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Alumni Updates
Peggy Molloy
ArtSpecial Major: Art As Communication, 1993
Peggy Molloy, 1993 Art, recently earned a master’s degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. Molloy works as a volunteer coordinator for her local Salvation Army branch. She is currently organizing a fund-raiser for the needy through Sewell Gallery in Eureka, Calif., featuring portrait artist Meredith Aldrich. Part of the proceeds will benefit the Salvation Army.
Jade Bristol
English, 1993
Jade Bristol, 1993, English, was named Chief Development Officer of Giving Docs, a revolutionary online platform that is democratizing the estate planning process and making it easier for individuals who want to make an impact by leaving a gift to charity in their Will. Jade is a 2001 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and has spent the last decade helping non-profits fund their missions through planned giving.
Alyson Hunter
GeographySocial Science Teacher Preparation, 1993
Alyson Hunter ('93, Geography, Social Science Education) is currently working as a Senior Planner for the City of Marina in the beautiful Monterey Bay area, ancestral lands of the Esselen peoples. She can't wait to move back to Humboldt in a couple of years!
Mary Brown
Journalism, 1993
Mary Brown, 1993 Journalism, moved to San Francisco after graduating. Brown started working for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition in 1997, where she became the Membership Director. Brown is best known for leading the Valencia Street bike lanes campaign. Brown left the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition in 2005 and then earned a master’s degree in Geography from San Francisco State University. Afterward she worked for the San Francisco Planning Department. Brown passed away December of lung cancer.
Maila L (Felper) Ogden
Sociology, 1992 (Spring)
I have been been working in the social work field for over 20 yrs and I recently changed jobs. I now work as a Hospice Social Worker in Southern California(High Desert). I love the opportunity to be a part of the end of life journey. I have been married for the past 9 yrs and love living in Wrightwood(Angeles National Forest). I also Volunteer for Angeles National Forest Grassy Hollow Visitors Center.
Daniel Macomber
EnglishTESOL minor, 1992 (BA),1997 (MA)
Daniel Macomber, English, 1992, English, M.A.1997 is the manager of Cornerstone Sober Living at the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission in Santa Barbara, California. Macomber says "COVID-19 has presented many challenges, but they shall continue to be overcome! I am also an independent contractor in the field of educational assessment/measurement. Great memories of my years at HSU!"
Donny Triplat
SociologySocial Studies, 1992
Currently birthing a native landscape business after 12 years research forestry, 5 years environmental restoration, 5 years arborist work, and 10 years of service in the Food industry catering and working in fine dining restaurants. Blend this all with a passion for personal healing work; physically, emotionally, and spiritually. What has come of this is a project that my wife and I are creating: Truckee River Sanctuary where we grow food, raise poultry, and have built a Kiva to share with our community to build relations amongst people that want to grow and create new ways of living within our decaying social systems of life. It's really a place to connect and grow. I've been busy.
Leah Manos
GeographyMS in geography from University of Tennessee 1997, 1992
LEAH MANOS, 1992 Geography, is teaching geography at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and is a faculty advisor for its Gamma Theta Upsilon (geography honor society) chapter.
Kristin Klamm-Doneen
Philosophy, 1992
Kristin Klamm-Doneen, Philosophy, 1992, serves as the Chair of our Philosophy & Humanities Department at Anoka Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis. She obtained her Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy from Stockholm University, her M.A. in Individual Studies: Comparative Philosophy & Religion from Central Washington University and a M.A. in Practical Philosophy. When pursuing one of her advanced degrees she was so pleased to take a distance learning class in advanced logic from her Humboldt State University advisor, Michael Goodwin. She absolutely loves her job here in Minnesota, where she has taught full-time in Philosophy for the past 15 years. "Thank you HSU, for the great start!"
steve barrios
Communication, 1992
I was at a San Jose sharks game the other night, when the people in front of me an I started talking. Come to find out they were HSU alumnus too, we talked about the old times and all the goodtimes in arcata!!!! What a small world, and what cool people go or have gone to HSU. Go JACKS