Adam White, Mike Niconchuk, Taarika Sridhar, Amit Paz
In the space of twenty-fours on the 22nd and 23rd of September, I was visited by six of my alumni. I dined with Taarika Sridhar, of the EPIIC year on South Asia, and a member of PPRI and Empower; Adam White, an EPIIC engineering student also of the 2009 South Asia year; Mike Niconchuk, a co-founder of the BUILD program; and Amit Paz, a former student leader of NIMEP and contributor to its Insights magazine. The following day, I was visited again by Amit, and by San Haddad, who participated in the 2000 EPIIC Global Sports year.
Taarika is in her third year at Northeastern Law School, and will be clerking for another EPIIC alumnus, Jacob Silberberg, her mentor at Ropes & Gray.
Mike is now off with alum Biz Herman to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, where they are working with Questscope.
Adam White is off to Cairo working on traffic management with SIPA and MIT professors.
Amit is working for Baker Tilly on a very sensitive project affecting what is possibly left of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and he has asked for my student interns from Wellesley to assist him.
Ghassan is in the midst of writing his critical book on the Palestinian and Israeli Olympic files and the politically-motivated distortion of their history, and organizing to create a center for sport and conflict studies in Jerusalem with the International Olympic Academy.