Executive Director:

Joseph Feuer joined the Society for International Development-Washington (SID-Washington) as Executive Director in August of 2007. Previously, he was Pact’s Country Representative for Ukraine and Belarus (2005-2006) and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs’ Country Director for Georgia (2004-2005).  From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Feuer served as Program Manager for European Affairs and Transition Economies at the United States Council for International Business in New York.  In the years following the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Mr. Feuer served as a political adviser to the leading Czech political party and a public relations consultant to companies invested in Eastern Europe, and started the first walking tour company in the country in the post-1989 period. Mr. Feuer has also worked as a legislative and campaign aide for Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.  He holds a B.A. in political science from Columbia College and an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Program Assistant:

Thekla Manoloudis joined SID-Washington as Program Assistant on January 22, 2008.  In December of 2005, she graduated from American University's School for International Service (SIS) where she studied International Relations, with a focus in the European Union, and minored in Spanish.  In January 2005, while studying abroad in Spain, she interned with Euro Alliance.  Upon her return to Washington D.C. in the fall of 2005, she interned at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in the Southeast Europe Project.  Before working at SID-Washington, she worked at the International Organization for Migration.  Ms. Manoloudis loves to travel and has briefly lived in Nigeria and has traveled extensively throughout Europe.  She hopes to pursue her Master's in London and hopes to eventually live and work in Europe.  Fluent in Greek, she has a rich Greek heritage, and regularly visits her family in Greece.  Ms. Manoloudis will be getting married in the fall of 2009.

Interns:

Jasmine Junk joined the SID-Washington team as a full-time intern on December 14, 2007.  In May 2007, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a double major in International Affairs and French from the University of Mary Washington.  Jasmine has previously served as an intern for the Embassy of France and the Somali Family Care Network.  Born in Thailand, she grew up overseas with her diplomat family where she developed a personal interest in the developing world.  Jasmine will continue to serve SID-Washington until June 2008 when she will be departing for Cameroon as a Peace Corps Volunteer.  There she will be teaching English, HIV/AIDS education and computer literacy.  When she returns in August 2010, she hopes to find employment opportunities in International Development while attending graduate school.  Jasmine hopes to eventually retire in her husband's home country of Mauritania where she would like to open a vocational school and an elementary school.

Marie Piayai joined the SID-Washignton team as a full-time intern on January 17, 2008.  She is currently a junior at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY pursuing a Bachelors degree in World Politics with an emphasis on poverty.  In conjunction with Hamilton's program in Washington, DC, she will be working with SID-Washington until May.  Going on to graduate school, she hopes to affect poverty-stricken societies within the United Sates and abroad.    

Veronique Vlahakis joined the SID-Washington team as a full-time intern on March 17, 2008. She graduated from Tufts University-School of Engineering, cum laude, in May 2005. At Tufts, she was an active member of Engineers Without Borders and conducted water quality research in Nicaragua and Honduras.  She gained two years of professional experience as a Staff Engineer with Environmental Resources Management, Inc. before she relocated to DC in pursuit of International Development. She will begin her Masters in Sustainable Development/Natural Resources in the Fall of 2008 at American University's School for International Service. Through this program, she will be spending a year at the University of Peace in Costa Rica studying sustainable development. Upon finishing her Master's, she intends on joining the International Development community and designing water distribution/treatment systems for developing communities in Latin America and around the world.