Portland State Magazine Spring 2013

SPRING 2013 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27 Lynn Peterson Connect & benefit MEMBERSHIP in the Portland State Alumni Association is FREE! We are committed to keeping our 130,000 (and counting) alumni engaged with the University. Your PSU journey does not have to stop once you graduate. Visit pdx.edu/alumni to sign up for your free membership card, which includes use of the library, a discounted membership at the Rec Center, and free services at the Career Center. Alumni Association membership also provides discounts on select services and products. Socialize! FOLLOW THE PSU Alumni Association on Twitter, @PSU_alums , for updates on networking events, job postings, news, and more. Paresh K. Patel ’96, Travis Knight ’98, Brisa Trinchero ’01 and Laila Umpleby MPA ’10 were named to the January Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list recognizing 40 outstanding local professionals under 40 years of age. Brian Cone ’73 is an industrial program manager at Apex Laboratories in Tigard. Marty Voge ‘73, MS ‘84 , a retired Oregon educator, was recently appointed to the Portland Rescue Mission board of directors. Matt Albright ‘80  earned a doctorate last year in environmental science from Oklahoma State University, where he also received his master’s degree. Albright is an adjunct professor in biology at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pamela Luna, ‘80, MST ‘82  is a master trainer with Project ALERT, a training program for people who work with seventh- and eighth-graders to prevent drug abuse. In August 2012, she took the program to government officials and teachers in Chile. Since then the country has passed a law requiring drug use prevention in schools. Luna, who is also a health and education consultant, lives in Riverside, California. Richard Carson ’82  is working on a doctorate at Washington State University while employed as a senior associate at Citygate Associates, a management consulting firm. Carson has 30 years’ experience in city, county, regional, and state government and has worked for three Oregon governors. He lives on a 20-acre farm in southwest Washington. Mark Davis ’89 is a senior mechanical engineer for CH2M Hill’s Energy and Chemicals Division in Houston. Lynn Peterson MPA ’95, MS ’08 is the state of Washington’s new Secretary of Transportation. Rachel “Jordan” Houghton ’96 was named an associate fellow by the Society for Technical Communication. She provides software documentation and online help at Sage Software in Beaverton. Kevin Snyder MPA ’98 is the new community development director for the city of Sedona, Arizona. Justin Zoradi MS ’09 was named one of 25 Portlanders who are changing the world in the February issue of Portland Monthly . Zoradi, 30, leads a nonprofit called These Numbers Have Faces, which sends around $200,000 a year to underserved youth in South Africa and Rwanda for college scholarships.  P S U A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N READ MORE CLASS NOTES on our website at pdx.edu/alumni/notes . Email us your own news at psualum@pdx.edu or mail your information to Portland State University, Office of Alumni Relations, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. A LUMN I I N T HE NEWS