PIETER BOELHOUWER
Wethersfield, CT |
Pieter Boelhouwer, 31,
is a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Stamford, CT.
He received a BA in history, Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College
and a JD from Yale Law School. Boelhouwer has also served as a legislative
aide in the U.S. Senate, where he developed and wrote legislation
creating the National Civilian Community Corps, a residential service
program passed as part of President Clinton's AmeriCorps bill. While
at McKinsey, Boelhouwer designed an innovative approach to connecting
schools to home via the Internet to improve children's education,
and also originated and led a pro bono project to help The Presidents'
Summit for America's Future design its plan to reach the nation's
communities. He also created and wrote a guidebook, which was published
by America's Promise, to help neighborhoods and communities around
the country develop their own local action plans.
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JEAN CALLAHAN
Wildwood, NJ |
Jean Callahan, 34, is an attorney
with the Legal Aid Society's Brooklyn Office for the Aging. She
received a BA from New York University, an MSW from Hunter College
School of Social Work, and a JD from Rutgers Law School. Callahan
was the lead counsel in a 1997 Federal class action lawsuit to ensure
the right of elderly and incapacitated Medicaid recipients to adequate
home care. Upon graduation from Rutgers, where she founded the Pro
Bono Program, she won a prestigious Skadden Law Fellowship. Callahan
has served as an international monitor for the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission hearings in South Africa and was a volunteer at the Haitian
Refugee Center in Miami. She developed treatment plans and counseled
50 weekly clients at the Greenwich House East Methadone Maintenance
Center in lower Manhattan and served as liaison to the Rikers Island
KEEP program, designed to keep recently released prisoners from
returning to drug abuse.
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LEELA DE SOUZA
Chicago, IL |
Leela de Souza, 32, is a management
consultant with McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. A native of Chicago,
de Souza has an AB in biopsychology, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University
of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of
Business. She became a professional ballerina at age 18, and by
age 23 she was the prima ballerina for the Hubbard Street Dance
Company, one of America's preeminent contemporary dance troupes.
After college, de Souza moved to Spain, where she was a volunteer
teacher at the American School of Madrid. While at Stanford, she
served on the Academic Committee and was executive director and
co-producer of the annual business school musical. At McKinsey,
de Souza has worked with clients in the packaged goods, energy,
and health care industries and has done extensive pro bono work
with two national symphonies. She is a mentor and tutor in the I
Have a Dream Program in East Palo Alto, CA, and serves on the Business
Arts Council of San Francisco.
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CARLOS DEL TORO
New York, NY |
Carlos Del Toro, 36, is a Commander
in the U.S. Navy and Director of Training for all Aegis cruisers
and destroyers. A native of Cuba, Del Toro was raised in New York
City. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received an
MA in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War
College, an MA in legislative affairs from George Washington University,
and an MS in electrical/ space systems engineering from the Naval
Post-graduate School. Del Toro, the Navy's first Hispanic officer
chosen to commission an Arleigh Burke Destroyer, will be the Commissioning
Commanding Officer of the USS BULKELEY. He was second in command
aboard Guided Missile Cruiser VINCENNES stationed in Japan, and
was a Tactical Action Officer during Operation Desert Storm. He
is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Board Member
of the Washington, DC, chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation,
and founded a program to tutor and provide scholarships for inner-city
children.
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STEPHEN ENGLAND
St. Paul, MN |
Stephen England, 37, is a pediatric
orthopaedic surgeon at Gillette Children's Specialty Health Care
and the Shriners' Hospital in St. Paul, where he focuses on children
with special health care needs. He also is an assistant professor
of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Minnesota. He received
a BA in biology from the University of Minnesota, an MD from Cornell
University Medical College and a master's in public health from
Johns Hopkins University. He has lectured nationally and internationally
on pediatric and adolescent health topics and serves on numerous
state commissions addressing the health issues of children with
disabilities. He was part of a medical mission in Ecuador operating
on children with cerebral palsy, and founded the Children's Health
Enrichment Program in St. Paul, which teaches African-American teenagers
about health topics and provides mentoring and academic guidance.
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ALEXANDER FRIEDMAN
New York, NY |
Alex Friedman, 27, co-founded Adventa.com,
an Internet firm that provides business-to-business marketing information.
He also was founder and president of Accelerated Clinical, a biotechnology
services company dedicated to accelerating the clinical trial process
for biotechnology firms. Friedman, who was raised in New York and
Washington, DC, received a BA in politics from Princeton University
and a JD-MBA from Columbia University. Friedman is the founder of
the 21st Century Roundtable, his generation's first civic venture-capital
non-profit group. It pairs young leaders of non-profits with young
professionals who can provide advice, services and financing. He
also founded Climb for the Cure, a national student effort to raise
$1 million for AIDS research through a climb of Alaska's Mt. McKinley,
and has served as a small-claims court and family mediator in Harlem
and the South Bronx.
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JEFFREY GLUECK
Cambridge, MA |
Jeff Glueck, 29, is a management
consultant with Monitor Co. in Cambridge. A native of Newport Beach,
CA, he has a BA in social studies, summa cum laude, from Harvard
University and a master's degree in international relations from
Oxford University, where he and a partner won the annual Oxford
Debating Championship. Glueck has advised the Peruvian and Bolivian
governments on economic competitiveness and since 1995 has directed
the national competitiveness project for the Venezuelan government
staff. He was a pro bono advisor to the Center for Middle East Competitive
Strategy, an economic development and regional cooperation project
for the signatory governments of the Middle East peace process.
Glueck tutored at a housing project in Boston, was a founding participant
in the Harvard Communication Project, an inter-ethnic discussion
group, and started a recycling program in Oxford student dorms.
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SELMA GOMEZ
Miami, FL |
Selma Gomez, 35, is the president
and founder of Applied Consulting Services Corp. in Miami. The daughter
of Cuban refugees, she received an AB in applied mathematics, cum
laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a Ph.D in decision sciences,
an MBA, and a master's in engineering sciences from Harvard University.
Gomez founded her company to provide operations improvement advice
and strategic planning for private and non-profit clients. Before
starting her own firm, Gomez was a senior manager at KPMG Peat Marwick
LLP, in Miami, where she developed a specialty in international
market entry strategies. She teaches in the engineering department
at the University of Miami, is a member of the Dade County Performance
Commission, serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Retarded
Citizens of South Florida, and is a teacher in NETWORKS, a program
to provide inner-city students with enrichment classes on Saturdays.
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H. BEECHER HICKS,
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Charlotte, NC |
Henry Hicks, 30, is an investment
banker with NationsBank Corp. in Charlotte. He was raised in Washington,
DC, where his father is the pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church.
Hicks received a BA in marketing from Morehouse College and an MBA
from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flager Business School.
As a vice president at Nations-Bank, he provides mergers and acquisitions
advice to middle-market companies. While serving as assistant to
the chairman of NationsBank, Hicks led the formation of the bank's
vendor development program and proposed a $30 million equity-investment
company focusing on urban communities. He also helped start The
Investment Group of Charlotte, which invests in local firms and
real estate projects and provides technical aid to entrepreneurs.
Hicks is a member of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Development Corporation and works with students at Johnson C. Smith
University.
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BRUCE MCNAMER
Billings, MT |
Bruce McNamer, 35, is a management
consultant with McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. A native of Billings,
MT, he has an AB in history, cum laude, from Harvard University
and an MBA and JD from Stanford University. McNamer was an investment
banker before joining McKinsey, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer
in a small Paraguayan village where he helped build the community's
first high school, which now bears his name. After graduation from
Stanford, he joined Morgan Stanley & Co. as a corporate finance
analyst in the New York office. He also was a technology banker
in the San Francisco office and helped open the firm's Hong Kong
office. While at Stanford, McNamer co-founded MBAID, a non-profit
group that sends MBA students to developing countries to work with
local entrepreneurs and small community organizations. He also helped
launch "Start Up," a community-based microlending organization in
East Palo Alto. At McKinsey, he has led the San Francisco office's
community outreach efforts.
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KATE MEHR
Brookline, MA |
Kate Mehr, 35, is the executive
director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance in Boston, a statewide
non-profit group whose mission is to strengthen the state's communities
through service and volunteerism. A native of Amherst, MA, Mehr
received a BA in political science from Amherst and an MPA from
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. During her
tenure, the Alliance has increased state support for service by
750%. She was appointed by the Governor as coordinator of "The Massachusetts
Summit: The Promise of Our Youth," which was attended by 1,600 citizens.
Mehr has taught government and history and coached basketball and
golf at the high school level. She was a victim-witness advocate
in Massachusetts, worked as an aide to a Massachusetts state senator,
and was a founding staff member of the Massachusetts Legislative
Children's Caucus. She has also tutored a young Cambodian immigrant,
and was a volunteer basketball coach at a local YMCA.
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MARK MONTGOMERY
Coronado, CA |
Mark Montgomery, 33, is a Lieutenant
Commander in the U.S. Navy and Executive Officer on the USS ELLIOT.
Montgomery, who grew up overseas and in Washington, DC, received
a BA in history, cum laude, and an MS in international relations
from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's in history from
Oxford University. He was one of a handful of liberal arts majors
to complete the naval nuclear power program. Montgomery has completed
two overseas deployments on the USS BAINBRIDGE, including one in
support of Operation Desert Storm. He led a team of 30 BAINBRIDGE
sailors that provided disaster relief to the island of St. Croix
after Hurricane Hugo. He later was assigned to the reactor department
on a NIMITZ-class aircraft carrier, where he deployed to Bosnia
during air strikes. Montgomery is the first in his year group to
be selected for command of a destroyer. When not at sea, Montgomery
has served as a Big Brother.
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JAMES O'CONNOR
Evanston, IL |
Jim O'Connor, 31, is a management
consultant at A.T. Kearney in Chicago. He received a BA in government
and English and a JD from Georgetown University and an MBA from
the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
At Northwestern, he founded the Kellogg Corps, which places teams
of MBA students in developing communities around the world. He served
as the first American volunteer teacher at a rural Catholic school
in Lebowa, South Africa, and founded the Field Associates, a group
of young adults who promote the Field Museum of Natural History
in Chicago, and the Associates Board of the Big Shoulders Fund,
which involves young adults in advisory and fundraising roles with
needy Catholic schools in Chicago's inner city. O'Connor is a member
of the Guild Board of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and of the Chicago
Community trust Young Leaders' Fund. He is also a member of the
Museum of Science and Industry's Kinetic Council and serves on Georgetown
University's Governing Board.
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MICHELLE PELUSO
New York, NY |
Michelle Peluso, 26, is a management
consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in New York. A native
of Middletown, NY, Peluso received a BS in economics, summa cum
laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
and has an MA in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke
College at the University of Oxford. At B.C.G. she completed a one-year
project to define the next frontier in health care and then traveled
worldwide to present her ideas to members of the firm's global Health
Care Practice Area. Peluso founded A New Generation for Peace, a
non-profit group that brought together 350 youths from 50 countries
for seminars on global issues. As an undergraduate at Penn, she
led volunteer programs in West Philadelphia, including an atrisk
mentoring program, a campus community service group and a volunteer
initiative at the Ronald McDonald House. Peluso is a member of the
Board of Directors of Christa House, which builds homes and provides
care for end-stage AIDS patients.
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CLARA SHIN
Orange, CA |
Clara Shin, 27, is
a former AmeriCorps program officer. She received a BA in government
from Smith College and a JD from Stanford Law School. She joined
AmeriCorps as the youngest program officer and was put in charge
of developing the first national grant applications for local programs
seeking funding. She then managed a $25 million grant portfolio
for the program and coordinated a service network spanning the Southwest.
Shin also co-designed the $100 million community service component
of a Housing and Urban Development initiative to revitalize severely
distressed public housing developments. While in law school, Shin
worked as a U.S. Agency for International Development Legal Intern
to the Regional Legal Advisor for Southern Africa. She founded KOSO-MOSE
Women's Journal, a magazine for Asian American women, and helped
start the Tahoe-Baikal Institute, a bi-national environmental institute
in California and Siberia that trains environmentalists in land
and water issues.
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JOHN TIEN
Long Beach, CA |
John Tien, 34, is a Major in the
U.S. Army and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social
Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. A native
of New Haven, CT, he received a BS in civil engineering from West
Point, where he was the top-ranked military cadet in his class.
He later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Tien was
among the first U.S. soldiers to cross the Saudi Arabia- Iraq border
during Operation Desert Storm. He has commanded an M1A1 main battle
tank company and a headquarters company, and served as the chief
logistics officer for a thousand-soldier brigade. Tien has tutored
inner-city high school youth in Killeen, TX, and is the co-organizer
of the New York Orange County Special Olympics. He is a voluntary
elementary school tutor, and a youth league soccer and baseball
coach.
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FELICIA WONG
Berkeley, CA |
Felicia Wong, 31, is a high school
teacher at the College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA. A recipient
of a three-year National Science Foundation graduate fellowship,
Wong is also a Ph.D candidate in political science at the University
of California at Berkeley, where she is writing her dissertation
on the politics of race and urban education reform. A native of
Sunnyvale, CA, she received a BA in English/creative writing and
political science from Stanford University and an MA in political
science from Berkeley. At the College Preparatory School she is
a faculty advisor to a student group on diversity and launched an
ethics program for the school's senior class. Wong is the co-director
and teacher in the high school's Partners' Program, an academic
summer school that serves low-income public students. She also has
worked on non-proliferation issues in Washington at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace and at the Arms Control Association.
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