OREGON’S STAR TEACHER OF 2022 WHEN Ethelyn Tumalad-Granados MA ’16 MEd ’17 arrived at school for an early morning staff meeting in September, little did she know she was in for a big surprise. State officials announced her as Oregon’s new Teacher of the Year, handed her the $5,000 prize and praised her for her work as an exemplary educator, student advocate and equity champion. “Educators like you are the shining stars our students need,” Gov. Kate Brown said. Tumalad-Granados teaches language arts and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) at Clackamas High School, and she knows firsthand the importance of positive role models. She came to the Pacific Northwest from the Philippines at age five, and it was her only teacher of color, Miss Pritchard, who first encouraged her to excel in school. “Here was someone who looked like me, and she saw something within me,” she said. She started her first affinity group while at the College of Education. “I saw how much the educators of color needed to be together,” she said. “I want to shine a light on recruitment and retention of educators of color, because it is so important for the students.” —SHERRON LUMLEY Corinne Gould MA ’16, previously a recruitment marketing manager for PSU’s School of Business, accepted a new position as associate manager of advertising and promotions for MIT Press. Mike Grant ’16 MSW ’17 published his debut creative nonfiction memoir, (Re)Making a Sandwich: An Addiction Case Study, available from Amazon.com. Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem MFA ’20 was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Covenant Foundation to start the Social Practice Institute at the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina (where Adam Carlin MFA ’18 is co-curator). She also directs a new fellowship for contemporary Jewish artists in Portland called Art/Lab (colabpdx.org/artlab). J. Bryan Henderson MS ’06 MS ’08 is an associate professor of science education at Arizona State University and the creator of Braincandy, a free technology designed to make classroom participation more equitable and authentic. He is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellow, and Program Chair of the American Educational Research Association SIG for Science Teaching and Learning. Sarah Kenney MS ’13 received Portland State’s Distinguished Staff Award as part of 2021 President ’s Diversity Awards. Kenney, who worked as part of PSU’s Finance and Administration team, was recognized for improving access to campus buildings and new construction as co-chair of the campus accessibility committee. Heather McCambly ’09 MA ’09 PhD ’09 was hired as an assistant professor in the School of Education at University of Pittsburgh. Julia McGarrity ’17 MEd ’18 wrote a song, “New Love,” performed with her band June Magnolia, which was featured in the National Public Radio podcast “Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf, Episode 5 with Jewly Hight.” Joyce McNair MS ’20 published her first book, The Adventures of SweetPea: The Stolen Toy, available through Amazon and from the website lovethesame.com. She also started a line of natural skincare products, available at sisterproducts.com. Gillian Murr ’11 MEd ’13, a climate specialist at Portland’s Kellogg Middle School, and Ezra Whitman MEd ’17, teacher at Portland’s Roosevelt High School, will be among the first participants in PSU’s First Nations Administrator and Knowledge Keepers program, which prepares American Indian and Alaska Native students to serve as education administrators and school principals. Salty Xi Jie Ng MFA ’19 was selected for the Singapore Museum of Art ’s pilot artist residency program. Anchitta Noowang ’19 recently wrapped production on her latest short film Undercard. It tells the story of a young Muay Thai fighter who must figure out how to survive after a horrifying assault (anchittafilms.com/undercard). ALUMNI IN THE NEWS (CONTINUED) After a month of terror came to an end with the capture of the "D.C. Sniper," a message of thanks hung on an overpass in Silver Spring, Maryland. As Montgomery County police chief, Moose gained national attention in 2002 as the leader of a massive investigation to apprehend the shooters. MOOSE’S later work leading the high-profile “D.C. Sniper” investigation into the random gunning down of 10 people and critical injury of another three encapsulated his national legacy, even though he spent most of his career, 24 years, in Portland. Halliburton says Moose informed his own approach to community policing. When he got the PSU job in 2020—less than a month after George Floyd’s murder triggered nationwide protests against police brutality— Halliburton immediately called Moose, tears streaming down his face. “He said, ‘Congratulations, you deserve this and it’s your time,’” Halliburton says. “That was important for me to hear.” Moose’s impact on Portland endures, if not through the policies he championed, then in the careers of the officers he mentored and in the path-breaking example he set as the first Black person to reach high ranks in the bureau. “I’m not saying that everything was perfect,”Modica says. But, he notes, “If he were engaged today, he would be all over police reform.” Moose did, in fact, keep an eye on Portland long after he left. After retiring to Florida, he reapplied for the Portland police chief job in 2017, but the bureau tapped Danielle Outlaw instead. As he said in a tearful speech when he resigned as chief:“I hope that behind my name for the rest of my life, it will say, ‘comma, former Portland police officer.’ If it says that, then I’ll know that they know who I am.” —JACK HEFFERNAN TOM MIHALEK VIA GETTY IMAGES NORTH CLACKAMAS SCHOOL DISTRICT SPRING 2022 // 37
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