Submitted: December 22, 2025
As an Associate Governmental Program Analyst (AGPA) State of California DMHC for the Provider Complaint Branch (PCB) for 25 plus years, your core responsibilities center on protecting the financial stability of California's healthcare system by ensuring health plans pay providers accurately and on time.
As an Associate Governmental Program Analyst (AGPA) on the DMHC Equity in Action team, l analyze internal and external data sets to identify inequities and recommend strategies for promoting a more diverse, inclusive workplace. You are responsible for coordinating equity activities, such as healing circles and training sessions, to normalize conversations around race and ensure that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are integrated into the Department's day-to-day operations.
Submitted: December 4, 2025
Bob is still retired from his career as a Public Health Laboratory Director and is moving forward with the fun stuff.
The fifth book in his space opera series, H2LiftShips, has been published, and he is working on developing the project for TV/Film. Trying to figure out FinalPro for screenwriting takes him back to 1970's software.
In the meantime, Beyond the Now, and Time travel, but not like that, have been published in all the usual vendors.
Check out the websites for more:
https://imdb.com/name/nm16970808
Submitted: December 4, 2025
After 37 years working for two manufacturing companies, Dan retired as the Executive Vice President of Sales, Products, & Marketing for Hensley Industries of Komatsu Ltd.
Submitted: November 16, 2025
John recently published his book, “So You’re Thinking About Becoming a Game Warden”. It can be found on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Submitted: November 13, 2025
John completed a Master of Social Work (MSW) and then an MBA. He is a father of two daughters. He has worked in social services for seven years, specifically with troubled teens, and for two years as a social worker for individuals with developmental disabilities. Additionally, John has served as a paralegal advocate for ten years, managed programs for another ten years, and spent ten years as a financial and program auditor. Now I am retired. In his free time, he enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, hiking, photography, organic gardening, and promoting peace.
Submitted: November 10, 2025
Shea King (he/him/his) is a Professor of Theatre at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, NV. He holds an MFA in Directing from University of Idaho. In 2022 Shea was featured in American Theatre Magazine’s ROLE CALL as a “Theatre Worker You Should Know.” His directing credits include HAPPY DAYS and MURDERERS (Snowy Range Summer Theatre); PERFECT ARRANGEMENT and SEUSSICAL (Reno Little Theatre); DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS, and YOU MAY HAVE SIX (Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company); OBAMA-OLOGY (Bay Street Theater); 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE and THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (Redwood Curtain Theatre); HAND TO GOD, EMME AND THE TAKING OF THE WOODS (Columbia Basin College); ROMEO AND JULIET, COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] (The Rude Mechanicals); CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (Lake City Playhouse); EURYDICE and CARRIE The MUSICAL (Lewis-Clark State College); DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, NEARLY, WASHINGTON and THAT DAY IN TUCSON (Truckee Meadows Community College). Shea is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.
Submitted: November 3, 2025
Retired from American Airlines after 34 years of flying.
Submitted: October 26, 2025
Brad worked for more than a year with the Humboldt County APCD after graduating in 1981. He was then one of many in a long string of ERE grads who went to Utah State University in 1982. The timing couldn't have been better for a future morphodynamic modeler, as debris flows, avulsing floods on alluvial fans, and an ever-rising Great Salt Lake gave great topics for interesting MS thesis topics. He then started a 13-year Federal hydraulic engineering career with the US Army Corps of Engineers; first with the Seattle District, then with the Math Modeling Branch of the Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, MS. Our time in the deep south was broken up with a 1-year research sabbatical at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (U of Minnesota), researching sedimentation engineering processes. Brad then left Federal service and became a principal hydraulic engineer with the Sacramento office of Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC). He led interesting and challenging projects on tidal marsh and fluvial restoration design, river engineering design, sedimentation engineering expert witness testimony for the California DWR, and morphodynamic modeling of waterways and floodplains. Project locations were mostly in the western USA, but also included the Rio Paraguay, Rio de la Plata, and Rio Madeira in South America; the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh; and the Matanuska River in Alaska. Fun stuff! He's now 95% retired and has emeritus status with NHC and is living with his HSU spouse of 40+ years at the family homestead in Glen Ellen.
Submitted: October 20, 2025
Jim Truitt ('01, Business & Economics) has been with Farallon Capital Management, LLC for the past eighteen years. Farallon is among the world’s largest and most established hedge funds, managing capital on behalf of leading institutions and investors globally. In his current role as Managing Director, Jim leads a cross-functional project team focused on enhancing operational efficiency and advancing technology solutions within the firm’s hedge fund operations. His work emphasizes the integration of innovative systems, process improvement, and data-driven decision-making to support Farallon’s investment and risk management activities.
Submitted: October 3, 2025
Since graduating from HSU, Danny moved back to the Central Valley, where he grew up. He worked as an archaeology field tech and then decided to pursue a career in teaching. He has been teaching middle school since 2005. Danny still enjoys traveling back to Humboldt County for vacation and has family who live in Eureka.
