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Alumni Achievements

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their sociology degrees:

• Katie Stephens, '06, is United States coordinator for Children With Hope, a nonprofit organization based in Australia that trains people to work with at-risk children worldwide.
  
  
• Kristin McFarland, '02, manages the Legal Advocacy Program in the YWCA's Alternatives to Domestic Violence agency, in Spokane.
  
  
• Alicia Hooten, '05, is completing a master's degree in social work at the University of Southern California; she helps adolescents in foster care make a successful transition into adulthood.
  
  
• Tamotsu Iwaishi, '05, is a dorm director and part-time physical-education instructor at Kamehameha Schools, in Hawaii.
  
  
• Katherine Smith, '02 (sociology and international studies double major), is a judicial law clerk with the United States Department of Justice.
  
  
• Lora Burge, '06, works in Guatemala as part of a PCUSA women's-group ministry; she has served as a translator and helped teach a course on nonviolent alternatives.
  
  
• Colleen Smith, '06, works for Youth for Christ in a ministry for girls from low-income neighborhoods, in Spokane.
  
  
• Jennifer Nelson, '07, works with the Asha House ministry for orphaned children, in Delhi, India.
  
  
• Julie Barshaw, '07, is earning a master's degree in cross-cultural ministry at the ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University, in Langley, B.C.
  
  
• Jennifer (Putnam) Atwood, '04, earned a master of arts degree in theological studies from Princeton Theological Seminary.
  
  
• Jamin Palmer,'04, earned a master's degree in criminology/criminal justice from Washington University Saint Louis and undertook a mission trip to Uganda, Africa.
  
  
• Brittany Hilker, '07, is enrolled in the master.of arts program in social work at Eastern Washington University.
  
  
• Sara Migliazzo, '01, earned a master's degree in social work from Boston College and works with at-risk youth in the Portland, Ore., area.
  
  
• Brian Nissen, '01, did social work with Native American populations and now works as a member of the Business Council of the Colville Confederated Tribes.
  
  
• Miguel Saldin, '00, received a master's degree in social work from Eastern Washington University and works with immigrants in the Seattle area.
  
  
• Jennifer Carson, '97, is a family support worker for Kent (Wash.) Youth and Family Services.
  
  
• After serving as the Catholic Relief Services director of food aid monitoring in Liberia, where she determined the optimum location and timing for international aid deliveries and directed self-help sanitation and farming projects, Anna Schowengerdt, '93, served as country project director for one year in Iraq and helped lead tsunami relief efforts in Aceh, Sri Lanka. She is now working at the CRS headquarters in Baltimore.
  
  
• Barbara Schindler, '95, is director of the Spokane Food Bank.
  
  
• Paige Spurlock-Leifer, '88, is assistant coordinator of the Center of Prevention for Educational Service District #101 in Eastern Washington.
  
  
• Karen Parson-Cornell, '91, is director of the Corbin Senior Activities Center in Spokane.
  
  
• Lawrence Erickson, '74, is executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs.