Jake Faleschini is a concurrent degree student in Law and International Studies. He is in the third year of his J.D. at the School of Law and the second year of his M.A.I.S. at the Jackson School. Jake is focusing his graduate studies on international criminal law. After high school Jake spent a number of years traveling and working over seas. After returning to the US, he got a B.A. in International and Comparative Policy Studies at Reed College in Portland, Or. After college, he spent two years working for the New York State Attorney General's Office, prosecuting white collar and organized crime. While in graduate school he has clerked with the United States Attorney's Office in Seattle, the Honorable Judge Mertel, the Innocence Project Northwest Clinic, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. He hopes to work as a district attorney for a few years after graduating, and then go on to do international criminal prosecution and criminal law reform. Jake has been named a Next Generation Leader by the American Constitution Society, a leading progressive legal organization. Jake enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, squash, and coaching lacrosse at Lakeside Middle School.

Dave Iseminger is a concurrent degree in his fourth year of studies pursing a law degree and a masters in public health genetics from UW. He is a 2005 graduate of the University of Rochester (NY) where he earned a bachelor of science degree in molecular genetics, a minor in political science, and was a Take 5 Scholar studying mythical literature.

During his graduate studies Dave has work at several federal and state government agencies. He first worked for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefit and Security Administration in the summer after his first year of law school and then externed in the Consumer Protection division of Washington Attorney General's office. Following his second year of studies, Dave clerked for the Attorney General's office in the University of Washington division and continued to work there throughout his third year of graduate school. Most recently, he clerked in the Attorney General's Social & Health Services Mental Health Services division in Olympia.

Dave is extremely committed to community service at both the University and City level. He has served on several University and Law school faculty committees, been the Secretary of the law school's student bar association, a managing editor of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, and active in GPSS for the past 2 years completely overhauling the organization's bylaws. Dave is a commissioner on the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities and volunteers with Lifelong Aids Alliance.

During the 2008-2009 academic year, Dave will work with the graduate and professional student community and elected officials in Olympia on important issues such as the funding of childcare and mental health services, school safety, and tuition setting authority.

Danielle Magnusson, henceforth addressed as D-Mag, once sold her left foot for a beer. Then she killed the guy who bought it, stole her foot back, and used it to buy another one. D-Mag wins at life.

Yutaka Jono is in his fifth year as a PhD student in The School of Music. His interests include Schenkerian theory and minimalist music. He plays classical and electric guitar, and also sings in the UW student acappella group Unleashed. He was on the Student Board of FIUTS (Foundation for International Understanding Through Students) for two years, and is excited to make use of this experience in GPSS. He received his undergraduate double degree (Diplomacy and World Affairs, and Music) from Occidental College, and his two MA degrees (Politics and Music) from Claremont Graduate University.