M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, August 1998
Interdisciplinary concentration: nationalism, ethnic conflict, creation of national and cultural identities and ideologies
• Thesis: “Language Purification
and Language of Purification in Croatia”
Faculty Advisor:
Victor A. Friedman
B.A. with Honors, Anthropology, Longwood University,
Farmville, VA, May 1996
• Minor, Art History
• Junior Year Abroad,
Machakos/Nairobi, Kenya
PROFESSIONAL WORKING EXPERIENCE
Fellow, International Policy Fellowship 2003,
March 2003- present
Learning from the Classroom: Study of Educational
Policies in Elementary Schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organization Q, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinator/Activist, September 2002-present
Promotion of human rights of sexual and gender
minorities and LGBTTIQ community in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rights Based Municipal
Assessment Project (RMAP), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Development Programme
Senior National Assessment
Officer, RMAP-Zvornik, December 2002-April, 2003
Deputy Program Officer,
RMAP Project, April-August, 2003
Research Analyst, August-October, 2003
Rights-based assessment
at the municipal level througout all regions of BiH, with a view to ensuring
that future programming and development by all institutions and segments
of society is based on a rights-based approach and promotion, protection,
and implementation of human rights.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc. United States of America (IEEE-USA), Washington, DC
Administration, Career and Member Activities,
April 2000-September 2002
An organizational unit of IEEE created to support
the career and public interests of IEEE’s U.S. members. IEEE-USA
strives to recommend policies and implement programs specifically intended
to serve and benefit the members, the profession, and the public in the
United States in appropriate professional areas of economic, ethical, legislative,
social and technology policy concern.
American Sociological Association (ASA), Washington,
DC
Governance Coordinator, February 1998-March
2000
Minority Affairs Program Assistant (Minority
Affairs Program), October 1997-April 1998
A non-profit membership association dedicated to
advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the
public good.
National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Research Assistant, 1996-1997
OTHER ACTIVIST AND VOLUNTEER WORK
Women in Black International Art Project
Women in Black-DC, Washington, DC
D.C. United for Peace Coalition Subcommittee,
Washington, DC
We Care Volunteers, Inc., Washington, DC