Amanda (Lang) Eldridge, 2001 Journalism & Mass Communication, lived in four major cities since graduating. She’s now married with two children and finally settling down in Denver.

Kristi Boring Shelton, 1996, Environmental Resources Engineering, worked for Montgomery Watson (now MWH) from 1996 to 2006 in the Federal Unit in Sacramento. Her work included groundwater and soil investigations at various Army and Air Force bases. Then Shelton worked at Secor (now Stantec) from 2006 to 2007 doing underground storage tank cleanups in the Sacramento area. Currently she is working as a water resources control engineer for the Central Valley Regional Water Board.

Salina Cuddy, 2011 English, has begun a Master of Arts program in Sociolinguistics at the University of York in England. Cuddy’s focus is language and power, looking particularly at language and gender as well as language and class.

Jamey Brzezinski, 1978, Art, recently retired from teaching after a 32-year career as a professor of Studio Art for various California colleges and universities. For the last 20 years he taught for Merced College, chairing the Art, Music, and Drama departments for 12 of those years. Brzezinski was the editorial cartoonist for the Lumberjack from 1977 to 1978 and Northern California editor of Artweek Magazine from 1991 to 1992. He lives with his wife, also a retired art professor, in Pacifica, Calif. He spends his time making art, playing jazz ukulele and bass, writing, and curating art exhibits for the California State Court Building in San Francisco.

David E. McLean, 1996, Biological Sciences, is the current president of the Vermont State Dental Society and a delegate to the American Dental Association. McLean earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery in 2000 and now lives in South Burlington, Vt.

Ed Scantling, 1979 Kinesiology and Recreation Administration, is in his eighth year as Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Scantling appreciates greatly the education he received at HSU, which created a strong foundation for a wonderful career as a teacher, coach and university administrator. Scantling and his wife, Eve, have two daughters, Hilarie and Ashley, and two grand daughters, Izabella and Gabbie.

Emily Kratzer, 1976 Journalism, accepted a buyout offer in 2012 during a round of Gannett Company layoffs. While enjoying retirement, Kratzer now volunteers with WCTV.us, community access TV, among other things.

Jennifer Wood, 1996, Botany, (née Berman), helped develop and co-write the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility. She went on to earn a Master of Science degree in Soil Science and became a soil scientist with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. After 10 years, Wood accepted a position with the Arcata Soil Survey Office. While in Humboldt she founded the Climate Action Project through the Redwood Alliance. In collaboration with Humboldt State students she held a Focus the Nation event about global climate change science and solutions. In 2011 she moved to a position at the USDA-NRCS state office in Davis, Calif. She continues her climate advocacy by leading the Sacramento chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby.

Joshua Allen, 2004 Natural Resources Planning, followed his Humboldt experience with a few years of AmeriCorps service through the University of Oregon. Allen has recently started a new job, far, far away from Humboldt. He is now working for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Palmer, Alaska, as a planner. This position is an exciting move for Allen, as he is highly involved in projects that will shape the landscape of Alaska for generations to come, and he reflects upon the lessons learned at the HSU to implement lasting change.

Ken Hansen, 1984, Natural Resources, retired in 2012 after 25 years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement, in Kodiak, Alaska, where he supervised fisheries law enforcement activities in the Central and Western Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. Currently he is conducting fisheries research projects. He also operates a home business, Kodiak Bones and Bugs Taxidermy, which uses flesh eating beetles to clean animal skulls, as well as selling the insects all over the world. With his wife, Deb (’85, Natural Resources) they raised two boys on Kodiak Island.