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Brandon Barbour received a B.S. degree in geography from Brigham Young University in Utah with an emphasis in geospatial intelligence. He is a two-time recipient of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's Undergraduate Scholarship. In 2004, he spent time in Taiwan as a Mormon missionary, which introduced him to the Asia-Pacific region and the many issues affecting the area. After obtaining his B.S. degree, Mr. Barbour worked in construction management (logistics and contract management) in Sacramento, California, before returning to higher education in hopes of gaining greater understanding and experience. He is presently a graduate student at the University of Hawaii in political geography and remote sensing applications, and focuses his research on security issues in East Asia.
Click here to read the conference paper on Combating_Terrorism_Financial_Weapons(Barbour).pdf
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Kathryn Charnes is currently a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on her undergraduate degree in international studies. Because of her interest in security and terrorism issues, she developed a personal academic plan of study to gain a broad understanding of U.S. governmental strategic policy and current security issues. As part of her plan, Ms. Charnes enrolled and completed “Foundations for Officership,” a course offered by the U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program and usually only attended by ROTC cadets. In March 2009, she was chosen as a delegate to represent the University of Illinois Jewish United Fund and Jewish Community Relations Council on Capital Hill to lobby congressmen on topics that were important to her and the groups she represented.
Click here to read the conference paper on NIMS(Charnes).pdf
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Joongkoo Cho is a PhD student of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Southern California. Prior to undertaking his doctoral studies, he majored in economics. His current research interests focus on the estimation of freight flows on transportation networks such as highways and railroads, including mode choice analysis and the economic impacts associated with the disruption of such flows in the event of emergencies such as natural disasters or terrorist attacks. In 2008, Mr. Cho, as part of a team of graduate engineering students, developed and successfully implemented an economic impact model to estimate impacts caused by a highway bridge disruption.
Click here to read the conference paper on Port_Security(Cho).pdf
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Kallie Eisenberger is a senior at Michigan State University double-majoring in international relations and political theory & constitutional democracy. She is specializing in Muslim and Jewish studies and is learning Arabic as a part of her degree. Ms. Eisenberger has completed a study-abroad to Israel and a federal agency internship in Washington D.C. She is regarded as one of the top students in her college’s international relations program. After graduation Ms. Eisenberger plans to return to Washington D.C. to work as a political analyst on Middle Eastern affairs. She also intends to obtain a master’s degree with a focus on security, conflict and terrorism.
Ms. Eisenberger was not able to attend the 2009 Summit.
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Jiwnath Ghimire is graduate student in Department of Urban and Regional Planning in University of Hawai‛i at Mânoa. His areas of interest are change adaptive land use planning, sustainability, and disaster management. He completed the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also participated in Health Emergencies in Large Population (HELP) training organized by Center of Excellence, University of Hawai‛i at Mânoa
and International Committee of Red Cross. Mr. Ghimire worked as Program Officer for Good Governance Program of Pro Public (a national NGO) in Nepal from 2004 to 2007 where he coordinated more than 50,000 youth throughout Nepal in a nation-wide campaign of good governance. He also served as Sustainability Coordinator in East West Center Participant Association for 2008-2009.
Click here to read the conference paper on Community Response Exercise(Ghimire).pdf
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Click here to read the conference paper on Financial_Weapons_to_Combat_Terrorism_(Gin).pdf
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Jimmy Lagunero, a native of Honolulu, Hawai‘i is currently a junior majoring in emergency management and homeland security from Jacksonville State University in Alabama. He recently retired from the U.S. military with over 25 years of total service. A former US Marine Gunnery Sergeant, Mr. Lagunero served over 16 years with the 4th Force Reconnaissance Company at Kāne‘ohe Bay, Oahu. Since 1999, he’s been mobilized for active military duty five times, and has served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama and on the U.S. Mexican border. He retired last year from the Hawai‘i Army National Guard’s 29th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, where he served as the Battalion Senior Military Intelligence NCO. Mr. Lagunero is currently employed by the University of Hawai‘i as the Acting Emergency Management Coordinator, and State Civil Defense Coordinator. He’s also a volunteer with the American Red Cross, the Medical Reserve Corps, and a certified Campus CERT Instructor.
Click here to read the conference paper on Protecting_Soft_Targets(Lagunero).pdf
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Soo Yong Lim is currently a PhD student from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Electronics majoring in telecommunications from the Multimedia University in Malaysia. As an undergraduate, Ms. Lim competed in the National Semiconductor-Multimedia University Annual Innovative Project Competition, demonstrating an original use of Electronics, IT and Multimedia Technology in an industrial and/or consumer application. Ms. Lim started her graduate program in the Spring Semester of 2007 and is a graduate research assistant with the Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications (HCAC). Her current research interests include radio propagation, ray tracing, and wireless communications.
Click here to read the conference paper on Port_Security(Lim).pdf
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Cole Livieratos graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies and Human Geography. LT Livieratos received a degree fellowship from the East-West Center and subsequently began working towards his Master’s Degree in Asian Studies with a certificate of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii. His academic focus is on Chinese-American security relations, and he is scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2010. LT Livieratos is currently serving on active duty as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in the armor branch. He hopes to eventually work as a Foreign Area Officer stationed in China, facilitating military-to-military relations between China and the United States.
Click here to read the conference paper on Terrorism_Update(Livieratos).pdf
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Rebecca Rosman is currently a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in communications and international studies. During the summer of 2009, she worked for the pubic affairs department of Mount Sinai Hospital, a large urban medical center on the West side of Chicago. Her projects included a healthcare roundtable discussion attended by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Ms. Rosman wrote for The Buzz, one of the most popular college weekly papers where faculty noted that her writing standards were quite high, was “straightforward, organized and evocative.” Ms. Rosman also recently traveled to Israel on a cultural and educational trip and hopes to study abroad. Given her interest in public policy, world trade, travel and international security, one of her professional goals is to work as a spokesperson for an agency of the United States government.
Click here to read the conference paper on Terrorist_Attack_on_Mumbai(Rosman).pdf
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Tamiko Toyama is a management major at the United States Air Force Academy and is scheduled to commission in 2010 as a contracting officer. During the summer of 2009, she served as a intern at the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance. C1C Toyama has studied in Japan three times and completed a Japanese minor. As one of only two Personal Ethics Education Representatives (PEERs) in her squadron, C1C Toyama watches over the morale of over 100 cadets. She is currently a member of the USAFA varsity cheerleading squad and volunteers for the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in the Pikes Peak region. C1C Toyama hopes to be commissioned in the Air Force Medical Service Corps.
Click here to read the conference paper on Use_and_Misuse_of_Technology(Toyama).pdf
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David Wernick is a doctoral candidate in the Management and International Business Ph.D. program at Florida International University. In 2003, he coordinated a research project for FIU’s Knight Ridder Center For Excellence in Management that studied the impact of post 9/11 security measures on South Florida-based multinational enterprises. Mr. Wernick has presented his research at competitive sessions of the Academy of International Business, briefed the State of Florida’s Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and the Executive Board of Enterprise Florida on the economic impact of homeland security initiatives. In addition to his policy-oriented research, Mr. Wernick has published articles on security aspects of international business, academic books and journals. His dissertation will focus on the nexus between global security risks and international business.
Click here to read the conference paper on Hotel_Security(Wernick).pdf
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Michael Zeleski attends the United States Air Force Academy where he majors in management. His studies include international management, marketing, finance, accounting, and human resource management. Upon graduation, C1C Zeleski will enter vigorous training to become a pilot, beginning his career in the United States Air Force. Currently, he is responsible for the development and mentorship of 23 cadets in his unit. C1C Zeleski also managed all counseling of this year’s incoming freshmen cadet class. Along with his military responsibilities, he actively leads and participates in his local Church’s college ministry and has traveled to Ethiopia to provide assistance for Compassion International. Additionally, he has facilitated at the Sunshine in Heart camps in Beijing, China in an attempt to teach Chinese college students stress-releasing techniques to help combat the suicide rate within their higher education system.
Click here to read the conference paper on A_Road_Ahead(Zeleski).pdf
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