Portland State Magazine Spring 2018

31 FOR MORE ALUMNI NEWS follow us @PSU_Alums onTwitter and PortlandStateAlumni on Facebook. Have news you would like to share? Email alum@pdx.edu or mail your information to Portland State University, Office of Alumni Relations, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751.To submit your own alumni news online, go to pdx.edu/alumni/contact .  GINA MICHEL ’73 had her musical instrument- themed fused glass on display in March and April at The Hub Gallery in Langley onWhidbey Island inWashington. NAVY REAR ADM. NANCY NORTON ’86 is vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. REBECCA NEWMAN ’97, MURP ’00 is principal owner of Forensic Accounting Services in Portland.The company’s founder Gregson Parker ’78 is still active at the firm.They are both certified as public accountants and fraud examiners. CODY SHEEHY ’02, a documentary filmmaker and video coordinator at University of Arizona, won two Rocky Mountain Emmys in 2017 for the films Camp Bravo and Beyond the Mirage . Rocky Mountain is a regional division of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. NICHOLE MAHER MPH ’06 is president and CEO of Northwest Health Foundation in Portland and was recently appointed to the Oregon Arts Commission by Gov. Kate Brown. T.J. FINLAYSON ’08 is a dentist in the office of Dr. Dennis Marshall in Hood River. He was a dentist with the Navy, where he reached the rank of lieutenant. ALEX BIGAZZI, ’09, MS ’11, PHD ’14 is an assistant professor of civil engineering and community and regional planning at theVancouver campus of the University of British Columbia. TYRELL MARA ’09 is training to throw discus for Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He is fund- and friend-raising for the training ( tyrellmara@gmail.com ) inVancouver, B.C., where he lives with his wife and two daughters and works as a digital marketing director. KIP BARRETT MBA ’10 is the Bend-area director for Economic Development for Central Oregon, a membership organization that promotes job creation. MAYUKO YAMAURA ’12 was on campus in February to talk about entrepreneurship in Japan. She is co-founder of Tokyo-based Edison. ai, a startup that helps companies connect with consumers through AI. LILIANA LUNA ’14 is the multicultural center coordinator at Portland Community College, Rock Creek. She received a 2017Women of Achievement Award from the Oregon Commission forWomen.The award recognized her work in helping open a recent PCC center for DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—students and their families. LILY BROOKS DALTON MFA ’16 had her debut novel, Good Morning, Midnight (Random House, 2016), chosen for the Lake Oswego Reads program in February.The book is being made into a movie by Netflix. VELAIDA HARRIS ’16 is in her first year as assistant coach of the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team. TYRELL MARA VELAIDA HARRIS T.J. FINLAYSON NANCY NORTON ALUMNI IN THE NEWS