YAARA TAL, BA '17 (international studies), and DEEMA YUSUF, BA '18 (religious studies), were featured in Borgen Magazine for a story about Tomorrow's Women, a summer camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that annually hosts Israeli Jewish and Palestinian teens for leadership training and facilitated group dialogue about growing up with conflict.

EMILY KAESTNER, BS '19 (planning, public policy and management), a graduate student in the Master of Science in Public Health program at North Carolina-based Campbell University, was featured in a story by the university about a move to enable students in the program to play collegiate sports.

JESSICA HILBERT, MBA '14 (general business), JD '14, KAREN BONNER, MBA '13 (general business), and SHANNON OLIVER, MBA '13 (general business), announced the acquisition of Red Duck Foods, their organic condiment company, by Beaverton-based BG Specialty Sales LLC.

VENESSA D'ARPINO, BS '19 (general social science), an All-American sprinter at the university, was featured by KMTR-Eugene for her decision to start a career in bobsledding.

Wildland firefighter and photojournalist BRIAN AMDUR, BS '18 (environmental studies), has spent the last three summers fighting and photographing wildfires across the West.

CRYSTAL BROWN, MS '16, PhD '19 (political science), became an assistant professor in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where she studies comparative politics, international relations, human rights, immigration policies, women's rights, race and ethnicity, and politics.

ROBERT DiNAPOLI, PhD '20 (anthropology), joined Binghamton University as a postdoctoral research associate, where he studies islands, the human migrations connected with them, and the interaction of humans and the environment.

MINYON MOORE, MS '20 (advertising and brand responsibility), a former point guard for UO women’s basketball, has launched Top 2, Not 2, a business and clothing line that includes oversized hoodies, sweatpants, and leggings.

MANJU BANGALORE, BS '18 (physics), a physicist, actor, and founder of Operation Period, a youth-led nonprofit addressing menstrual inequity through art, advocacy, and education, was a top 10 finisher in the 2020 virtual competition for Miss World America.

DOMINIQUE CHAPMAN, BA '19 (dance), has started Crown City Dance, a dance school in Coronado, California, that offers lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced dancers of all ages in person and online.

NATALIE PATTISON, JD '20, joined Portland firm Barran Liebman LLP as an associate in the employment, labor relations, and benefits practices.

ERIC HARRIS, JD '14, a special advisor for strategic partnerships and community engagement at Disability Rights California, was appointed to the State Independent Living Council.

DAMIAN GUERRERO, MArch '20, has joined Washington-based Access Architecture as a job captain, where he will focus on multifamily projects.

MADISON "MADDIE" CULLEN, BS '19 (public relations), has joined Long Beach, California-based Amber Resources, a full-service petroleum distributor in Southern California started by her grandfather, Pat Cullen.

NANCY TONI BROOKS RAYL, BA '54 (English), reports she is traveling, taking classes, watching games, and staying socially involved within the confines of responsible behavior during these unprecedented times.

After graduating in 1999 as an English major, I took a job with the Symantec corporation in downtown Eugene. Working in security software was invigorating, challenging and a gratifying career for the next seventeen years. But, having floated rivers all over Oregon, Washington and Idaho for the last thirty years, the river was calling — loudly. Kayaking the Illinois river with the Outdoor Program in the ’90s, summers spent vying for just one more Rogue river trip and countless days on the McKenzie and Willamette rivers all rolled into one and revealed that the time for a career change was at hand.

Bringing my excitement of seeing our corner of Oregon from a McKenzie river drift boat to other outdoor enthusiasts became my goal for a cottage industry. Providing my guests with the history of the watersheds, the conservation efforts over the last hundred years, and educating them on the flora and fauna became business goals. While I’ve fly fished for thirty years and run a lot of whitewater, the focus for the business became eco-tourism on our Lane County waters.

As we move into the warmer days of spring and summer, Riparian Tours (https://www.ripariantours.com) will be opening the doors for another full season of tours on our home waters. During the pandemic, Covid protocols will remain in effect. More information on the website.

The University of Oregon still plays a major role in our lives including the connections with classmates in the Alumni Association, regularly attending Duck baseball games and our penchant for all things college and Duck football. Like the mallards on the river, we’ll keep swimming along with our flock and enjoying the scenery.

Hon. Blaine G. Gibson, (Law '77) has been elected to his fifth, and last, term as a Superior Court Judge for Yakima County, WA. This will give him four more years to figure out what he is going to do when he retires. Blaine and his wife Sandi recently celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary.

Mark Carrato, a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Foreign Service Officer, was named the Coordinator of the U.S. Government’s Power Africa program. Power Africa is the world’s largest partnership for development, with 160 public and private partners who have committed $56 billion to double access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dr. Lee Krähenbühl (PhD, ’89) has been named Chair of Communication and Director of the Graduate Communication Program in the School of Design at Stevenson University, Owings Mills, Maryland. Lee’s article "Thomas A. Lyne, the Latter-day Saints, and the American Theatre" appears in the Summer/Spring 2020 issue of _The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal_.