Fall 2016 the FlameTHE MAGAZINE OF CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS Psychology alumna Jean Maria Arrigo dedicated 10 years of her life to exposing the American Psychological Association’s secret ties to US military interrogation efforts MAKE A GIFT TO THE ANNUAL FUND TODAY the Flame Claremont Graduate University THE MAGAZINE OF CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY fellowships play an important role Fall 2016 The Flame is published by in ensuring our students reach their Claremont Graduate University’s Office of Marketing and Communications educational goals, and annual giving 165 East 10th Street Claremont, CA 91711 from our alumni and friends is a ©2016 Claremont Graduate University major contributor. Here are some of VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT our students who have benefitted Ernie Iseminger ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS from the CGU Annual Fund. 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[email protected] Claremont Graduate University does not discriminate in its educational programs on the basis of race, color, creed, place of national origin, gender, sexual orientation, cgu.edu/giving age, or disability. THE MAGAZINE OF CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Photo © copyright 2016 Dallas Pickering CONTENTS COVER STORY 17 A global scholarly event this past summer 20 LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS celebrated CGU’s ties to one of Christianity’s oldest branches. Alumna Jean Maria Arrigo exposed how the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists was secretly 4 FROM THE EDITOR 24 conspiring with the US military. Professor Andrew Marx analyzes NASA 5 NEWS satellite imagery to help detect human rights 10 THE BIG PICTURE FEATURES violations around the world. 29 PHOTO GALLERY 30 FACULTY 12 26 Matthew and Roberta Jenkins have proudly Trader Joe’s former president Doug Rauch 36 ALUMNI served as two of the university’s strongest launches a nonprofit grocery store to tackle supporters for nearly 30 years. 42 CALENDAR hunger and food waste. 43 CARRYING THE FLAME 14 28 Alumnus Mark Howard publishes the Student leaders from the School first-ever translation of a music theory of Community and Global Health plotted masterwork. an international course to their education. 16 Doctoral student Lori Clock helps schoolchildren cultivate life skills in her “Resilience Garden.” THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 3 FROM THE EDITOR n warm days in July, people wear light clothing because of the weather, ...YOU’LL FIND STORIES OF right? O HOW OUR FACULTY AND Not if you’re a Coptic monk. This summer, the sight of these monks, STUDENTS ARE WORKING who belong to one of the oldest branches of Christianity, walking on our campus ON PROJECTS THAT HAVE (featured in this issue of the Flame) in their A REAL, MEANINGFUL familiar garments—robes, embroidered bonnets—served as a visual reminder that IMPACT ON THE WORLD. CGU is connected to so many diverse fields of knowledge and study. This issue of the Flame celebrates many of she tells us in our exclusive interview. “People these relationships and connections. keep talking about courage. That’s not it. It’s In these pages, along with coverage of this grunt work, OK?” year’s 11th International Congress of Coptic Yes, but it’s also more than just “grunt Studies, you’ll find stories of how our faculty work”—behind her work is a deep hunger for and students are working on projects that have social justice that infuses so many of CGU’s a real, meaningful impact on the world. programs and disciplines. Among them, there’s CISAT Professor We hope you enjoy this issue. We hope Andrew Marx, who has found a way to you find special pleasure in realizing, as you address human rights abuses using satellite flip through these pages, that this magazine technology; there’s Deborah Rugg, a former is more than a collection of extraordinary UN evaluation official, who will run our new stories: it is a picture of your community. CGU NYC-based evaluation center and coordinate is your home. our students’ work with UN agencies and delegates around the world on sustainable Roberto C. Hernandez development; and much more. Managing Editor Our cover story, about Jean Maria Arrigo, Nicholas Owchar looks at the psychology alumna’s long ordeal— Executive Director, Advancement Communications and eventual vindication— after blowing the whistle on the American Psychological Association’s collusion with the Department of Defense on military interrogation efforts. Media outlets around the world honored Arrigo. The Guardian (at right) even headlined her as “a national hero,” but Arrigo doesn’t feel that way about what she did. “The whole business of bravery—you can forget that,” p.4 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY NEWS San Bernardino County Supervisor JANICE RUTHERFORD and university leaders welcome new students A JOYFUL JOURNEY Some 300 new master’s and doctoral students were welcomed into the ranks of Claremont Graduate University’s community during this year’s new-student orientation ceremony held Aug. 28 in the Bridges Hall of Music (“Little Bridges”). “We don’t just read about the world,” said Provost and Executive Vice President Jacob Adams, describing how the CGU experience differs from other institutions, “we go out into the field.” While Adams exhorted students to uphold the scholarly ideal and celebrate their entrance into a vast “partnership of scholars,” Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services Keynote speaker, alumna, and San Ber- Patricia Easton oversaw the “Ignite the Flame” nardino County Supervisor Janice Ruther- CGU FALL 2016 ceremony—in which students attach a pin ford (MA, Politics and Policy, 1993) expressed with the university’s flame emblem to one sympathy for any student feeling anxiety over another—and described the support services 488 the unknown. NEW STUDENTS available to them. In her own career, she explained, facing Other speakers included University uncertainty has meant confronting many dif- President Robert Schult, Dean of Students 58% ferent, unexpected circumstances every day, FEMALE Chris Bass, Dean of Student Services Lisa “from weeds to flood control to terrorism.” Flores Griffith, and Director of Career She encouraged students not to avoid discom- STATES Development Christine Kelly. 26 fort, but to embrace it during their graduate REPRESENTED journeys. “This is a safe place to explore ideas. 28% INTERNATIONAL This is as safe as it gets,” she said. “But it STATES can be uncomfortable. If you think it should be comfortable or easy, you’re in the wrong This infographic for fall 2016 place. This is a joyful journey where you get to shows the diversity of CGU’s incoming students. grow and expand and learn new things. That requires discomfort. That’s OK. Make yourself uncomfortable.” Janice Rutherford THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 5 NEWS New evaluation center opens in New York City; former UN and CDC official Deborah Rugg will align the center with the needs of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals ties and find placements in UN agencies and possibly with various missions as they seek to advance the SDGs in their home countries. “Deborah comes to us at a time when the need for global evaluation efforts couldn’t be greater,” said Stewart Donaldson, who heads CGU’s evaluation efforts as the dean of the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evalua- tion, and the School of Community and Global Health. “When you consider her career at the UN and CDC, you realize she has the perfect background to lead us in this new endeavor.” THE KEY WORD IS “APPLIED” (L-R) Deborah Rugg with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. CGU REALLY COULDN’T What good is knowledge that (Image courtesy of UN Photo/Evan Schneider) BE BETTER-POSITIONED doesn’t get used? More than 20 THAN IT IS NOW university alumni participated in “The Next Wave: Effect- STOP AND FRISK: Doctoral student Deborah Rugg, a former United Nations and Linda Perkins ing Change Through Applied Roger Chin, who is studying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Women’s Studies,” a conference held Oct. 14 in political science and information official focused on effective approaches to global Albrecht Auditorium. The conference celebrat- systems, has been honored by the HIV prevention and sustainable development, is ed the pioneering program’s 15th anniversary Network of Schools of Public Policy, leading CGU’s new evaluation center in New York and featured keynote remarks by alumna Affairs, and Administration with City.