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President Bush Appoints 2008-2009 Class of White House Fellows
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary June 26, 2008

President Bush Appoints 2008-2009 Class of White House Fellows

ÿÿWhite House News


The White House announced today the President's appointment of 14 White
House Fellows, selected by the President's Commission on White House
Fellowships, to participate in America's most prestigious fellowship
program for leadership development and public service. The 2008-2009 Class
of White House Fellows represents a highly distinguished group of men and
women exemplifying a diverse cross-section of professions including
medicine, education, business, and science technology. Additionally, three
branches of the military are represented among the newly appointed Fellows.
The list of the 2008-2009 Class and their biographies are included below.

The White House Fellows Program, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B.
Johnson, offers exceptional men and women first-hand experience working at
the highest levels of the Federal government. Fellows participate in an
education program consisting of roundtable discussions with leaders from
the private and public sectors and study trips to examine U.S. policy in
action. Following the Fellowship year, the Fellows repay the privilege by
contributing to the country as better national leaders and public servants.

Selection as a White House Fellow is highly competitive and based on a
record of remarkable professional achievement, evidence of leadership
skills, a strong commitment to public service, and the knowledge and skills
necessary to contribute successfully at the highest levels of the Federal
government. The program has fostered leaders in many fields, including
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao,
former CNN President Tom Johnson, United Nations Foundation President and
Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth, former Supreme Allied Commander for
Europe Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Senator Samuel Brownback, and U.S.
Representative Joe L. Barton.

Additional information about the program is located at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fellows.

2008-2009 Class of White House Fellows

Brian Alexander. Hometown: Southfield, Michigan. Brian Alexander is a
physician resident at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program and holds a
Master's Degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Alexander is active in clinical and translational cancer research with
multiple projects published in peer-reviewed journals and works as a policy
analyst/consultant for the Massachusetts Division of Healthcare Finance and
Policy. He completed his medical training at the University of Michigan
Medical School where he graduated in the top five in his class, received
the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Clinical Skills and the Art of
Medicine, and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honors society. While
at Michigan, Brian received multiple awards for research in the field of
oncology, chaired two health policy interest groups, acted as the student
delegate to the American Medical Association, served on a countywide health
policy think tank, and attended the Washington Institute for Health Policy
Leadership. He holds a B.A. in Health Sciences with a minor in Mathematics
from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he graduated Phi Beta
Kappa and magna cum laude in addition to playing quarterback and wide
receiver for the K-College Hornet Football Team.

Margaret Angell. Hometown: New York, New York. Margaret Angell serves as
the Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer of Boston Public
Schools, where she manages the operational and financial responsibilities
of rolling out universal preschool programs for four-year-olds in Boston.
Margaret is an appointed member of Governor Deval Patrick's Readiness
Project, a statewide council developing a ten-year plan for improving
education in Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Broad Residency in
Urban Education, a two-year management development program that trains
graduates of business, public policy, and law schools for leadership
positions in school districts. Margaret previously worked for Take the
Field, a public-private partnership dedicated to rebuilding New York City's
public high school sports facilities. She began her career in corporate
finance, first in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan and then
in the Strategic Planning Department of Time Inc. In 2004, Margaret raced
in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials for the Athens Summer Games, finishing
in 2:44. She founded the ALS Marathon Team, which has raised over $650,000
for research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Margaret received an A.B.
cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Columbia
Business School, and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of
Government.

Daniel Fletcher. Hometown: Berkeley, California. Daniel Fletcher is
Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California,
Berkeley and Deputy Division Director of Physical Biosciences at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of
new biomedical technologies and the study of cellular biophysics. His
research honors include a National Science Foundation Career Award,
National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Award, and Hellman
Family Faculty Fund Award. He is also co-founder of a biotechnology company
focusing on needle-free drug delivery and has provided technical consulting
for several high-tech ventures. Dan received a B.S. summa cum laude in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D.
in Engineering Science from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes
Scholar. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford
University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and
was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at the Stanford University School
of Medicine. He is part of the Berkeley Biophysics program and Nanoscale
Science and Engineering program and a Faculty Affiliate of the QB3
Institute. Dan teaches undergraduate and graduate students at UC Berkeley
and founded the Science Bus, an after-school science enrichment program for
elementary school students.

J. Nadine Gracia. Hometown: Novato, California. Nadine Gracia is a
pediatrician and violence prevention researcher. She was a general
pediatrics research fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and
received a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University
of Pennsylvania. Her research addresses community-level risk factors for
violence and the evaluation of neighborhood interventions to reduce
violence. She is an associate of the Philadelphia Collaborative Violence
Prevention Center. She earned her medical degree from the University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She then completed pediatrics residency and
served as Chief Pediatrics Resident at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
An advocate for minority and disadvantaged populations, she lectures
nationwide on health disparities, diversity in education, and cultural
competence. She is a National President Emeritus of the Student National
Medical Association and a past Postgraduate Physician Trustee of the
National Medical Association. She is a motivational speaker and career
coach for thousands of students and physicians. She also conducts workshops
throughout the country on leadership development, diplomacy, and strategic
planning. She serves the community on issues of political awareness,
health, and educational achievement through Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Fluent in French and Haitian Creole, she earned a B.A. with honors in
French at Stanford University.

Michael Hayes. Hometown: Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mike Hayes is a
Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy and a United States Navy
SEAL. His 15-year career has included deployments throughout South America,
Europe, and the Middle East in support of the War on Drugs, operations in
Bosnia and Kosovo, and Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. His
most recent assignment at SEAL Team TEN included seven months as the Deputy
Commander for all Special Operations Forces in Al-Anbar province, Iraq. In
2002, Mike was the Navy's "Politico-Military Fellow" and subsequently
received his M.A. in Public Policy from Harvard's J.F.K. School of
Government. Mike received his B.A. from Holy Cross College, where he was an
active Big Brother. His work has been published by the RAND Corporation. He
is active in the Knights of Columbus and fluent in German and Spanish.

Sarita James. Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sarita James is Senior Vice
President of the 50-person Strategy and Policy Division at New York City
Economic Development Corporation. Prior to NYCEDC, Sarita worked as a
management consultant for McKinsey _

Ryan Janovic. Hometown: Akron, Ohio. Ryan Janovic is a Major in the United
States Army and a credentialed Special Agent with 15 years of experience
within the national intelligence community. He deployed in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he worked political, military, and economic
effects coordination within the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. He facilitated and
directly participated in bilateral engagements with four of Iraq's
neighbors, including unprecedented talks in Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Currently, Ryan is the Operations Officer for the Army's largest strategic
counterintelligence unit, responsible for sensitive espionage and
counterterrorism investigations and operations throughout the United States
and overseas. As a Captain, he was one of only 18 officers throughout the
Army selected to receive the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. As
the youngest ever Eagle Scout in Summit County, Ryan represented Ohio at
the World Jamboree in Sydney, Australia. He remains very involved with
Scouting and assisting victims of violent crimes as part of the Victim
Witness Assistance Program. A graduate of the Command and General Staff
College, he holds an additional qualifier as an Army Strategist. He
received his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy and his
M.B.A. from Webster University.

David Loaiza. Hometown: Santa Fe, New Mexico. David Loaiza is a technical
staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who serves as an advisor
to the Department of Energy's Office of Dismantlement and Transparency. He
assists in the development of U.S. non-proliferation policy at the national
and international level. He is a technical team lead for U.S. Delegations
monitoring the denuclearization of North Korea and additionally provides
technical briefs and training to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
David has 14 years of experience leading research programs in radiation
detection and critical mass experiments. He has performed experiments with
highly enriched uranium, plutonium and neptunium to support the DOE Nuclear
Spent Fuel, Nuclear Criticality Safety and Nonproliferation Programs as
well as Yucca Mountain Project and NASA. He has published and presented his
work at national and international conferences. His interests include
running marathons, playing polo, soccer, and ballroom dancing. David is
proficient in Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian. He holds a B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of New
Mexico.

Nicole Malachowski. Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada. Nicole M. E. Malachowski
is a Major in the United States Air Force with over 2,100 flying hours. She
flew the F-15E in three operational fighter squadrons, gaining combat hours
in Operation DELIBERATE FORGE and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, and was honored
to provide air cover over Baghdad, Iraq, on Iraq's historic election day.
Nicole also flew the F-16C/D as Thunderbird #3 with the USAF Air
Demonstration Squadron and was the first woman to fly on any Department of
Defense military jet demonstration team. She proudly served alongside the
United States Army 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea, as an Air
Liaison Officer. Malachowski most recently served as Deputy Chief,
Commander's Action Group, at the United States Air Force Warfare Center.
She received her B.S. in Management, with a minor in French, from the USAF
Academy and recently earned an M.A., with honors, in National Security
Policy from American Military University. Recognized for her community
contributions, Nicole was honored with a Nevada State Assembly Resolution
and inducted to the "Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame."
Dedicated to mentoring the next generation of Americans, she is a frequent
motivational speaker at local, State, and national events.

Christopher Meyer. Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana. Chris Meyer is a Health
Policy Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. In 2004, he
became a Teach For America Corps Member in New Orleans, where he taught
high school social studies and coached basketball. After Hurricane Katrina,
he led more than 200 evacuee students to achieve significant academic
gains. In recognition of his teaching success and dedication to the New
Orleans community, Meyer was selected as a school principal for Teach For
America's summer institute. Beyond the classroom, Meyer has served as a
Policy Coordinator for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. He owns a small
business in his hometown, Shreveport, LA, and has volunteered and interned
at the White House, in Congress, and in the Office of the Mayor of New York
City. Meyer is the youngest person to be elected as a Louisiana delegate to
the Republican National Convention, where in 2004 he spoke about education
reform. He recently received his M.P.P from Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government where he was a Public Service Fellow and teaching assistant. He
is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Tulane University where he
received his B.A. in Political Science and Political Economy. He and his
wife Alice are committed to working to strengthen Louisiana.

Eyrique Miller. Hometown: Middletown, New Jersey. Eyrique Miller is
currently working on behalf of Citi as the Director of Entrepreneur
Services for Endeavor, a non-profit focused on high-impact entrepreneurship
in emerging markets. Prior to assuming this role, Eyrique was a Vice
President in Citi's Global Technology Investment Banking Group providing
technology clients with advice on a broad range of transactions including
both mergers and acquisitions and financing and was responsible for
managing all aspects of transaction execution. Eyrique earned an M.B.A. in
Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School. Prior to
Wharton, he worked at Lucent Technologies as a systems engineer in Optical
Networking and Communications Software. He holds an M.S.E. in
Telecommunications and Networking from the University of Pennsylvania.
Eyrique graduated from Rutgers University cum laude with a B.S. in
Industrial Engineering as a NACME Corporate Scholar. In his community, he
serves on the board of the York Street Project, an organization that
provides housing, education, and daycare services to homeless women and
their children and has been a volunteer with Rising Tide Capital, a
non-profit organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of low-income
communities through entrepreneurship, and New York Cares as part of their
annual Secret Santa Program.

David Rawlinson. Hometown: Rock Hill, South Carolina. David Rawlinson
served as the class commencement speaker at his recent graduation from
Harvard Business School where he earned his M.B.A. While attending Harvard,
he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harbus, the historic Harvard
Business School weekly. Prior to enrolling in business school, David
practiced with the law firms of Locke, Liddell _

Jason Snyder. Hometown: Los Angeles, California. Jason Snyder is a teacher
at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. He has taught government
and history for six years in public schools; he also taught for one year at
the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Prior to teaching at
Wakefield, Jason practiced education and appellate law at Hogan _

Everett Spain. Hometown: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Everett S. Spain is a
United States Army Officer. He recently returned from 18 months as the
Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq.
Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at West Point, where he
designed the course Leading Organizations through Change, served as the
Director for the Cubbies Club (70 toddlers), and volunteered for the Orange
County Special Olympics. As a Company Commander in Europe and Kosovo, his
outfit received the Itschner Award, given annually to the most outstanding
engineer company in the United States Army. As a junior officer at Fort
Bragg, Everett won the 82d Airborne Division Best Ranger Team Competition.
An undergraduate at West Point, Everett competed on the Triathlon Team,
served as the Brigade Executive Officer, and received the Association of
Graduates Award for finishing third in his class. While earning his M.B.A.
from Duke University, he was selected by his peers for the Spaulding Award
for Leadership. Everett has published several articles on leadership and
received the MacArthur Leadership Writing Award. Everett is also the
recipient of the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Master Parachutist
Wings, and the Purple Heart. Everett and Julia Spain are the proud parents
of four children.

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