Portland State Magazine Winter 2012

, ' A~ Phoebe (Robinson) Col– man'0l is an analyst in the Workforce and Economic Research Division of the Ore– gon Employment Department. Patti Haack '01, MA '05 is the Schools Uniting Neighbor– hoods program coordinator at Clear Creek Middle School in Gresham. Haack is a mem- ber of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, serving on its Love of Learning scholarship committee. Michelle Medler '01 is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator, and plays in an all– female saxophone quartet, the Quadraphonnes. She co-directs the Porcland Youth Jazz Orches– tra with her husband, Benjamin Medler '01, who also plays mul– tiple instruments and is a music educator. Benjamin Medler has performed with numerous artists including Darrell Grant, Latin Expression, Afincando Salsa, and Tall Jazz. Guy Poppe '02 has graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School at University ofWash- ingron in Seatcle. Poppe is a member business lending credit officer at OnPoint Community Credit Union in Porcland. Kinga Bernath '03 is a corpo– rate paralegal with the law firm of Herrick, Feinstein in New York. Previously, Bernath was a paralegal with the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Guttenberg, New York. Laurie! Earley '03 is a research technician with the Lloyd and McCullough Lab at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Earley's main projects focus on determining the muta– tional spectra of specific DNA lesions and using polymerase chain reactions to detect steady state damage in mitochondrial genomes. Diana Hoang '03 is a busi– ness analyst at NW Natural, a natural gas utility in Porrland. Hoang bas been with NW Natural for eight years, working on information technology new system integration, business intelligence reporting, capital budgeting and forecasting, and operational improvement processes. Jacob Redding '03, MS '04 is executive director of the Drupal Association, a nonprofit that promotes tbe free, open– source website management system Drupal. Redding has announced that Drupal will set up its first permanent office at the Portland State Business Accelerator. He is tbe author of a book entitled Beginning Drupal. Slade Faires Sapora '03 spent his summer working as an avian biologist at the Manomet Cen– ter for Conservation Sciences and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Cape Krusenstern National Monument in Alaska. Sapora was the project coordi– nator for a shorebird study and an American oystercatcher study following the Deep Water Hori– zon oil spill along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Ian Falconer '04 is assistant football coach and offensive line coach at Lewis & Clark College in Porcland. Steven McGrath MBA '04 is founder and owner of Sustain– able Solutions Unlimited, a Porcland-based solar and wind ·energy contracting company. McGrath serves on many energy advisory committees and boards in Oregon, including the gover– nor's energy efficiency transition team tasked with supporting the development of sustainable and inclusive, living-wage green jobs and careers. Alisha Moadab '04 is a licensed naturopath at Soleil Medical Spa and the Portland Integrated Health and Sports Medicine clinic, both located in Portland. PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Pei Wang MS '04 is an inter– national project manager in rhe server and tools division at Microsoft. Wang and his wife, Chen Chen MBA '01, live in Bothell, Washington. Eliza Canty-Jones MA '05 is president of the Oregon Women's History Consor- tium board of directors. The organization was formed to lead rhe centennial celebration of women's suffrage and to pro– mote women's history beyond 2012. In addition, Canty-Jones is editor of rhe Oregon Historical Quarterly, a publication of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland. Larissa Hutchinson'05, MS '08 is a career adviser and advancement coordinator at Open Meadow Schools, a private alternative middle school and high school in north Port– land. Hutchinson was a mentor and assistant in University Studies at Porcland State, and a volunteer English as a second language tutor for the Immi– grant and Refugee Community Organization. Angie Mejia '05, MA '09 is pursuing a docrorate at Syracuse University in New York. In addition, Mejia is an adjunct instructor in Chicano/Latino Studies at Porcland State. Previ– ously, she was a research coor– dinator at Oregon Health & Science University in Porcland. Douglas Rohde '05 is the communications director for the Counci l on Competitive– ness, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that makes policy recommendations. Members are corporate CEOs, university presidents, and beads of labor unions. Claire Carlson '06 is execu– tive director of Solar Oregon, an education and community outreach membership organiza– tion. Carlson was previously the education coordinator and programs manager. When she's not at work, she plays her cello and enjoys the outdoors with her family. Claire Carlson '06 Jennifer Cohen '06 is founder and executive director of the Porcland-based Circus Project, a nonprofit that offers circus and performing arts training to homeless and at-risk youth while focusing on their personal development. Cohen, a profes– sional circus performer with a master's in psychology, founded the Circus Project in 2008. Christopher Gaslin '06 is owner of Bite Studio, a print– making cooperative celebrating six years in business in Porcland. Roberta Hunte MS '06 is a member of the Oregon Peace Institute board of directors and a doccoral student in peace and justice studies at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Hume's scholarly interest is in the experiences of African American women in the building trades as they over– come structural and cultural barriers. She also is an adjunct instructor in University Studies at Portland State. Barnabas Wong-Filotei '06 is a school counselor at Silverton High School in Silverton. Brandon Fessler '07 is a gradu– ate student in the department of biological sciences at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Fessler is specializing in the spatial ecology, behavior, and habirat of terrestrial coastal giant salaman– ders in the Central Washingron Cascades. WINTER 2012 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25