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Adonia Lugo ’05 | Urban Anthropologist and Mobility Justice Strategist Lugo is a Chicana urban anthropologist, writer, and activist. She works to envision a sustainable transportation future centered in the needs and experiences of historically marginalized communities and people of color like her.

Lugo received her PhD in anthropology from UC Irvine. She has written extensively on racial diversity in bicycle advocacy and planning and is now expanding her findings to transportation and mobility in general. Her book, Bicycle/ Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance, is a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture and a coming-of-age story about power and identity.

Changing the world

One Reedie at a time

Reed graduates contribute to meaningful change in the communities and industries they serve.

In the pages that follow, we highlight a handful of Reed alumni who are making the world a better place. There are thousands more.

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No matter your affiliation with Reed, this booklet is meant to inspire your engagement with the network of talented Reedies tackling important humanistic, scientific, social, business, and technological challenges.

If you are a student, we encourage you to connect with the Center for Life Beyond Reed (CLBR) and Reed’s inspiring network of alumni as you explore various pathways to your purpose.

Alumni, employers, parents, and friends of the college, Reed students can benefit from your skills and experience and we invite you to engage with the college by providing internships or job opportunities to Reed students who, as you know, are some of the most talented problem solvers, creative thinkers, and self-starters anyone will ever encounter.

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“At Reed, students dive deep to get at the real meaning of things and to understand the interrelationships between different disciplines.

Students are expected to question basic assumptions, to think holistically, and to be problem solvers.

These skills are essential in the mission-driven career I chose, which is nonprofit advocacy to protect and enhance our air and water and to solve the existential crisis of climate change. This advocacy draws on a variety of skills, from being able to clearly express the imperative to act to developing policies that have positive impacts for the environment, for the economy, and for social justice.�

Chris Hagerbaumer ’88, German Deputy Director, Oregon Environmental Council

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Achievement after Reed.

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Top employers of Reed graduates Apple City of Portland Columbia University Google Harvard University Intel Corporation Kaiser Permanente Microsoft National Institutes of Health NIKE, Inc. Oregon Health & Science University Portland Public Schools Portland State University Reed College Stanford University State of Oregon United States Department

of State University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University of Chicago University of Washington

Top career paths (in order) Education Business development Research Media and communications Engineering Operations Community and social services Arts and design Information technology Healthcare services –––– Reed ranks second in the nation in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn PhDs in life sciences, humanities, and psychology and third in physical sciences and other social sciences.

Among all institutions of higher learning, it ranks fourth in the nation in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn PhDs in all disciplines.

—Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 2005–14 –––– In the past ten years, Reed students have won 5 Watsons, 2 Udalls, 2 Trumans, 9 Sperlings, 1 Goldwater, 34 Fulbrights, 1 Rhodes, and 60 National Science Foundation fellowships.

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Suzan DelBene ’83, Biology U.S. Congresswoman

Prior to representing Washington’s 1st District, Suzan worked in biotechnology before earning an MBA from the University of Washington and embarking on a successful career as a technology leader and innovator.

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“Reed has an unmatched record of turning out high achievers, winners of the major graduate fellowships, future scientists and scholars, and notables in many fields.”

Arun Rath ’92, English Correspondent, National Public Radio Rath has distinguished himself in public media as a reporter, producer, and editor. In his current role, he covers a variety of beats, from neuroscience and the arts to the war court in Guantanamo Bay.

Preetha Rajaraman ’94, Biology U.S. Health Attaché for India and Regional Representative for South Asia, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Rajaraman is responsible for regional representation, monitoring, and coordination of the policy, programs, and research interests of all United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration.

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“I am a plant geneticist.

I study genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress. I believe that nourishing the world’s growing population without further destroying the environment is the greatest challenge of our time.”

Pamela Ronald ’82 professor University of California, Davis

invention: flood-tolerant rice

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Reedies played key roles in these inventions and products

AutoCAD Burglar alarm Cathode-ray oscilloscope Compact disc Flood-tolerant rice Gordon wrench iPhone Lucida Sans Sociolinguistics Switchboard Wikipedia

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THE CENTER FOR LIFE BEYOND REED

The Center for Life Beyond Reed (formerly Career Services) plays a critical role in helping students to better understand their purpose and identify opportunities that align with their education, skills, interests, and values. Structured around broad “communities of purpose,” the center’s advising model allows students to explore career paths of significance to them through internships, nationally competitive fellowships, awards, job shadows, graduate programs, and other career opportunities.

When we explore how Reedies are making an impact on the world through the lens of this advising model, we can easily see the tremendous value of a Reed education.

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COMMUNITIES OF PURPOSE

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Arts + expression

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Citizenship + community living

Investing + financial responsibility

Research, technology + innovation

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Education + human potential

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Food + beverage

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Globalization + diplomacy

Healthcare + the cure of illness

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Sustainable life on earth Entrepreneurship + business strategy

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Our graduates interpret ancient works, elevate voices, break stories, create worlds, and move culture forward in arts and expression.

Photo: Toni Frissel, 1948

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Alumni in arts + expression Barbara Ehrenreich ’63 Award-winning author and political activist

Dahlia Balcazar ’10 Senior engagement editor Bitch Media

Gary Snyder ’51 is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.

He has been described as the “poet laureate of Deep Ecology.”

Eric Overmyer ’73 Writer, producer, and playwright Work includes Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam, Treme, and The Man in the High Castle

Lucy Bellwood ’12 Adventure cartoonist Self-employed

The world-famous fashion designer Emilio Pucci, MA ’37, started his career while a member of the Reed ski team; he thought he could improve on the bulky clothing of the day by designing a new uniform.

James Coddington ’74 Visiting professor New York University Institute of Fine Arts and former chief conservator, Museum of Modern Art Lise Funderburg ’82 Award-winning writer, editor, and writing instructor David E.K. Abramson ’91, Film and television editor Eric Westervelt ’91 Correspondent and host National Public Radio news Dr. Laleh Khadivi ’98 Novelist and filmmaker Alex Krebs ’99 Dancer, musician, and founder Tango Berretín and dance instructor at Reed College Libby Edelson ’00 Senior editor HarperOne Adrian Chen ’09 Journalist Contributor to the New York Times Magazine and former staff writer at the New Yorker and Gawker

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–––– Reedies also work for American Ballet Theatre Apple The Calligram Foundation Dark Horse Comics LAIKA The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monograph Bookwerks The New York Review of Books Universal Studios

Arts and Expression

6,226 and counting: the number of books published

by Reed alumni since we started keeping track.

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From developing laws and analyzing policies to offering guidance and administering philanthropy, Reedies support communities in citizenship and community living.

Attorney William Hohengarten ’84 successfully argued the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on gay rights, Lawrence v. Texas, in 2003.

Civil liberties attorney Elizabeth M. Fink ’67 won a stunning legal victory in 2000 for the Attica Prison inmates.

Photo: David Hume

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Alumni in citizenship + community living Aaron Rhodes ’71 Human rights activist and author Former director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, current president of the Forum for Religious Freedom Europe, working on civil and political rights issues in the OSCE region, the Middle East, and Asia Michael Parkhurst ’88 Program officer Meyer Memorial Trust

Mingus Mapps ’90 Community Connections program coordinator City of Portland Dylan Rivera ’95 Spokesperson Portland Bureau of Transportation Ali Nouri ’97 President Federation of American Scientists, an organization that educates and informs policymakers and the public on both opportunities and risks resulting from advances in science and technology

Alise Marie Sanchez ’08 Executive director Oregon Community Health Workers Association Shabab Ahmed Mirza ’13 Research assistant Center for American Progress –––– Reedies also work for Dharma Rain Zen Center Hunger Free Vermont Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization National Indian Child Welfare Association Oregon Department of Justice Oregon Public Health Institute Peace Corps Pride Foundation Rural Organizing Project U.S. Senate

Dave Rankin ’99 Partner Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP Caitlin Baggott Davis ’99 Executive director North Star Civic Foundation Sara Wolfowitz ’01 Medical social worker Mission Hospice Misha Isaak ’04 General Counsel to Oregon Governor Kate Brown Former civil rights lawyer, masterminded the legal strategy that reversed Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage

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Citizenship and Community Living

Michael Goldman ’89 Nonprofit director Seivah: Life Beyond Memory

Christine Lewis ’07 Oregon metro councilor District 2

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Inspiring students, developing curriculum, researching, and counseling: Reedies in education and human potential are helping people—and communities—grow stronger.

Education is the top field pursued

by Reedies—according to LinkedIn in 2018, 17% of Reedies find meaningful work in this area, more than any other field measured.

Reed graduates earn more PhDs per capita than all but three other higher educational institutions.* Many go on to teach in their fields at leading institutions. *Source: National Science Foundation and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, 2004–13.

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Alumni in education + human potential Bob Slavin ’72 Director Johns Hopkins University Center for Research and Reform in Education Eduardo Ochoa ’73 President California State University at Monterey Bay Former Assistant Secretary for ​ Postsecondary Education in the Obama administration​

C. Morris “Mo” Copeland ’82 Head of school Oregon Episcopal School Thomas M. Weber ’83 Head of school Scattergood Friends School Lisa Nakamura ’87 Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture, and founding director, Digital Studies Institute University of Michigan Leading scholar in the study of race, gender, and digital media Shannon Lee Dawdy ’88 Professor, historian, archeologist, anthropologist, and MacArthur Fellow University of Chicago Giselle Lundy-Ponce ’93 Chief assistant to the executive vice president American Federation of Teachers Cecilia Nguyen ’98 Exhibit developer Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

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Emily Ford ’02 Urban and public affairs librarian and associate professor Portland State University Tiffany Pearsall ’09 Founder Play Frontier –––– Reedies also work for Columbia University Harvard University InsideTrack International School of Phnom Penh Portland Community College Portland Public Schools Portland State University Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology New York University Stanford University Start Making A Reader Today University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University of Canterbury, New Zealand University of Chicago University of Washington Where There Be Dragons

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David B. Grusky ’80 Professor of sociology and director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality Stanford University

Phaela Peck ’01 Education manager The Watershed Project

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Innovation is the standard for Reedies in food and beverage, where they are setting trends, feeding the hungry, and creating sustainable practices.

James Beard, the celebrated titan of American cooking, attended Reed in 1920–21 and received an honorary degree from the college in 1976. He left the royalties from his cookbooks to the college, which continue to provide funding for the James Beard Scholarship Fund at Reed.

A remarkable number of alumni have become influential gastronomic evangelists and have won James Beard Awards, including the following enterprising foodies.

Master distiller Steve McCarthy ’66, James Beard Award winner, founder of Clear Creek Distillery, pioneer in the micro-distillation community, esteemed producer of small-batch, European-style liqueurs. This style of liqueur was originally invented as a way to maximize the fragile, short shelf life of a pear.

McCarthy further improved upon this innovation as a means of preventing waste while also creating a better market for Oregon fruit, buying about 1.5 million pounds of it from local orchards every year.

Seafood enthusiast Jon Rowley ’69, James Beard Award winner, salmon and oyster purveyor, fish and fruit consultant.

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Global grilling authority Steven Raichlen ’75, host of Project Fire and many other shows on PBS, author of 31 books, including The Barbecue Bible and the novel Island Apart, and winner of five James Beard Awards.

Diane Morgan ’78, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, freelance food writer, and culinary instructor.

Selmelier Mark Bitterman ’95, James Beard Award–winning author of Salted and owner of the Meadow in Portland, New York, and, soon, Tokyo, specializing in craft salt, chocolate, bitters, and other overlooked essentials.

Photo: Arthur Schatz

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Alumni in food + beverage Susan Sokol Blosser MAT ’67 Founder Sokol Blosser Winery Wine industry pioneer, community activist, environmental advocate, and author Marc Halperin ’75 CEO and culinary director CCD Helmsman, a company that provides expertise for idea-tomarket culinary innovation

Reedies also work for Van Havig ’92 Owner and founder Gigantic Brewing Company Kurt Huffman ’93 Owner and founder ChefStable LLC, a restaurant group including Portland icons like Lardo, Ox, Oven and Shaker, and St. Jack Greg McClellan ’01 Founder, owner, and winemaker Suzor Wines

Samuel Fromartz ’80 Editor in chief Food & Environment Reporting Network

John Saller ’03 Head brewer Burnt City Brewing

Sebastian Pastore ’88 Executive vice president of operations Brew Dr. Kombucha

Adriel Hsu-Flanders​‘12 ​ Course development assistant Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

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NatureBox Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative Oregon Food Bank Sustainable Food Center

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Whether they’re creating trade policy, advising governments, or promoting democracy, Reedies are expertly managing people and change around the world in globalization and diplomacy.

Photo: Mark Wilsom

Richard Danzig ’65 is a consultant to U.S. Intelligence Agencies and the Department of Defense on national security issues. He served as 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton and was a senior advisor to

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Barack Obama during his presidential campaign.

Danzig later became the chairman of the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank.

Alumni in globalization + diplomacy Adnan Hassan ’88 Chairman & CEO Mecasa Advisors Europe, B.V. Served on the Boards of Directors of the World Bank Group, creator of the concept of “The Global Bank for Small States” Ruth Bennett ’93 Public diplomacy advisor Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State

Ian Parker ’03 Foreign service officer U.S. Department of State Matt Snyder ’04 International trade specialist USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Rujana Pavlic ’05 International relations officer European Commission Directorate-General for International Development Michelle Tsagli ’10 Research consultant USAID Lovely Umayan ’10 Policy analyst and artist Nuclear Nonproliferation

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Alan Turing Institute Conservation International Freedom Rights Project International Labor Rights Forum International Rescue Committee Mama Cash Mercy Corps Planning Alternatives for Change SRA International Water for Good

Globalization and Diplomacy

Shimon Prohow ’02 Senior HIV/AIDS regional advisor United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Reedies also work for

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Mending bodies, researching treatments, saving lives, and writing policy are just a few of the ways that Reedies lead in healthcare and the cure of illness.

Alumni in healthcare + the cure of illness Mark Ptashne ’61 Molecular biologist Ludwig Professor of Molecular Biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute, received the prestigious Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1997, considered second only to a Nobel Prize Donald Engelman ’62 Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Yale University Involved in the targeted delivery of agents for diagnosis, surgery, and treatment of tumors Roger Perlmutter ’73 President Merck Research Laboratories Peter Gordon Barr-Gillespie ’81 Chief research officer Oregon Health & Science University Kevan Shokat ’86 Chemical biologist Professor in the department of cellular and molecular pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco, professor in the department of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Reedies also work for Mike Axley ’89 Anesthesiologist Oregon Anesthesiology Group Suzanne Cassel ’92 Physician scientist Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Lisa Saldana ’94 Research scientist Oregon Social Learning Center Katherine DeLand ’95 Managing director & CEO DeLand Associates, a consulting firm specializing in international law and governance, public health and policy chief of staff WHO’s Ebola Response 2014–15 Nadir Mumtaz ’01 CEO Apothecare (Pvt) Ltd Amy Seese-Bieda ’02 Medical social worker Harbors Home Health and Hospice Jessica Jones ’08 Scientist Aptevo Therapeutics Sana Goldberg ’12 RN, nurse practitioner Founder of Nightingale, a magazine for health equity, and author of How to Be a Patient

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American Red Cross Center for Infectious Disease Research Doctors Without Borders Georgetown University Kaiser Permanente Scribe-X Sierra Acupuncture Clinic Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention Swedish Medical Center United Cerebral Palsy

Four Reed graduates have served as chief resident at Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the premier healthcare facilities in the world: Dr. Abe Bergman ’54, Dr. John Graef ’60, Dr. Jonathan Bates ’67, and Dr. Victor Nizet ’84.

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is the largest employer of Reedies, currently employing 120 Reed graduates.

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Healthcare and the Cure of Illness

Kenneth Koe ’45 was the The son of Chinese immigrants, Koe was a chemist who inventor of the antide- held 14 U.S. Patents and wrote or co-wrote 150 technical pressant Zoloft. articles and abstracts during his four-decade career at Pfizer. In 2008, he was awarded the Howard Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology. During his acceptance speech, he acknowledged that strangers and friends had thanked him personally for his part in the discovery of the antidepressant that has helped more than 115 million people.

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At the confluence of finance, big data, capital generation, and economic policy, Reedies bring a holistic perspective to investing and financial responsibility.

Alumni in investing + financial responsibility Jeanne Whitbeck ’78 Senior credit officer U.S. Bank Gary Rieschel ’79 Founding managing partner Qiming Venture Partners Nicholas Galakatos ’79 Head Blackstone Life Sciences Joyce Ferris ’80 Founder Blue Hill Partners Konrad S. Alt ’81 Chief banking officer Green Dot Corporation Ken Rees ’84 CEO Elevate Credit Heather Redman ’86 Founder and partner Flying Fish Venture Partners Robert Smith ’89 Host and correspondent NPR’s Planet Money Soofian Zuberi ’93 Head of global equity sales Bank of America Merrill Lynch Venkataraman Ganesan ’96 Managing director Menlo Ventures Jonathan Adams ’98 Portfolio manager BlackRock

Riti Samanta ’99 Head of systematic fixed income and currency strategy GMO Jan Larsen ’00 Director of risk and finance Advisory practice Moody’s Analytics Blake Goud ’03 CEO Responsible Finance and Investment Foundation Michael McGreevey ’03 Director Conservation Investments Mrijan Rimal ’11 Data scientist The World Bank Lillian Karabaic ’13 Founder Oh My Dollar!

Andrew Erlanger ’15 Product integration engineer Bridgewater Associates –––– Reedies also work for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Cumberland Associates DeepMacro Federal Reserve Bank of New York Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Mellon Ventures Pacific Continental Bank Two Sigma

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He first joined the New York Times in 2007 as the paper’s national economic correspondent, playing a leading role in award-winning coverage of the Great Recession. He was a major contributor to the paper’s groundbreaking series, “The Reckoning,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a Gerald Loeb Award in 2009.

Prior to the New York Times, Goodman spent close to a decade at the Washington Post, chronicling the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s as a technology writer before moving to Shanghai to serve as bureau chief. He later oversaw business, technology, and international news at the Huffington Post and served as Global Editor-in-Chief of the International Business Times.

Goodman has written and reported from three dozen countries, including Iraq, Sudan, Turkey, and Mexico, while garnering two Gerald Loeb Awards, including the 2014 prize for commentary.

His book Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy was selected as an editor’s choice title by the New York Times Book Review and as one of Bloomberg’s Top 50 Business Books.

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Peter S. Goodman ’89 is the European economics correspondent for the New York Times, based in London.

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Reedies’ abilities to push the boundaries of science, automation, animation, systems, and design means you can find them in every sector of research, tech, and innovation.

Roughly 10 percent of our working alumni hold jobs in the tech industry in some capacity, including more than 30 Reedies currently working for Microsoft. According to the 2017 Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium report, 25 percent of Reed’s alumni are working in science, technology, and engineering five years after graduation, compared to 10 percent of alumni of other schools measured.

Reed graduates have built a long tradition of success in computer science, research, and technology development, including the following innovators.

C. Howard Vollum ’36, physics Engineer-scientist, philanthropist, veteran, and inventor of the cathode-ray oscilloscope and cofounder of Tektronix, endowed the Vollum Institute, and the Howard Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology was created in his name by Reed College Peter Norton ’65, mathematics/physics Creator of Norton Antivirus software Richard Crandall ’69, physics Physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and Reed professor who made contributions to computational number theory and served as a senior engineer at Apple James Russell ’53, physics Inventor and developer of the concepts of optical digital recording and playback central to the compact disc (CD) and the digital video disc (DVD), recipient of the Vollum Award from Reed College

Photo: Harley Soltes, The Seattle Times

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Alumni in research, tech + innovation Elizabeth Robinson ’82 CFO Air Line Pilots Association Former CFO of NASA Gina Turrigiano ’84 Neuroscientist and professor Brandeis University Arwen Isaac Dave ’89 Systems engineer NASA SmallSats and Mars concepts

Larry Sanger ’91 Co-founder Wikipedia Acacia Parks ’03 Chief scientist Happify, a tech startup that delivers well-being interventions to individual consumers and large businesses Chris Haulk ’05 Data scientist Google Michael Richardson ’07 Product line manager AppNexus/AT&T Co-founder of Urban Airship Dan Toffey ’07 Head of community lab Instagram William Henderson ’08 CEO Ride Report Gina Collecchia ’09 Senior software engineer, audio/DSP Jaunt XR Author of Numbers and Notes: An Introduction to Musical Signal Processing

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Noah Pepper ’09 Head of applications engineering Stripe Mary Solbrig ’11 Systems software engineer Apple Ruth Linehan ’12 Software engineer GitHub –––– Reedies also work for AirBnB Argonne National Laboratory AT&T Intel Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology Lab for Atmospheric and Space Physics Los Alamos National Labs Pixar Riot Games Tesla Thermo Fisher Scientific

Research, Technology, and Innovation

Joe Long ’90 Distinguished engineer Microsoft Corporation

Sarah Barrett ’09 Senior information architect Microsoft

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From conservation and urban planning to storytelling and illustrating, Reedies are passionately promoting sustainable life on earth.

Alumni in sustainable life on earth

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Sharon Ranals ’76 Director of parks and recreation City of South San Francisco

Margaret Anderson ’05 Director Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture

Jennifer Ferenstein ’88 Biologist, environmentalist, activist, and former Sierra Club president

Tina Schneider ’05 Manager Forest legality initiative World Resources Institute

Stephen C. Sillett ’89 Kenneth L. Fisher Chair of Redwood Forest Ecology Humboldt State University American botanist specializing in tall tree species

Elizabeth Rush ’07 Writer, photographer, and educator Teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Harper’s, Guernica, Granta, Orion and the New Republic

Bob Sallinger ’91 Director of conservation Audubon Society of Portland Aaron Jones ’96 Spatial analyst The Nature Conservancy Michelle Nijhuis ’96 Environmental and science journalist Featured in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine Sasha Kramer ’99 Co-founder and executive director Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)

Lindsey Maser ’08 Business sustainability advisor City of Portland Esther Forbyn ’16 Facilities and sanctuaries manager Audubon Society of Portland Creator of “Birds to Know,” a project that celebrates wildness through art, activism, and birding

Carey Doyle ’01 Planner Bidwells LLP

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California Wetland Society Canavan Associates City of Stockholm Coalition for Smarter Growth Great Barrier Reef Foundation National Park Service New England Forestry Foundation Oregon Environmental Council San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency The Sierra Club

Photo: from book Breaking Trail

Sustainable Life on Earth

Arlene Blum ’66 is a biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer who led the first American all-women’s ascent of Annapurna, the world’s 10th-highest peak and widely acknowledged as its deadliest. She taught at Berkeley and Wellesley, and, in 1977, her research led to a ban on flame retardants in children’s pajamas. Blum also founded the Green Science Policy Institute and recruited leading experts in toxicology and fire safety to aid in the fight against the flame-retardant industry.

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Visionary Reedies create and influence markets, no matter the industry, through entrepreneurship and business strategy.

Luke Kanies ’96 is the quintessential liberal arts major; he’s openminded, adaptable, skeptical, and an unrelenting problem solver.

These are also the essential skills of an entrepreneur. Kanies majored in chemistry and, in less than ten years, went on to start Puppet, a technology company that helps administrators automate large computer networks.

Puppet is now a world leader in IT automation—the software is used by more than 40,000 organizations and boasts 500 employees.

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Liz Rogers ’86 Senior design manager IBM

Tanya Short ’04 Co-founder and creative director Kitfox Games

Daniel Thomas ’89 Owner and co-founder Hammer & Hand, a Northwest construction company

Elly Blue ’05 Co-owner Microcosm Publishing

Frank Marquardt ’92 Content strategy director Facebook Zeke Koch ’95 Senior director of product management Adobe Systems Inc. Adam Riggs ’95 Co-founder & CEO Plectica Kinari Webb ’95 Founder Health in Harmony

–––– Reedies also work for Bold & Badass Fitness Chromocell Corporation Microsoft Pacific Motorsports Quincy Engineering Salesforce.com ShoreBank Pacific Tinder Wayfair Western Toy Manufacturing Co.

Miriam Moore ’98 Finance systems manager Cambia Health Solutions Kristin Virshbo ’98 CEO Castle Rock Associates, maker of intelligent road system software Anaka Narayanan ’04 Founder Brass Tacks, a fashion label based in Chennai, India

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Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy

Alumni in entrepreneurship + business strategy

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Eight Reedies changing the world

These Reedies, in their own words, give us a glimpse of how they see themselves making a difference in their communities of purpose and in the world.

Entrepreneurship + business strategy “We founded Switchboard, a community-building platform for colleges, universities, and others, because we wanted to make it easier for people to help themselves and to succeed.”

Mara Zepeda ’02 Co-founder and CEO Switchboard

Investing + financial responsibility “Historically, only those of high net worth have had easy access to the resources necessary for investment management advice and banking. I work to make these services accessible for everyone.”

Mychal Campos ’00 Director of investments Stash Invest

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Healthcare + the cure of illness “When it comes to facing

challenges in the modern healthcare climate, humanity is as imperative as innovation. I’m dedicated to elevating conversations about health equity in order to make care more accessible.”

Sana Goldberg ’12 Founder Nightingale

Arts + expression

Globalization + diplomacy

“I co-founded a festival for independent comics called Comic Arts LA. I’m really interested in encouraging the idea that the making of art is for everybody.”

Angie Wang ’08 Illustrator

“I manage 115 employees in 14 countries covering 16 percent of the world’s surface. I’m here to help governments honor their commitments to children’s human rights.”

Sheldon Yett ’86 Pacific representative UNICEF

Citizenship + community living

Education + human potential

“My work focuses on the “Higher education intersections between changed the course of social justice issues— my parents’ lives and, as such as racial oppression, a result, my life. I find reproductive justice, great meaning in helping queer rights, anti-fat bias, young people figure out healthcare disparities, what their next step is.” educational equity, Swati Shrestha ’10 poverty, sexism, and College counselor liberation—recognizing Woodstock School that as we begin to untangle one issue, we can untangle them all.”

Sirius Bonner ’05 Director of equity and inclusion Planned Parenthood

Sustainable life on earth “I work to promote health and resilience at the community level. I’m using food as a lever to work for social equity and environmental sustainability.”

Sari Albornoz ’05 Program director Sustainable Food Center

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Making connections This booklet represents a snapshot in time, highlighting where a handful of Reedies work today. There are thousands more amazing alumni making an impact on the world. If you know a Reedie doing impressive work, we would love to hear from you; email us at communications@reed.edu.

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You form the most valuable network available to Reedies.

You and your employer can offer an internship or externship to current students; serve as a career resource for students and young alumni; help students with networking; and network with other alumni to build your own career.

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