A Positive Life After Prison the Barriers Facing Formerly Incarcerated People in Rebuilding Their Lives Are Unrelenting

A Positive Life After Prison The barriers facing formerly incarcerated people in rebuilding their lives are unrelenting. But 10 alums tell the story of how they made it, thanks in part to their UW education

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MICHELLE BROWNLEE “A mentor told me, FORWARD 24 ‘You must keep Healthier communities make healthier people. Bill Gates Sr. 6 FInding the Light going. You cannot The UW and Washington residents will forever be grateful 8 Lessons from Bill Sr. stop. You’ve got to The University of Washington is leading the for the immense impact Bill Gates Sr. had on our lives 10 Roar of the Crowd keep going to make By Hannelore Sudermann way in addressing the interconnected factors THE HUB change for others and 13 State of the Art yourself.’ I have always held myself back; 28 Second Chances 14 Black Voices from poverty and health care to systemic 18 Infographic always thinking I was The UW is renowned for its ability to transform lives, 19 Research not smart enough including those that have served time in prison inequities and climate change. In partnership 22 Scorecard or good enough. So, By Omari Amili 23 Athletics once I found out that I can succeed with ed- COLUMNS ucation. Sky became transforms research into concrete actions that 38 The Fulﬁllment Factor 45 Sketches the limit!” improve and save lives across the country — When many faculty and sta! end their UW careers, 47 Distinguished Veteran they turn their focus to their community service calling 49 Media and around the world. By Erin Rowley 61 Tribute 62 In Memory uw.edu/populationhealth 42 Holistic View UDUB The ﬁrst Filipino-American to graduate from the UW School 64 Americana Art of Medicine is also a trailblazer in alternative medicine By Shelia Farr

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We saw racial conflict in our midst. Now we are learning to decide what to carry in our search for light. Do we carry our prejudice and hatred? Do we pack bias in our pockets? Or do we search for ways to leave this baggage behind? Now that the smoke has cleared from fires up and down the West Coast, what do we see? Can we envision clear skies, clean rivers and healthy ecosystems? When COVID-19 darkened classrooms around the world, computer screens lit up for some, but not for everyone. Businesses, gyms and restaurants closed. Our streets grew silent. Our fear and de- termination delivered a sudden halt to our normal way of living. The unavoidable impact of colliding perspectives, values and lived experiences—our collective reckoning—has spared no one. In these waning days of a year like no other, our university community is called to reexamine foundational questions of purpose and identity. Whether we are students or alumni, we are all on a con- tinuum of learning, a lifelong process of thinking critically and engaging with ideas that might at first make us uncomfortable. It is our shared civic responsibility. How should we—as a community connected to the University, and through it, connected to each other—respond to 2020? We should seek out and create signs of light. We must see how we are all connected BY PROFESSOR ED TAYLOR AND UWAA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PAUL RUCKER to one another and how we are connected to the planet. We are a community that values truth; we are in need of reconcili- ation and repair. When we see and define Learning From Darkness the pathways that bridge our divides, let us now move toward those who can help us to see the truth of our humanity and I have learned things in the dark that I class, 2020: The Course, in which faculty can share the stories that enable us to learn could never have learned in the light, things and alumni from all three of our campuses from 2020 and imagine ourselves in a new that have saved my life over and over again, came together to reflect on bringing light community, one that begins with each of so that there is really only one logical con- to the year. They looked into their com- us belonging. clusion. I need darkness as much as I need puter cameras and spoke of their work, Those stories and other resources for light … new life starts in the dark. lecturing from their kitchens and make- us as lifelong learners can be found on the —BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR shift studies. Nearly 600 students in their UW Alumni Association’s Stronger 2020 will be a year that many would own apartments, residence halls and Together website (www.uwalum.com/ like to forget. But with all of its challenges, family homes from Bellevue to Beijing strongertogether). The site also o!ers op- crises and complexities, it will long be joined in the work of finding light and portunities to engage directly with students remembered. The question is: what will meaning in a year when many of us have and fellow alums. Take a look. See where we have learned in this dark year that can stumbled in the darkness. it might lead. light our way forward? We learned that a pandemic can force Ed !aylor, Ph.D. ’93, is a professor of The year—with COVID-19, an awak- us to break from the security of habits education, vice provost and dean of under- ening to systemic racism, elections, and patterns and allow us to reenvision graduate academic a"airs; Paul Rucker, environmental crises and an ailing econ- what constitutes safety, shelter and com- MPA ’02, is the UW Alumni Association’s omy—is worthy of a course unto itself. munity as we seek a pathway between executive director. !hey met 20 years ago This fall, we created a special, one-time this year and the next. as teacher and student.

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Jim Owens’ Success the Kirkland Signature canned albacore them for their hard work and ask them to That was a fantastic article on the 100th sold at Costco, which I consider the best join the University in building a better anniversary of Husky Stadium (“Grand widely available product. I use it in tuna world. The Heroes Act was on the right Stand,” Fall 2020). However, it is missing fish casseroles and for tuna fish sandwiches. track, and with the awakening of America a significant period of Husky football suc- The cat, by the way, wouldn’t touch the to our underlying racism, along with the cess led by coach Jim Owens from 1959 drained-o! liquid or the fish. She preferred challenges of hunger and a!ordable hous- to 1961. Coach Owens led the West Coast the Costco chicken. ing, there is much to be done. Our voices football renaissance with Rose Bowl vic- Karen Sjogren, ’86, Salem, Oregon and follow-up can make this new normal tories in 1960 and 1961. From 1947, when a reality. the Rose Bowl pact was signed with the A Truly Great Man Willie Dickerson, ’73, ’94, Snohomish Big Ten, the only West Coast victory was The article on Rod Stanley (“Remembering when USC beat Wisconsin in 1952. We a Gentle Giant,” Fall 2020) really hit home. Rod and I lived around the corner from Sharing With My Dad were told we just couldn’t compete with What a marvelous edition celebrating the each other as kids, the same age and grade the Midwest teams. Coach Owens came Be Boundless Campaign! Every story was and shared many adventures together. After to Seattle in 1957 from legendary coach special and a delight to read, and now that my family moved, we were reunited in high Bear Bryant’s coaching sta! at Texas A&M I am done, I am sending it on to my 96-year- school and both attended UW, but I took and immediately changed the prevailing old dad, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Raymond Hensel, a detour through community college first culture to one of hard-nosed football with ’48, a former UW student and fanatic Husky and lost track of Rod in the succeeding intense training and a “take no prisoners” football fan (since he was 4 years old). A years. At our 50th high school reunion last attitude. One of his drills was called the World War II vet, he will delight in the year, I fervently hoped to renew our con- “Death March,” with few players standing stories about Charles Sheaffer, Husky tacts and was crushed to learn that he had afterward. For both the 1960 and 1961 Rose Stadium, Seattle landslides (he remem- passed away. I really appreciated the tribute Bowl games, we were big underdogs but bers some), and the touching story of to a truly great man and great friend. badly beat Wisconsin in 1960, 44-8, and finding the remains of missing veterans. As , ’73, Mercer Island Minnesota, 17-7, in ’61. For 1960, we were Tim Stickel a journalism school grad and former re- awarded the Helms Foundation National porter for the Seattle P-I, I appreciate the Championship trophy. These Rose Bowl The Genius of Astra fine writing and look forward to your next victories clearly demonstrated to all that Thank you for the article on Professor Astra edition. Many thanks. we could not only compete with the Big Zarina (“Under the Spell of Astra in Rome,” Dolores Hensel Eyler, ’71, Rye, New York Ten but could win big! I was fortunate to Fall 2020). She was teaching when I was a be part of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, student in the Landscape Architecture where several football players resided. We Department at the UW. Many years later, A Sense of Humor I just finished the article on Husky Stadium saw firsthand the excitement of Husky I was encouraged by Professor David (“Grand Stand,” Fall 2020), and it made football. One of the key players was wide Streatfield to apply for one of the Civita me chuckle. I didn’t know that the original receiver Pat Claridge, ’61, who was my Institute’s fellowships. I was fortunate UW football team that started in 1895 was roommate. At that time, they played both enough to receive a one-month fellowship called the “Sun Dodgers.” I am happy to o!ense and defense. and live in Civita. I have returned to Civita know that the “traditional,” good-natured, Gary Keehner, ’62, Spotsylvania, Virginia every year since. I was also able to become or dare we say “dry” sense of humor has familiar with the Rome Center as an aide always existed at the UW, even since its to Professor Streatfield in 2004 and 2006, Grade A Albacore inception. Go Huskies! teaching the drawing component of his Fresh albacore (“Stuck at Home? Here’s a Dan O’Connell Fine Way to Find Fish,” Fall 2020) is indeed Landscape Architecture in Rome program. a tasty seafood option, as I learned while Your article captured the genius of Astra, working on an albacore troller in the early though nothing could compare with actually Ye a r n i n g fo r C a m p u s 1970s. We cut the fillets into steaks and being in her presence. As we celebrate her, I read (the Fall 2020 issue) from cover to fried them with onions and green peppers. honor her achievements and her legacy, cover. It is outstanding. I yearn for the I’m happy to see this product show up in your article brought her, briefly, back to life. campus and its stimulation. I am an elderly fish markets with a positive response from Thomas J. Allsopp, ’73, Seattle Husky, class of ’47, proud to be an alum. the public. Albacore caught o! the West Patricia Olmstead McFarlane, ’47, ’68, Coast is sustainably harvested, with virtu- Proud of the UW Vista, California ally no bycatch. 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NEWS AND RESEARCH FROM THE UW In celebration of the Seattle Japanese Garden’s 60th birthday this summer, a number of local artists created works honoring the landscape and the people involved. Michelle Kumata’s “Northwest Nikkei” series features the garden and

JAPANESE GARDEN JAPANESE the Nikkei community from the year the Our ways of garden opened. The traditional Japanese garden was responding to an designed in the late 1950s by master designers from Japan and sits on 3 1/2 acres outbreak are much in a larger park then known as the University of Washington Arboretum, now the same as then. Washington Park. The project was supported with private funds and facilitated, in part, by the UW. journals for her book, “American Pandemic: One of Kumata’s subjects, Richard The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Yamasaki, grew up in Seattle and ran a Epidemic.”

landscape business. He was hired to assist Though it’s more than a century later, the master designers from Japan in build- our ways of responding to an outbreak ing the garden. Yamasaki honed his craft and the tools at our disposal are much the on the project, learning Japanese princi- same as then, she says. The strategies to ples directly from designer Juki Iida. He stem the spread in 1918—education, hy- stayed connected to the garden through- giene, social distancing, quarantining, out his life and in 1993, Yamasaki donated closures and masking—are unchanged. a Japanese black pine that his family had NATIONAL ARCHIVES The communities that took action early tended since the 1920s. diminished their death tolls. Other com- Kumata studied graphic design at the munities fared worse. UW before obtaining a degree in illus- Cities like Spokane and San Francisco tration from the School of Visual Arts in struggled to contain the flu because of New York. “Yamasaki carries the black disagreements between health o#cials pine tree and rises and local leaders. Seattle fared better beyond the trials of thanks to a well-coordinated response, his family’s history,” says Bristow. On Oct. 4, 1918, the Naval she writes in her de- A Year to Remember Training Station on the UW campus re- scription of the work. While we may want move on from 2020, historians and information experts ported that one cadet had died and more “The pine represents encourage us to preserve our memories and mementos so future generations than 700 people were ill. By the next day, endurance, adaptabil- might understand this exceptional time. the city health commissioner enacted the ity, and a bright future. first round of restrictions, and just two days The monarch butter- By Hannelore Sudermann later, he shut down all public gatherings, fly represents rebirth church services and public amusements. and transformation.” People were urged to stay home. By We’d all like to forget the challenges of a those were and still are the best tools for November, masks were required. pandemic-filled 2020—the empty store slowing the spread of disease. History looks at that time as the end of shelves, suddenly working from home or And at the end of it all, in spite of the World War I and the victorious role the losing our jobs, the political unrest, not lives a!ected and lives lost, the country U.S. played. But the pandemic essentially seeing our friends or family, the school just wanted to move on. So much of that has been forgotten. closures, the smoke-filled weeks and the 1918 pandemic has been forgotten, notes Janes has the same concern with this boarded-up buildings. But we shouldn’t. iSchool professor Joseph Janes, that we year. “My contention is when this is over, History and information experts say don’t know what people were doing or we’re not going to talk about this,” he says. we might learn from 1918, when another feeling from day to day. “I think now we all Our instincts will be to get past this bizarre, devastating pandemic swept the world. understand that people in 1920 just didn’t di#cult time in an e!ort to return to normal, The world forgot. The Spanish flu ultimately want to think about it anymore,” he says. he suggests. Also, today, far fewer people infected 500 million people and killed 50 There are no monuments, and very few keep diaries or write letters detailing their million. There are haunting similarities memoirs or novels, according to Nancy experiences. Texts and emails will not between then and now—a national lack Bristow, who discussed the two pandemics likely endure, he says. of preparedness, confusing propaganda, in a UW History Department lecture this So now, when our memories of the past the disproportionate e!ect on people of past summer. Bristow, who teaches at the several months are fresh, we should make color, and how di!erent communities re- University of Puget Sound, is one of the the e!ort to hang on to them, he says. “The sponded to the outbreak at di!erent times. leading experts on the social and cultural future is going to want to know how we Then, as now, groups of citizens disagreed effects of the Spanish flu, having re- felt,” says Janes. “Just like we want to know with social distancing and masking, but searched primary sources like letters and how they felt in 1918.”

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RESEARCH Sign of the Times By changing the name of a campus road adjacent to the Intellectual House, the University honors Indigenous history CLAIRE GWAYI-CHORE By Hannelore Sudermann

Before white settlement, the land where the the Oregon Trail. The mission opened a pe- University of Washington now sits was home riod of erasure of Native culture and language ROLL ON, ENROLLMENT In spite of the pandemic, the UW’s new- to Coast Salish peoples. They included the in American history. The notion of renaming est class of undergraduate students broke Whitman Court became more pronounced ancestors of today’s Northwest Native record levels of enrollment across all three Americans. One of the closest villages to after the opening of in 2015. campuses fall quarter. The incoming new campus—about where University Village is With the support of the Native American class, including ﬁrst-year students and now—was called , a word in the Advisory Board to the UW and the O#ce of transfer students, totals 11,775, of which Lushootseed language that loosely translates Minority A!airs & Diversity, Braine made 72.2% are Washington residents. Of the to “Little Canoe Channel.” the case for renaming the street to the 8,520 new undergraduates admitted to the The name has been returned to Board of Regents in the spring Seattle campus, 1,412 identify with at least the landscape in the form of a street sign of 2018. “The UW is one underrepresented group. Total enroll- along a small road that runs alongside occupying ment across all three campuses rose from —Intellectual House, the long- 59,381 to 60,418 (48,734 in Seattle, 6,326 at house-style learning and gathering UW Bothell and 5,380 at UW Tacoma—22 space for Native American students are enrolled at more than one UW students and the campus), continuing a progressive trend greater spanning the past 13 years.

territory of the Coast Salish,” says Braine. “It was good to say that on the record and have the Board of Regents agree.” This is an issue of Indigenous erasure, he explains. Every place the community. “This name UW touches has a traditional name Black Voices change has been in the works for a and a traditional meaning, and many Viewpoint, the twice-yearly sister publi- very long time,” says Iisaaksiichaa Ross of the original names have been cation to this magazine, focuses on stories Braine, ’09, ’15, the University’s tribal changed or forgotten. of diversity at the University of Washington. liaison. He remembers as a student The board wasted no time in unan- The most recent issue features Black voices nearly 20 years ago taking part in dis- imously voting to rename the road, NOBEL PRIZE FOR HEP C DISCOVERY from our campus and alumni community. cussions about renaming roads on noting that it intends to do more to Harvey J. Alter, a UW resident in internal We asked our contributors to talk about campus, including Whitman Court— recognize Native place-names of the medicine from 1964-65, has received the the reverberations brought by the recent the street that runs from the main region to enrich the historical context 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine deaths of Black men and women at the campus arterial of E. Stevens Way N.E. of the campus. for his contributions to the discovery of the hands of police, the ensuing protests and past McMahon and Haggett Halls. The new green street sign was cre- hepatitis C virus. He shared the award with the broadening national awareness of The road was originally named for ated with the help of Tami Hohn, a Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice. Black Lives Matter. Sociology Professor Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, mis- member of the Puyallup tribe who The virus can cause liver cancer and failure Alexes Harris, ’97, curated the issue and sionaries who settled along the Walla teaches Southern Lushootseed at the and, like hepatitis B, is transmitted through invited perspectives from people actively Walla River and helped establish the UW. She provided guidance on the blood and bodily fluid. If untreated, lead to driving change at the UW and in our wider Oregon Trail. Because of cultural dif- spelling, font and color of the sign, as long term complications and even death. communities. One of our voices is graduate ferences and an outbreak of the she has done with projects for the City After training at the UW, where he honed student Claire Gwayi-Chore, pictured measles that killed about half of the of Seattle and Washington state. It was his interest in hepatology, and a fellowship here, who details the challenges of helping Cayuse tribe, the Whitman Mission installed in July, with little fanfare. “It at Georgetown University, Alter joined the her department address and root out rac- is a painful chapter for Indigenous kind of surprised us,” says Braine. But NIH Clinical Center’s Department of Trans- ism and inequity while fulfilling her fusion Medicine. In the 1970s, he identified people. The connection ended with a it was a good surprise. “It’s wonderful responsibilities as a Ph.D. student in a new type of hepatitis virus that was clear- massacre of the missionaries and the to see the language here on campus,” Global Health. You can find her essay, as ly not types A or B. A few decades later, burning of their buildings. he says. It is another step toward making well as those of Professor Harris, an un- Houghton isolated the virus and Rice stud- dergraduate student, a UW sta! member, “It was not a good relationship,” Indigenous students and the greater ied its replication, which led to e!ective says Braine. Instead of ministering to Native American community feel wel- treatments. About 2.4 million people in the an assistant professor and an alumnus. the Indians through their mission, the come at the UW. “This is not erasing Their reflections are critical, powerful and

DAVID OH DAVID U.S. are estimated to be living with hepati- Whitmans focused their e!orts on U.S. history,” he explains. “It’s cele- tis C, according to the U.S. Department of personal. Read them at magazine.uw.edu. white settlers traveling through on brating Indigenous history as well.” Health and Human Services. Photo by Quinn Russell Brown

14 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2019 15 change the narrative. The two doctors the public health impacts of racism. went on to lead a two-year e!ort to fight invited several colleagues from their time While the medical community is bring- the practice. On May 29, the UW School at the UW—Dr. Abir Hussein, Dr. Jade ing another voice to the fight for racial of Medicine announced it would stop using Pagkas-Bather, ’19, and two others—to justice, it’s also working to make up for a the race-based equation as part of the test. join them because they needed to add legacy of medicine used to enforce racism Racism has been For Nkinsi, fighting racism in medicine more voices to the project. Together, they and white supremacy. Racial bias in med- is about using the power and privilege of crafted a letter calling for an anti-racist icine and medical education became here for centu- her position as a medical professional. It public health response to the protests. apparent to Naomi Nkinsi, a student in ries and there is goes back to why she wanted to become “White supremacy is a lethal public health the UW School of Medicine, during her a doctor in the first place: “The white coat issue that predates and contributes to first year of medical school. She was at- no vaccine. is a signifier of my willingness to humbly COVID-19,” the letter reads. “ … Protests tending a class lecture about kidneys when serve other people and show them a radical against systemic racism, which fosters the the professor came to the last slide. It read medical algorithms that are similarly tainted sense of empathy.” disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on that race is an important factor in deter- by racial bias and a!ect the quality of care Empathy is at the heart of defeating both Black communities and also perpetuates mining kidney function. Black patients receive. racism and the coronavirus. police violence, must be supported.” It Nkinsi was puzzled; she had never heard “I knew that there was racism in med- “COVID is out of control for the same also opposed the use of tear gas, called on about a connection between kidneys and icine, but I thought a lot of it was going to reasons that racism is out of control—an police to wear masks and maintain social skin tone. Claims about physiological dif- be interpersonal racism,” says Nkinsi, who individualist orientation that comes o! as distancing, and gave recommendations ferences between di!erent races had been said she has experienced her share of racism a lack of compassion for your fellow man,” on how to conduct protests safely. disproven long ago.She learned that a in medical school as one of five Black stu- Kates says. “We see that people may not On May 30, the group sent the letter to widely used kidney test uses a race-based dents in her class of around 100. “I learned universally be willing to correct their be- a handful of colleagues and shared it on equation to report di!erent results for Black that it’s built into algorithms that our bodies havior or attitudes to reduce transmission social media. By June 4, 1,288 infec- and non-Black patients—based on the are di!erent. It gave me a new sense of of COVID. But COVID will hopefully one tious-disease experts, public health outdated belief that Black people have distrust in medical systems, because now day be corrected by science. Correcting professionals and community stakeholders more muscle mass. The outcome is that I’m learning that every physician I’ve ever your behavior and attitudes will be the only nationwide had signed it. Stories about the Black patients score higher for kidney encountered is taught to see me as inferior.” way to overcome white supremacy. letter appeared in influential media like function, leading to delays in getting treat- Nkinsi challenged the use of race in the Fighting racism intuitively must be big- CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The ment. The New England Journal of kidney test in class, initially facing resis- ger.”—Misty Shock Rule, ’99, works in the UW Washington Post, The Atlantic and more. Medicine has identified seven other tance from classmates and instructors. She O#ce of News & Information When they stopped taking signatures, 4,202 names were included. The letter was part of a wider movement DAVID RYDER/GETTY DAVID throughout the medical community sup- Premier Residential Premier Residential porting the protests. The pandemic had PremierRetirement Residential Since 1987 Retirement Since 1987 laid bare society’s racial inequities: If you Retirement Since 1987 are Black, you are more likely to be an essential worker who can’t work from home, lack health insurance, have pre-existing conditions—and become hospitalized for and die as a result of the coronavirus. You also are more likely to su!er dispropor- Tackling the Other tionately from disease, die in childbirth or have your infant die. In every corner of the country, medical Pandemic: Racism workers called for racial justice through protests, op-eds, appearances on cable UW doctors, students join to fight “white supremacy as a lethal public health issue” news and more. On June 6, approximately 10,000 health-care workers converged on By Misty Shock Rule Seattle to be part of the Doctors for Justice Find connection and joy March, organized by UW Medicine’s Dr. Find connection and joy Estell Williams, ’13, and Edwin Lindo, ’12. FindIN EXTRAORDINARY connection TIMES and joy In late May, Dr. Olivia Kates was riding and convey one message that is important “We are going to find a vaccine for IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES the train to work at UW Medical Center to me, which is that masking, social dis- COVID-19. Racism has been here for cen- IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES Montlake. A passenger nearby approached tancing and following public health turies, and there is no vaccine,” says Ali Era Living retirement communities feature gardens ideal for outdoor and asked what she did for a living. George guidelines are really essential, while sup- Mokdad, a professor at the UW Institute Era Living retirement communities feature gardens ideal for outdoor Floyd had just been killed, and activists porting another message that conscious for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He says gatherings,Era Living retirementtechnology communitiesto help you connect, feature andgardens a variety ideal of for stimulating outdoor across the country were protesting in sup- e!orts toward anti-racism are also com- racism is a bigger threat to public health gatherings, technology to help you connect, and a variety of stimulating port of Black Lives Matter. When Kates pletely essential,” Kates says. than the coronavirus. “You can see just gatherings, technologyvirtual to help and you distanced connect, activities. and a variety of stimulating explained that she was a senior fellow in When Kates arrived at the o#ce, she from the pandemic examples of how racism virtual and distanced activities. infectious diseases, the passenger unloaded talked to a colleague, Dr. Rachel Bender over centuries has built up in people’s lives virtual and distanced activities. her concerns about the novel coronavi- Ignacio, ’08, ’14, ’15, who had heard similar and made them more vulnerable and more Visit eraliving.com/joy or call (206) 333-0290 to learn more. rus—not about immunity, transmission or concerns. They came up with a plan to likely to die. As public health professionals, Visit eraliving.com/joy or call (206) 333-0290 to learn more. vaccines, but criticism of the protests be- pen a letter in support of the protests, it is our duty to look at the whole picture, cause of claims that they would lead to an using their authority as infectious disease not just the individual pieces.” In June, the University House at Wallingford and Issaquah are proud partners of increase in coronavirus infections. physicians—along with the privilege they influential institute, known for its corona- University House at Wallingford and Issaquah are proud partners of “I really struggled to steer that interaction have because they are white—to help virus projections, announced it would study University House at Wallingford and Issaquah are proud partners of

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Sadly, we had to say goodbye to one of the most fabulous elm trees in the U District—the majestic 65-footer outside Elm Hall along Northeast Campus Parkway. A nasty case of Dutch elm disease did in the tree despite the best e#orts of University arborists. A new tree will be planted, says UW Arborist Sara Shores, but it won’t be an elm. "he soil still carries the disease. DENNIS WISE

Blame it on the Beetles Elm Hall has lost its namesake elm. Two years ago, the nearly The student residence, Elm Hall, was built in 2012 and designed century-old tree on the north side of Northeast Campus Parkway to accommodate the majestic tree. Another tree will go in to started showing signs of Dutch elm disease. The University’s replace it, says UW Arborist Sara Shores, but deﬁnitely not another ALUMNI DISCOUNT arborists tried to prolong its life by pruning the infected branches elm since the soil will still carry the disease. Not to worry: the and inoculating it against the beetle-borne infection. Alas, as is campus still has plenty of trees—about 9,000—ranging from the the case with most American elm trees, it could not be saved. Alaskan Yellow Cedar to the Zelkova (a member of the elm family Late this summer, with much ado, they took the 65-footer down. with Dutch elm resistance). Some discounts, coverages, payment plans, and features are not available in all states, in all GEICO companies, or in all situations. GEICO is a registered service mark of Government Employees Insurance Company, Washington, DC 20076; a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary. GEICO Gecko® image © 1999–2020. © 2020 GEICO 20_548207534 20 UW MAGAZINE 23

UW sophomore. UW The Husky Marching Marching The Husky it how Band shows its longtime about feels a before announcer in Husky 2000 game Cook Frazer Stadium. started the gig when he was a 19-year-old WINTER 2019 age of 78. He may be gone butchance the had we we willthat pleased be always him. know to get to Marching Marching Band alums created a “tunnel” for Cook to walk through. No He didn’t like show. the of part not “I’m attention. the 2010. in me told he Marching me,” notice should Husky one the with time his called He pleasure.” a and privilege a honor, “an Band Husky fans everywhere felt the sameway the at 23 Sept. died Cook Sadly, him. about - Cook’s final performance came on Sept. Sept. on came performance final Cook’s midweek day. As midweek the day. photographer cap the of parts erent ! di in posing him tured stadium, Cook recalled the 650 halftime he how performances, band pregame and announcing spent from years the first 33 the friendships he made. and the field, Cook 8, when 2018, the Huskies hosted Frazer North day—declared this On Dakota. Day by King County Husky Executive of Dow group ’92—a ’88, ’85, Constantine, ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS - - - -

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22 their goals, and you try to achieve academic achieve to try you and goals, their No, we don’t. The 999 score last year was was year last score 999 The don’t. we No, amazing—a huge testament to academic excellence and its part in their mission. You go into the team room and look at their career goals after sports. after goals career their Do you set goals each for school year, score? APR certain a achieving as such letes to understand their on passenger a that You’re we’re them. support here to be to want they where them get to journey academically, athletically, and looking at erent. Something Something erent. ! di so is student Every at. to going not is person one motivates that have You else. somebody be the same for student-ath get and relationships build to What is the secret to getting student-ath getting to secret the is What succeed in the classroom? they’re to letes where players meeting is secret The resources that are available. I had no idea no had I available. are that resources there was something that combined my and athletics. education for love in the athletic department. I applied, was was applied, I department. athletic the in to day same the on hired and interviewed work in the tutorial o#ce as an o#ce as sistant. I got to see the support and and athletics. When and I I athletics. came to the UW, I when and scholarship work-study a had was looking for opportunities, I saw that services academic in position a was there ball and men’s soccer. ball and men’s this ﬁeld? into get you did How I’ve always been interested in education What is your job? Whatyour is In my role, I oversee the academic team that works with our football program, as foot for adviser academic as serve as well helps student-athletes Caple keep Jim on top by of Interview their academics. Last the 1,000). year, Husky of football (out 999 of score APR NCAA-record an earned team Liberty Bracken (above right) has a critical job in the UW athletic department: she ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Performer A Grade AS A LEADER IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND CHAMPION OF THE UW, BILL GATES SR. LEAVES A LEGACY FAR BEYOND HIS LEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

By Hannelore Sudermann An advocate for us all

Clockwise from top left: Even at a young age, it was clear that Bill Gates Sr. was going places. | Gates became a leader in Washington’s legal community. | During a 2002 visit to Africa, Gates (left), former South African president Nelson Mandela and former President Jimmy Carter hold infants born with HIV. | Gates and his ﬁrst wife, Mary Maxwell Gates, with their three children, Bill, Libby (center) and Kristi (right). Far left, Gates and his second wife, Mimi Gardner Gates, visit Africa to inform his work as a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photos courtesy of the Gates family. | Far left, Gates and his second wife, Mimi Gardner Gates, visit the Mulendema village in Kafue, Zambia in 2007 on a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation trip. Photos courtesy of the Gates family.

24 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 25 Another from their group, Emily Alvarado, ’09, followed her interest in public service law without having to worry about landing a high-salary job to pay back student loans. Working in housing justice since law school, Alvarado is now the director of the O#ce of Housing for the City of Seattle. She was also the first law alum to serve on the Gates scholarship board, where she worked alongside Gates in selecting future scholars. “I remember fondly his deep commitment to public service and how gracious he was,” she says. “He really cared about leadership development and about having more young lawyers come up who could be part of the solution.” Their classmate, Michael Peters ’09, a Paralympic athlete in N THE OCCASION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY from minority communities placed in the legal system, as well as 15 years ago, Bill Gates Sr. didn’t receive any traditional gifts. the quality of representation they received. He turned to the UW soccer, came to law school from academia. After completing But to his utter delight, alongside an enormous cake, his family for help, first seeking to increase minority enrollment in the law his degree, he landed a job as director of the Cìty of Seattle’s served up a better idea that recognized his distinguished career school. Then he persuaded the bar association’s board to create O#ce of Intergovernmental Relations before moving Germany Oas an attorney: five public-service law scholarships in his name. law-school scholarships for underrepresented students. The bar in 2015 to work for the International Paralympic Committee, The donation to support UW law students every year for the association now provides $150,000 a year to support underrep- where he is now CEO. next 80 years might have been the perfect present. It honored resented minority law students at the UW and Seattle University. None of the students had expected the level of personal Gates’ professional pursuits, his appetite for community service Gates’ volunteer work included serving as president of the investment that Gates Sr. supplied. “He was so well-known in and his belief in the UW as a leader for positive change. The Washington State Bar Association as well as the United Way, the legal community and at the University,” says Melody. “He William H. Gates Public Service Law Program—funded with Planned Parenthood and the Greater Seattle Chamber of cared a lot about the program and that we would succeed in $33.3 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—has been Commerce among many other organizations. In the 1990s, he public interest law. It was a connection that I don’t think you’d a cornerstone in revolutionizing a new field of law. became a co-founder and co-chair of the William H. Gates get with anyone else who was as busy and important as he was.” Gates threw his considerable energy into helping the students Foundation, which merged with the Gates Learning Foundation Alvarado cherished Gates’ vision of building a robust com- become successful. “He was hands-on in the best way possible,” in 2000 to become the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the munity of lawyers working in public service. “His vision is now says Michele Storms, the executive director of the American world’s largest private philanthropic organization. a reality,” she says. “Now more than 10 years after finishing law Civil Liberties Union in Washington. For 10 years, she directed He also gave thousands of hours to his alma mater, chairing school, I am inspired and challenged by my Gates peers. They the Gates Public Service Law Program. “He didn’t try to run the a capital campaign and serving three terms as a UW Regent. are incredible. program, but he was totally there to be present and engaged.” For good reason, his family has been described as “The First “We see Mr. Gates as part of a generation of public service When the students delivered formal presentations or had Family” of the University. Starting in 1975, Mary served three heroes. He worked tirelessly,” she adds. “I feel really honored Bill Gates Sr.’s passion weeknight get-togethers, Gates, whose 6-foot-7 height was hard terms on the Board of Regents. Later, their daughter Kristianne to be part of a new generation of advocates for social justice for higher education to miss, showed up at the law school and joined in. “One night Blake, ’75, a Spokane-based business owner and civic activist, that he helped to create. I hope to honor that legacy.” and the students at- we were wrapping up a long week with takeout in a small con- served 12 years on the board. Now their youngest, daughter tending the University ference room,” says Colleen Melody, ’04, ’09, one of the first Libby Gates MacPhee, who completed a master’s in social work of Washington will Gates scholars. “He dropped in, folded himself into a chair and in 2018, is serving a six-year term. And the entire Gates family, live on through gifts took a paper plate of food, just making time to visit with us.” including Bill and Melinda Gates, has given time and tremendous made in his honor He was interested in how the students were managing law support to the UW. This includes scholarships, endowments to the Achievement school. Did they have any needs? Could they use any advice? and funding to complete capital projects such as Gates Hall, Scholars Endowed Gates o!ered students two key pieces of advice: First, they which houses the law school, the Bill and Melinda Gates Center Fund. The fund, initi- were there to learn the law. “He said, ‘Don’t be so busy trying to for Computer Science & Engineering and the Hans Rosling ated by Gates, covers change the world that you don’t get all the foundational material Center for Population Health. tuition, internship you need to know,’” says Storms. “He wanted them to learn to When Storms wanted to expand the Gates Scholars program support and mento- use the law to [in the words of John Lewis] ‘make good trouble.’” to provide resources to all law students, Gates was a champion. ring for Washington He also told the students to not just think about the work they With his support, she increased the number of speakers, mentors state students. To want to do, but to think about the profession and how to be a and advisers. “I said we need a stronger, broader program. And contribute: giving. leader to make all lawyers better. “That was so important,” adds Bill believed in the vision and seeded $500,000 [in 2010] to get uw.edu/billgatessr Storms. “All lawyers should be concerned about how we practice it going,” she says. “It allowed us to bring the public interest and the connection between ethics and access to justice.” programing to a greater swath of students.” The initial grant was

William Henry Gates II was born into what he once called followed with another $1 million in 2013. OFSTORMSPHOGRAPHIC JACKSTORMS “a distinctly middle-class family.” He grew up in Bremerton, Today, the Gates program has created a network of talented where his dad owned a furniture store. The UW was his sole lawyers in the Northwest and throughout the country. Out of choice for college, and just as he was starting classes in 1943, the very first class, Melody has become the founding director he joined the Army Reserve, knowing he would be called up to of the civil rights division in the state Attorney General’s o#ce. serve in World War II his sophomore year. He returned home She investigates discrimination and enforces state and federal in 1946 in time to start fall quarter on the GI Bill. anti-discrimination laws. She knew she wanted to pursue public He met his future wife, Mary Maxwell, ’50, at the UW, and service law. Her scholarship convinced her to stay at the UW. they married in 1951. In 1964, Gates co-founded a Seattle law Last year, a fellow scholar, Vanessa Hernandez, ’09, became firm that later became Preston, Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates). the director of advocacy for the Northwest Justice Project, the Bill Gates Sr. stands with the inaugural recipients of the Gates Public Mary Maxwell Gates Known for his integrity and intellect, he was a force in Seattle’s state’s largest publicly funded legal aid program. The Gates Interest Law Scholarship at their 2009 graduation. From left, their and William H. Gates legal community. scholarship was the very reason Hernandez pursued law. “I current roles, are Vanessa Hernandez (director of advocacy for the Sr. proudly pose for When Gates became president of the Seattle-King County Bar knew I wanted to transition from teaching, but I wasn’t inter- Northwest Justice Project), Michael Peters (CEO of Paralympics the camera on their Association in 1970, he had a mission. At the time, Washington ested in going to law school for law school’s sake,” she says. International), Emily Alvarado (director of the O!ce of Housing for UW graduation day in had only white judges and hardly any lawyers who were people “I wanted to go as part of a community really moving toward the city of Seattle) and Colleen Melody (head of the state Attorney 1950. Photo courtesy of color. Gates knew those deficiencies a!ected the trust clients social justice and public interest.” General’s Wing Luke Civil Rights Unit). William H. Gates Sr.

26 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 27 EIGHT STORIES | PROOF THAT EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE

Be"ore I became a student at the University ofWashington, I went to prison. By OMARI AMILI At the age of 16, I was enticed by the idea of a life of. luxury and began my involvement in bank fraud. I got money, fancy cars, and up until the age of 21, a taste of a life I never thought was possible while growing up in crack houses, foster homes and homeless shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest. It was my first o!ense, but the prosecutor wanted to give me decades in after prison. My graduate research and life experiences have led me to prison, charging me with 30 felonies with no plea agreements. I ended believe that education can be a powerful path to it. I’ve shared my per- up being incarcerated for nearly two years, but the collateral consequences sonal story at prisons, colleges, elementary schools, high schools, middle of my felony convictions would stick with me a lot longer. People warned schools and other outlets. In this series of intimate interviews, I am me there would be no opportunities waiting for me on the other side, sharing the stories of others like me who have survived the legal system that a criminal record is something you can’t come back from. But when in Washington state, and became Huskies on the other side. I got out of prison, I flipped my GED into a master’s degree, earning You’re going to meet a professor, a social worker and a painter. You’ll four degrees in all, including three from UW Tacoma. I have since become meet mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. This is not a story about an educator, a public speaker and an author with a passion for working any one exception; This is a collection of stories that prove that everyone with youth a!ected by the criminal justice system. To set an example for in prison deserves a second chance, and when they come back to society, my six kids, I have become a role model and a productive citizen. they need to come back to a welcoming society. As these conversations Despite the barriers that society has in place, and continues to rein- show, the University of Washington has played—and will continue to force, many of my friends and I are proof that there can be a positive life play—a major role in constructing a prison-to-college pipeline.

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28 UW MAGAZINE These are only excerpts of our intimate interviews with formerly incarcerated Huskies. To read more go to magazine.uw.edu. WINTER 2020 29

GINNY BURTON

A mother of three and a ﬁrst-generation college student, Burton has her sights on becoming an attorney working in public policy. Despite a trauma-ﬁlled upbringing that led to her being incarcerated multiple times, she has become a 2020 Truman Scholar, a highly competitive $30,000 graduate school LESHAWN scholarship. GAMBLE

As a deployed soldier in the U.S. military, Gamble was attacked by a group of fellow soldiers. After a drawn-out tribunal process, he returned home—only to be arrested and convicted on marijua- na-related charges. Now a UW Tacoma student and a painter, he ﬁnds meaning by working with youth and his community.

30 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 31 GINNY BURTON practice law. It wasn’t until the last maybe nine months that I have to get out of the mindset of, “I’m doing it, so damn every- recognized that it was possible, and then I had people in my life body else.” It’s got to be the idea of Sankofa: looking back and Omari Amili You had parents who were addicted to drugs. When that might be able to help make that happen. bringing knowledge forward. You help those around you, the you were really young, they were doing robberies together, and Omari Amili You said that by seven or eight years old, you wanted idea of umoja, which is unity. Despite the fact that I’m not this became a cycle for you later on. Can you speak a little bit to be an attorney. What inspired you to finally pursue law as an African, that doesn’t mean I can’t instill these principles in my about how these things are generational? Your child was incar- adult? life and help those around me. cerated, as well. Ginny Burton I know Tarra Simmons, who was able to open a Omari Amili Tell me about that about your organization, Renaissance Ginny Burton People function in patterns. If we don’t have any door that made me think that it might be possible for me (Editor’s 21, and the work that you do. kind of perspective to look at beyond our own, it’s really easy to note: Simmons just became the first formerly incarcerated person LeShawn Gamble It was from prison that this thing was birthed. fall into the trap of teaching what we know. It’s almost like having elected to the Washington state Legislature). I have a bunch of The goal has always been to take art and use it as a tool to share blinders on. I think my parents did the best they could with what friends that are attorneys and one in particular, Amanda Dubois, CHRISTOPHER a di!erent narrative of minoritized peoples, and to also show they knew. There was definitely some mental illness there, and consistently encourages me to shoot for the stars. She says, “Don’t BEASLEY entrepreneurship and community in action. When I sell art at the some addiction. I was taught the same thing that they knew, worry about then, just worry about now. Take the steps to move events I do, the proceeds go into providing a space where children period. When my dad got out of prison, he never came back. But forward.” Beasley, a UW Tacoma can create. And they use that creation to focus on challenging professor who grew my mom and I, unfortunately, were using drugs together. We narratives, pulling these things out of their subconscious some- were in prison together two times. I think she taught me what up in rural Illinois, LESHAWN GAMBLE served time in prison times and processing it. There is active catharsis in doing something she knew how to teach me. And so, I tried do the exact opposite, for charges related with your hands in order to heal your mind. And that’s the root and not impact my kids with my lifestyle. And their lives were Omari Amili Tell me something that you’re proud of that has to manufacturing of everything that I do, to heal the mind through action. still impacted. nothing to do with incarceration. methamphetamine. My 28-year-old son served a prison sentence for something LeShawn Gamble I’m just glad I’m still alive, man. With everything He is the founder of CHRISTOPHER BEASLEY he did as a juvenile. They charged him as an adult. He doesn’t that I’ve been through, I’m just happy to be alive because every the Formerly have the same kind of issues, but stu! happened in foster care day is a new adventure. And a lot of people don’t think of that as Incarcerated College Omari Amili Tell us about the Husky Post-Prison Research Lab, because that’s where they ended up growing up. So they were an accomplishment. Remember: Getting up out of bed, sometimes Graduates Network, which you started on the UW Tacoma campus. impacted. It’s definitely a cyclical problem, which I’m currently that’s harder than anything else. That’s the biggest accomplish- which has a thousand Christopher Beasley I imagine the lab as a space where formerly trying to break with him. His sister is in active addiction, not to ment I got. members across incarcerated people can come in and help study transitions from 43 states. the extent that I was, but she’s destructive to herself. So my The first month of being in my first duty station in the military, prison to college and get paid to do that. The goal of the lab is to lifestyle, even though she wasn’t directly exposed, still impacted I got attacked by a bunch of soldiers in my unit. That was just better understand transitions from prison to college, and to her, and she’s dealing with things the same exact way. It’s scary. one traumatic experience after another. It was people who I eventually be able to help develop programs to support people’s I’ll continue to assess that process as the years go by. thought were friends of mine. Then I had to go through this transitions. Omari Amili We have a lot of similarities in our upbringings. I whole military tribunal. It was a horrible experience to be isolated Omari Amili What are the gaps that you guys need to fill to really remember having drug busts at my house, police coming in there in a place away from everybody who could have been my support reach those goals? with guns drawn, and it’s the scariest thing in the world for a system. I had this whole experience with the system and saw Christopher Beasley Money. I want to make sure that it supports little kid. In what ways do you think that impacted you, or the how it really ain’t for minoritized people. It was my first intro- formerly incarcerated scholars. When I was l doing my doctorate, set the stage for things that would happen later? duction to how the system not only places us against ourselves, I was really fortunate to be in a big lab. Three of us were formerly Ginny Burton It started to prepare me to be comfortable in that but actually is built to grind us up. incarcerated doctoral students, and a bunch of us were in recovery. kind of environment. I had a gun held to my head by my dad’s After I got out of the military and out of prison, I was still They invested in us. crime partner who came in to threaten my mom’s life. I think struggling to find work. I would go hang out at the bar and sit Omari Amili From your experience, what’s the climate like for that I just started to become accustomed to what living in the there moping. You know, just f—g miserable, man. I just didn’t formerly incarcerated students, scholars and professors at the underbelly was, you know, having your life threatened in a number want to be in the house, but I didn’t really want to be present in University of Washington? You said you were open about your of di!erent ways. And I think that was the beginning of my life. And so I’m sitting drinking a beer, waiting to get on a pool background from the very first interview. desensitization. table, and this lady sits down next to me. She delivered it to me Christopher Beasley When I first came in, faculty, sta! and stu- Omari Amili You were a bright kid and you actually had a vision straight. She said, “If you wanted to be like this, you should just dents were all interested and supportive. Some are going to be for your life despite all that, but obviously, there were some things stay home. You should be happy to be alive and that you have more supportive than others, particularly those that are social that took place that led to using drugs. What happened? the ability to be here.” I never had nobody give it to me straight researchers, but I’ve gotten a lot of support from STEM faculty. Ginny Burton My mom was the first person to ever get high with like that in a very long time. It’s mostly vocal support, but that kind of keeps you going. People me. There were seven kids in my family. She had this plan to smoke Omari Amili With that intersection between you being a Black cheering you on and stu! is huge. I should say: While it’s pretty weed, her and my brothers. I really didn’t want to because I knew man and you also having a criminal history, how did those aspects supportive, to the students there might be di!erent perspectives, my dad went to prison for drugs. I come from a family where of your identity impact your decisions? CYNTHIA but I think that’s mostly because they don’t see the structural people just aren’t nice. And I was really sensitive as a kid and got LeShawn Gamble When I went to Tacoma Community College, BRADY changes happening. But they at least do have some faculty rallying picked on a lot, and I was pretty much harassed into it. They wanted I wanted to go into medicine. The Veterans Administration (VA) Before earning a behind them. Ana Mari Cauce supports it. She’s actually mentored to make sure that I wasn’t going to tell, and so if I did it, too, the pays for my school. The VA adviser at the time was like, “That’s degree from the UW in a couple formerly incarcerated students. likelihood of me telling was a lot was a lot slimmer. noble, but we don’t know how your licensure process is going to Ethnic, Gender & Omari Amili Talk about some of the things that you have brought I thought I had destroyed my opportunities to practice law in go.” I stayed focused on the medical stu! for about four quarters, Labor Studies, Brady to UW since your time here. any kind of way. I started training dogs when I was in prison, and developed a plan in my mind. I was like, “I’m going as far as lived a life of hardship Christopher Beasley We had a leadership institute this summer, from 1997 to 2000. And I really liked that. When I got out of I’m gonna go, and it ain’t gonna be an AA. You’re gonna pay for that prepared her bringing together formerly incarcerated student leaders from prison that time I started managing a doggy daycare and boarding my doctorate.” That was in my mindset the whole time. I trans- for a greater purpose: across the state. We also had a hackathon where we brought in kennel. I was clean for a little while. When I was in prison, I was ferred to UW. It’s an opportunity to get an education through a serving clients in her the tech community and people working on criminal justice work as a chemical system that had habitually disenfranchised me. reform, talking about using technology to help solve these prob- training dogs for people with physical disabilities. I knew I liked dependency to be of service. Helping other people was really important to Omari Amili Life is a journey and our perspective of what our professional. lems. We want to bring together communities that sometimes me. After I got out, though, I was doing private training for average purpose is can change over time. Have you begun to identify aren’t working together. people, and the allure of working with dogs was lost for me be- what that is? Last year we did a summit where I brought in some people cause these were just people spending money. They didn’t really LeShawn Gamble Initially, my purpose was just to keep the lights from college initiatives in New York and California. That was to care about what was going on with their dogs. on and keep my stomach from growling. Then once I had a kid, help us figure out what this thing is going to look like—not to tell I worked in the trades for a while. I was good at it, but that it was like, I gotta make sure he stays fed and the lights stay on us how it’s done, but to tell us how they’re doing what they do, wasn’t really where my heart was. When I got out in 2012 or for him. And that’s survival, that’s not purpose. That’s not any- and why they do it. I think in this work, we don’t have to reinvent 2013, I started working in social services. I quickly moved up thing other than primal animal instinct. And that’s all a lot of the wheel. It doesn’t mean we can’t do it in our own way. It is into supervising a number of programs. When I started school, us have. Now, I’m at the point where I’m eating good, but I inspiration, it is wisdom. Because the wisdom’s not there in the I didn’t necessarily think that there was a potential for me to want to make sure that the people around me start eating. You literature, but we know people, and they have the wisdom.

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THERON TAYLOR

Taylor is a Tacoma native, but he never imagined attending a UW campus so close to home. He KURT began his journey in MYERS education while serving a 20-year sentence. An accidental shooting Upon his release, he cost his friend his life started his bachelor’s in and Myers his youth. psychology as a Despite the tragic incident ﬁrst-generation college and the lengthy student in his 50s. incarceration that followed, an educational journey that began inside of prison ultimately led him to the University of Washington Tacoma’s Milgard School of Business.

34 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 35 CYNTHIA BRADY through the cracks and ends up reo!ending or whatever—they’re to do nothing. And for all the things that I’ve done, up to this going to have news crews and everybody’s going to be trying to point, I pray that people have prospered because of me. That Omari Amili Do you think that getting into trouble and ending get the scoop. And then that just means that next time there’s a those who may come after me will see that it’s possible to be up in drug court was the catalyst for you wanting to study Human law being passed in Olympia, it’s gonna get shot down because at a place where you never thought you would be. This is for Services at Olympic College? so and so reo!ended after he got out, and everyone gave him a our brothers and sisters that are locked away. For those who Cynthia Brady I believe so—getting into drug court and seeing bunch of shots. do not believe it is possible. counselors that look like me. My first counselor in drug court Omari Amili That’s something that’s been heavy on my mind since was Black. My counselor when I was sent to Seadrunar Recovery I started doing public speaking and wrote a book. If I was to get CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON Center was also Black. It was good to see some familiarity in in trouble again, all of a sudden you see Omari Amili on the news. that field. But I also prayed to God about it, and I knew all of I know there are people just waiting for us to fail so that they Omari Amili You chose to do your photo shoot at a particular park my life that I wanted to help people. I have been that type of could point to us and say, “See, I told you so. Don’t spend money in Spanaway, Washington. Why? person even in my addiction and selling drugs. On one hand, on their education. Don’t let them into these colleges.” There’s Christopher Johnson I spent a lot of time with my friends at this I was selling drugs, but in the same breath, I was turning around CHRISTOPHER a lot of pressure, but at the same time, there’s not a lot of pressure JOHNSON park. And it’s also the place where I was arrested, the last time and taking the money and doing something for somebody else because we’re good, decent human beings and the crimes we I was arrested. The people in the picture with me are my friends with it. I told my clients—and they always laugh when I say committed were not who we are. Being in the wrong Demetrius Rainey and Nikee Green. this—I said: “At one point in my life I was sitting at the round Kurt Myers It’s not to say somebody is not going to make a place at the wrong Omari Amili You studied a lot of music theory at UW. How did table, pushing dope. Now today, I am sitting at a di!erent type mistake again in life. We’re not static beings. We’re constantly time led to felony you become interested in that? convictions and pris- of round table, pushing hope.” dynamic and constantly changing and growing. Some of the Christopher Johnson Back in 2009, when I got arrested for a on time for crimes he Omari Amili After learning your story and where you have been, folks that I’ve seen have done really good, and then made a robbery case, I got into it with the correctional o#cers and they some of them, I know they are like, “Man, if she can do this after didn’t commit. mistake. It’s not necessarily like they went out and committed But despite losing put me in the hole for 30 days. I started singing and I heard the what she’s been through, I can too.” some heinous crime. But they made a mistake, right? You can years behind echo o! the cell walls. It sounded beautiful. I was like, “This is Cynthia Brady Yes, and that is exactly what I try to encourage easily shine the light on him and say, “See, he’s a failure.” But bars, Christopher bringing me some joy right now. I’m listening to music.” I’m on them with. It is not as much about just talking about abstinence. that just means there’s an opportunity for growth. That’s just Johnson’s incarcer- 23-hour lockdown and 99% of the time you’re by yourself. And That is the focus people keep talking about. But no, you want an opportunity to learn a new lesson and move on. We all do ation was a catalyst so, all of a sudden, I started to imagine life di!erently. I started to really teach them about how to live, how to learn, how to that in our own time. Fostering more of a sense of understanding for a new life. to imagine, What would it be like to be an author? What would love, how to have compassion—and not just for other people, and forgiveness as a society is going to be one of the primary it be like to be a fireman? To do things that nobody I knew did? but for themselves. things we need to do in order to make an impact on the mass I started to imagine what it would be like to be a singer, you know, Omari Amili If there’s a young girl and she’s going to go through incarceration problem. an artist, a musician. And then I had this vision that I went to some things like what you went through, what is one lesson that UW and graduated with a music degree. you’ve learned that you would want to share? THERON TAYLOR Cynthia Brady That change is inevitable. We change whether we want to grow or not. And we’re going to keep changing, but stay Omari Amili What led you to continue your education following AMANDA HENRITZE resilient enough to come through it and keep going. No matter your release from prison? Omari Amili Once you got enrolled at Tacoma Community College what, on the other side, there’s always something more promising. Theron Taylor Before I got out, one of my counselors told me that and started pursuing an education, what was the impact on your I had to let go of a lot of hatred and a lot of pain that was going she saw my file and that I might be a candidate for a post-prison lifestyle? How did it impact your vision for your life? on inside me. I had to let go of them because they weren’t serving education program. I wanted to pursue more than just an A.A. Amanda Henritze The impact on my lifestyle was, I was tired. But me. I had a lot of anger with the judicial system, with police of- degree, I just knew it wasn’t gonna be enough. She said, “Call for my vision, I think it just made me hungry to understand more, ficers, with prejudiced people. But it wasn’t benefiting me to be these people and they’ll help you.” especially being in class with a bunch of high school students I did two quarters at Central Washington University. And while angry about it. The only thing you can do to change that is to be and seeing how much they know in comparison to how much I I was doing that, Ari Kohn, the director of the Post-Prison Education the change you want to see. don’t. I really needed to take this opportunity to try to learn as Program, gave me a call and said, “Hey, I want you to graduate much as I can. To not only catch up, but just to be able to have from UW.” I’m like, “What? UW? That’s one of the most presti- KURT MYERS intelligent conversations. To be able to have a conversation with gious colleges in the world, right?” And he’s like, “I graduated my grandma about politics and understand it. Omari Amili You were a project coordinator at the UW Tacoma from there, don’t worry about it. I got somebody for you to talk It also started to make me see di!erent things in the world. Post-Prison Education Research Lab. How did that go? to.” Dr. Chris Beasley was my contact. And he’s actually my best This has been my life for so long: crime, drugs and money. And Kurt Myers It was the first strategic planning I had ever done. friend right now. A great friend and mentor. now prison. I felt defined by that. But then after going to TCC, The term gets tossed around pretty frequently in our community, Omari Amili Did you ever imagine before your release that you’d AMANDA but I definitely did have imposter syndrome. You feel like you’re be able to attend the University of Washington? HENRITZE I met a lot of good professors that I spent a lot of time with. There acting like somebody that you’re not. I’m at the very back of the Theron Taylor I would have never thought I would be here, or was one the first quarter who said, “Don’t ever sell yourself short. hierarchy, and now I have a suit and tie on, and I’m telling folks After her release Who cares if you have a felony? Be the first person that gets hired even have opportunities in my life to do better. Growing up in from prison, Henritze to sit down, and telling people to stay on task, and stopping Tacoma, watching the Huskies play football, I had a friend and at some place. Be the exception.” It just makes me want to go to began working school more. people in the middle of what they’re saying, and saying, “That’s a neighbor who played football for the Huskies back in the ’80s, for Mod Pizza, an a great idea, but can we save it for later?” so just to know that I am a Husky now—the joy and greatness employer that is known Omari Amili Before I enrolled in college, I’d probably call myself It was helpful for me to start reimagining myself, not as a that comes along with it, these things are forever. for people second a felon. But after that, I was a college student, and I was working prisoner who’s trying to act like a free person or a working pro- Omari Amili What has kept you going along the way? chances. She is toward something positive. Did you see any impacts on your fessional, but as person who has this past who is a free, working Theron Taylor It’s not about me, it’s about other people. Earning studying Urban Design identity? professional out here in the world, and who really has some my degree was a big accomplishment, but it was only because with the intention Amanda Henritze Yeah, at barbecues with my girlfriend’s family, of making an authority on what’s being talked about because I know this so of what I wanted to do with it. And when I took my first quarter people ask, ‘How’s it going?’ Now I can actually be proud of intimately. I’m probably the most well-versed person in this room impact on local something. It gave me a sense of accomplishment almost, even at UW, it was a disaster. I couldn’t understand it. I could have communities. when talking about what prison is like. fallen in pieces right then, but they had support for me. They had though I hadn’t finished. I’m going to school to do something Omari Amili I never knew at the time I graduated that there might psychologists that I could talk with, people I could sit with and that is in a better direction. It made me start to think about what have been multiple students at UWT with a similar path. We are let them know what was going on with me. They supported me I want to do with my life, and exposed me to concepts I never at a point where it’s comfortable for us to be able to admit this and got me through. And I just never knew that there were so knew. It has definitely shaped who I am and my identity. past and to come sit in a room and talk about it. many people out there who wanted me to prosper. You can get Omari Amili What are you hoping to achieve in the future? Kurt Myers There’s a ripple e!ect that has on the community: in that prison mentality: “You’re not gonna be able to do that. Amanda Henritze My endgame will probably be something like Now all these people are coming out and able to share their story. You’re not gonna get no job. How are you gonna be able to go to a project manager for an architecture company. But, you know, I’m glad that a spotlight is being shone on the success stories school? You ain’t got no money.” I didn’t let that get to me. I’m still not sure yet how to get there. I just know, eventually, I because Lord knows that as soon as I fail—or if someone slips I know there’s something that I have to do. I’m not just here will make my way.

36 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 37 THE FULFILLMENT FACTOR

Retiring from the UW doesn’t end the story for faculty and staff.

They are driven to serve their communities on a local or global scale

who have the best thinking about what we should be doing, and get that in- Equity & Justice Adviser formation to practitioners, policy makers and scholars,” he says. BY ERIN ROWLEY When Robert Crutchfield, who retired Crutchfield is also on the steering as a professor emeritus in 2016 after committee for the Racial Democracy almost four decades in the Department Crime & Justice Network, which proof Sociology, was invited to join the vides mentorship to young faculty Four years after retiring from the faculty of the UW School Board of Commissioners for the Seattle members of color from across the of Nursing, Sandra Motzer attended a class on emergency Housing Authority (SHA), he couldn’t country who are studying issues of say no. It was a full-circle moment. race, crime and justice. It’s a National preparedness at the Lake City Library. “For me, it was pretty special be- Science Foundation-funded e!ort to There she learned her neighborhood lacked one of Seattle’s cause I grew up in housing projects in continue to diversify the professoriate Pittsburgh,” he says. “I was honored to nationwide. new emergency communication hubs that were available be asked and happy to serve in the role. “I think staying involved and keep- elsewhere across the city. It didn’t take long for Motzer, ’75, It was also a chance for me to bring ing a scholarly life alive and going what I knew from an academic setting gives me value, gives me something,” ’76, to realize that was a problem she wanted to solve. in service to the community.” Crutchfield says. “I get as much as I After attending meetings at the emergency operations The board’s work is focused on sup- give for a lot of these things.” porting the SHA’s executive sta! and center downtown and collaborating with a colleague to making decisions around budgets and secure a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching investments. Its ultimate goal is to do everything it can to expand the amount Community Connector fund grant, Motzer helped establish Lake City’s own emer- of housing that is available for low-in- gency communications hub in 2013. come people in Seattle. The inspiration to give back was in- In addition to serving the local stilled in Sandra Madrid at an early There she was, back to “work” … in retirement. community, Crutchfield is the chair age. So it’s no surprise that commit- Motzer’s story is not uncommon. Whether finding new of the Committee on Law & Justice ment continues in retirement. (CLAJ) for the National Academies of “My mom’s inspiration and the way inspiration after their full-time University careers are over, Science, Engineering & Medicine. she lived her life ingrained in me at or expanding their previous service and work, UW retirees CLAJ is an all-volunteer group of ac- an early age the value of serving and ademic experts from across the giving back to the community,” she are making incredible contributions to our communities country responsible for bringing sci- says. “I’ve never let go of that.” on local, national and global scales. entific input to important government, Madrid, ’80, ’82, ’85, spent the ma- federal and local policies on crime, jority of her 28-year UW tenure as the law and justice. A longtime priority assistant dean for students and com- PHOTOS BY RON WURZER for the group is getting a study con- munity development in the School of ducted on racial and ethnic disparities Law. Throughout that career, she in the criminal justice system and served on more than 30 nonprofit what can be done about it. community boards. Robert Crutchfield “Our job is to find the people who Madrid continues that service today Sandra Madrid are most knowledgeable in that area, as a member of the board of directors

38 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 39 My mom’s inspiration and the way she lived ‘‘ her life ingrained in me at an early age the value of serving and giving back to the community. I’ve never let go of that. with the Children’s Home Society of to go, but they don’t have a lot of re- —SANDRA MADRID Washington to secure a grant called sources,” says LoGerfo, who travels “Build Lake City Together.” The grant there three to five times a year. “If you focuses on improving equity issues for can figure out a good way to get some residents such as housing, tra#c and extra resources and get the right people pedestrian safety, crime and the together in the room, good things environment. happen.” “The continued inspiration [to do LoGerfo worked with the Cambodian this work] comes from all these people Ministry of Health and an NGO doing that I’ve met,” says Motzer. “Not just work in slums and rural areas to help in Lake City, but across the city. There them organize chronic disease treat- are wonderful people out there who ment programs and secure funding. have been engaged in doing community Improving Cambodia’s medical activism for decades. I’m just a new- teaching institutions is also a high pri- comer to all of this.” ority for LoGerfo. He has been connecting with experts from France, for the United Way of King County, as a well as a group from Boston the board of directors for the YWCA University, to expand clinical training of Seattle/King/Snohomish Counties, Lake City Advocate Global Health Champion e!orts at the medical school and major the board of trustees for the Woodland teaching hospitals. Park Zoo, the Seattle Art Museum Motzer retired as an associate professor When he started to think about retire- “You can’t teach what you don’t do Education & Community Engagement emerita in 2008 after a 30-year career ment, Jim LoGerfo, professor emeritus very well, so it’s been important to me Committee and the Seattle Colleges in BioBehavioral Nursing and Health in global health and medicine, wanted to find people who are focused on im- Chancellor’s Advisory Council. Systems. Her work to establish the to do global health work in a way he proving care, whether they are involved Also near to her heart is the service emergency communications hub was wasn’t able to as a full-time faculty in teaching students or not, to make she does to create networking and just the beginning of her community member. the training institutions better clinical community connections for Latinx advocacy. His 40-year UW career included institutions,” he says. professionals and women of color. For “The bottom line is we want to im- stints as the medical director at He’s also collaborating with Tracy 30 years, she’s coordinated the annual prove the quality of life for everyone Harborview Medical Center and asso- Harachi, associate professor in the UW Cinco de Mayo Reception, which con- who is living and working in Lake City,” ciate dean of medicine. School of Social Work, to expand the venes Latinx professionals and she says. After traveling to Cambodia to learn role of social workers in the medical community leaders for an evening of Motzer collaborated with UW what the country’s needs were in the system, as well as to address the enor- networking at the Columbia Tower. Nursing colleague Susanna areas of public health care and health- mous burden of mental health problems “It’s an opportunity for people to Cunningham to bring the national care training, LoGerfo, ’72, ’74, decided among Cambodia’s population. partner with someone or engage with “Stop the Bleed” program to Lake City that was where he wanted to focus his Despite knowing it may take many a nonprofit Latinx organization that as well. e!orts. As with many lower-resourced years to see the impact of this work, they wouldn’t otherwise have been Cunningham, ’69, ’78, and Motzer countries, Cambodia had virtually no LoGerfo’s inspiration is unwavering. a#liated with,” Madrid says. “There were trained at Harborview Medical funding or emphasis on caring for “It’s building relationships and see- are so many stories about how that one Center and then certified as “Stop the chronic diseases such as diabetes, high ing programs take on a life of their own event can bring connections and make Bleed” instructors, and Cunningham blood pressure and obesity. and doing good things for people,” he so many positive things happen in the secured the grant to create “Lake City “The compelling thing in Cambodia says. “That’s why we become doctors. community.” Stops the Bleed.” Since 2018, they’ve is they know the direction they need That’s why we do public health.” For the past 15 years, she has facil- taught hundreds of Lake City residents itated the Nordstrom Latina Summit, how to stop life-threatening bleeding which brings together college-level through free classes at community and professional Latinas to network centers, churches and other community and build connections around the locations. “Stop the Bleed” kits are now theme of empowerment. Last fall, she available at the Lake City and The connection to the community helped the Woodland Park Zoo hold Meadowbrook community centers. its inaugural reception for Professional Through her work with the emer- ‘‘ with your heart and soul brings immense Women of Color. gency communications hub, Motzer “The connection to the community is also a member of the Lake City satisfaction to a life fulfilled. with your heart and soul brings im- Neighborhood Alliance (LCNA). She —SANDRA MOTZER mense satisfaction to a life fulfilled,” chaired the board for four years and she says. “Wherever you are in your currently serves as its treasurer. LCNA life, there is always a need to help and is an advocacy group for funding a new Sandra Motzer assist, no matter what your field hap- Lake City community center and— Jim LoGerfo pens to be.” among many other things—partnered

40 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2020 41 It wasn’t easy for a young Filipino-American man herbal remedies, his mind opened to other medical skills and with a love of science and a passion for community philosophies. Vega had come out of medical school feeling like service to dream big in the 1970s. As an under- he knew everything. Now he wondered: “What else is there?” graduate at the UW, Fernando Vega once brought Soon other like-minded physicians joined the clinic, along home a glossy brochure about becoming a medical with a naturopath and a physical therapist, and Seattle Healing technician and showed it to his father. His dad Arts was born. was blunt: “If you’re going to do that, you might Among Vega’s patients in the early days was pioneering as well be a doctor.” Seattle naturopath John Bastyr. A burgeoning alternative med- Vega, in his early 20s, began volunteering as a icine university, with campuses now in Kenmore and San Diego, patient advocate and observed doctors as they would later be named for him. gave their time to treat any ailment that came Known for his practical approach to healing, Bastyr graduated through the doors, from sexually transmitted dis- from a chiropractic college and completed a residency at a Seattle eases and drug problems to the flu and mental hospital before beginning his practice in the mid-1930s, during health issues. Vega thought, “I could do that—I’d the Great Depression. His skillful touch and keen observation like to do that, become someone like that.” helped him diagnose illness as a chiropractor. “He saw things no Even as a kid, Vega was fascinated by the way one else did,” Vega says. Bastyr grew up in North Dakota with a the physical world works and spent hours poring mother who was an herbalist and a father who was a pharmacist. over the Time Life Science book series, intrigued He learned to work with whatever tools he had at hand—physical by polymers. He loved going on field trips with his manipulation, herbs, homeopathy. In the 1950s, Bastyr helped father, who worked in quality control for various establish the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Alaska canneries. Born in Seattle, Vega spent most Seattle. The school later moved to Portland. After witnessing of his first six years in the Philippines, where he In the 1980s, the American Holistic Medical Association met the healing from spoke Tagalog and studied English from his father. in Seattle and brought innovative physicians such as Bernie Siegel acupuncture and other Vega’s school years were all in Seattle, where his and Christiane Northrup to town before they became well known. alternative health-care mother taught in the public school system. But with Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, then relatively new authors, methods o#ered by a roots in two cultures, Vega struggled to find his were also featured. Learning about new ideas in medicine inspired Chinese acupuncturist identity. During his years at Garfield High School, Vega: Chopra for his spirituality, Weil for his practicality, Northrup he sponsored to work Vega’s community was mostly other kids of color. and Siegel for thinking outside the box. Vega also videotaped in his clinic, Fernando In those days, medical school was mostly the long interviews with a dozen prominent physicians working Vega wondered what purview of white males, but the UW’s Educational outside the mainstream, beginning with John Bastyr in 1994. else was out there to Opportunity Program offered Vega a way in. Still, Vega resists the arcane classifications—Alternative, Holistic, treat patients. During his senior year at the UW, Vega was named Integrative, Complementary—each with di!erent nuances of “Asian Scholar of the Year” at the EOP Banquet. meaning. He is content to be considered a family doctor. He majored in cell and molecular biology, his “Physicians ultimately learn the most from their practice with grades were good, not great, but his science scores patients,” Vega says. Each time a patient would tell him about on the Medical College Admission Test were a technique or method that got results—osteopathy, visceral higher than the class average. And, perhaps most manipulation, vitamin infusions—he would study it or consider important, his motivation was off the charts. training in it. And, he points out, many ideas considered far- Having grown up with community service values fetched in the ’80s are now widely acknowledged: the importance of the First Baptist Church, Vega was a firm be- of gut flora, the e!ect of diet on inflammation, the use of Neti liever in health care as a right. pots for sinus irrigation. “Half of what we did 20 years ago was Vega attended medical school at the UW, where wrong,” Vega says. “Half of what I do today is wrong; I just don’t he was the only Filipino-American in the class. “It know which half.” was tough,” he says. “I had to learn to study, develop Over the years, Vega has taught at the UW’s School of Medicine HOLISTIC habits and discipline. I was nervous as hell. Here and the School of Public Health. Medical students and residents was this minority student who had the weight of still do rotations with him at Seattle Healing Arts. He and his expectations: I could not fail.” second wife, Dr. Martina Koller, spend most of their time to- He persevered and became the first Filipino- gether, caring for patients. Even on weekends, they often make American to graduate from the UW School of house calls to longtime patients or family members who need Medicine in 1978. One of the lifelong habits he assistance. Particularly this year, during the COVID-19 pandemic, developed there was working long hours, first as they have donned protective gear to check in on patients who a phlebotomist at UW Medical Center-Montlake, are housebound, sometimes delivering oxygen or taking nose VIEW to help pay his medical school expenses; then, during his three- swabs for testing, listening to lungs, doing whatever they can The first Filipino-American to graduate from UW medical school, year residency in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he also worked to keep people out of the hospital. after hours as an emergency room physician. In the decades since medical school, Vega has learned so much Much as he loved ER work, Vega’s goal was family practice. that now, at 69, he says it would be a waste of all that experience Fernando Vega helped open the path to alternative medicine in the U.S. After returning to Seattle in 1981, he opened a private practice. to simply retire. About five years ago, he began thinking about During that time, a pivotal event in Vega’s career occurred. An how to transition from the responsibilities of running a clinic to old church friend asked him if he would be willing to sponsor a seeing patients part time. As always, he wants to continue advo- traditional Chinese medical doctor at his clinic. At the time, cating for greater exploration of healing and medicine. By Sheila Farr Photo by Anil Kapahi acupuncturists were not licensed in Washington state, so Dr. “That’s the value of Seattle Healing Arts,” Vega says. “There Amy Chen, recently arrived in Seattle from China, was not able are always rifts and arguments between di!erent disciplines, but to practice independently. Having her at the o#ce drew a di!erent if you can get through the language barrier in the context of type of patient to Vega’s clinic, ones who were unsatisfied with mutual intentions, real discoveries can happen.”—Sheila Farr is the results of Western medicine or sought alternatives. a Seattle freelance writer and frequent contributor to University As Vega witnessed the healing power of acupuncture and of Washington Magazine.

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SKETCHES PRIYA FRANK - - Rice, who in 2017 received the University of Washington’s Amazon at available is which book, the of sales from Proceeds Given the teeth-gnashing issues the city—and society—is happeningparticularlyisfindswhat RicedisturbingWhat is Thus, the autumn arrival of the book by Rice, ’72, ’74, the need“We both civic and civil says Rice,whoengagement,” partic during mayor as experienced he what details book His worry that downtown notmay he admits.come“Stores back,” beobsolete Therethe timemay may the economyby recovers. changes.” many be too may Dignatus, Laude Summa Alumnus the honor, alumni highest times contentious not be most in But politics anymore. his passion city’s for his city and the the of one during learned he lessons them. heed to need we And today. relevant as just are ago years 30 American African Northwest the benefit Noble, and Barnes and Museum. most divisive and trying circumstances, people can be engaged engaged be can people circumstances, trying and divisive most he together,” them brings that denominator common the find to controversial most the with When says. Rice, a journalist before he consumed went into was politics, was Seattle ce, # o to elected deseg school achieve to busing using history: city’s the in issue respects that manner a regation. in Walking into citizens that engage highly to charged learned atmosphere, Rice“We explains, in a bring them learned together to we opinion and of diversity process The grievance-oriented. not goal-oriented, was that way going in us for model a became solutions developed we how and the city.” issues facing other with many deal to forward needs that action the as healing identifies Rice today, with dealing Council City the of members the like says “Leaders first. place heal,” take to to is job United their the when of protesters the of president side the become taking to are solution ever the what mayor yet Seattle first know the don’t Rice, “We Mayors. of Conference States out. anger letting just than way better a be to respectful has there but intelligent, be, an will have you do How pause. a need we think I is nothing now, Right less anger. you have When conversation? instead because people to anger responding are forward moving need a big timeout.” We with a plan. coming up of to downtown Seattle, where ’74 live. ConstanceRice,COVID-19’70, he Ph.D., hasW. caused and his wife, UW Regent downtownmany stores to close, and downtown has become a focal point violent of angry, protests.“It hurts heartmy former to seeThe says. Rice Seattle,” downtown in happening is what rebuildingSeattle’s work his of proudjustifiablyremains mayor 1998. until 1990 from mayor was he when downtown decaying And now it appears the same level of trouble has returned. “I and Mayor Jenny Durkan, ’85, angry calls for defunding the police, police, the defunding for calls angry ’85, Durkan, Jenny Mayor and and Best, Carmen Chief Police Seattle of retirement sudden the you and up, it Add COVID-19. of wake the in crisis economic the some help. need of in desperate a city have formertwo-termSeattlenationally andmayor knowncommunity better. been could not have builder, Governance. & Policy Public of School Evans UW the at lectures people of lot a arethere and chief, inhealer a have [didn’t] “We with pent-up feelings, and that has resulted in riots and no solutions.” write to inspired was “I City. Emerald the for times trying ularly about civic engagement because I believe that even under the THE UW COMMUNITY For For months Seattlenow, has been an epicenter of pain and We saw the aftermath of the killings of Black citizens like Breonna Breonna once: at all coalescing like problems societal of rash a citizens to due protest Black of killings the of aftermath the saw We George Floyd and Taylor, Ahmaud not Arbery, to mention the many other senseless violent acts against people of color. Downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill in particular Council became City thescenes the of ongoing violent protests, between shootings, and vandalism. relationship contentious the that to Add Norman B. Rice’s timing couldn’t have been better. book, “Gaining HisA Public Profile Trust: of newCivic Engagement,” was world turned-upside-down already our when just out came worse. even getting -

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44 shows the way to ending divisiveness to the way shows Marmor Jon By Civil Engagement Rice Norman Mayor former by book new A Civic and are responding with responding are “We anger. of a lot need a big timeout.” respectful conversa respectful tion about the issues can’t Seattle plaguing because people occur Former Seattle Former Rice Norman Mayor an intelligent, says NEWS FROM NEWS to improve and enjoy their lives. To get to the capacity to take the world by storm. Where Hope Grows this station in life, he has devoted more But for this to happen, most of us need than two decades to personal growth and a plan, a clear sense of mission, vision Out of a Painful Past development experience using such meth- and values.” Britt East’s book “A Gay Man’s Guide to Life” ods as yoga, meditation, therapy, the 12 East continues to maintain strong con- provides realistic ways for gay men to deal with Steps, Nonviolent Communication and the nections to the University. He has been homophobia and live a good life Ho!man Process, a way of identifying neg- a longtime member of The President’s ative behaviors, moods and ways of thinking Circle as well as a strong supporter of By Jon Marmor that were developed during childhood. the Meany Center for the Performing The book—part memoir, part develop- Arts. It’s clear the UW has been—and ment manual—o!ers stories of empathy as remains—a big part of his life. well as no-nonsense approaches to After overcoming a Growing up in the South during the 1980s, living your best life: creating a family challenging upbring- Britt East’s family “made it clear that ev- without merely mimicking the norms ing, Foster School erything about me was wrong.” He goes of a straight society, cultivating sus- alum Britt East is on: “My family … su!ered without wisdom, tainable gay friendships, and ﬁnding leading an e#ort for steeped in denial and immersed in cycles lasting love in a world absorbed by gay men to overcome of intergenerational trauma. Addiction. hookup culture. 2020 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI VETERAN AWARD the lifelong discrim- Abuse. Suicide. It’s a myth that all parents “Trying to expunge those parts ination they have love their children, just something we like of you resulting from years of sor- BILL CENTER, ’78 experienced. to tell ourselves.” The struggles he faced row and anguish is a losing game,” left an indelible imprint on his psyche and East writes. “But you can learn to serve as the impetus for his helpful and trade your weapons for wisdom hopeful book, “A Gay Man’s Guide to Life,” and alchemize your pain into loving (Houndstooth Press). kindness.” East, ’14, who earned his EMBA from “Sometimes,” East adds, “it can EAST BRITT COURTESY the Foster School of Business, is a Seattle- seem like the cards are so stacked A Life of area author and public speaker who was against us as gay men that the best inspired to present realistic ways for gay we can hope for is just to make it men to deal with homophobia and strive through another day. We all have Leadership Retired Rear Admiral Bill Center has spent a lifetime serving his country and his university IF YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR THE PURPLE AND GOLD, YOU BELONG WITH US. By Jon Marmor Join the Pack! ANIL KAPAHI

Bill Center, ’78, credits He served in Operation Desert Storm, Brewster Denny, ’45, the legendary found- he made good on it quickly. He was the his UW education worked as an arms-control negotiator with ing dean of the Evans School. Center spent youngest commanding o#cer in the US with playing a key role the Joint Chiefs of Sta!, closed naval bases nearly two years at the UW, studying public Atlantic Fleet when he assumed command in his long and suc- in California, helped search for the wreck- policy and administration, with an emphasis of the USS Exploit, a minesweeper. He cessful Navy career. age of Korean Air Lines Flight #007, which on national security policy planning and later commanded USS Meyerkord, an an- was shot down by Russia, and commanded organization development. His two-year ti-submarine frigate, and USS Reeves, a all naval activities in the Paciﬁc Northwest. program ended a bit early because he was Japan-based guided missile cruiser that And that just scratches the surface of Bill such a voracious student that he took too made three deployments to the Persian Center’s 35 years in the Navy. But his re- many classes in other areas such as law, Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War. During lationship with the University of physics and anything else. He ended up Operation Desert Storm, though stationed Washington runs even longer—45 years, with many more credits than he needed. in the Pentagon, Center was “in the thick to be exact. “I had a fantastic time with Brewster of things” as the director of strike and The Dayton, Ohio, native came to the Denny and became good friends with Marc amphibious warfare. That meant “our shop UW for graduate school in 1976 after he Lindenberg [another dean of the Evans played a role in all the naval bombs and graduated from the United States Naval School]. I learned so much and built great missiles ﬁred at Iraq.” Not long after the Academy and had served eight years at relationships with my classmates and pro- war, President Clinton nominated him for sea. The Navy gave him the opportunity fessors. My UW education served me promotion to rear admiral. His sterling to go—all expenses paid—to any university extremely well throughout my career in the reputation earned him assignment as dep- he wanted. Much to his colleagues’ surprise, Navy.” For his service to our nation, the uty director for international negotiations he bypassed Harvard and Stanford and veteran community and the UW commu- for the Joint Chiefs of Sta! with special UWALUM.COM/ chose the Evans School of Public Policy & nity, the UW is honoring Center with the responsibilities for nuclear arms control, JOINUWAA Governance at UW. He was intent on 2020 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award. coming to Seattle so he could learn from His dream was to command at sea and Continued on page 52

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men and women, and violent acts carried out against other people of color, “January 14th” is resonating in a way few could have The River That Made seen when Jordan made the film. Seattle: A Human and Made with a small cast and crew in just two days, “January Natural History of the 14th” started as Jordan’s desire to tell a story about the loss of her Duwamish mother in 2008. The film’s title is her parents’ wedding BJ Cummings anniversary. University of Washington Released shortly before the videotaped killing of George Floyd, Press, 2020 the film has aired in festivals across the country and stirred ev- The city of Seattle grew eryone who has seen it. “This film doesn’t belong to me anymore,” up along the banks and Jordan says. That’s for sure. tidal flats of the Duwa- The Los Angeles-based Jordan took a winding path to her mish River. Author Cum- station in life as writer and director to watch. Born in Oakland mings, the founder of the and raised in San Diego, she attended high school in New Duwamish River Cleanup Orleans, then came to the UW for college. No matter where Coalition and manager of community engagement she has been, one constant remained. “I’ve always loved words for the UW Superfund Research Program, captures and was a writer. Plus, I read everything,” she says. the river’s history starting with the Duwamish peo- She wrote her first play in junior high, and envisioned herself ple and the early settlers. She winds her narrative as a novelist. Wondering if she could make a living as a writer, through the impact of industry to current e!orts she thought that that journalism might be the way to go. “I to celebrate and restore the waterway and all its wanted to be a Christiane Amanpour of CNN, a war reporter,” cultural and environmental value. she says. “Carrying forward important stories. That was my goal.” At the UW, she covered sports for The Daily, writing Memory Houses about swimming, football, and track and field. Then she decided Robert Hutchison, ’96, to switch to writing news. and others After graduating, she wrote for a magazine in Dubai, where Arquine, 2020 she encountered some cultural challenges when she wrote a This small, elegant four-part series on divorce in the United Arab Emirates. “It was book captures the a very sensitive topic, and I was told to stop talking to the locals. projects of architec- It was really scary,” she recalls. She made her way back to the ture alum Hutchison in States, worked in public relations for a while, returned to Seattle, the theme of memory then headed down to Los Angeles for a job as an assistant at a and loss. An exhibit major production studio. bound in a book jacket, She has written TV pilots that deal with social justice in his- the project interlac- torical dramas. Then 2019 came along, and her drive to make es renderings and “January 14th.” “It was just something I needed to do to explore black-and-white and subtly hued photographs of grief and loss,” she says. Having gained experience as a theater projects and memories. The descriptions from him director during her time in Seattle, she took on both writing and and his co-authors’ (all architects and teachers) are directing e!orts. “I go back to basics about storytelling,” she in English and Spanish. Hutchison, who bases his explains. Watching “January 14th,” you see how quietly the picture practice in Seattle, is an a"liate associate profes- LAUREN CREWS unfolds, how the actors have the stage to tell their stories—poi- sor in the College of Built Environments. gnantly, intelligently, and powerfully. Jordan, who has spent the past six months Zooming into film Instant Pot: Asian festivals nationwide, is looking forward to making another film Pressure Cooker Meals in 2021. Her new story features only two characters—a woman Patricia Tanumihardja, ’95 Writer-director and her birth mother, who is a survivor of a World War II con- Tuttle, 2020 La’Chris Jordan is centration camp. “What happens in a tragic moment?” Jordan Tanumihardja, who gifted at telling stories Feelings on Film asks. “From a woman’s perspective, what is it like to experience was born to Indone- with a social-justice those feelings?” sian-Chinese parents Bringing heartfelt tales to the big screen, writer-director La’Chris Jordan explores the Black experience theme, especially as and raised in Singa- women struggle for Finally, Black films for the masses pore, writes about By Jon Marmor equality in a patriar- As she got deeper into the cinematic world, La’Chris Jordan was food and travel for chal society. eager to connect with Black writers in Los Angeles. But despite magazines including living in the capital of the entertainment world, she had a real Saveur and Sunset. She also writes the Pickles In her film “January 14th,” La’Chris Jordan intended to tell a story into who this woman was, and how she navigates the new world problem finding organizations or databases that listed Black writers or movies. So she decided to create her own. and Tea blog in collaboration with the Smithso- honoring her parents’ 35-year-long marriage. Made in 2019, the she finds herself in. We had no idea that the film was going to nian Asian Pacific American Center. In her latest movie, which chronicles the death of a married Black man, is be so timely as it is right now. When you’re African American, The result: Blackcinemadb.com. A labor of love, her database contains 700 Black films. “We need to celebrate this body of cookbook, the communication alum o!ers fast and reaping honors at film festivals from coast to coast because of living in this space, you’re constantly thinking of issues and social user-friendly recipes of global classics like Thai ba- the way it has touched a nerve. issues at a time when it’s not in the headlines.” work. This is my way of celebrating that,” she says. But Jordan is not to one to rest on her laurels. She has already sil chicken and green curry mussels and pairs them Jordan, ’01, an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and Jordan, who holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from with mouth-watering photographs. All the recipes novelist, has been moved by the reception her film is receiving. the College of Arts & Sciences, took on double duty by writing identified a next step: creating a film competition for young filmmakers. “This is a tough business,” she says. “I want to support can be made in the popular multi-cooker “I didn’t know the timeliness of this piece when I made it,” Jordan and directing her film. Her work has long been recognized for (a combined pressure cooker and slow cooker). says of her first film. “I was trying to write a film about my parents’ focusing on social justice, especially as women struggle for equality filmmakers and give them a chance.” marriage. As we began to get into the story, I started going deeper in a patriarchal society. With the high-profile killings of Black Learn more at: Lachrisjordan.com Blackcinemadb.com

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For as long as he can remember, Josh lawsuit about,” he recalls. Colangelo-Bryan has been fighting for Colangelo-Bryan wasn’t always so fo- Taking on the weak and downtrodden. As a UW cused on human rights. He might have Good Books. Great Conversations. law student, he loved working in law been interested in righting wrongs when UW ALUMNI BOOK CLUB CREATES AN ONLINE HOME FOR READERS Turkey clinics where he could represent some- he attended the UW, but he thought em- one in a small matter and help them win ployment law was the way to go. All that The idea was simple: create a digital Danielle Higa ’07 echoed that sentiment. A UW-trained human rights lawyer sues a case. He represented a number of unchanged when he volunteered for a hu- learning space where Huskies could connect “It connects people through important top- Turkey’s government after a violent attack documented people who were in the manitarian aid group in Kosovo between over a good book, no matter where they lived. ics and stories. The discussion forums are on a peaceful protest in the US middle of an unconstitutional racial pro- the time he took the bar exam and started It was also easy: Alumni could sign up at extremely valuable and I appreciate the filing suit against the New Haven, working at Preston Gates & Ellis. He found any time; read everything or skip a selection; opportunity to vote for the next book, plus By David Volk Connecticut, police force. And he helped the situation in the Balkan Peninsula coun- follow or not follow reading timelines and it was fun seeing what others like too.” six Bahrainis who were wrongly detained try as it emerged from war so compelling questions to consider for the forum. Over the past six months, topics explored at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in that he returned to Europe a year later to In fall 2019, UWAA launched an online have included an architect’s reflection on Cuba gain their freedom. work with the United Nations on crimi- book club in partnership with UW Libraries. the power of space and home (“A Gentleman So it should not come as a big surprise nal-justice issues ranging from prisoner Curated titles would reflect timely topics that Colangelo-Bryan decided to sue transfers and cross-boundary concerns to and explore multiple genres—fiction and Turkey. Yes, Turkey. war crimes and human trafficking. “It non-fiction, memoir and history, emerging As audacious as it sounds, the New York sparked a passion for international human writers and established authors. Intermit– City attorney filed a personal injury suit rights law,” he says. tently, the club could vote on what they It adds so much to the against the Republic of Turkey for its in- In 2002, he joined Dorsey & Whitney wanted to read next. volvement in an attack on a peaceful protest LLP in New York City, and he has been To date, more than 1,600 readers have reading experience. in a Washington, D.C., park in 2017 that focusing on white-collar criminal defense joined, representing alumni from every left 20 people with injuries ranging from cases. He added a wrinkle to his practice college and school across all three campuses. The book club fits Attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan concussions and emotional distress to head in 2004, when he proposed having the Grad years range from 1947 to 2020, and didn’t take it sitting down when wounds and seizures. firm represent six Bahrainis who had been more than one-third live outside of the perfectly with our an attack on protesters in The incident occurred when protesters sent to Guantanamo on the basis of what Puget Sound. desire for lifetime Washington, D.C., injured 20 used a visit of Turkish President Recep he believed was weak evidence. He even- What drew them to the program? Marilyn people. He filed a civil suit Tayyip Erdogan to speak out against the tually secured their release in 2007, but it Conover Watt, ’76, ’81: “My husband and I learning. against the Republic of country’s treatment of its Kurdish minority. required so much e!ort on his part that joined for the opportunity to read, review "urkey for its involvement. According to the suit, the group of 15 were the firm gave him the freedom to spend and discuss interesting books with each demonstrating in Sheridan Square, across as much time as he needed on the case. other and our fellow Huskies… so often in Moscow”), a historian’s view on the Cold the street from the Turkish Mission Chief’s The arrangement stuck and has allowed we think of reading as a solo activity, but War front in Africa (“American Spy”), and home, when employees of the Turkish him to create an ongoing pro bono prac- with discussion it improves and elevates a realtor’s insight on redlining in Seattle Embassy and others twice broke through tice focusing on human rights and civil the experience.” (“The Color of Law”). Next up? UW experts a police cordon and attacked the protesters, rights matters. He still handles commer- Three books and six months into the tackle the science behind time travel and punching them, pushing them and kicking cial litigation, but has the leeway to handle burgeoning Book Club and the pandemic examine the e!ects of generational trauma in them after they fell. more pro bono cases than most typical changed the world. Suddenly, everyone conjunction with our reading of “Kindred.” Video of the attack quickly went viral, attorneys. was looking for ways to connect virtually To quote Marilyn again, “We’ve been showing up on national and international In the years since, he went up against and the Book Club expanded its conversa- surprised about how fun it is to read a book news broadcasts. The jerky footage shows the New York City Police Department for tions. University Book Store was brought at the same time and discuss it at home a group of plainclothes security personnel using excessive force on schoolchildren into the editorial planning mix. Zoom conver - with just each other, and even more so with rushing the small group and repeatedly and represented a Sing Sing Prison inmate sations with fellow readers, as well as deep sharing with the group. It adds so much to hitting the unarmed civilians, many of who was assaulted by a guard who wouldn’t dives with UW faculty and alumni on book the reading experience. The book club fits them American. Instead of retreating let the prisoner into the facility’s law library. themes, strengthened the readings while perfectly with our desire for lifetime learning.” when police pull the attackers away “There’s nothing better than taking a case forging a stronger sense of community. There’s always room for more readers. from individual victims, they can for the sole reason that it’s the right thing be seen moving on to others and to do,” he says. resuming their brutal attacks. Colangelo-Bryan often uses what he 2021 READING LIST “It was just emotionally and calls his “anger test” to determine which visually horrifying,” Colangelo- cases he’ll take on. If the way a powerless Read with us, then hear from the author! Introducing the next three UW Alumni Book Club selections. UWAA Bryan recalls. person is being treated makes him angry, members and registered book club participants have access to discounts for these three Seattle Arts & Lectures Although he was disgusted by it’s a good fit. authors. All titles are available at University Book Store; UWAA member discount applies. the video, he didn’t seek involve- The Turkey suit lists 25 defendants in- ment in the case. But a year later, cluding three Canadians, two US citizens Find out more about human-rights advocates came and 20 unnamed employees of the Turkish the UW Alumni Book calling, looking for someone to Embassy, most of whom have since left Club, including current take the case. the country. Even if he doesn’t win, he programs and past COURTESY DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP WHITNEY & DORSEY COURTESY “I remembered seeing the ar- knows there will be another human-rights selections at rogance with which the attackers case waiting. There always is. UWalum.com/bookclub not only assaulted people, but “The victims have such incredible wrong utterly disregarded US law-en- that’s been done to them, and to be able forcement o#cers. I thought to move the needle back in the right di- this is exactly the kind of rection feels like one of the best things you CIRCE HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS thing there needs to be a can do with your life.” MADELINE MILLER IBRAM X. KENDI OCEAN VUONG

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Distinguished Alumni Veteran serve as president of the Seattle Rotary Regent Constance Continued from page 47 and volunteer to teach leadership at the Lighthouse for the Blind. Rice Honored non-proliferation and all aspects of polit- “Admiral Bill Center adores the UW, ical-military relations with Russia and the where he regularly volunteers as a speaker University of Washington newly independent states of the former and a mentor to students and recent Regent Constance W. Rice, Soviet Union. graduates,” says Dorothy Bullitt, ’76, ’88, Our most Ph.D., ’70, ’74, has been named Working with the Joint Chiefs “was a who lectures in the Evans School. “He to the Puget Sound Business dream job,” he recalls. He served America’s assists veterans and active-duty members Journal’s Power 100 for 2020. top military leaders—Generals Barry of all of the service branches, both young She is the president of the Very McCa!rey, Wes Clark, Colin Powell and and old. I know of no one more willing Strategic Group, a consulting John Shalikashvili, and traveled all over to mentor the young, nor more ready to ﬁrm for executive coaching and the world on diplomatic missions. “I had encourage his fellow leaders.” And, she educational policies. In addi- a front-row seat to history,” says Center. adds, “He stood out for his moral courage tion to working on educational Center retired in 1999 after command- and kindness.” projects in the Mississippi Delta ing the naval activities of the Pacific “I always felt at home on a ship,” Center and Seattle, Rice was appointed Northwest. He stayed in Seattle, and says. “It was the adventure of a lifetime. It by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, turned his considerable skills and passions was a privilege to serve my country, and I ’85, to the City’s Families, to serving his alma mater. While he did would do it again. And my UW education Education, Pre-School and take on a post-Navy position as president has been with me every step of the way.” Promise Levy Oversight Committee. of the Washington Council on International Center believes it is possible to eliminate onderful Rice has a long and distinguished ca- Trade, he was a beloved and frequent extreme global poverty and says he has no Wdeals of the year! reer working in education and community guest lecturer in the Evans School, served plans to fully retire. “When you look at the service in a variety of ﬁelds. The wife of as the senior adviser for the school’s problems in the world, they all come down former Seattle Mayor Norman B. Rice, Humphrey Fellows program and lectured to extreme global poverty. If you want to ’72, ’74, Constance holds an M.P.A. from at the Foster School. Center received the make the world a better place, global pov- the Evans School of Public Policy & Evans School’s Distinguished Alumni erty must be solved. It can be done. We Governance and a Ph.D. from the UW Award in 2011, and his voracious appetite are making great progress. We have to College of Education. for community service also led him to keep going.”

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on Beacon Hill. “I was kind of an underdog inequity that frustrated and disappointed Those messages are easier to deliver in becoming a doctor, so I want to help her—but ultimately motivated her. when patients can see themselves in their people who need the help.” “If we know there’s a huge population doctors. At her practice on Beacon Hill, Thomas didn’t have to look far to see that can be helped, why aren’t we doing Thomas is the only Black primary-care that African Americans are more likely more?” she remembers wondering at the physician. When she walks into the exam than other Americans to su!er heart attacks, time. “That’s when I thought maybe I room, her patients are excited and grateful die from cancer and have chronic diseases should be a doctor.” to see her. that go unchecked. These disparities are Inspired to help both individuals and the result of many factors, including sys- whole populations, she applied and was temic racism in and beyond health care. accepted to a four-year combined medicine Studies show that Black patients ben- and master’s of public health program at efit from having Black doctors like the University of Miami. Even that process Thomas—with higher levels of trust, illuminated some of the barriers to diver- shared decision-making and more. But sifying the physician workforce. Thomas is an outlier in her profession: “I didn’t have a lot of the opportunities Fewer than 5% of working physicians are a!orded to my peers,” says Thomas, who African American, and even fewer are worked full time while studying for the Black women. MCATs, while some of her peers had taken the summer o! to prepare. “There TO DO MORE AND BE MORE are many things that come with money Thomas was the first in her family to attend and opportunities that the people we need “We need physicians that look like the a four-year college and medical school, but to be doctors can’t access.” patients, so there’s an inherent trust and she’s not the first to chart a pioneering Throughout the grueling, often isolating bond there,” says Thomas. “We are the course in health care. Her grandmother— years of medical school, Thomas’ family same, but I just happen to be the doctor. “a 5-foot, 6-inch force of nature”—moved and friends cheered her on from 3,000 I think that’s really important in the way I to Seattle in the 1940s to become one of miles away. She was overjoyed when she talk, explain and relate to patients.” the area’s few Black nurses. Her mother, matched to the Swedish Family Medicine That’s why representation matters to too, is a retired nurse who worked at the Residency Program at Carolyn Downs— her. It’s also why she spends a little extra same Beacon Hill clinic where Thomas about a mile from the house in which time with her youngest patients, encour- now practices. both she and her father had grown up. aging them to try out her stethoscope or It meant being closer to her support look in her ear before she looks in theirs. group and back in the community she “We have to start nurturing it early, wanted to serve: her own. before they even go to school, because high school is almost too late,” Thomas COMING HOME says. Her goal is for Black doctors to be From the moment Thomas walked through commonplace. “My success would be in the doors of the Carolyn Downs Family me not being that special.” Medical Center, she felt at home. Founded by the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, the clinic sits on the same Central District sidewalks she had walked in her youth on the way to church and to school Opposite: Dr. Danyelle at Garfield High. And the clinic’s mission Thomas, pictured here But Thomas didn’t consider medicine aligned with her own: to improve the with her parents at her until after she graduated from the UW, whole community’s health. On any family home, returned to where she earned a degree in biochem- given day, Thomas saw a broad spectrum Seattle’s Central District By Malavika Jagannathan The name rang a bell. At the bustling For Thomas, a University of Washington istry and a math minor, with the support of that community, from newborns for her medical residency. admit desk of Seattle’s Carolyn Downs alumna whose family roots run deep in of the Costco Diversity Scholarship. to octogenarians. Photos by Mark Stone Family Medical Center, Dr. Danyelle Seattle’s historic African American neigh- Given to high-achieving students from One of her goals is to help patients un- Left: Thomas points to an Thomas, ’07, picked up a patient’s chart borhood, the residency was more than just underrepresented communities, the schol- derstand their own health. She knows how image of her grandmother, and was transported back to middle school. an opportunity to hone her skills as a phy- arship was a vote of confidence that made vital it is that people have access to med- a founding member of a The chart was for a classmate she hadn’t sician—it was a chance to improve the Thomas “want to do more and be more.” ical information in plain language. professional organization seen in years. well-being of the community that made her While working for a Seattle pharmaceu- “People should know what’s going on,” for Seattle Black nurses It was a scene that would replay in various who she is. tical company testing a prostate cancer Thomas says. “When somebody has high in the 1940s. forms at this Central District clinic over “There are so many communities that are treatment, Thomas saw that African blood pressure, I get animated. I explain Thomas’ three-year residency. Sometimes marginalized to the point where people Americans made up a shockingly low there’s a medication to help lower your Watch a video about it was the familiar face of a childhood friend write them and their experiences o!,” says percentage of the clinical-trial participants, blood pressure, and that’s important be- Thomas’ journey to in the hallway, or an aunt who stopped Thomas, who finished her residency in June despite being more likely than others to cause you’re more likely to have this other the UW and beyond at to say hello before an annual checkup. and now practices at Pacific Medical Center get and die from the cancer. It was a glaring problem if you don’t [take it].” uw.edu/danyelle-thomas.

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But her work spoke for itself. Noyes’ next Inspiring Intelligence promotion was to branch chief, overseeing a dozen people focused on China’s economy. For Helen Noyes, ’69, a love of languages translated She then became a deputy division chief into a lifelong career with the CIA and continued to climb the management ladder, finding even greater opportunities By Nancy Joseph and Jamie Swenson when imagery analysis and mapping merged, in the 1990s, as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. By the As a Far Eastern and Slavic studies major wavered in using her sharp mind and nat- time Noyes retired in 2006, she was a in the late 1960s, Helen Louise Noyes ural curiosity to move ahead in her career senior intelligence service o!cer. By Korynne Wright Chair, UW Foundation Board was about to become the first in her family and encourage others along the way. Over time, the CIA became much more to graduate from college. Her family diverse. Noyes notes, “There are many, The incredible impact of our Be Boundless campaign will be felt was thrilled. But her next step was far CLIMBING THE RANKS many, many capable female professionals far into the future—on our campuses; by our faculty, students from clear. The Seattle-born Noyes studied both at the CIA and elsewhere.” and sta"; and in the lives of those we serve. You can see this Noyes, ’69, had interviewed without German and Russian at the UW. But it While she was making strides in her own impact in students who can attend the UW because of scholar- success for numerous corporate manage- wasn’t just her language skills that caught career, she was committed to supporting ships, in the programs and hands-on learning that deepen their ment training programs. Most were the CIA recruiter’s attention. That fateful others as well. “I love to mentor,” Noyes education, in endowed professors who tackle today’s most sig- resistant to hiring a woman. A recruiter morning, in a cramped o!ce barely large says. “A lot of people came into the agency nificant problems and educate the leaders of tomorrow, and, from a European shipping company was enough for its desk and two chairs, Noyes who had never worked on intelligence most visibly, in the new and upgraded facilities where it all

completely frank: A woman would not be impressed the recruiter with her analysis issues, and the opportunity to teach them HELEN NOYES OF COURTESY PHOTOS takes place. a good fit, he told her, in the German busi- of the aerial photos in the CIA brochure— was exciting.” Over our decade-long campaign, your generosity enabled ness community. and, she later learned, with how she turned That drive to encourage others led with language skills or an interest in pur- Noyes spent decades several new UW facilities where faculty and students can the tables by interviewing him. Noyes to contact the UW last year about suing language study. climbing the ranks— engage in teaching, learning and research at the highest level— “I asked the recruiter if the photos were creating the Jonathan & Helen Louise Her own work in imagery analysis did and mentoring from the new Burke Museum, to the Bill & Melinda Gates from the Cuban Missile Crisis, and he Noyes Language Scholarship in the not require foreign-language fluency, but others—in the CIA. Center for Computer Science & Engineering, to – asked why I thought that,” Noyes recalls. Jackson School of International Studies. Noyes’ knowledge of Russian helped when Here, she pauses at Intellectual House. “I proceeded to point out military vehicles, Through a generous blended gift of annual she was stumped by an image. She was the CIA Memorial While our campaign closed in June, the impact of your philan- missiles and launch pads. He immediately contributions and a bequest, the fund able to consult Russian-language news- Wall on the day of her thropy during the Be Boundless campaign continues to build. wrote down that the imagery analysis provides support for UW students studying papers and books for a better understanding retirement in 2006. Most recently, we completed construction of the Hans Rosling component at the CIA should hire me.” challenging languages. of the industrial processes she was seeing. Center for Population Health, a hub for faculty, students and Imagery analysis involves extracting “No one else there could do that,” she community partners working across disciplines to solve some useful information from photos—at that recalls. “It became clear that too few people of the most pressing issues of our time—including poverty, time, taken from satellites and reconnais- “I proceeded to knew the languages of the regions they equity, health-care access and climate change. sance aircraft. After a follow-up interview were focused on. It didn’t make sense Founders Hall, a new expansion underway at the Foster in Washington, D.C., months of waiting point out military to me.” School of Business, will house state-of-the-art classrooms, for clearances, and a cross-country move vehicles, missiles Noyes directed her gift to students student programs, career services and experiential learning to the nation’s capital, Noyes took a step studying languages categorized by the centers. At historic Parrington Hall, home of the Evans School Helen Noyes, who neither she nor her family had predicted and launch pads. State Department as Level 3 or higher— of Public Policy & Governance, much-needed renovations studied German and by launching her career with the CIA. He immediately the ones most di!cult for native English will provide modern, sustainable spaces for collaboration and Russian at the UW, For her first assignment, Noyes used speakers to learn. But an interest in the active learning. found an unexpected satellite images to study the economic wrote down that CIA or State Department is not required. As we move beyond our campaign, we continue to rely on career in the CIA. capabilities of countries closed to the U.S., Language proficiency, Noyes believes, is both public and private support to create and upgrade the places Rather than accept defeat, Noyes says, assessing their ability to manufacture the imagery analysis vital in any field involving communication where teaching, learning, research and healing will happen— she began to “think more broadly about various products. A few years later, she component at the across countries and cultures. including at our campuses in Bothell and Tacoma, our UW what I might be able to tackle.” A CIA was drawing from a wider variety of sources “Whether the speaker is employed by Medicine campus in South Lake Union, our health-sciences recruiter was coming to campus, and from across the intelligence, military CIA should hire me.” the U.S. government, an international center in Spokane, and the many clinics and programs throughout Noyes signed up for an interview—but and diplomatic communities to assess business or a nongovernmental organiza- our state. she still had few expectations. foreign economies and help inform GIVING BACK tion doing charitable work abroad, our When you give to support new and improved educational Not only would Noyes land a job at the trade negotiations. Two factors convinced Noyes to support nation will benefit. I think better cross- facilities, research laboratories or medical clinics, you equip CIA, she would go on to climb the ranks As a woman in an overwhelmingly male language study at the UW. The first was cultural understanding would help foster current and future leaders with the tools to do their very best. in an unexpected career that brought the environment, Noyes faced an uphill battle. her own missed opportunity to study world peace. We can’t get along if we can’t That matters now, and it will continue to matter as we foster world to her. From her early days as an “Some of the men were clearly less than Russian in Moscow, travel that she couldn’t communicate with one another.” curiosity, leadership and solutions for tomorrow. imagery analyst for foreign intelligence enthused about having women in the of- a"ord as an undergrad. “It ate at me for We look forward to when we can gather on campus again and (and one of two women in a department fice,” she recalls. “I was asked lovely decades,” she says. see these beautiful, inspiring new spaces. Until then, our work of 150 people) to the culmination of her questions like, ‘When are you going to The other factor was the paucity of job may largely continue remotely. We will keep moving forward career as an agency executive, Noyes never quit and have kids?’” candidates in the intelligence community into a better future—together.

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The software-design class ends, and Louis Maliyam pops out of Last spring’s dance majors concert was ultimately canceled his seat, grabs his bag and hurries through the crowded hallway. amid rising coronavirus concerns—but even in the preparation, With just 10 minutes to get to the dance studios in Meany Hall, Maliyam found confidence and community. “Success is not he has to walk fast, or he’ll be late. Sometimes he runs. in the outcome or the things we create,” he says, “but in the It’s early 2020, before the pandemic will hit the U.S. Maliyam rehearsal process, along the way.” heads through Red Square, passing Suzzallo Library. The building’s imposing Gothic architecture made an impression when THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY he ﬁrst visited campus. “I felt like the place had a history, like Maliyam brings the inclusive spirit of dance into his work as a something was waiting for me,” he recalls. “It was exciting to teaching assistant in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science know I was going to spend four years at this place.” & Engineering (CSE). “The hard work is to make them feel that He doesn’t mind the rainy sprint to dance class; Seattle’s drizzle their worth is important,” Maliyam says of his students, “so they’re is nothing compared to the heavy downpours of Samut Prakarn, not afraid to speak in front of their peers and create a community Thailand, where he grew up. in which it’s OK to fail.” Maliyam would listen to the rain hammering on the roof of his parents’ internet café, where he helped customers and assembled computers after school. “I think it’s fun to solve problems,” he says. He took a programming class as a teen, and his talent for computers won him a full scholarship to study abroad. He ﬁnished high school in New Hampshire, where he took higher math classes to prepare for computer science—and discovered musical theater. Maliyam continued both pursuits at the UW, entering as a By Lisa Walls computer science major and adding an acting class to his fall schedule. He continued to be recognized for his talents: in com- Photo by Mark Stone puter science, by earning the merit-based Eileen Bjorkman Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science & Engineering, and in performance, landing a role in the School of Drama’s production of “Anything Goes.” And when a dance instructor came to work with the cast, Maliyam discovered a department he hadn’t known about—and a new passion.

HUGS IN THE HALLWAYS In the UW dance studios, Maliyam felt instantly at home. Still, before he got to know the other dancers, he recalls, “it could feel strange to look into their eyes or dance in front of them.” Eventually his reluctance evaporated: “The teacher helped us bring our own movement into the room. It made us more comfortable because it created space for failure.” That safety, He makes himself approachable by sharing about his own Maliyam says, helps the students be brave. “We have sweat and life. “I’ve seen students who need help, but they don’t feel like tears, happiness and joy at the same time. We’re vulnerable they can talk to us,” he says. “Vulnerability closes the gap be- when we fail.” tween teacher and student.” The dancers’ willingness to publicly stretch and challenge No matter where he ends up after graduation, there’s little themselves fosters a culture he didn’t know he was looking for. doubt Maliyam’s professional career will mirror his academic “It’s a strong connection we build from dance,” he says. “We say one. As a sophomore, Maliyam received the UW President’s hi and hug.” Medalist Award—a recognition given to only one student in As Maliyam tackled more intricate computer science challenges, each undergraduate class. The medal reﬂects his excellence in he pushed himself to open up in dance as well. Modern dance CSE classrooms and onstage. helps him level language barriers and communicate on a deeper And when he received the Bjorkman scholarship, o!ering level. It’s “a tool to tell a story,” he notes. “We can express what tuition support for a high-performing computer science student, we feel in the moment.” Maliyam said, “I felt that someone had seen my hard work. I He had that opportunity last January in UW Dance Presents, feel really grateful—it’s allowed me to focus on the goals I’ve Maliyam received a Department of Dance showcase for faculty choreographers. set for myself.” Goals such as his summer internship at DocuSign. the UW President’s Maliyam and his fellow dancers, all in shades of pink, came to- Computer science, Maliyam says, “expands my horizons, while Medalist Award in gether and drew apart as they moved to an R&B song, voicelessly dance fulﬁlls my soul.” recognition of his communicating about love, desire and relationships. “There’s excellence in com- this feeling that’s unexpected, where you don’t know what’s going puter science and to happen next,” Maliyam says. on the stage.

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An Extraordinary Inspiration FAMILY EYRES COURTESY In collaboration with Conservation International, SANDRA J. EYRES we are on a mission to make coffee the world’s Trailblazing judge Joseph Jerome Farris inspired people of color to follow him into the law wanted people to call her Sandy, not “Dr. Eyres,” during first sustainable agricultural product and improve A titan of the law and a trailblazer on the private practice followed, and in 1969, her 25 years at the UW the lives of at least one million people in coffee bench, Judge Joseph Jerome Farris sat on Farris landed on the Washington State School of Nursing. A Dis- the United States Court of Appeals for the Court of Appeals. His star rising, he was tinguished Teaching Award communities around the world. Ninth Circuit for 41 years, the first African nominated to the Ninth Circuit by President recipient, she created the school’s doctoral American to reach that position. Earlier Jimmy Carter in 1979. program and nursing programs at UW Bothell in his career, Farris took pride in having Farris’ service to the UW was varied and and UW Tacoma. Sandy, 85, died at her home only one decision reversed by the Supreme lifelong. A past president of the Board of in LaQuinta, California, on Sept. 6. For many Court, but over time his court became the Regents, he also led the Law School Student years, the School of Nursing has honored FIND OUT MORE most reversed in the country. He dismissed Body and later sat on the UW Law School graduate students with the Sandra Eyres critics who said that meant he was too Foundation. In an interview with the Seattle Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. sbux.co/sustainability liberal, o!ering instead that “courts cannot Times, Chief US District Judge Ricardo determine right and wrong in an absolute Martinez called Farris “a true pioneer and CONSTANTINE sense, because the law is not absolute.” an extraordinary inspiration to young law- CHRISTOFIDES possessed Farris, who died July 23 at the age of 90, yers of color everywhere.” Martinez, ’77, a “larger-than-life presence was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930. ’80, says Farris was one of the reasons he in this world,” says Professor He earned a degree in math from pursued law school. Emerita Anna Kartsonis, a Morehouse College, then served two years Asked by a UWTV interviewer in 1989 FAMILY CHRISTOFIDES COURTESY close colleague in the School in the Army Signal Corps. He added a if he ever agonizes over his rulings, Farris of Art + Art History + Design. Christofides master’s in social work from Atlanta responded swiftly: “Never. You can’t. And taught Romance languages and Roman- University before journeying to the Pacific by ‘never’ I mean absolutely never.” With esque art history, helped launch the study Northwest to earn his law degree at the five trials in a day and 25 in a week, “you abroad program and served as director of UW in 1958, working as a juvenile proba- don’t have time to agonize. We don’t have the School of Art. He died in New York City tion o#cer while in school. A decade of to know, we have to listen.” on June 24 at the age of 92.

WINTER 2019 61 WILLIAM H. REAMS JULIE ANN LAWSON LEONARD G. BATES FACULTY AND LANCE NATALE BRIGHAM, ’69, where he served as interim DAVID LAGUNOFF spent more psychology, mainly coopera- ’55, Bellevue, age 87, June 6 ’62, Kenmore, age 80, Aug. 8 ’73, Seattle, age 83, Aug. 28 FRIENDS ’72, played basketball at the director in the 1990s, and he than 20 years as a professor of tion and competition. An avid In Memory UW and went on to join the helped recruit Husky football pathology at the UW School of cyclist, he also enjoyed wood GERALD WINFIELD WEST DONALD L. VEITH NANCY LOCK HOWES faculty of the UW School of players. He died May 15, 2019, Medicine. An award-winning carving and spending time on ’55, Seattle, age 96, July 20 ’62, Mercer Island, age 90, ’73, Seattle, age 70, Aug. 17 Medicine’s Department of Or- at the age of 94. lecturer known for injecting Lopez Island with his family. July 20 EDWARD ALEXANDER spent thopedic Surgery. He served as humor into his lectures with a He died July 3 at the age of 81. DONALD W. EASTMAN JEANNE DOFFING COATS 44 years as a professor of an orthopedic consultant with CHERYL ANN HIMMELMAN collection of science-related ’56, ’61, Renton, age 85, Sept. 2 ARTHUR A. DUGONI ’75, Bellingham, age 83, May 30 English literature at the UW. the Seattle Mariners and Seat- spent 25 years advancing cartoons, he was a renowned CHRISTINE D. SEYL, ’86, was a ’63, Atherton, California, age He joined the UW faculty in nursing practice with the UW’s pathologist and cell biologist nurse who, during the Vietnam 95, Sept. 23 tle Pacific University athletics MARLENE “MIDGE” HALBERG RUTH ANNE HILLINGER 1960. In 1974, he co-founded and was vice president of the Continuing Nursing Education who studied mast cells and War, cared for soldiers with ’56, Bellevue, age 86, July 22 ’75, Seattle, age 71, July 30 the UW’s Jewish Studies department. She died Aug. 1 at the allergic response. He died serious brain and spinal-cord MICHAEL J. GALBREATH Washington State Governor’s Department. A mentor of the age of 67. Aug. 3 in Lund, Sweden, at the injuries. She later worked at ’63, Dillard, Georgia, age 78, JAY WILLIAM WALEN Council for Athletic Injuries. He WALTER CHARLES HOWE JR. numerous young scholars, he died July 6 at the age of 73. age of 88. UW Medicine-Harborview and ’56, ’62, Redmond, age 86, June 7 ’75, Bellevue, age 70, Dec. 28, published books about Victori- 2019 CLIFFORD E. HURN, ’73, walked as the manager of the School Aug. 10 an literature, Jewish history TREVOR L. CHANDLER served on to the Husky crew and DENNIS MIYA, ’71, served in Nurse program for Seattle VENTRIS MAURICE INGRAM and culture, and the state of ’63, Renton, age 83, July 16 GLENN M. KATAYAMA the University for 20 years as helped lead the UW to two Vietnam as an army dentist Public Schools. She died June PAUL JACOBSON Israel. He was known for his a faculty member in political national championships and and later ran a private dental 18 at the age of 71. ’56, Bellevue, age 89, Dec. 24, ’77, ’88, age 63, Nov. 6, 2019 DAVID ARNOLD BADER tenacious sense of justice and science and associate dean of three National Association of practice in Burien for 40 years. 2019 his willingness to take stands ’64, Mukilteo, age 78, June 29 JOHN C. NAAB graduate student services and Amateur Oarsmen titles. He He also taught at the UW MARGARET Z. SHEPHERD, ’65, ’77, Sonoma, California, age 71, that were not popular. He died minority education. In 1990, he represented the U.S. in pres- School of Dentistry. He died served on the faculty of the DAVID HUNTER JONES ANNE BRADLEY COUNTS Sept. 7 Aug. 22 at the age of 83. tigious international competi- Sept. 24 at the age of 75. UW School of Nursing and ’56, Bellingham, age 89, Aug. 9 left the UW for a similar posi- ’64, ’76, Seattle, age 78, Sept. 11 tion at UC Davis and did such tions including the 1971 World was a pioneer, policymaker JAMES C. POWERS INEZ DAMON ALLAN worked Championships in Moscow. WALTER LESTER PETERSON and driving force in the bur- BARBARA JEAN ROBB KABEL a great job that the University SHARON SMITH LADD ’77, Everett, age 66, May 25 as a nurse epidemiologist of California O"ce of the Pres- He and his 1970-71 Husky crew worked for 23 years in the UW geoning field of home health. ’56, Port Townsend, age 84, at the UW School of Public ’64, Bellevue, age 77, July 30 ident recruited him to work mates were inducted into the Physical Plant department, She co-founded and was CEO Oct. 24 Health from 1969 until her RUSH N. RIESE with campus leaders across the Husky Hall of Fame in 2004. He retiring as shop foreman. He of Community Home Health PAUL RICHARD OLSON retirement in 1982. She was ALUMNI RICHARD JOHN MALLOY ’77, Medina, age 68, Aug. 18 UC system to ensure that all died July 27 at the age of 70. served in the Navy in the Pa- Care, which became the mod- ’50, ’64, Carmel, Indiana, DONALD ANDREW GWILYM ’64, Seattle, age 84, July 26 a founding member of the campuses were supported in cific during World War II and el for home-health agencies age 92, Sept. 3 ’57, Seattle, age 85, Sept. 16 Church of Mary Magdalene, DOMINIC SANTIAGO their recruitment e!orts and to CLYDE JUSSILA, ’49, served in his skills as a plumber were nationwide. She died Aug. 5 at PETER DOWNING SWINDLEY ’77, SeaTac, age 78, June 13 now Mary’s Place, and par- the Army during World War II put to good use on floating the age of 79. KEITH EDWIN WALLINDER DIANE MAY MORGAN ’64, Bellevue, age 79, Sept. 13 ticipated in countless groups foster a climate that nurtured all aspects of diversity. He died and fought in Africa, Sicily and drydock. He loved spending ’50, Seattle, age 92, June 20 ’57, Spokane, age 84, Aug. 31 MICHAEL GUY SESSIONS focused on peace and ending 1940 May 16 at the age of 89. Anzio Beach in Italy. He went time with his family at their IRENE MARIE SWANSON JOSEPH GRANT BURGHER ’77, Fayetteville, N.C., age 65, homelessness. She also trav- on to play in the U.S. Army Whidbey Island cabin. He died grew up on a ranch in Selah BETTY JO BASKERVILLE SALLY SUE FEENEY ’65, Vancouver, age 76, June 15 WILLIAM BYERS CAMPBELL Aug. 17 eled the world for the Pres- Band, and after the war, he Aug. 15 at the age of 101. just outside of Yakima. After ’42, ’66, Seattle, age 102, June 21 ’51, Redmond, age 89, Aug. 26 ’58, Oak Harbor, age 83, Aug. 19 RHODA CHRISTIAN worked in byterian Church and NGOs joined the faculty of the UW she married, Irene and her ROCK EMERSON CALEY to advocate for peace, justice the UW Medical Center-Mont- IRVING KANAREK School of Music. A member of MARGARET ALANNA RUDDELL husband Raymond moved JOYCE ELIZABETH HEISER JAMES W. DAHLEN ’65, South Colby and women’s rights. She died lake’s eye clinic for many years ’42, Garden Grove, California, ’51, Seattle, age 90, July 3 the Washington Music Edu- was an internationally recog- to Seattle, where Swanson ’59, Seattle, age 89, June 23 Aug. 30 at the age of 95. until her retirement in 2006. cators Hall of Fame, he taught age 100, Sept. 2 ROGER TRUMAN CHESS 1980 An avid Husky sports fan, she nized cancer researcher in the worked in the o"ce of the many of the Seattle area’s UW Department of Compara- UW President while her hus- YOSHIRO PHILIP HAYASAKA MICHAEL BRADLEY DELL ’65, Mountlake Terrace, age 77, CAROL MCMULLEN SWAN was also a charter member of MARTHA SHANNON EGLY ’51, Seattle, age 94, Sept. 3 May 15 CHARLES WYLIE BERGQUIST, music teachers over his long tive Medicine and at the Fred band attended law school. She ’59, Seattle, age 83, July 9 ’80, San Diego, age 73, Aug. 29 ’67, a member of the UW the Sons of Norway of Bothell career. He played violin, viola, ’43, Tacoma, age 99, June 24 since 1973. She died Sept. 10 Hutchinson Cancer Research died Sept. 16 at the age of 91. CAROL MILLER KOEFOD MARJORIE ANN MUELLER faculty since 1989, was a trombone and bassoon for Center. Her lab studied the HENRY AKIO KUMASAKA JULIE STEWART BURKE distinguished expert in Latin at the age of 73. many orchestras in the area, HELEN LOUISE GREEAR ’51, Seattle, age 91, July 2020 ’59, Seattle, age 86, July 29 ’66, ’72, Burien, age 84, Sept. 17 ’81, Bothell, age 61, May 20 architecture of lymph nodes COLLIER ROBERT WOODS JR., ’47, Demorest, Georgia, American history and global la- including the UW Symphony PARK WILLIS GLOYD, ’46, ’52, and made seminal contribu- ’86, dazzled arts connoisseurs age 99, Aug. 14 RUSSELL EARL PARTHEMER MARK GREGORY BUCKINGHAM JARED REX PETERSEN bor history. A world-renowned Orchestra, the Seattle Sym- tions to the understanding with his lighting design and WALTER J. TIANEN scholar, he was also co-founder completed his orthopedic phony and Cascade Symphony ’51, Sammamish, age 93, June 28 ’59, ’71, Seattle, age 91, Jan. 4 ’68, Enumclaw, age 75, Sept. 11 ’82, Vancouver, age 68, Feb. 2 of the roles of immune cells, production design during ARVADA ELVIRA MCFARLAND of the UW’s Harry Bridges surgery residency at the UW, Orchestra. He died July 9 at served in the Army in Japan lymph nodes and lymphatics a tremendously successful ’47, Seattle, age 99, June 20 RODERICK DIMOFF JOHN E. FURMAN JR. Center for Labor Studies and the age of 100. ALAN C. ROHAY and was a clinical professor at in cancer metastasis. A stand- career in ballet, opera, modern ’52, ’55, Seattle, age 88, June 29 ’69, ’74, Seattle, age 73, June 21 ’82, Richland, age 68, Sept. 20 served as chair and director the UW School of Medicine. ing member of NIH Study dance, music and theater. He LILLIAN H. YOUNG from 1994 to 1996. He died MICHAEL KIRKLAND, ’60, Sections that reviewed grant designed productions for Gil ’47, ’50, Bellingham, Sept. 9 RAYMOND EARL LUNDY 1960 VIRGINIA GALLE THOMAS N. HAGEN July 30 at the age of 78. He also served as director of joined three friends from Phi orthopedics and president of applications on cancer me- Scott-Heron, Branford Mar- ’52, Poulsbo, age 93, Sept. 2 ’69, Seattle, age 94, Sept. 13 ’83, Quilcene, age 69, Aug. 29 Gamma Delta fraternity at the tastasis, she was a renowned salis and Albert King, Dance DANIEL CLINTON ROLCIK the medical sta! at Seattle LYLE M. CLARK EVELYN JANIS ANDERSON UW to create the famous band mentor of undergraduate Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey ’60, Bellevue, age 86, July 10 Children’s Hospital. He died ’48, Seattle, age 98, Sept. 3 JESSIE MARIE ISOM PETERSON RONALD LINEBARGER RICHARD W. HIVELY JR. BOHRER, ’54, followed her the Brothers Four. They went students, graduate students American Dance Theatre and ’52, Lynden, age 89, Sept. 6 ’69, Kent, age 72, Aug. 7 ’84, Kirkland, age 61, Sept. 11 mother into nursing and served July 21 at the age of 95. SHIRLEY E. BARGER on to meet President John F. and postdoctoral fellows. She Broadway tours of “Phantom of NELLIE JO HARRYLOCK with the Army Nurse Corps in Kennedy at his inauguration ’48, Normandy Park, age 93, ’61, Seattle, age 85, Aug. 7 died Aug. 11 at the age of 64. the Opera,” “West Side Story” JOHN “JACK” CHRISTIANSON JAMES L. SCHAAD England during World War II. DALE A. HENNING served in celebration, play for soldiers among many, many others. He June 3 ’53, Seattle, age 88, Aug. 31 ’87, Newberg, Ore., age 61, the Navy during World War II, HARRY “STEVE” DYE She later was assistant director during the Vietnam War THOMAS B. SANFORD spent died Aug. 1 at the age of 64. Oct. 3 of nursing service at the UW and was on a ship sailing for and create theme songs for MARJORIE WALSKE ’61, Bothell, age 82, June 24 1970 more than 40 years as a CHADWICK “TAD” MANNING Medical Center-Montlake and Japan when the war ended. movies and TV shows. Kirkland professor in the UW School of ’48, Silverdale, age 93, July 6 ’53, Seattle, age 93, Aug. 14 LAWRENCE E. LAURSEN JEFFREY J. WOLFSON was the night supervisor there After he returned to the states, NORMA JEAN DYKES ’87, Seattle, age 58, Sept. 10 developed alcoholism and left Oceanography and as a senior ’70, Corinth, Texas, age 78, for 25 years. She died July 26 he completed his education the band to change careers ROBERT H. BOATSMAN ’61, Spokane, age 80, June 17 principal oceanographer at the ANN S. O’NEIL April 11 at the age of 99. thanks to the GI Bill and and become an addiction and ’49, Seattle, age 91, Aug. 1 ’54, Seattle, age 88, Aug. 9 DEBRA LEANNE PHILLIPS Applied Physics Laboratory. A SUSAN B. EDWARDS ’88, Edmonds, age 65, Aug. 6 joined the faculty of the Foster substance abuse counselor. He professor emeritus in the UW ERIC JOHN LUNDBERG School of Business in 1955. He THOMAS GLEN REYNOLDS ’61, Poulsbo, age 80, July 16 MARIE L. BORGATTA started died Aug. 20 at the age of 82. College of the Environment, JOHN LEWIS SWAFFORD ’70, Seattle, age 76, July 14 spent 43 years as a profes- ’49, ’53, Seattle, age 93, ’54, Seattle, age 96, Aug. 1 her career as a trailblazing bio- he conducted research on sor of administrative theory Sept. 19, 2019 RAGNAR SMITH BRUCE E. MICHELS chemist with Memorial Sloan WALTER A. KUCIEJ served with motional induction theory, the DOROTHY E. BYERS ’61, Seattle, age 90, Aug. 14 ’70, Seattle, age 83, Aug. 10 Kettering Cancer Center but and organizational behavior the Army’s 1/12 Infantry Rifle motion of seawater through ’55, ’56, Seattle, age 87, Sept. 6 1990 switched fields to sociology until his retirement in 1998. Platoon during the Vietnam the Earth’s magnetic field that MAKOTO UEDA BRIAN HOLLIDAY SPEAKES AARON STUART BURBY and became an instructor With his fellow professors, War. He moved to Seattle produces electric currents and KENNETH ERICKSON ’61, Sunnyvale, California, ’70, Woodinville, age 71, July 18 ’97, Seattle, age 46, Aug. 9 at the UW. She and her late principally Harry R. Knudson after the war and worked magnetic fields. He died July 1950 ’55, Seattle, age 87, Sept. 27 age 89, Aug. 19 husband, Ed, a UW professor, and Robert T. Woodworth, as a psychiatric RN at UW 12 at the age of 80. WILLIAM CHIN KRISTI KNOWLES BUTLER loved collecting semi-pre- he consulted and conducted Medicine- Harborview for 32 ’50, ’53, Mercer Island, GENEANNE MARY MENDEL CORNELIUS PETER VAN NESS III ’71, Vallejo, California, age 71, cious stones and donated the management training seminars years. After retirement, he DAVID REESE SCHMITT served age 95, July 1 ’55, Seattle, age 86, Sept. 3 ’61, Lynnwood, age 80, May 1 June 30 American Golden Topaz, the for firms and governments in volunteered at UW Medical the University for more than 2000 world’s largest cut topaz, to the U.S. and around the world. Center-Montlake and at the 30 years as a professor of so- ALBERT MUINKAY MARK DUDLEY PANCHOT GORDON GENE CONGER JAMES MARTIN NIBLACK JONATHAN SHOOP the Smithsonian. She died He also developed the UW’s Seattle Animal Shelter. He ciology. He published scholarly ’50, Seattle, age 91, Aug. 7 ’55, Shelton, age 90, Aug. 24 ’62, Seattle, age 85, July 25 ’72, Seattle, age 74, Sept. 10 ’11, Bothell, age 32, July 13 Sept. 18 at the age of 95. Executive MBA Program, died Sept. 18 at the age of 73. articles in the areas of social

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Artist Roger Shimomura, A New Face ’61, plays the role of WEAR PURPLE George Washington in his 2010 acrylic painting, Teaches “Shimomura Crossing the Delaware.” "he canvas stretches 12 feet long American and can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery. Portraiture

“I care about how contemporary artists are remaking history and interrogating it” By Quinn Russell Brown

which art is in conversation with art, racial and ethnic identity is foregrounded, and history is a moving target. Shimomura’s picture is quintessentially U.S.A. without ANTHONY WASHINGTON , ’16, ’19 chanting “U-S-A!,” and while it may delight the viewer at first, more than anything it sparks questions. he first picture that students see in “I really care about how contemporary Juliet Sperling’s survey of American art is artists are remaking history and interrogat- Born and raised in Seattle’s Central a familiar one: George Washington stands ing it,” says Sperling. “Shimomura is ri#ng T District, Anthony Washington is a true aboard a small boat as a group of colonists on one of the most popular American paint- paddle him across the Delaware River. But ings: As someone who doesn’t look like this isn’t the version from your high school George Washington, and who hasn’t been in his community. Washington, who history book: Samurai have tagged in for represented the way George Washington the colonists, and a new face has found its has been throughout art history, he is in- played Husky basketball as an underway atop the pyramid of patriots: Roger serting himself into one of the most graduate, discovered a passion for Assistant Professor Shimomura, a third-generation Japanese ultra-nationalistic, ultra-patriotic artworks teaching and returned to the UW for his Juliet Sperling chose American, stands in for the first president. from American history.” Shimomura, who to be depicted in this He may not have beaten the British, but joined the Army after earning his degree at master’s degree in special education. particular style, which Shimomura has had more than 150 solo the UW, was interned in the Minidoka camp He strives to empower and engage his was popular among exhibitions since graduating from the during World War II. His self-portrait as traveling painters in University of Washington in 1961. Washington inherits the paneled compo- students during class and advocate for America in the early “Shimomura Crossing the Delaware” was sition of a Japanese wood-block print. them beyond the classroom. to mid-1800s. This painted in 2010. The original, made by Sperling joined the faculty of the School portrait was done Emanuel Leutze nearly 70 years after the of Art + Art History + Design this fall as by Miha Sarani, ’15, Revolutionary War, has also been remixed Assistant Professor and Allan and Mary realdawgswearpurple ’19, who earned his by artists like Jacob Lawrence (who taught Kollar Endowed Chair in American Art B.F.A. in painting at the UW for 16 years) and Robert Colescott History. “Shimomura Crossing the DawgsReal and drawing and his (whose version is held by the Seattle Art Delaware” is one of 18 portraits she chose WearPurple M.A. in art history Museum). It says a lot that Sperling would for a tour of American art history on the from the University of start a lower-level survey class by exposing UW Magazine website. Experience it by Washington. her students to a picture like this, one in heading to magazine.uw.edu.

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