February 2004

Kevin Curnin was recently named to special counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York. Kevin is also attorney director for Stroock's Public Service Project, which is the firm's pro bono program.  In addition to handling his own cases, Kevin is responsible for the overall management of the program, including advising and assisting associates and partners with their pro bono litigation or transactional work.  During his tenure, the Public Service Project has won numerous awards from city, state, educational and non-profit organizations. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP is a law firm providing transactional and litigation guidance to leading investment banks, venture capital firms, multinational corporations and entrepreneurial businesses in the U.S. and abroad.  Stroock's practice areas concentrate in corporate finance, legal service to financial institutions, energy, financial restructuring, intellectual property and real estate. Jack Martin left his partner post on the litigation, antitrust and intellectual property team at Hunton & Williams to become the senior litigation counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition. At the FTC, Jack litigates antitrust matters. Jack graduated from the University of VA in 1991. Prior to joining Hunton & Williams, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Margaret Brower became the director of PRI Productions in Minneapolis, where she oversees the develops programming talent and partner relations for PRI programs, including PRI’s The World and PRI’s Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. Margaret is also responsible for managing the PRI Fellows Program, an initiative launched in 2002 that recruits and supports people of color to work in production at partner stations around the country. She will also manage the launch of PRI's newest initiative, Public Radio Op-Ed, a ground-breaking service created with partner stations designed to broaden the perspectives and voices heard on public radio nationwide. Before coming to PRI, Margaret worked for Twin Cities Public Television as the series producer and executive editor of Right on the Money, a program she helped launch and develop to the point of its garnering one million viewers weekly. Prior to that, she worked as a writer/producer/director for Videobred, Inc., in Louisville, KY, creating television programs, training videos, and interactive multimedia for regional and national clients. She was a commentator for WFPL/Louisville and a columnist for the Louisville Eccentric Observer and Louisville Magazine. She also worked as an associate producer for Paramount Pictures' Hard Copy. Margaret earned her MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. She also has 25 years of dance performance and choreography, and is an amateur cellist. Geoff Michel was elected a Republican state senator in Edina, Minnesota in 2002. For its population, Minnesota has more two-year public campuses than almost any other state. Although it is a politically explosive issue, he said the trend of the state investing a lower share of its budget in higher education means the issue needs discussing. He recently proposed cutting the number of public colleges in the state. Geoff said he will introduce legislation this year to set up a commission to recommend campus closings to the Legislature.

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