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The Yale Globalist
Past Staff 2006-2000
Yale Staff 06-07
Alexandra Suich, Editor-In-Chief
Berkeley College '08
Alexandra Suich is a History and African Studies double major from San Francisco, California. Alexandra believes that good journalism can only come from world experience, and she has been fortunate enough to engage in some work experiences that have provided her with a richer perspective on global issues. She has interned for the United Nations Development Fund for Women in New York, Pathfinder International in Kenya, the United Nations Development Program in South Africa, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in Geneva.Since coming to Yale, she has discovered a great interchange between writing and action. With several other students, she helped found The Globalist Foundation, which extended journalism to other campuses around the world. After the Foundation's inception, she worked to start the Foundation's only chapter in Africa, The Cape Town Globalist. With a particular interest in women's leadership, she co-founded an organization to encourage women's leadership at Yale, called the Women's Leadership Initiative. In addition to writing and editing for The Yale Globalist, Alexandra has served on Yale's Sexual Harassment Grievance Board and written articles for The Yale Journal of Public Health, Five magazine, The Yale Herald, and the UN Chronicle.
Sean Jackowitz, Managing Editor
Trumbull College '08
Sean Jackowitz is a sophomore Russian and Eastern European Studies major in Trumbull College. From Miami, Florida, he is especially interested in the economic development of Eastern Europe and Sino-Russian relations.
J.T. Kennedy, Managing Editor
Calhoun College '09
Growing up watching the evening news with his grandmother, J.T. has been interested in both international affairs and journalism since he was a child. Writing for The Globalist has allowed J.T. to pursue these interests at Yale. In addition to editing and writing for The Yale Globalist, J.T. is also active in the Yale International Relations Association and the Yale Precision Marching Band. One of J.T.'s favorite hobbies is language acquisition, and he can currently speak both Mandarin Chinese and French proficiently. J.T. believes firmly in the value of having a well-stamped passport. Having studied in China, attended conferences in Russia, and observed an election in El Salvador, J.T. enjoys broadening his outlook on the world through travel. Because there are so many angles from which one can view the world, J.T. can't seem to decide on a major. He is open to any suggestions.
Sabrina Snell, Managing Editor
Branford College '08
Before arriving to Yale, Sabrina deferred matriculation for a year to travel to Bolivia as an exchange student with a full scholarship from the American Field Service (Award for Excellence). During her time there, she studied at the Universidad Tecnica de Oruro in the Faculty of Economics while volunteering at an educational center for underprivileged children as well as at a local orphanage, Gota de Leche. This past summer, Sabrina received the Linck Summer Fellowship to return to Bolivia to conduct an independent study project on the country's current political situation. More specifically, she followed the Movement for Socialism and its leader, Evo Morales, in their campaign for the presidency. Although her interests lie mainly in Latin American political anthropology, she is also intrigued by the ever-growing presence, both physically and economically, of Southeast Asia in this region (she is currently taking Chinese at Yale). As News Editor with the Yale Globalist, she devotes most of her energy to ensuring that the magazine produces quality articles informing the public about world events and trends, while occasionally contributing her own knowledge of Latin American politics. When not editing non-fiction pieces for the Globalist, she enjoys fiction-writing and, in Spring 2005, she won second place in the English department's Meeker Prize for freshman fiction.
Philip Burkhard, Publisher
Calhoun College '08
A New Haven native, Phil takes every chance he gets to explore outside his home.
His interests lie in U.S. foreign policy and most recently North Korean domestic and foreign policy. He is a student and lover of the Italian and Chinese languages and enjoys photojournalism, the National Geographic Society, and the occasional culture shock. He is currently grappling with understanding different economic structures in emerging markets and how to keep a pet while still a full-time student. Phil's most gratifying work experiences were in non-profits, and those in which he had the opportunity to work directly with children in orphanages, schools and churches. Most recently, Phil interned with Dow Jones & Co. at their Singapore Bureau, writing and editing their South East Asian equity reports.
Ben Roth, Production Editor
Branford College '09
Ben is excited to be able to combine his passion for international affairs and graphic design in his role with The Yale Globalist. He is particularly interested in the foreign policies of East Asia and Latin America and the human rights issues that have arisen in these two regions of ever-growing importance. His love for foreign cultures is matched only his passion for languages, and he currently speaks French, Portuguese, and Chinese. He is also drawn to music and the outdoors and is a dedicated pianist and an avid backpacker. A sophomore in Branford College, he intends to major in Literature and International Studies.
Annie Carney, News Editor
Silliman College '09
Annie Carney is a sophomore in Silliman College; known for her keen decisiveness, she is interested in majoring in Economics, History, Political Science, International Studies, African Studies, or a combination thereof. She has traveled with Yale contingents to Sierra Leone, Poland and Belarus and she spent her summer interning at the Department of Energy, where she discovered the joys of interoffice memos and cubicle gossip. She also sings with Proof of the Pudding, Yale's all-female a capella group.
Katharine Kendrick, News Editor
Saybrook College '09
Katharine Kendrick is a sophomore in Saybrook College and plans to double major in History and International Studies. She is particularly interested in issues of international aid, diplomacy, and law. She has worked for two years at Youth Philanthropy Worldwide (YPW), a nonprofit that mobilizes young Americans to commit to global change through supporting social entrepreneurs around the world. She brings an interest in nonprofits and first-hand experience with grassroots activism to The Yale Globalist. In 2004, she cofounded the Darfur Green Ribbon Project to raise money for livestock programs in refugee camps in Sudan. The project continues to spread to high schools around the country and was recognized in 2005 by the national NetAid Global Action Award. She now serves on the Advising Board of YPW and remains actively involved in the organization. Katharine is proficient in French and plans to study Arabic next. She is especially interested in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Caroline Savello, News Editor
Calhoun College '09
Caroline is a sophomore in Calhoun College intending to double major in Political Science and Applied Mathematics. A journalist since her sophomore year in high school, Caroline aspires to combine her analytical and scientific tendencies with her interest in foreign relations. She hopes to focus on issues in international security during her time at Yale while endeavoring to bring a more scientific, statistical approach to the current practice of international relations. Having already traveled extensively worldwide, she would like to work abroad after graduation and is studying Chinese with the intention to live in Shanghai. Outside of editing for The Globalist, she is a beat reporter for the Yale Daily News and is founding an online news and commentary publication.
Kers?i Shroff, News Editor
Branford College '09
Kersi Shroff is a member of Branford '09. His interest in International Studies stems from a year spent at law school in India during which he was introduced to some basic principles of international law and common law. The conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars where he presented a paper on parallels found between two of India's recent genocidal massacres in 1984 and 2002 furthered this interest. At Yale, other than editing and writing for The Yale Globalist, he has also been an active member of the Yale International Relations Association and the Political Action wing of the South Asian Society. He is majoring in Economics and Computer Science and is particularly interested in developmental economics. His work during the summer of 2006 at Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment focused on sustainable economic development for India. He will also be attending the India-China developmental workshop at the Harvard Project for Asian International Relations in Singapore this year.
Charlie Katz, Assistant Publisher
Morse College '08
Although Charlie was not born in Texas, he crawled there as fast as he could and has lived in Dallas since he was six months old. Charlie is a History major in Morse College who joined the Globalist in the beginning of his sophomore year. A locally and nationally recognized columnist for his high school newspaper, the ReMarker, Charlie decided to expand his horizons and explore the publishing route in college. His interest in international affairs and international relations led him to the Globalist. He is also an active member of Yale's AIESEC chapter and serves as an International Opportunities
specialist for the organization's national committee. In his spare time, Charlie is an avid traveler and a diehard sports fan, who proudly supports his hometown's NFL Cowboys and NHL Stars.
Elizabeth Dickinson, Senior Editor
Pierson College '07
Beth Dickinson hopes to work as a journalist in West Africa, with an emphasis on political and cultural issues of the region. During the summer of 2006, Beth worked as an Intern with the New York Times' West African Bureau, reporting and writing stories from Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Mali as a freelancer for the NYT and the International Herald Tribune. She believes strongly in the role of the free press in increasing awareness and hopes to be a part of these efforts after graduation.
As former Editor-in-Chief of The Yale Globalist, Beth was involved in organizing a conference on "The Role of Journalism in International Justice," involving participants from seven post-conflict nations around the world. Beth's focus as a student is informed by a mentality of service. Domestically, she served as a student intern for the 9Health Fair of Colorado to provide free-of-charge care to vulnerable communities, and she spent the summer of 2005 opening cost-free eye clinics in the rural communities of Sierra Leone. On campus, she has worked closely with Yale's Order, Conflict, and Violence Studies Department and is a violinist for the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Theater Company of Yale.
Committed to the success of The Yale Globalist, Beth hopes to use her experience in journalism and international affairs to help the magazine garner an ever-increasing place of regard on campuses across the world.
Tiffany Franke, Senior Editor
Silliman College '07
Tiffany Franke is a senior history and international studies major at Yale University. After graduating from Deerfield Academy in 2002, she spent a year backpacking in Alaska, writing for her local paper, and interning for a domestic abuse shelter in the Andes of Peru. At Yale, Tiffany is a writer, editor, and former International Conversations Coordinator for The Yale Globalist and the current photo archivist for the Globalist Foundation. Her interest in people and foreign cultures has made her position as the student correspondent to the Yale World Fellows Program particularly exciting. Interested in development issues, Tiffany led a trip to Sierra Leone in West Africa through CARE International over spring break of 2006. A firm believer in the importance of local health education, she has been a workshop leader in the Community Health Educators program in New Haven for three years. Tiffany became interested in Corporate Social Responsibility in the summer of 2005 through observing microfinance projects in India and developed her interests as a Startingbloc fellow in the spring of 2006. She is co-founder of Yale Women in Business and Leadership and hopes to pursue an MBA and/or a law degree for a profession in U.S. relations with Chinese and Indian business and development.
Rawen Huang, Senior Editor
Calhoun College '07
As a Chinese Australian student now studying in the US, Rawen has always been passionate about international affairs. A double major in Economics and International Studies, Rawen is most interested in looking at how free trade fosters mutual understandings along with mutual dependence between China and the US, thereby preventing geopolitical conflict between what many believe to be two philosophically opposed superpowers. During his first two years at Yale, Rawen has been involved in some of Yale's China initiatives, including working as a Presidential Fellow for the Yale-China University Leadership Program in the summer of 2004. He also sits on Dean Salovey's advisory committee which helped design Yale College's joint undergraduate program with Peking University. As the Founder and Executive Director of The Globalist Foundation, Rawen coordinates all aspects of operations, including expansion, fundraising, production and public relations. This past summer, Rawen spent a month each in China, Australia and the UK, recruiting different editor-in-chiefs and working closely with them to establish The Peking/Sydney/Cambridge Globalist. Rawen speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin, and has gained proficiency in Spanish. His long-term dream is to help foster greater understands between Australia, China and the US.
Bryce Kaufman, Senior Editor
Jonathan Edwards College '07
Bryce is a member of the class of 2007 from Jonathan Edwards who is double majoring in History and International Studies. He is interested in Brazil and Turkey and in developing markets and countries. He has spent 5 years of his childhood in Brazil and will be spending his second summer in Turkey this summer in Istanbul, studying Turkish.
Matthew Lee, Senior Editor
Jonathan Edwards College '08
Matt is passionate about writing and international affairs, and is happy to pursue both with The Yale Globalist. He is most interested in the Middle East and East Asia, and especially in the long-term challenge to world stability posed by the combination of political upheaval in Arab oil suppliers, rising energy demand in China, and the reliance of US deficit spending on East Asian financiers. He speaks functional Arabic and Spanish, and plans to begin learning Mandarin Chinese next year. Matt also has a black belt in ninjutsu, and finds that the same sense of wanderlust that attracts him to international affairs also draws him to backpacking, astronomy, and the outdoors.
Sara Schlemm, Senior Editor
Pierson College '07
Sara Schlemm is a senior History major in Pierson College. She was the Publisher and is now a Senior Editor for The Yale Globalist. She has also written numerous articles for The Yale Globalist on subjects ranging from civil society and technology in Singapore to human trafficking in Mexico. With members of The Yale Globalist, Sara participated in research trips to France and Germany in the summer of 2004, and to China in the summer of 2005. Her academic interests include the historical relationship between Britain and China, as well as general political and military history. This summer, Sara worked in Washington developing health care policy for Merck and Company and in London doing research.
Eleonora Sharef, Senior Editor
Davenport College '07
Elli has been involved in publications ever since high school and was News Editor and Managing Editor of The Yale Globalist. For Elli, the most rewarding aspect of working for The Yale Globalist and The Globalist Foundation has been meeting intelligent and talented people and fostering lasting relationships with them. A native Colombian, Elli was president of the Latin American Student Organization last year and is constantly involved with organizing Latin American events on campus. Elli is a history major and is passionate about many disciplines of philosophy including ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy. Elli speaks fluent Spanish, German, and French, and is currently learning Hebrew. She has interned at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington D.C. and at McKinsey Company in BogotE Colombia. She is currently working on a project concerning German military history for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Soichiro Shibata, Senior Editor
Pierson College '07
Soichiro Shibata is a political science major in Pierson College and a Senior Editor for The Yale Globalist. As the Assistant Publisher last year, he oversaw the financial side of the magazine and coordinated circulation. A native of Japan, he has written several articles about his home country and is particularly interested in the variance of values or perspectives that affect relationships between different countries. During breaks, Soichiro loves to backpack through different countries and interact with both the local people as well as other travelers. After traveling to Mexico and Guatemala over three separate trips, he is currently becoming more and more interested in Latin America and is hoping to pick up some Spanish in the near future. In his senior year, Soichiro hopes to get more involved in the Globalist Foundation and continue exchanging ideas with students around the world.
Stephanie Speirs, Senior Editor
Silliman College '07
Steph is an avid traveler and (since coming to college) has been to Italy, Korea, Nicaragua, Brazil, England, Puerto Rico, Japan, and France. Possessing a love for learning languages, Steph travels and volunteers abroad in order to gain greater perspective and work in areas she is passionate about. She is particularly interested in the effectiveness of international human rights legislation, especially related to refugees and forced repatriation. Having completed two journalism internships, she is an experienced writer and editor. She is also an editor of the Yale Daily News and the former opinions editor of her high-school paper. As Opinions Editor of The Yale Globalist, Steph works to ensure that the magazine features interesting and diverse editorials, as well as solid topic sentences.
Katherine Wyman, Senior Editor
Calhoun College '07
As a fourth grader, Katherine was the student who clipped newspaper articles about Mongolia or Madagascar for her weekly current events. She decided to join the Globalist staff before even arriving at Yale. Since then, she has served on four editorial boards, starting on the layout team and working her way up to Production Editor (2004-5) and Managing Editor (2005-6). She is particularly interested in religious and secular nationalism in the Middle East and Latin America, as well as democracy, trade, and international and human rights law. She has worked as an editorial assistant at Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization and as an intern at the American Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. Katherine is also involved in the visual arts at Yale. She founded the fine arts magazine Dimensions and works as a curatorial intern in Modern and Contemporary Art.
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