Ricardo Dios Alemán
It is with great sadness that we report the loss of Ricardo Dios Alemán, who was killed in a traffic accident on August 28, 2006, while traveling with his family in Peru. Tragically, his twelve-year-old son died with him; his wife Alicia Jaramillo and their ten-year-old daughter survived the accident. Ricardo and Alicia were students at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and nearing the end of their graduate programs in public health under grants from the Leadership Fellowship Program (LFP) funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The news reached us during the recent Social Leadership Seminar for LFP participants. Several of Ricardo’s fellow grantees from Peru and Bolivia performed a moving ceremony of remembrance and community, evoking the spirit of the Andean altiplano on the occasion of this great loss.
Ricardo Tarifa
The collision of GOL Flight 1907 with a business jet in Brazil on September 29, 2006, claimed the life of Ricardo Tarifa, a former Fulbright Amazon Basin Program grantee. Ricardo was a tropical forestry specialist who was working for the World Bank on the Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rainforest, for which he traveled frequently to Manaus. He earned a master’s degree in forest sciences from Yale Univ. in 1995. Cynthia Wolloch, Western Hemisphere Programs Branch Chief at the United States Department of State, noted, “Ricardo was one of the stars of the Fulbright Program. His energy and enthusiasm for his work was equaled by his radiant personal charm. I feel privileged to have known him.”
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