What are Chinese Department alumni up to? Below you'll find updates on the lives and careers of many former students, along with links to their e-mail addresses, where available. Please click here to keep the department up to date on your whereabouts.
— Last updated: December 2005
2005
Adam Jones '05 is working as an investment banking analyst for the Middle Market Merger & Acquisition Division at Piper Jaffray & Co. He is currently living and working in Chicago.
Hoa Tran '05 is working as an International Liaison to the Greater China Region at Culminus, Inc in Charlotte, North Carolina. He would love to meet with Midd alums in the area. He is happy to share his job search experience with interested graduating students.
Melissa A. Thacker '05 is teaching Chinese at Suffield Academy in Suffield Connecticut. She is excited to pas along her interest in China's language and culture to high school students.
2004
William Boziuk'04 is working as an administrative assistant in the Japanese Equities Department at Wellington Management Company, LLP. He would like to help out if anyone is interested in the company, or if anyone needs a hand doing "almost anything" in China, especially Beijing.
Fred Brubaker '04 is studying at Johns Hopkins Center in Nanjing, China.
Ben Christensen '04 is the Customer Services Manager for the Residential Department at Jones Lang LaSalle in Beijing, China. After graduation, Ben spent a summer as an intern with Volkswagen Group China in Beijing. He spent the last winter living and working in Lake Tahoe, California and then returned to Beijing in July 2005.
Timothy Harr '04 is working as an associate with David Diebold & Associates in Beijing, China. He spent one year at the Beijing Normal University School of Chinese Language and Culture (Grad 2005).
Morgan Jones '04 is studying at the Johns Hopkins Center in Nanjing, China. He is also in the middle of searching for positions in marketing, advertising, and/or public relations. He is in the midst of several projects, including organizing a hip-hop event in June in Shanghai, China.
Amanda Tompkins'04 is living in New York City.
Rui bing Zheng '04 is the program support coordinator at Chinatown Beacon Center in Oakland, CA.
2003
Lauren Henry '03 has been working in NYC since graduation doing PR for a magazine publishing company. This summer (2005), she is heading back to Middlebury to attend Chinese Language School. She is hoping to find a job in Shanghai and move there in the fall of 2005.
Anna Bautista '03 will graduate from the Johns Hopkins Center in Nanjing in 2005. Her home is in New York City.
Anna Ostenso '03 is enrolled in the master program in youth ministry at Kings College, University of London.
Daniela Salaverry '03 is working as a donor relations manager at the Nature Conservancy in New York. She is hoping to become more involved in the company's China program, which is based in Yunnan.
Aaron Steen '03 spent a bohemian and fun-filled year in Chicago studying how to live in the real world after graduation in 2003. In September 2004 he returned to China to enroll in the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and will graduate from the center in June. He has very strong opinions concerning the center, and encourages potential applicants to contact him via e-mail.
2002
David Caragliano '02 has been working at a Government Affairs consulting firm, called Yuan Associate, which was established in February 2004 in Beijing, China. The firm provides strategic analysis and lobbies the Chinese government on behalf of multinational corporations and U.S. companies and trade associations, such as Anheuser-Busch and Cotton Council International.
Holly Congdon '02 is working as an assistant in the department of 19th-century paintings at Sotheby's in New York.
Elizabeth Gamson '02 is working as a tax associate for the Tax and Legal Services Division at Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP. She got her Masters in Accounting from Northeastern University in 2003. She's currently living and working in Boston, MA.
Ryan Garrity '02 is the director of operations at Picut Industries Asia. He is living in Shanghai.
Ann Lucke '02 worked for the Peace Corps in China for nine months after Middlebury. Currently, she's doing post-bachelor work toward a BSN (bachelor's in nursing). Eventually she would like to get her masters in public health so that she can teach or do research. She works on the neuro-trauma ICU at OHSU and has been studying Chinese medical terminology and even translated for a few patients and their families.
Sean Morley '02 is living in Beijing, China and working as the sourcing director at the business development department of Starcon Corporation.
Joshua Richards '02 is studying for his JD at University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Tremblay'02 is the product development manager of One Step Ahead Ent LLC, doing all of the development for the footwear line of The North Face. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
2001
Brian Bethke '01 is a general manager at Pigtronix Guitar Pedals (www.pigtronix.com). He lives in Shenzhen, China.
Christopher Cheang '01 is moving to Shanghai.
Joel Hugenberger '01 is studying for his J.D. at Boston College Law School.
Jenna Karlin '01 is the organizer/Rhode Island area director at UNITE HERE.
Peter Nestor '01 is a self-employed writer/researcher in Shanghai, China. He welcomes Middlebury students to contact him for job leads and contacts in Shanghai. He says there are tons of jobs in Shanghai for foreign Chinese speakers, including summer internships. Most of his contacts are in law, print media, film and market research.
Dauvin Peterson '01 is a director of investment management at SDS Capital Group.
Kelvin Roldan'01 is an M.A. candidate in public policy at Trinity College. He is also working as a special assistant to the mayor and director of community initiatives for the City of Hartford, CT.
James Tsai '01 is a business analyst in the wealth and investment management department at Bank of America.
2000
Amelia Berry '00 is now a program director at the Alliance for Battered and Abused International Women in Cincinnati, providing training and technical assistance to organizations that work with immigrant victims of domestic violence. She spent the last two years working as a counselor and advocate for Chinese women in New York, so this was a natural progression from that position. She is also teaching a "Chinese for Beginners" class through the University of Cincinnati's continuing education program.
Lucas Klein '00 worked as student director at CET Beijing for one year after graduation from Middlebury. After having gotten married in Paris, he came to New Haven, CT, in 2003 to pursue his Ph.D. in Chinese literature at Yale. His focus is on Translation and Chinese Poetry (medieval and modern, mostly).
Matthew Levy '00 graduated from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2003. He is pursuing his J.D. at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Kristen E. Loring '00 is working towards her Ph.D. in Chinese Art History at UCLA. After completing a busy year teaching Indian and Southeast Asian, Renaaissance, and Medieval Art History,
Anne McDonough '00 is an editorial aide for the travel department of the Washington Post.
Laura Reznick '00 is a Chinese teacher at the foreign language department of the Providence Day School.
Kiril Savino '00 is a lead software engineer at DoubleClick Inc.
1990s
Muchiri Kabuga '99 is working as a director at Creative Resources in Shanghai.
Shannon Shaper '99 has settled into a more regular lifestyle in Boston after a couple of years leading adventure tours in China for Intrepid Travel. She is currently working as a China adoption case manager for Alliance for Children, an international adoption agency. Last year they sent her to China to shoot a photo-essay on the China adoption process. Most of her time is spent helping U.S. families wade through the official paperwork they need for the adoption and preparing them for the trip to China to meet and adopt their daughters. She really enjoys what she does, but she still has a bit of an itch to get out the office and into the big world out there.
Ariane White '99 is a teacher at Cleveland High School.
Ann-Marie Campbell '98 is an international trade specialist at the Office of China Economic Area of the U.S. Department of Commerce. She got her China-focused MBA from the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Don Devendorf '98 is studying at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing an MBA. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 2001.
Meimei Lim '98 is living in San Francisco, CA.
Eunha Shin '98 is an Emergency Medicine Resident at LIJ Medical Center. She graduated from New York Medical College in 2002.
Brian Burke '97 is currently an associate at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York. He graduated from Fordham Law School in 2005.
Deborah Haar'97 is pursuing her MA in Liberal Studies (Translation) at CUNY Graduate Center. She got her MS in Special Education from City College in 2004.
Sean Hurley '96 has been living and working in Shanghai since July 1996. He spent two years working for Nike in sports marketing, and then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in 1998. He did consulting work for two years, before becoming the HR manager for PwC Consulting in China. In 2002, PwC consulting was bought by IBM. Since then, he has served as the HR advisor to the business consulting services division of IBM in Greater China.
Kenn Ross '96 co-founded Ross-Ashton Sino Ventures, based in Shanghai, China. After almost nine years studying and working in China, he moved to Boston in 2003 to attend graduate school. He will graduates from Harvard Business School in June 2005 with an MBA, and plans on returning to China to continue his career there. He has continued to be an active investor there in several sectors and is interested in exchanging ideas with other Midd kids on professional topics such as China-based entrepreneurship, real estate investment, private equity, and corporate development as well as personal interests such as Chinese history and architecture.
Alec Perkins'95 has been working as an analyst at Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell & Co. He got a master's in education from Stanford in 1998, and is expecting to get an MBA from Berkeley in 2007.
Nicholas Nebolsine '94 is a manager for the Worldtrade Management Services Division at Pricewaterhousecooper LLP, after working at Anderson and Ernst & Young. Nicholas is living in Alexandria, VA.
Taylor Fravel '93 is an assistant professor of political science at MIT. He got his MA from Oxford in 1995, an MS from LSE in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003.
Helen McCabe '92 is an assistant professor of education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She received her MA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1994, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2004.
Monica Cable '91 is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology/Asian studies at Tulane University.
Mark Giancola '90 is the executive director at Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong. He earned an MA degree from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Kevin Kahn '90 is the director of sales and marketing at Richards Industries in Cincinnati. He got his MAIS from the University of Washington in 1993, and his MBA from University of Southern California in 1999.
1980s
Michelle DiBello'89 is teaching first-year Chinese at Stanford. She got her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. She is also involved with K-12 Chinese language teaching, especially professional development, working with the Chinese-American International School in San Francisco. And this summer she's hoping to devote more time to her translation-in-progress of a contemporary Chinese novel.
Anne Cavender '89 is an assistant professor of comparative literature at University of Redlands. She got her Ph.D. degree from University of Washington in 2000. Anne is currently living in Redlands, California.
Adam Ross '89 has been living in Seattle for 12 years, and has been teaching Chinese at Lakeside School for three years. The school's Chinese program is steadily growing, and he is also working to develop a new global service learning program, and will specifically be leading a service project in Beijing, Shanghai, and Yunnan Province with 12 Lakeside students this coming summer for four weeks. Ross got his MA from the University of Washington.
Heather Bohr Unterseher '89 is vice president of sales and marketing at One World Distribution Inc. She and her husband own this call center and third-party order fulfillment company in South Dakota. They take catalog and e-commerce orders via phone, fax, mail, or web and then ship the products on behalf of their clients to their customers. They currently employ 50 people and in the next couple of years, they hope to open an office in Asia to enable Asian companies to sell their products directly to consumers in the U.S.
Todd Bucklin '88 is ESL teacher and department chair at Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Dina Wolkoff'88 is the assistant director of Democracy for America in Burlington, VT. She got a master's in international management from the University of St. Thomas in 2003.
Denise West '88 is teaches in the special education department of the New York City Department of Education. She earned an MS from Bank Street College of Education.
Galen Hoskin'87 works as an analyst at Capital Group in San Francisco. He got his MBA from Columbia University in 1994.
Jill Madden '87 is now a professor of fine arts at Champlain College in Burlington. She got her MFA degree from Boston University in 1999.
Matthew Peters '85 has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since returning from several years living in Taiwan. After working for a Taiwanese corporation while in Taiwan and for the first several years back in the U.S., he now works with American high-tech companies (Silicon Graphics, Netscape/AOL and Sun Microsystems) expanding their services into Asian markets. Last year, he decided to break out on his own and build a consultancy focused on technical training for companies with internationally distributed or outsourced workforces.
Edith Zhang '85 is teaching two marketing courses at Northern Virginia Community College, including one on international marketing. Her Chinese is still incredibly useful, and it was the key factor in the school's decision to select her to create and manage this course versus another more senior faculty member who did not have the Chinese language skill. She earned her MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School in 1991.
Elizabeth Ruggiero '84 is now working as a self-employed translator/tutor. She earned her master's degree from Harvard in 1997. She has been a translator (Chinese to English) since 1997, and a tour director/lecturer taking groups to Asia since 1984. She is now tutoring four American students in Chinese (ages 8-15). Since late last year, she has been working with the high school in her town (Hingham, MA) to put together a Chinese language program. If everything goes well, she will be teaching Chinese at the high school half time until it is in full swing after a year or two.
Rebecca Theobald'84 is now a teaching assistant in the geography department at the University of Colorado. She got her master's degree in geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
William "Ted" Truscott '83 is the chief investment officer at American Express Financial Advisors. He got his MBA from New York University in 1991.
Mary Lane '82 currently completed an intensive certificate program at Teachers College of Columbia University in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages), after 20 years as an international banker. She is now teaching ESL at the college level.
Amy Stevens '82 is now working as a pediatric nurse practitioner at the nursing department of Seven Hills at Groton.