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 Braybrooks, Melissa
Policy Interests: International/Rural
Major Professor: Sarah Henderson, Political Science
MPP Essay: "Entrepreneurial Policy in South Eastern Europe: The Role of Culture, Economics and Regulation in Augmenting MSME Development" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/8706
Internships: International Comparative Rural Policy Consortium, Solsona, Spain; Blue Link (Bulgarian NGO), Sofia, Bulgaria; United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva Switzerland
Awards: Laurels Scholarship; International Comparative Rural Policy Field School Fellowship
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 Buerger, Chris
Major Professor: Rebecca Warner, Sociology
Policy Interests: Social (youth)
MPP Essay: "Finding Safe Homes: A Quantitative Analysis of Child Well-Being Across Placement" (Spring, 2007)
Internship: Oregon Commission on Children and Families
Awards: Oregon Lottery Scholarship
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/9230
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 Chrostek, Garrett
Policy Interests: Environmental/Rural
Major Professor: Roger Hammer, Sociology
MPP Essay: "The Influence of Measure 37 Claims on the Shift in vote Between Measure 37 and Measure 49" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/8704
Internship: City of Corvallis, Oregon
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 Clark, Catherine
Policy Interests: Environmental (environmental justice)
Major Professor: Denise Lach, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Environmental Justice and Energy Production: Coal-Fired Power Plants in Illinois" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/9770
Internship: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
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 Crawford, Seth
Policy Interests: Social (economics, inequality)
Major Professor: Robert Sahr, Political Science
MPP Essay: "The Energy Policy Act of 2003 and the Social Network of the Power Industry" (Spring, 2006)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/6301
Internship: Oregon Department of Education
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 Curiel, Sara
Policy Interests: Rural/Social
Major Professor: Bruce Weber, Ag & Resource Economics
MPP Essay: "Strengthening Oregon's Communities: Latino Community Leadership Training" (Spring, 2007)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6191
Internship: Rural Development Initiatives (NGO); Office of the Governor, State of Oregon
Currently: http://www.rdiinc.org/rural/development/staff/sara_curiel_robles/
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 Fuller, Justin
Policy Interests: Social/Rural
Major Professor: Robert Sahr, Political Science
MPP Essay: "A Statistical Analysis of Oregon's Land-Use Ballot Measures" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/8703
Internship: City of Burns, OR; City of Corvallis, OR
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 Gagnier, Cliff
Policy Interests: Environmental
Major Professor: Roger Hammer, Sociology
MPP Essay: Retirement-Age Migration to and from Oregon: Who is still on the Oregon Trail? (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/11749
Internship: Office of the Governor, State of Oregon
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 Gaid, Dawn Marie
Policy Interests: Environmental/Rural
Major Professor: Bruce Weber, Agriculture and Resource Economics
MPP Essay: Changing Federal County Payments and Rural Oregon Counties: Analysis of Policy Impacts and Responses from Loss of Secure Rural Schools Funding in Selected Oregon Counties (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/13139
Internship: Secure Rural Schools Project, Association of Oregon Counties
Awards: Ford Family Foundation Scholarship
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 Goschke, Lauren
Policy Interests: Environmental/Rural
Major Professor: Rebecca Warner, Sociology
MPP Essay: "The Federal Trust Responsibility and Treaty Protected Resources on Ceded Public Lands: A Huckleberry Case Study" (Spring, 2009)
MPP Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/12007
Internship: U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Awards: Scholarship to attend the National Education for Women's Leadership Conference; Richardson Family Scholarship (College of Forestry)
Dual Graduate Degree: Forest Resources
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 Grussing, Jay
Policy Interests: Environmental
Major Professor: Bruce Weber, AREC
MPP Essay: "Predicting County-Level Food Insecurity and Hunger in Oregon" (Spring, 2007)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6195
Internship: General Accounting Office
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 Ham, Cliff
Policy Interests: Rural/Environmental
Major Professor: Denise Lach, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Diesel Fuel Emissions and Truck Idling: The Oregon Interstate 5 Idle-Free Corridor Project" (Spring, 2007)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/7569
Internship: Rural Development Initiative (NGO)
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 Hammond, D'Anne
Policy Interests: Rural/Social
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Low Income Weatherization in Rural Oregon: Practical and Policy Limitations in Providing More Low Income Households" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/12369
Internship: Oregon Center for Public Policy
Awards: Laurels Scholarship
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 Johnson, Alex
Policy Interests: Social
Major Professor: Larry Roper, Vice Provost for Student Affairs
MPP Essay: "The Oregon State University Diversity Action Plan: A Window of Opportunity" (Spring, 2005)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6319
Internship: City of Corvallis; Office of Diversity, OSU
Awards: Congressional Black Caucus Fellowship
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Johnson, Samuel ("Monty") [no picture]
Policy Interests: Rural/Environmental
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Oregon's Changing Rural Population: Age, Migration and Policy Response" (Spring, 2008)
Essay link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/9407
Internship: Oregon Consortium and Oregon Workforce Alliance
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 Kearney, Emily
Policy Interests: International/Rural
Major Professor: Sunil Khanna, Anthropology
MPP Essay: "Balancing Impact and Efficiency in Microfinance Administration: The Importance of Attention to Program Design" (Fall, 2008)
Essay Link:http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/10098
Internship: International Comparative Rural Policy Consortium, Solsona, Spain
Awards: International Comparative Rural Policy Field School Fellowship
Dual Graduate Degree: Applied Anthropology
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 Kelleher, Bridget
Policy Interests: Social (Education Policy)
Major Professor: Robert Sahr, Political Science
MPP Essay: "Analysis of the Effects of Head Start on the Long Term Educational Achievements of Participants: Elements of Agreement, Conflict, and Gaps" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/12504
Internship: Office of the Governor, State of Oregon
Awards: Laurels Scholarship; International Comparative Rural Policy Field School Fellowship
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 Kleiner, Erica
Policy Interests: Social
Major Professor: Robert Sahr, Political Science
MPP Essay: "Health Insurance Coverage Differentials in Oregon" (Spring, 2004)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6320
Internship: Oregon Department of Administrative Services
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 Mason, Katie (Whitehead)
Policy Interests: Environmental
Major Professor: Denise Lach, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Assessing the Feasibility of Policy Prescriptions in the Salmon 2100 Project" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/7971
Internship: Environmental Protection Agency
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 Myers, Sarah
Policy Interests: International/Social (development policy)
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "The Well-Being of Oregonians: Measuring Social Well-Being through Oregon's Benchmarks" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/11823
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 Nelson, Jessica
Policy Interests: Social
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "The Sociology of Public Policy at Work: Moral and Economic Arguments in Public Policy Discourse" (Spring, 2003)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6344
Internship: Oregon Department of Administrative Services
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 O'Neill, Elizabeth
Policy Interests: Social (community development)
Major Professor: Rebecca Warner, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Muscle and Money: Determining the Relationship Between Occupational Physical Demands and Individual Earning Power" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/9150
Internship: Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, D.C.
Awards: Scholarship to attend the National Education for Women's Leadership Conference
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 Ogden, Stephanie
Policy Interests: Environmental/International
Major Professor: Denise Lach, Sociology
MPP Essay: The poetics of water governance: differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/12249
Internship: International Comparative Rural Policy Consortium, University of Missouri
Awards: University Club of Portland Scolarship; Oregon Lottery Scholarship; International Comparative Rural Policy Field School Fellowship; Water for People Fellowship
I’m originally from Colorado, a place I still hold dear. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in Poetry, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote, rural community of El Salvador where access to potable water was limited. I stayed in El Salvador as the director of a small non-profit organization working with rural women and health, and later worked with the Peace Corps to train incoming volunteers and pair them with their eventual communities. I left El Salvador after 6 years, with a profound interest in how developing communities allocate scarce water and other natural resources essential to subsistence. I chose Oregon State after visits to several grad schools, and I didn’t understand at the time what made me feel so immediately at home here. I know now that what I originally sensed from OSU was a thoroughness of perspective, a genuine appreciation for and practice of interdisciplinary approaches to questions, a socially and environmentally conscious community, an outspoken regard for the fullness of life, and a group of students and teachers who are self-motivated, foreword-thinking, and adamant that participating in the outdoors is essential to our understanding of the world. Upon completion of my Master’s degree, I hope to return to work in the international non-profit field, helping communities to establish conscientious dialogue and effective policies regarding shared water supplies.
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 Opsommer, Laura
Policy Interests: Environmental
Major Professor: Brent S. Steel, Political Science
MPP Essay: "Oregon's Coastal Marine Recreational Fishing Community: The State of Communication with the Fisheries Management Community" (Spring, 2004)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6345
Internship: OSU Sea Grant
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 Sattem, Jennifer
Policy Interests: Social (education)
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Publicly Funded, Privately Assisted: The Role of Giving in Oregon K-12 Education" (Spring, 2007)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6193
Internship: Oregon Department of Education
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 Stansfield, Richard
Policy Interests: Social (crime)
Major Professor: Scott Akins, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Unsubstantiated Fears: Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Part I Index Crimes" (Spring, 2008)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/8879
Home Country: Great Britain
Internship: Addaction, a U.K. based charity delivering alcohol and drug treatment services.
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 Stauffer, Scott
Policy Interests: Transportation/Social
Major Professor: Gail Achterman, Director, Institute for Natural resources
MPP Essay: "Keeping State Policy Public: Meeting Accountability in Commission Governance" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/11466
Internship: Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon University System
Awards: Laurels Scholarship
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 Torgerson, Melissa
Major Professor: Mark Edwards, Sociology
MPP Essay: "Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities" (Spring, 2007)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6194
Internship: Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services
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 Wirth, Julie
Policy Interests: Environmental
Major Professor: Brent S. Steel
MPP Essay: "Oregon's Wetland Regulatory Framework: A Synthesis of Approaches" (Spring, 2005)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/6297
Internship: Environmental Protection Agency
Dual graduate degree: Forest Resources
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 Yin, Yao
Policy Interests: Environmental/International
Major Professor: Brent S. Steel, Political Science
MPP Essay: "Is Wave Energy Comparatively Sustainable in Oregon?" (Spring, 2009)
Essay Link: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/12116
Internship: Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon University System
Awards: Scholarship to attend the National Education for Women's Leadership Conference; International Comparative Rural Policy Field School Fellowship; Best Student Paper, St. Gallen Symposium
Home Country: China
Yao has obtained her Master of Science and Master of Public Policy from Oregon State University. Currently, she's working on both her PhD degree in Environmental Sciences and the Geographic Information System (GIS) Certificate at OSU. She's interested in applying GIS technology in identifying ideal locations of wind energy.
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