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PCVs who began in the year 2000

Lisa (Batzdorff) Kearns

Contact Information: lisabatzdorff@gmail.com Washington DC
Service: Forestry 2000-2002
Phone: (202) 210-8717
Current Activites: Living it up.
 

Tophe Anderson

Tophe Anderson
Contact Information: 1028 Lakeview Blvd E #8
Seattle WA 98102
Service: 2002-2002, Education in Adiembra-Sekondi, W/R, 2002-2003, HIV Coordinator in Accra, GAR
Current Activites: Graduate program in mathematics at University of Washington. Jogging
up hills. Trying out new restaurants with friends, or dates. Going to
independent movies by myself. I want to also take piano lessons again.
favorite color: orange
favorite junk food: tim's cascade jalapeno potato chips
picture: la posada chocolate in oaxaca, mexico. amanda plourde and i had a
great trip this summer.
 

Dan Barthmaier

Dan Barthmaier
Contact Information: danbarthmaier at yahoo dot com Kajo Keji, South Sudan
Service: SED, 2000-2002, Brong-Ahafo Region
Current Activites: Kickin' it New Sudan, ie South Sudan. Doing the peace corps all over again, except this time with a salary, budget, staff of 14, cars, motorcycles, sat phones, sat internet.....but still bucket baths.
Picture: Me in my central command hut in the lovely Kajo Keji. Come visit! Just remember to stay on the tracks....pesky issue of landmines.
 

Darwensi Clark

Darwensi Clark
Contact Information: darwensi at gmail dot com 901 W. Argyle Street Apt 1A
Chicago IL 60640
Service: SED 2000-2001, then spent time roadside, jacking unsuspecting obruni tourists in route to Ouga
Current Activites: Steady grinding at Heartland Alliance managing the refugee resettlement program.
Pic: Chicago Gluttons Krew
Side hustle: www.chicagogluttons.com...oh and...
http://resto.newcity.com/2009/06/09/main-coarse-are-chicago-gluttons-blustery-blog-hogs-or-the-freshest-voice-in-chicago-food-writing/
 

Shannon Cornelius

Shannon Cornelius
Contact Information: sisterakos@yahoo.com 501 Ash St. SE
Albuquerque NM 87106
Service: Wat-San/HIV
Current Activites: Working- still in HIV, but with Native Americans and going to school for a MSW
Hello! Just wanted to send a HELLO to all the RPCVs I saw listed on this web site. It is kind of fun to see what everyone is up to these days. Please, you are welcome at my house anytime, Albuquerque is beautiful!
Oh, and... Thanks, Kwame Dan for the posting
Just one more... Thanks to Mark and Amy for setting this up.
 

Tammy Duve

Tammy Duve
Contact Information: tammy.duve@ces.uwex.edu Ripon WI
Service: SED
Current Activites: Currently employed with the University of Wisconsin as an Extension Educator in Green Lake County, Wisconsin. I work with youth development programs like 4-H. Also trying to complete a masters by summer of 2006. In my free time I have been volunteering, eating WI cheese, increasing 4-H enrollment, writing for my column in the Green Lake County Newspapers, and having fun.
Picture Me...o.k. it's Doris Day, close enough
 

Danielle Fillis

Danielle Fillis
Contact Information: danielle dot fillis at gmail dot com 20 Packard Avenue
#1
Somerville MA 02144
Service: 2000-2002 Bunlung, Northern Region- Environment
Current Activites: Changed jobs last Fall and am now working as the Senior City Planner for Watertown,MA and was recently appointed to the Zoning Board in Somerville, MA. Daydreaming about opening a bed and breakfast in Panama.

 

Daniel I. Headley

Daniel I. Headley
Contact Information: dheadley7@yahoo.com 8924 Olivine St. NE
Albuquerque NM 87113
Service: 2000-2002 Savelugu SSS Physics Master, Northern Region; Tamale Suboffice welcome commitee
Current Activites: Currently enjoying my life with the lovely Bethany Headley. I posted our wedding pic since, well, she was there in spirit. Working as a Mechanical Engineer at Sandia National Labs with the brilliant Marc Ramsey. :)
 

Anne Heggen

Anne Heggen
Contact Information: sandemlea@yahoo.com Atlanta GA
Service: 2000-2002 Education - Sandema,UER, 2002-2003 Wat-San/Health - Tamale, N/R
Email address sandemlea@yahoo.com
Current Activites: Steve and I are finishing up in Southern Sudan & heading to Atlanta in May. Expecting a new addition to the family in September. Not sure how long we will be in Atlanta but all are welcome!
 

Erin Keenan

Contact Information: wildlifer23@hotmail.com 582 S Coast Highway 101
Apt 3
Encinitas CA 92024
Service: Environmental Ed 2000-2001
Phone: (702) 524-8584
Current Activites: Working as a biological consultant, going to school for my teaching credentials, and dreaming of being a PCV again someday
Recently I got married in January so I'm now Erin Urbanic. John, my husband, and I spend our free time rock climbing and playing outside.
Our current project We converted an old diesel mercedes to run on used vegetable oil. I think everyone should look into doing this!! It was fun to do and cheap/free fuel!
I miss Listening to fufu pounding at night. Children staring in my windows. Market day. Being excited about a cold coke. DeeBa. Rice with pasta mixed in. And so much more.
 

Bonnie Kelly (Benham)

Bonnie Kelly (Benham)
Contact Information: bonniejkelly@yahoo.com 239 Second Ave
Santa Cruz CA 95062
Service: Education 2000-2002
Phone: (831) 435-9064
Current Activites: I was married in October 2004 to a fellow PCV Guatemala, David Benham. We live in Santa Cruz and love it! Our son, Charlie, was born in August of 2005. I'm the science guide for the adolescent program at Santa Cruz Montessori School and it's way cool. Dave teaches history at a high school in Watsonville. We both miss being abroad and hope to take our son on some lovely adventure soon.
Picture: Charlie is chasing the surf at Natural Bridges, right before he got rolled in the ocean for the first time!
 

Debra Kurshan

Debra Kurshan
Contact Information: dkurshan at yahoo dot com New York NY
Service: WatSan 2000-2002
Current Activites: I decided to check out the dark side and am getting an MBA from Columbia. Now I have to decide what I want to do with my life since I finish in May. We have a growing Ghana RPCV contingent at Columbia with Bryan T. joining us in January.
Photo what my hair looks like straight.
 

Chris Kusek

Chris Kusek
Contact Information: chriskusek@gmail.com 123 Grant Avenue
Takoma Park MD 20912
Service: SED - Sombo, UWR
Phone: (240) 678-8655
Current Activites: "Leaving No Child Behind" just outside the nation's capital.
Playing house with beautiful wife, Molly and intrepid dog, Jake. We even have a white picket fence. Go figure! Anyone in the D.C. area and wants to stop by, you are welcome!
Planning a triumphant return to world's best fufu house (Soldier's Bar, Wa, UWR) in summer '07! If anyone's still in that neighborhood, give a holler.
 

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Lynn
Contact Information: themrlynn@yahoo.com 812 Acosta St
Jacksonville FL 32204
Service: art teacher/ mandoliner
Phone: (904) 382-7990
www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/pickinmrlynn
Current Activites: Teaching art to small people FLA, picking the mandolin and learning the fiddle, living in an old house w/ my lady here in Jacksonville that we're fixing up only to move out of next year as grad school is acallin...environmental planning hopefully out at FSU. Life is good. Summer vacation now and soon to leave on a bike trip from SEattle to Denver. Looking for old faces to visit on the way...
there's always myspace us folks down south use it to get the art folk together. you can find the page at www.myspace.com/themrlynn
this summer's bike journal www.crazymanonabike.com/doc/pickinmrlynn
keep your eyes open i am looking to create a zen/ organic fruit and vegetable garden in the backyard. looking for ideas and advice...
 

Rebecca Mangold

Rebecca Mangold
Contact Information: talbec13 at yahoo dot com Helena MT 59728
Service: Upper West- Daffiama 2000-2002
Current Activites: I am currently the Program Compliance Manager for the State of MT (I finished my master's in public administration) and in my spare time I am kayaking the rivers of Montana. My daughter MacKenzie keeps me on my toes and she already a world traveler.
 

Nicki Mlynski

Nicki Mlynski
Contact Information: nicki_sixx@yahoo.com Chicago IL 60614
Service: Edumacation
Phone: (312) 485-2789
Current Activites: Medical school is coming to a sad end... goodbye to student loans, goodbye to 14-hr study days, hello chance to actually kill people as a physician! I'm leaving the superb city of Chi-town and trying my luck as a Georgia peach - Hotlanta for me. I bought me an old Jeep and a new loft and start my residency in Emergency Medicine this June.
 

Jennifer Petersen aka Capital Capital

Jennifer Petersen aka Capital Capital
Contact Information: ghanajen@yahoo.com 1300 Millstone Drive
Alpharetta GA 30004
Service: Small Enterprise Development-Sandema 2002-2004
Phone: (404) 713-9456
Current Activites: I moved to the burbs folks, yup it sucks but the 2 hour each way commute was killing me! I now work for E*TRADE Financial as a Manager of their Corporate Services Marketing Group and I love it! Nothing else is new except in April I'll be going to Argentina for a few weeks to do some hiking in Patagonia.
 

Amanda Plourde (Schweickert)

Contact Information: amandaplourde@yahoo.com Bonney Lake WA
Service: 2000-2002, Education, Notre Dame Secondary School, Navrongo
Current Activites: Working as a Structural Engineer outside of Seattle and am trying to get involved with Green Buildings. I am also having a baby girl in January!
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Jason Rosenfeld

Jason Rosenfeld
Contact Information: puumaya at yahoo dot com Africa
Service: Water and Sanitation Health Education
Current Activites: Well...you can all now call me Master. Finished my MPH in May, spent the summer applying for jobs and building a network of contacts in South Africa and am currently in Zambia working with PATH International's Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership for Africa (MACEPA) on case studies exploring the links between malaria and worker productivity. Once I finish here I'll be heading down to South Africa to continue my search for employment. If interested in following my adventures, please go to http://puumaya.wordpress.com.
Picture Me and my frozen beard at the crater rim of Kilimanjaro. It is damn cold up there!
 

Leslie Ruyle

Leslie Ruyle
Contact Information: leslieghana@yahoo.com Panama
Service: 2000-2002, Uh, environment?
Current Activites: Working on my degree in ecology at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Traded in my hippos for beetles.
Current Status: Sweating and catching as many creatures as I can. Anyone coming through is welcome! Panama is a very easy country...
 

Colleen Shaughnessy

Contact Information: colleenas at gmail dot com Columbia MO
Service: 2000-2002 Education - Wulugu, N/R
Current Activites: In between gigs...next on the journey is South Africa...but not until Jan, 2009.
 

Jennifer Freeman and Theo Stephansen

Jennifer Freeman and Theo Stephansen
Contact Information: schmen430@yahoo.com tmarshall43@yahoo.com
Chicago IL
Service: Jennifer- Education 2000-2002 in Tamale, Theo (2001-2002)- HIV/AIDS in Kaleo, Upper West
Current Activites: Jennifer is teaching high school kids who don't fight over who carries my books or stand when I enter the classroom but do fight over various other issues. Am enjoying the teaching thing though, minus all the paperwork and grading that for some reason was never experienced in Ghana.
Theo is working at a non-profit for adults with developmental disabilities and mental health patients. He is also beginning a career in acting and is currently in plays and film in Chicago. He also suffers from Cubs-Disease which is a strange disorder that leads one to believe that the Cubs will win the World Series each year and then the subsequent shock when they don't even make the playoffs.
Picture We got married this summer in Italy!! It was beautiful and amazing and we are both very happy.
Visitors Chicago is the unoffical new Tamale sub-office. Lots of fun to be had here. Cubs games, Bears games and lots of great restaurants and bars.
 

Bryan Towe

Bryan Towe
Contact Information: bryantowe at gmail dot com Gramercy Park
Gotham NY 10003
Service: Environment - Arigu, Northern Region
Phone: (617) 285-6520
Current Activites: Trying to reconcile multiple personalities ... sleepless NYC M&A banker, aspirational owner of a hungarian pointer and upland game bird hunter, mid-century modern furnture collector, country music lover
 

dale dolejsi

dale dolejsi
Contact Information: wepea2002@yahoo.com 2275 Apoepoe St.
Pearl City HI 96782
Service: art education in the great north
Phone: (808) 990-1271
Current Activites: just a little update- We moved to Oahu so that I could teach some high school and tracee could be even closer to the family. Noa is almost 3 and up to all kinds of fun (youtube Noa Dolejsi for evidence). All are welcome if in Hawaii. you may have to do some babysitting in exchange for the bed though. Aloha to all you good people.
4 years later- Mark P. your powers are still very very strong.