Fellows on the Move

Ana Unruh Cohen is now the Deputy Staff Director for Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. She previously served as the Select Committee's Senior Policy Advisor. Unruh Cohen was a 2001-02 AMS Congressional Fellow in Rep. Markey's office. Then following the completion of her fellowship, she was promoted to Markey's legislative assistant for the environment. She also served as Director of Environmental Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Tanuja Rastogi, 2005-07 AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, was named Special Policy Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Food Programme.

Christina Kakoyannis, 2006-2007 AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now an Evaluation Officer with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Michael D. Smith, 2006-2007 AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is a Senior Environmental Specialist with ICF International, a Fairfax, VA-based management, technology, and policy consulting firm. He is currently managing and providing technical guidance for a wide range of projects, including environmental impact analyses for railroad extensions in Alaska and Wyoming, a major gas pipeline in the Midwest, and a land management plan covering over two million acres in western Oregon. He is also preparing a white paper on Climate Change and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, and providing environmental compliance training for federal agencies and private contractors across the U.S.

Ellen Natesan, 2003-05 AAAS Risk Policy Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is a biologist in the Natural Resources Division of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). She will focus on integrating science into SFPUC's biological monitoring and environmental analyses associated with utility operations.

Sharon Hays, 1997-98 AAAS Congressional Fellow, named associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Ana Cristina Villegas, 2003-05 AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, is a program officer with The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, focusing on the Andes-Amazon Initiative.

Jennifer Wiseman, 2001-02 APS Congressional Fellow, has been appointed as the Chief of the Laboratory for Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This group specializes in astronomical study of stars and the environments around them where planets may form and potentially be detected. She previously served as the program scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope Program at NASA Headquarters.

On September 20, 2006, retiring Science Committee Chairman Boehlert (R-NY) announced the promotions of Dahlia Sokolov, 2004-05 AIP Congressional Fellow, to staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy and Johannes Loschnigg, 2002-03 Congressional Fellow, to staff director of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.