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Alumni Spotlight

  • Angelina Cotler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2005 Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, 2005 Current Position Director of Membership and Development, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current work...
  • Varsha Venugopal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2002 Master's in Urban Planning, 2002 Current Position My current position is Assistant Director of Programmes at Options, Consulting Firm focused on Maternal and Child Health in developing countries located in London, UK What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am part...
  • Bruna Romero-Melgar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2014 Master's in Economics, 2014 Current Position My current position is Managing Director of GIrls in Tech Bolivia located in Santa Cruz, Bolivia What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Girls in Tech Bolivia is a non...
  • Beatriz Padilla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2001 PhD in Sociology, 2001 Current Position My current position is Principal Investigator (which is at the same level that Associate Professor) at the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) or in English, University Institute of Lisbon Please give us an update on...
  • Batamaka Some University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnnus GRID Minor, 2010 PhD in Anthropology, 2010 Current Position Regional Representative West Africa Collaborative Crop Research Programme (CCRP) of the McKnight Foundation.  Location: Burkina Faso Please give us an update on your life since graduating from Illinois. Thank you...
  • Bala Saho University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2007 MA in African Studies, 2007 Current Position Assistant Professor, Department of History The University of Oklahoma, Norman What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? y forthcoming book Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women,...
  • Aida Orgocka University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2002 PhD in Human and Community Development, 2003 Current Position Project Manager, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?...
  • Laura Ripani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2003 PhD in Economics, 2004 What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am currently a Lead Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in Washington DC.  With a history dating back to 1959, today the IDB is the leading source of...
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2012 PhD in Socioculutural Anthropology, 2012 Current Position Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Program Director of Anthropology and Sociology, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My work as both program...
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2002 Master's in Human Nutrition, 2005 Current Position Professor of Practice, Statewide Nutrition Coordinator, Oregon State University Extension Service What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption amongst limited...