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ALLWIN INITIATIVE FOR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
Working at the intersection of business and society
STUDENT PROFILES    

The Student Roundtable is a group of Tuck students dedicated to furthering the mission and the vision of the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship. They meet regularly with the Initiative's directors to set goals, evaluate opportunities, and implement plans.

The T'09 Student Roundtable members are: Kelly Cutler, Brad Lang, Jon Mohraz, Tak Mikoshiba, Kate Reiling, Paul Schned, and Carolyn Zern.

Kelly Cutler T’09 was director of development for Families First before coming to Tuck. She has dedicated her career to bringing about social change and is doing this through a variety of staff, volunteer, and board positions in the non-profit sector. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board for Teen Voices and as a Friends Council member for Families First. At Tuck, she is the Net Impact chapter co-chair and served on the finance committee for the ’08 Business and Society Conference. One of her goals is to increase participation in the Net Impact chapter. She graduated from Boston University with a major in English. Her summer internship will be with L.E.K. Consulting.

Bradley (Brad) Lang T’09 served in the Peace Corps for 3 years prior to coming to Tuck. His primary post was in rural, western Kenya, where he worked on microfinance and public health projects. He has also worked for the Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation and with a boutique technology policy consulting firm in Washington, DC. Brad graduated from George Washington University with a major in political science. During his first year at Tuck, he worked on a corporate social responsibility project in Nicaragua with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. He is also on the leadership team of the Net Impact club and serves as a Tuck Board Fellow with LISTEN Community Services. He will intern during the summer with the Aquaya Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing waterborne diseases.

Jonathan (Jon) Mohraz T’09 worked at Ernst & Young prior to arriving at Tuck. His consultancy work focused on assisting companies that had suffered catastrophic losses, such as those sustained during 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. While living in California, he was a member of Leadership Hermosa Beach. Jon graduated from Georgetown University, where he majored in finance and served as a research assistant in the business school. In his first year at Tuck, he enhanced his research experience by working with Tuck Professor Karin Thornburn. As a second year student, he will be the Allwin Initiative’s first Research Fellow. He is interested in furthering collaborative research between Tuck and Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. He also aims to deepen discussions about sustainability in the First Year core curriculum. He will serve as the fundraising chair of the January ’09 Business and Society Conference. Jon will work with JPMorgan’s investment banking division for his summer internship.

Takashi (Tak) Mikoshiba T’09 intends to pursue a career in the educational sector in Japan when he completes his MBA work. To further this plan, he will work in the Strategic Human Resources Planning & Management Group of the New York City Department of Education for his summer internship. As a member of the Student Roundtable, his goal is to engage Tuck’s international students in discussions about the issues of business and society and to encourage their involvement in Allwin Initiative activities. An avid hockey player, Tak is a co-captain of the Tuck Hockey A team and played varsity hockey for 4 years as an undergraduate. He graduated from Keio University in Tokyo with a degree in economics. He is a founding partner of Vertex Solutions, an independent “headhunter” search firm established in 2003.

Kate Reiling T’09 was Program and Development Manager for Spare Key, a non-profit which pays mortgages for families with critically ill children. In the summer before her first year at Tuck, Kate worked with a Tuck professor to write a case that is expected to be used in the Spring ’09 Corporate Responsibility course. She was a panel co-manager for the ’08 Business & Society Conference. Kate graduated from Macalester College with a major in political science. She was co-captain of the 1998 national championship team in the women’s soccer conference. In 2007, The London Times chose her to write articles on the MBA experience from the perspective of an American student. She will work with Oliver Wyman for her summer internship.

Paul Schned T’09 is deeply committed to using his MBA skills to further the principles of corporate citizenship. He is a Host Fellow for the Center for Private Equity and the co-chair of Tuck’s Private Equity Club. Paul is also the Treasurer of the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative, a group pooling Dartmouth’s undergraduate and graduate schools, and the surrounding community’s resources and expertise in alternative energy. His First Year Project team is writing a business plan to market an all-natural, healthy breakfast bar developed by a classmate. He is a member of Dartmouth College’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. This group reviews proxy statements relating to social issues and makes recommendations to Dartmouth’s Investment Office on how it should vote the shares owned by the College’s Endowment Fund. He is working with a Thayer student group called Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP) that creates engineering-related sustainable solutions to problems in developing countries. As a Tuck Board Fellow, he is a member of the LISTEN Community Services board of directors. Paul graduated from Dartmouth College.

Carolyn Zern T’09 is the chair of the 2009 Business & Society Conference, having served as deputy chair for the 2008 conference. A Dartmouth College graduate, she also holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Immediately prior to Tuck, she worked for the City of New York at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She rose to the position of Senior Policy Analyst and managed collaborations with other government agencies and private developers to increase the number of affordable units in NYC. Carolyn's summer internship will be with the New Boston Fund, a real estate investment and development firm.  After graduation, she hopes to pursue a career in sustainable real estate development.