- Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz (born 31 August, 1944) is a historian, author, and faculty member at The Evergreen State College. She teaches history and family studies and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-2004. Coontz has authored and co-edited several books about the history of marriage. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
- Daniel J. Evans
Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16 1925) served three terms as governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. As a young man, Evans was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He also served as a staff member at Camp Parsons, a well known Boy Scout camp in Washington State. Gov.
- Nalini Nadkarni
Nalini Nadkarni is an American ecologist who became a pioneer in the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Nalini Nadkarni took an inventory of the canopy in 1981, and two inventories in 1984. She was one of the first people to explore the ecology of rain forest canopies, and did so by using mountain climbing equipment so that she could safely make the ascent to study the canopies.
- Sean Williams
Sean Williams is an ethnomusicologist who teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her primary areas of teaching include Irish studies and Asian studies; she leads the Sundanese music ensemble Gamelan Degung Girijaya (Enduring Mountain Gamelan). She received a BA in classical guitar performance from UC Berkeley in 1981, and an MA (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington (Seattle). She is a co-editor, with Dr.
- Corin Tucker
Corin Tucker (born November 9 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.
- Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein (born September 27 1974), is an American musician and actress. She is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist in the currently on hiatus Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. Brownstein grew up in Redmond, Washington. After attending Western Washington University for a short time, she transferred to Evergreen State College and graduated with a degree in Sociolinguistics in 1997.
- Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder and President of Free Press, a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.
- Craig Bartlett
Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956 in Seattle, Washington) is an animator best-known for creating the television series "Hey, Arnold!" His first job, after graduating from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon. Besides working on "Hey, Arnold!" he also worked for "Rugrats" in its first few seasons.
- Michael Vavrus
Michael Vavrus, PhD., is a faculty member at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in the areas of teacher education and political economy. He is the past president of the Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. He is also the past director of the Masters in Teaching Program at The Evergreen State College, and the founding past president of CommonAction.
- Allison Wolfe
Allison Wolfe is a Washington, DC-based singer and performer.
- Andrew Mickel
Andrew "Andy" Mickel (born March 13 1979) is a former resident of Springfield, Ohio. He graduated from Springfield's North High School in 1998 and went on to serve three years with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division before attending Evergreen State College. Mickel was a regular poster to Indymedia.org. On November 19 2002, at 1:27 am, Mickel shot and killed Officer David Mobilio of the Red Bluff, California Police Department.
- Sharon Tomiko Santos
Sharon Tomiko Santos (born July 5, 1961 in San Francisco, California), American politician, is a Washington State representative representing the 37th legislative district. She has served as the majority whip since 2001. Santos was first elected state representative in 1998. She currently serves on the Education; Finance; Insurance, Financial Services & Consumer Protection; and Rules commitees.
- Joey Gjertsen
Joey Gjertsen (born June 13, 1982 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American soccer player, who plays for the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USL First Division. Gjertsen started his college soccer at Tacoma Community College where he produced 31 goals and a school record 14 assists in his freshman campaign. He then transferred to Yavapai College where he won a NJCAA national championship. Transferring once again, he enjoyed a successful 2 year career at Evergreen State College, …
- Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott (b. Corvallis, Oregon, 1944) is an American composer best known for his development of the bowed piano, which involves a grand piano being played by an ensemble of ten musicians who utilize lengths of horsehair, nylon filament, and other utensils to bow the strings of the piano, creating an orchestra-like sound. Scott founded the Bowed Piano Ensemble in 1977, for which he composes. His work is associated with the minimal style of composition.
- Conrad Keely
Conrad Keely is the lead singer for the rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Multi-talented and dynamic, he is also an accomplished artist and writer. He plays wurlitzer and fiddle for Austin, Texas country-folk band Brothers and Sisters. Born in England of Irish and Thai descent, Conrad grew up in Thailand, the U.S. state of Hawaii and Bedworth, England. He then moved with his family to Olympia, Washington, where he attended Evergreen State College, …
- Steve House
Steve House(born 1970) is an United States professional climber and mountain guide from La Grande, Oregon. He earned a B.S. in ecology from Evergreen State College in 1995. He has been a fully UIAGM certified guide since 1999, only the 7th AMGA guide to complete the certification. In the past Steve House has guided with the Exum Mountain Guides, the American Alpine Institute, and North Cascades Mountain Guides. He now guides independently and is based in Central Oregon, …
- Judith Moore
Judith Moore (born 1940 - died May 15, 2006) was an American author and essayist best known for her 2005 book "Fat Girl: A True Story, " published by Hudson Street Press. Moore was born in Oklahoma in 1940 and claimed to have become an obese child, weighing 112 pounds by second grade ; "Fat Girl" is a memoir of her childhood. She moved to Florida as a teenager and graduated from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
- Jared Pappas-Kelley
Jared Pappas-Kelley (born 15 February 1974) is the co-creator and publisher of "Toby Room" magazine. His direction of the arts organization ArtRod led to the creation of the Tollbooth Gallery, which he co-created and curates with fellow artist Michael Lent. Pappas-Kelley is a filmmaker and curator who studied at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
- Saab Lofton
Saab Lofton is an author, cartoonist and radio personality. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, United States.
- Mirah
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born September 17, 1974, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American musician. She has released five albums under the K Records label. She is close friends with and has collaborated with Phil Elvrum of The Microphones. She has worked extensively with The Black Cat Orchestra. Mirah is the youngest of three children and lived in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia, for most of her childhood. She started writing music from a very young age, …
- D. C. Simpson
David Craig Simpson, generally known as D. C. Simpson, is the creator of the webcomic "Ozy and Millie" and the political cartoon "I Drew This". D. C. Simpson is a graduate of The Evergreen State College, was once a reporter for a weekly newspaper, and did a stint for a year as a graduate student in communication at Washington State University.
- Thorn Kief Hillsbery
Thorn Kief Hillsbery is an American novelist. He is the author of "War Boy" and "What We Do Is Secret" (nominated for a Lambda Literary Award). He was born in Portland, Oregon, and attended Evergreen State College. He currently lives in Manhattan, and teaches a creative writing workshop at Columbia University
- Dante Salvatierra
Dante G. Salvatierra (born November 20, 1972), American teacher, politician and author. In 2004 he ran unsuccessfully with the Green Party for the United States House of Representatives in the Second District of Nebraska. Born in Oakland, California, he attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is ethnically Filipino-American and is a member of the Unitarian church.
- Camilla Stivers
Camilla Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Levin College of Cleveland State University. She received an MPA from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech. She is a former Albert A. Levin Professor of Urban Studies and Public Service at Levin College. She is also Associate Editor of Public Administration Review.
- Bill Kozlowski
Bill Kozlowski, founder of the Juneau, Alaska based rock band Peabody's Monster, and co-founder of Rock Alaska Records. He was born October 22, 1971 in Germany, and was raised in Washington. He met his wife, Sierra Kaden, while attending Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. After graduating in 1994, they moved to Juneau in 1995. Much of Kozlowski's songwriting stems from the fact he had Von Willebrand disease, a hemorrhagic (pseudo-hemophilia) condition, …
- Michael Lavine
Michael Lavine (born October 13, 1963 San Francisco, CA) grew up in Denver, Colorado, graduating from Denver's South High School in 1981. During his formative years a camera was never far from Michael's hand. He was active in the photography club, and as a photographer for the school newspaper and year book. After he graduated from high school he headed to the northwest and attended Evergreen University in Olympia, Washington. He graduated in 1985.
- Jeff Glassman
Jeff Glassman is a noted playwright, actor, and composer of movement from Urbana, Illinois. He pioneered several different ways of notating movement. This includes a way of notating movements in time and in space, involving a three-dimensional composition. He is currently teaching "Inventing Systems of Music and Theatre" at Evergreen State College, as well as continuing to perform movement based theatre with Lisa Fay.
- Kirk Hanson
Kirk Hanson - NCF South Sound Regional Manager Kirk is a small forest landowner with a 30-acre tree farm near Oakville, Washington where he manages a regenerating forest and develops experimental agroforestry systems. Kirk has worked on strategies for combining rural economic development with environmental enhancement in the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years.
- Dean Batali
Cousin of TV chef Mario Batali. Graduated from Bellarmine Preparatory School in Tacoma, Washington, in 1982. Graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
- Lara Carder
Hello there! My name is Lara Carder. I am a student at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM). I will graduate in Septmeber of this year!! As the days toward graduation grow closer, I look forward to establishing myself as a practitioner here in the wonderful city of Portland. Until then, I practice under a supervisor at OCOM who is a licenced acupuncturist.
- Brenda Arson
- Owen Glist
Mr. Glist graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Prior to law school, he served for four years as an investigative officer for the Washington Commission on Judicial Conduct, conducting confidential investigations of judges accused of violating the Code of Judicial Conduct. Mr. Glist is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and Massachusetts.
- Le Tigre
Front woman for 90s riot grrrl bands Bikini Kill and Julie Ruin. Current front woman for post grrrl band Le Tigre As the legend goes, Kurt Cobain is supposed to have taken the name for the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Hanna after she spray painted these words on a wall in his apartment. Attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
- Catherine Sangster
Catherine Sangster , our office manager, joined Illumination Arts after retiring as Office Manager and Research Analyst for the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee. She greatly enjoys the challenges and rewards of children's publishing, especially the opportunity to share our inspiring books with telephone customers. Cathy's close-knit family includes her husband Marty, five children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
- Conor Kenny
Conor Kenny Conor Kenny is the managing editor of Congresspedia , a wiki-based, citizen's encyclopedia on Congress that anyone can edit but which is overseen by professional editors. Congresspedia is a joint project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation . Activists, bloggers, researchers and "regular citizens" collaborate on Congresspedia to report on and watchdog Congress.
- Tyler Balliet
Tyler Balliet Editor in Chief, Publisher tyler@thesecondglass.com
- Kristen McHenry
Kristen McHenry Community Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator Kristen joined The Hope in 2006 and is thrilled to be bringing heart health awareness and education to the public as the Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator. Kristen joined The Hope in 2006 and is thrilled to be bringing heart health awareness and education to the public as the Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator.
- Holly Eggleston
Current goal: Think less, do more.
- Natalie Johnson
fickle fancy fickle girl.
- Jacob Sayles
I'd like to think that I'm simple, but people who know me would laugh if they heard that. I'd also like to think of myself as a little shy, but the same applies. I have pretty diverse interests, and love exploring. I strongly believe curiosity should be encouraged and that the "cool kids" are the ones asking the questions NOT the ones who have all the answers.