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| January 2005
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ALUMNI NEWS |
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| Three Alumni Share Tsunami Stories
Read more about each of their very personal journeys in the individual stories below. Saji Prelis, SIS/MA 2001, left AU in November 2004 to attend a conference in the Philippines, renew his work visa, and see his family in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka. “I hadn’t been back to Sri Lanka in 16 years and I had not seen my parents in 11 years. I wanted to spend Christmas break with them,” says the AU director of the Peacebuilding and Development... read more Matthew Buzby, SIS/BA ’90, was safe in Bangkok when the tsunami struck. “But I returned that same night,” says the Operations Manager for Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), who has lived in Sri Lanka for the last a year and a half now, working for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives Program... read more Joanne Cossitt, SIS/BA ’98, SIS/MA ’03, was in Connecticut when news of the tsunami hit the airwaves. But the director of the Griffin Center for Health and Human Rights at Yale since 2000 was on a plane to Sri Lanka within days of the disaster, coordinating a relief team from Griffin... read more |
Saji Prelis, Matthew Buzby, and
Joanne Cossitt, have more than their AU SIS degrees
in common. They’ve
all dedicated great amounts of time, energy, and heart toward relief efforts
for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka since last month.