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White House Fellowships -
1994-95 Fellows

Janet B. Abrams
Atlanta, Georgia

Abrams, 33, is Director of Government Relations for Emory University. Previously, she served as Director of Policy and Planning for the Georgia Division of Public Health and managed federal appropriations for the State of Georgia as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Sen. Wyche Fowler, Jr. She has written on women's health policy for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A native of Atlanta, she graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude in History and First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1983. At Stanford, where she earned an M.B.A. in 1987, she founded FoodNet, an organization assisting families in the Bay Area.

Timothy Atkin
Duncanville, Texas

Atkin, 31, a Lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard, has commanded two Coast Guard cutters. The vessels have garnered seven unit citations for rescues at sea, law enforcement and ice breaking. In 1989, he received a commendation for initiating federal involvement in a narcotics and money laundering case that led to the seizure of $1.4 million. He has written and directed two one-act plays, and produced a video used as a model for building cultural awareness. He graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1985 with high honors, and earned an M.P.A. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1992.

Larry Berger
Ithaca, New York

Berger, 26, is a candidate for the doctorate in Literature at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is co-author of "I Will Sing Life," a book which tells the life stories of seven children with cancer, AIDS and blood diseases. The work, which won the 1992 Fassler Award for the best book about children's health, was gleaned from three summers teaching poetry writing at a camp for children with illnesses and a year spent living in the campers' homes and hospitals. In 1990, he graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. He was awarded the Herson Prize for an outstanding student in English, the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, and the Connecticut Student Poetry Award. In high school, Berger co-authored the best-seller, "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT."

S. Lael Brainard
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Brainard, 32, is Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Feculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research on international trade policy and trade and investment has won several grants and awards. She has worked for the Council of Economic Advisors and McKinsey & Company and as a consultant on small development in Senegal for the Ford Foundation and Harvard Institute of International Development. She earned masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1989. A former National Science Foundation Fellow, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Wesleyan University in 1983. She serves on the Board of the Boston Urban Youth Foundation, and is leading an effort to create an entrepreneurship program for inner city teenagers.

Yvonne E. Campos
San Diego, California

Campos, 30, is an attorney specializing in real estate, environmental law and land use. She is an associate with the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Diego, where she counseled clients on acquisition, development, financing and disposition of real property. She graduated with distinction from Stanford University in 1985, majoring in economics and political science. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988. She worked as a legislative assistant in the California State Senate, and served as a staff attorney for the Christopher Commission during its investigation of the Rodney King incident. Since 1990, she has served on the Board of Directors of California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., a non-profit legal services organization which represents farmworkers and the rural poor.

Dennis Cobb
Las Vegas, Nevada

Cobb, 37, a native of southern Nevada, is a Lieutenant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He earned a political science degree from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 1979. In 1992, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Police Studies, and has participated in professional conferences at the British National Police Command College. As a police officer for the last twelve years in the Las Vegas area, he has specialized in patrol, narcotics, investigations and internal quality control. He works in a nationally-recognized community policing program.

Philip Hart Cullom
Flossmoor, Illinois

Cullom, 36, a Commander in the U.S. Navy, is Executive Officer of the USS Mobile Bay, a cruiser based in Yokosuka, Japan. After graduating with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy, he participated in drug interdiction operations off the coast of South America and in two Operation Desert Storm campaigns. Ashore, he was a test reactor engineer/instructor at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and a Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations for political-military-economic affairs. He holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School. He has earned three Navy Commendation Medals and the Navy Achievement Medal. In Japan, he volunteers at an orphanage, and when deployed, coordinates Project Handclasp's humanitarian relief efforts in the Pacific Rim.

Christopher J. Day
Wilmette, Illinois

Day, 31, is Director, Operations Planning and Development for Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), a Tenneco subsidiary. Born in Alaska and raised outside of Chicago, he attended Northwestern University and, at 19, became the youngest person ever accepted to Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Since graduation, he has held positions in corporate finance, strategy, operations, marketing and sales with Morgan Stanley, Sears Roebuck and Tenneco. Most recently, he merged the operations of two PCA divisions to create the $500 million Specialty Packaging Group. Active in his community, Day started a tutoring program at the Corporate Community School on Chicago's west side.

Angela Diaz
New York, New York

Diaz, 39, is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Director of the Adolescent Health Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City. She works with inner-city adolescents and runs a program which provides medical, reproductive health, mental health and health education. She co-chairs a chapter of the Committee on Adolescence for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is co-founder of the Women Faculty Group and the Culture Diversity in Medicine Program at Mount Sinai. Born in the Dominican Republic, she immigrated to the United States as a teenager, attended public schools and the City College of New York, and received her M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1981.

Wifredo A. Ferrer
Miami, Florida

Ferrer, 27, is an attorney who specializes in pro bono civil rights and children's cases. In 1984, he received a Silver Knight Outstanding Community Service Award from the Miami Herald. A native of Miami, he graduated Valedictorian of Hialeah Miami-Lakes High School and first in his class from the University of Miami. In 1990, he earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School During his tenure as student body president, he created the first mandatory pro bono law school program of its type in the United States. In 1992, he helped found the Hurricane Andrew Disaster Assistance Center, where he and his law firm colleagues at Steel Hector & Davis provided free legal services to the citizens of Homestead, Florida.

Preston Foster
Atlanta, Georgia

Foster, 37, is a District Sales Manager for AT&T in Atlanta. A native of Hyde Park, N.Y., he graduated from Oakwood College in 1978 with a B.S. in Business Administration. He received a M.P.A. from the Kennedy School at Harvard in 1991. In 1986, he founded Business Associates of America to promote minority business development in Alabama. In 1987, he was a business advisor to "Take 6," a five-time Grammy Award winning jazz vocal group. He is a volunteer at the Atlanta InRoads Program and the National Alliance of Business Youth Motivation Task Force.

Megan Golden
New York, New York

Golden, 28, an attorney, is a Skadden Fellow at Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem, an innovative, community-based public defender's office. She represents indigent Harlem residents in matters ranging from housing to civil rights. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from N.Y.U. School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar. She won the Maurice Goodman Prize for Outstanding Scholarship and Character. Raised in Washington, D.C., she earned a B.A. in political science from Brown University in 1987. In 1987-88, she served as a New York City Urban Fellow, where she worked to improve city elections.

David C. Iglesias
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Iglesias, 36, is the director of the Albuquerque City Attorney's Civil Rights Division, which defends the city police and its officers in federal civil rights lawsuits. Born in Panama, he spent his early years with the Kuna tribe, one of the few unconquered native peoples in the Americas. A 1980 graduate of Wheaton College, he played varsity football. He graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1984. In 1985, he served as an active duty U.S. Navy Judge Advocate, where he was a defense counsel in a court-martial which was the basis for the motion picture "A Few Good Men." After leaving active duty in 1988, Iglesias was a white-collar prosecutor with the New Mexico Attorney General's Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He writes for Native Peoples magazine and is a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.

Jeffrey L. Kang
Wayland, Massachusetts

Kang, 38, is a geriatrician and Executive Director of the Urban Medical Group, a non-profit medical practice that cares for the frail elderly, homebound, indigent and HIV positive residents of Boston. He is on the staff of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and a Clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. He has volunteered as a paralegal for the United Farm Workers Union and served as the Chairman of Boston's Asian American Unity Dinner. His parents immigrated from Shanghai, China, and he was born and raised in New Jersey. He received his B.A. from Harvard College, M.D. from UC San Francisco, and his MPH from UC Berkeley.

Sharon C. Kiely
Middletown, New Jersey

Kiely, 36, is Director of Medical Ambulatory Care at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, a community teaching hospital. She founded and directs a program that provides homebound elderly persons with regular medical care at home. Born in New Jersey, she earned a B.S. in 1980, and an M.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University. During the fall of 1983, she volunteered as a member of a team of healthcare workers sent to a Thai refugee camp. Later, she completed her training in primary care internal medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Michael Levitan
Wyncote, Pennsylvania

Levitan, 36, is Country Director in Thailand for Save the Children. He supervises an integrated rural development program that is helping disadvantaged Thai communities combat poverty and environmental degradation. Prior to posting in Thailand, he worked with Save the Children programs in Bangladesh and Nepal. He began a career in international development at Dartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar, graduated with honors and high distinction and played four intercollegiate sports. After a short stint with the State Department, he served with the Peace Corps in Senegal. After Peace Corps service, he earned an M.B.A. and an M.A. in International Agricultural Economics from Stanford University. He also worked at the World Bank and Agency for International Development.

Marcel T. Thomas
Dixon, California

Thomas, 32, is a Special Forces Captain in the U.S. Army. Born in San Francisco, he received his bachelor's degree in civil/environmental engineering from Stanford University, where he graduated as a ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate. He earned an M.B.A. and a master's degree in industrial engineering from Columbia University. He has served as a detachment commander and special projects officer for the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and has been involved in numerous humanitarian assistance and military operations in Africa and the Middle East. Thomas presently serves as an assistant professor of engineering management at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Thomas is a volunteer at a New York City Homeless shelter, and an assistant coach for the National Collegiate Champion U.S. Military Academy Women's Handball Team.

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