Fall 2020
Sean Bell ’91, senior development manager with RES-Americas and principal of Navitas Development, finished work on the first commercial-scale wind project in Western Washington, the 38-turbine Skookumchuck Wind Energy Project in Lewis County.
Brett Bigham MS ’02 lent his experience of discrimination to an amicus curiae brief in support of LGBT employees whose cases reached the Supreme Court. The Bostock vs. Clayton County, Georgia, ruling made it illegal to fire an employee for being homosexual or transgender.
Diana Bradrick MBA ’89 was elected Whatcom County auditor in Bellingham, Washington, starting January 2020. Before that, Bradrick was Whatcom County’s chief deputy auditor for more than seven years.
Ezekiel Ette MSW ’99 PhD ’05 has been promoted to full professor at Delaware State University. He has also recently published his 12th book titled “Acculturative Stress and Change in Nigerian Society” with Lexington Books.
Gary Funk MS ’75, a composer and retired University of Montana music professor, used his COVID-19 quarantine time to publish five songbooks, two books on singing technique, a book of letters, a work of fiction, and a musical script and score. Learn more at drgaryfunk.com.
David Gerstenfeld ’91 became interim director of Oregon’s Employment Department in June. He is in charge of the state’s response to a record number of unemployment benefit claims.
Neil Hummasti ’73 was a Wishing Shelf Book Award finalist for “Forty Ways to Square a Circle” and a Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon Award winner for “I See London, I See France...,” both published posthumously by his brother Arnold Hummasti ’69 MLS ’83.
Jesse Keyes ’03, principal and project manager for Universal Applicators, an environmental consulting company, also fronts the band Size 85 High Tops, whose second album, “Rev It Up,” was released by In Music We Trust Records in March.