 1993-94 Smith College Harvard University Harvard University College of William and Mary Michael McCain 1997-98 Eliza Morss 1986-87 Karen Jacobson 1989-90 Jehanne Henry 1993-94 Texas A&M University Harvard University Stanford University Columbia University Christine Prince 1997-98 Raymond Fisher 1986-87 Michele Smart 1989-90 Otavio Peixoto 1993-94 University of Virginia Harvard University U. of California, Berkeley Georgetown University Charles Duhigg 1997-98 David Blackmore 1986-87 Robert Oden III 1993-94 Yale University Harvard University George DuPre 1990-91 Harvard University Dwan Dixon 1998-99 Lois Johnson 1986-87 Georgetown University Christopher Bell 1993-94 Brown University Harvard University Ryan Minor 1990-91 Harvard University Arthur Fuscaldo 1986-87 Harvard University Elizabeth Miller 1993-94 George Farag 1998-99 Harvard University Sharon Epperson 1990-91 Harvard University College of New Jersey Harvard University 8

P RESIDENTIAL INTERNS 1981-2009

Jaqueline Funk 1998-99 Ryan Greene-Roesel 2001-02 Lucy Jones 2003-04 Cornell University College of William and Mary Mt. Holyoke College Fauzia Dawood 2007-08 Elizabeth Magner 1998-99 Diana Heise 2001-02 New York University Dartmouth College Vassar College Sean Brooks 2004-05 Scott Nelson 2007-08 Beth Turk 1998-99 Nadia Matar 2001-02 Davidson College Brown University Dartmouth College U. of Pennsylvania Karis Eklund 2004-05 Kelsey Norman 2007-08 Lucy Ellenbogen 1998-99 Kristin Mendoza 2001-02 Stanford University University of Michigan Georgetown University Yale University Caroline Foster 2004-05 Celia Smalls 2007-08 Eliot Foster 1998-99 JoEllen Saeli 2001-02 Connecticut College Stanford University Stanford University Saint Anslem College Courtney Mosby 2004-05 Peter Wieben 2007-08 Heidi Saman 2001-02 Howard University Carleton College U. of California, San Diego Kelsey Bostwick 1999-00 Robtel Pailey 2004-05 Gaetan Damberg-Ott 2007-08

Dartmouth College Howard University Carleton College Sarah E. Havens 1999-00 Kristin Eakins 2002-03 Christopher Raftery 2004-05 Arizona State University Kristina Hallez 2007-08 Brown University Harvard University Wesleyan University Antony Hudek 1999-00 Seth Smith 2002-03 U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth College Juliet Frekring 2005-06 Jeffrey Bellis 2008-09 Danica Lo 1999-00 Emily Gomez 2002-03 Stanford University Dartmouth College Kenyon College Dartmouth College Dominic Bocci 2005-06 Robert Gasior 2008-09 Peggy Pope 1999-00 Amber Acosta 2002-03 U. of California at Berkeley University of Michigan Wells College Fordham University Lily Hindy 2005-06 Lauren Linakis 2008-09 Franklin Yates 1999-00 Luke Dunlap 2002-03 Smith College Brown University U. of Texas at Austin Benjamin Danforth 2005-06 Barnard College Dominique Kaschak 2002-03 Cornell University Joslyn Massengale 2008-09 Michael Allan 2000-01 Amherst College Masha Kirasirova 2005-06 Stanford University Brown University Geoffrey Gresh 2002-03 Brown University Muriel Payan 2008-09 Abigail Jones 2000-01 Lafayette College Harvard University U. of New Hampshire Graeme Wood 2002-03 Larissa Lawrence 2006-07 Corey Sattler 2008-09 Lana Krtolica 2000-01 Harvard University Fordham University Johns Hopkins University U. of Southern California Brian Kelly 2006-07 Andrew Sinanoglou 2008-09 Michele Jackson 2003-04 Alan Lowinger 2000-01 U.of California, San Diego Columbia University Williams College U. of Pennsylvania Alexandra Halsema 2006-07 Sameer Ahmed 2003-04 Phung Pham 2000-01 Dartmouth College U. of California, Davis Stanford University Anders Blewett 2003-04 Alison Damick 2006-07 Veronica Rodriguez 2000-01 Middlebury College U. of California, Berkeley Harvard University Anand Balakrishnan 2003-04 Taylor Valore 2006-07 Stephanie C. Sines 2000-01 Carleton College Smith College Brown University Jessica Pouchet 2006-07 Erica Gaston 2003-04 Brown University Negar Azimi 2001-02 Stanford University Catherine Baylin 2006-07 Stanford University Brad Humphreys 2003-04 Frank Cho 2001-02 University of Virginia Stanford University U. of Pennsylvania Rojan Taghari 2003-04 Boston College 2009-2010 I NTERNS Henry Agbo Harvard University

Ellen Brooks University of California, Los Angeles

Laura Hanna University of New Hampshire Italian Cultural Center New Year’s Eve Stephen Kalin Davidson College

Kavita Kannan Harvard University

Sam Levine Cornell University

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