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Featured Class Notables
Lawrence Kiharangwa
Class of 2021
BMus ’21 (music performance), took second place at the Shreveport Opera’s Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year competition, performing "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and "Se all’impero, amici Dei" from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito in the finals to win $5,000.
Emma Survis
Class of 2020
MS ’20 (historic preservation), joined the firm A&E Design as an architect and project manager based in Bozeman.
Jacob Moore
Class of 2022
BA ’22 (journalism), joined the Banks Post and Gales Creek Journal in Oregon as a freelancer.
Mary Holtz
Class of 2022
MLA ’22 (landscape architecture), joined the Portland office of the Herrera Environmental Consultants as an environmental designer.
Mason Carhart
Class of 2020
BS ’20, MS ’21 (economics), an independent financial planner in Medford, was featured in the Mail Tribune.
Kodi Whitfield
Class of 2018
MS ’18 (sports product design), was named cornerbacks coach for UCLA football.
Jeremy Bard
Class of 2021
PhD ’21 (chemistry), an assistant professor of chemistry at Washington College in Maryland, was featured recently in the Elm student newspaper.
Sommer Martin
Class of 2017
MS ’17 (multimedia journalism), was hired as communications director for the Black Business Association of Oregon.
Nick Taylor
Class of 2006
JD ’06, a longtime attorney with Stoel Rives LLP, joined the Boise, Idaho, office of Dorsey and Whitney LLP, an international law firm.
Kayla Carlile
Class of 2019
BA ’19 (Spanish), was featured by KEZI news as a muralist who is building an online following to pursue her career in painting.
Chloe Spencer
Class of 2017
BA ’17 (journalism), who recently published a queer sci-fi adventure titled Monstersona, was featured in the Nerd Daily.
Amanda Hansen
Class of 2015
MArch ’15, was named an associate at FFA Architecture and Interiors.
Lindsay Naylor
Class of 2014
PhD ’14 (geography), was named fellow for the American Association of Geographers.
Charity Woodrum
Class of 2018
BS ’18 (physics), was featured in the Source Weekly regarding a documentary about her life titled, Space, Hope and Charity
Carly Gough
Class of 2017
BS ’17 (journalism: advertising), lead producer for features and branded content for the Los Angeles Chargers, was featured recently in conjunction with National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Alex Kenton
Class of 2014
BArch ’14, was promoted to associate at GGLO, a design practice for architecture, urban design, landscapes, and interiors.
Josephine Woolington
Class of 2013
BA ’13 (journalism, political science), published Where We Call Home, a reflection on cultural and natural histories of Pacific Northwest plants and animals.
Kerry Lennartz
Class of 2011
BS ’11 (biochemistry), of the Treehouse Wildlife Center in Dow, Illinois, was featured in the Iowa Hawk Eye newspaper for a presentation on birds of prey at an event of Standing Bear Council in Quincy.
Naomi Stoffel Walsh
Class of 2015
BA ’15 (psychology), was promoted to vice president of information systems at Ferguson Wellman Capital Management.
Jason Loomis
Class of 2011
MBA ’11 (general business), chief information security officer for Freshworks, a global provider of SaaS customer engagement solutions for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR was featured by IDG Connect.