About Santa Fe World Affairs Forum

Arvid has extensive experience in nuclear export controls, nuclear proliferation intelligence, electronic instrumentation design, and clinical medical physics. Arvid spent thirty one years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as project engineer, group leader, and program manager. His career included over 100 foreign trips for the US government on nuclear issues, especially international nuclear export control.

Sue’s international experience began as an American Field Service Student to France in 1960. In 1963 she became secretary to the Administrator of Tenefly, New Jersey and the Tenefly Planning Board and later secretary to a Vice President at Thomas J Lipton. She then became involved with the Waldorf Schools, where she began teaching while her children attended nursery school through 12th grade making many international connections through this global movement. She regularly hosted international exchange students (her own children were exchange students in Germany which led to family travels throughout Europe.) She then studied Biographical Counseling in England and worked in a British clinic while doing a counseling practicum in England. Summer 2000, she participated in “Hands in Peace,” a second track citizen based peace initiative in Greece for children from countries experiencing major social conflict, including Israelis and Palestinians. The initiative brought these children together in Olympia, mixing them with children from other countries, teaching them the original Olympic sports as well as providing activities in art, dance, music, crafts and culminating in Delphi in Olympics based athletic competitions. Through her Waldorf experience, Sue had the opportunity to travel and visit families in other countries which broadened her understanding of today’s world. In 1991 she graduated from nursing school and pursued a career in nursing until moving to Santa Fe 4 years ago.

Jane graduated fromThe American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer and Peace Corps staff in Nepal, the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati. She earned a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in community college leadership. She taught mostly integrated humanities in community colleges in Colorado and served as a dean for 12 years. She has also participated in three short-term Fulbrights in Paraguay, Germany, and Thailand. Most recently, Jane directed a program for first generation, low income students at Santa Fe Community College.

Ed received undergraduate education in physics at Gettysburg College, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biophysics from the Pennsylvania State University. His multidisciplinary scientific interests led to involvement in bioscience research, leadership and management roles at Los Alamos National Laboratory with interim postings with the Foreign Service as Science Attaché at the U.S Embassy, London, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the NIH. His research at LANL focused on the international human genome project. Prior to retirement from LANL, he engaged in building collaborative programs with regional universities. More recently, Ed was a principal science and engineering analyst with a not for profit national and homeland security contractor serving multiple federal agencies and state entities.

Krista Peterson received a degree in radio/television/film from Northwestern University in 1993 but it was a presentation by the US Department of State during her college years that led her to join the Foreign Service. She arrived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras—her first foreign country other than Canada and Mexico—in September 1998 to live and work. Hurricane Mitch devasted Honduras two weeks later, which made for a very interesting two years in the consular section.

After Russian language training she arrived in Ukraine about one month before the terrorist attack in the US on September 11, 2001. Not long after that she consolidated many US agencies spread out across Kyiv and administrative functions housed in shipping containers on the Embassy grounds into two floors of a leased building. She has been an administrative specialist ever since and has worked for several different for profit businesses and nonprofit and educational organizations in Española and Santa Fe.