Portland State Magazine Winter 2019

29 BRENT LAWRENCE ’86 and his son, Luke, displayed their metal sculpture at the Sunriver Resort Lodge Betty Gray Gallery in November. Brent is the son of Lawrence Gallery (McMinnville, Oregon) owner and artist Gary Lawrence. RANDALL WHEELER ’87 is chief financial officer for Saalex Corp., an engineering and information technology services company based in Rockledge, Florida. RICK MCREYNOLDS ’89, who worked for PSU Athletics for 30 years, recently retired as assistant athletics director for facilities and operations. LYNN PETERSON, MURP ’95, MS ’08 was sworn in as the president of the Metro Council, Portland’s regional government, in January.The longtime urban planner was elected to the post in May 2018. CORI POLAND ’00 was recently promoted to chief experience officer for Rivermark Community Credit Union, which has seven branches in Oregon. L.M. ALAIYO FOSTER ’01, ’04, MA ’07 was named executive director of the Black United Fund of Oregon late last year. She has over 18 years of experience working in nonprofits, county health departments, and the education and health fields. ADAM MCMAHON MS ’11 is a new assistant professor in the political science department at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He earned a doctorate in political science from City University of NewYork. JANET DO ’12, ME ’13 was awarded a Milken Educator Award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize, in December.The award celebrates innovators in the classroom. Do is a first-grade teacher at Whitman Elementary in southeast Portland. KRISTIN MORRIS ’10, ME ’12 is lead electrical engineer at Pacific Diabetes Technologies, a Portland-based startup developing glucose sensing and insulin delivery technology. ELIZABETH WOODY MPA ’12 was recently appointed executive director of The Museum at Warm Springs. A former poet laureate of Oregon, Woody is a descendant of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs andYakama NationWasco. TIFFANY ROSAMOND CREED ’13 graduated from University of Alaska Anchorage in December with an MFA in creative writing and literary arts. She was also invited to speak at the university’s graduate hooding ceremony. CHRISTOPHER MAIR ’15 is a legislative aide for California Assembly member Evan Low (D-SiliconValley.) JENAVIEVE JOHNSTON ’16 was the youngest student in the history of Willamette University to graduate from its College of Law, which she did in December at age 21. She plans to open a solo practice in criminal defense. 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 .  LYNN PETERSON TIFFANY ROSAMOND CREED ELIZABETH WOODY RICK MCREYNOLDS ALUMNI IN THE NEWS time with patients in OHSU’s addiction medicine clinic with physician mentors Daniel Morris and Todd Korthuis. SHE LIKES asking big-picture policy questions while treating individual patients. For her dissertation, Priest has interviewed addiction experts across the country to find the best ways to improve opioid policy and hospital care for people with opioid use disorder. She won a training grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to support her education and research. In the clinic, she enjoys connecting with patients and helping them through the ups and downs of recovery. "It’s incredibly rewarding," she says. "People going through addiction are so strong, so resilient." — written by Suzanne Pardington Effros, a Portland freelance writer and editor.