Art Blauvelt (BA, 1973) is healthy and still working as lawyer and part-time judge. After Western attended University of Puget Sound Law School, practiced in Tacoma and then moved to Montesano, WA in 1981. Married to Linda (WWSC 1974), with two children and two grandchildren. Served 14 years on Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees and just completing 10th year as Grays Harbor College Trustee. Loves hiking and touring Southwest Utah and New Mexico and traveling to Europe.
(BFA, 2017): Spencer Johnson
Spencer Johnson (BFA, 2017) graduated in May with his MFA in Fiction from Emerson College, and was hired on as Affiliated Faculty teaching Writing and Comp there as well.
(MFA, 2017): Joanna Roiggordon
Joanna Roiggordon (MFA, 2017) will be attending Indiana University, Bloomington’s Rhetoric & Composition PhD program in the fall of 2021.
(MFA, 2018): Rebecca Beardsall
Rebecca Beardsall’s (MFA, 2018) memoir My Place in the Spiral, a book started in Brenda Miller’s class, launched in January 2021. Visit the website at http://www.rebeccabeardsall.com/book/my-place-in-the-spiral/.
(BA, 2017): Riley Jessett
As of this last year, Riley Jesset (BA, 2017) is the director of the primary science lab at Carson Academy of Science, a public school in Milwaukee, WI. In this unique program, scholars as young as three years old and as old as ten spend two hours a week doing hands-on, culturally relevant science work. They completed their Master’s in Urban Early Childhood Education at Cardinal Stritch University in 2019.
(BA, 2008): Brittany Rogers (Young)
After 8 years working at Amazon.com in the Books category, Brittany Rogers (Young) (BA, 2008) joined Microsoft at the end of 2020 as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Office.
(BA, 2019): McKenzie Grenz
McKenzie Grenz (BA, 2019) started a new job at People For People, a non-profit that provides transportation to senior and disabled people, Meals On Wheels in Yakima County, employment and training programs, and 2-1-1 information and referrals.
(BA, 2020): Harper Villani
Harper Villani (BA, 2020) is attending Vermont College of Fine Arts to get her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
(BA, 1991): Kory Floyd
Kory Floyd (BA, 1991) has been elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association, one of the two principal academic associations for the discipline of communication. Floyd is currently a professor of communication and psychology at the University of Arizona.