| 1989Dylan Tomine authored Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the Woods, and at the Table (Patagonia Books, 2012), about his four seasons of foraging and cooking with his wife and two young children. Tomine and his family run Bainbridge Island U-Pick Blueberry Farm near Seattle. |
| 1991Brian Pacheco, president of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, received a 2012 Award of Distinction from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for his work in the dairy industry and for advocating on behalf of UC Davis in research, education and outreach. A Kerman dairy producer, he also chairs the board of California Dairies Inc., the state’s largest dairy cooperative. • Andrew Wong received his Master of Arts in Military Studies from American Military University in August. He is serving with the U.S. Army Reserve in the Los Angeles area in support of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. As a civilian, he works with the California Department of Public Health in information technology. • Brian Victor recently joined the Edmunds Law Firm in San Diego as an associate attorney. His practice focuses on family law and national security clearance representation. • Kimberly Baucom, a Petaluma grade school teacher, died in April at age 43. She is survived by four children. • Paul Coggin, M.S., of East Norwalk, Conn., died suddenly last May at age 45. He was a principal consultant at Wipro Technologies in New York City. He was a pilot, member of the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol and was active in local politics and community events. |
| 1992Christie (Weller) Johnson was honored as Natural Resources Management Recreation Employee of the Year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in August. She lives with her family in Cottage Grove, Ore. • Ken Koop is the deputy director of environmental programs for the California Military Department and a lieutenant colonel in the California Army National Guard. He is currently leading a security forces assistance team in Afghanistan. |
| 1993When she is not kayaking above or diving below the coastal waters, Alexandra Howard works at the Bedford, Mass. Veteran’s Hospital as a mental health researcher in the fields of recovery and post-traumatic stress disorder. • Innosanto Nagara is founder of Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design and communications studio. He recently released a children’s ABC board book, A is for Activist. Nagara is housemates with fellow activist Gopal Dayaneni ’92. • A tongue-in-cheek look at motherhood by Alicia Ybarbo, Sh*tty Mom: the Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Abrams Image), made the New York Times bestsellers’ list and rose to Amazon’s top-selling motherhood book soon after its release in September. The book is a second co-authored by Ybarbo, an NBC Today Show producer. |
| 1994Shane Loomis is a principal attorney at Loomis Law Firm in Westlake Village. The family law firm, which he founded in July 2010, recently expanded into special education law. Loomis lives in Thousand Oaks with his wife, Jodi, a special education teacher, and their fifth-grade daughter, Taylor. |
| 1995Milinda Lommer co-authored Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Dogs and Cats (Elsevier, 2012) with UC Davis veterinary dentistry and oral surgery professor Frank J.M. Verstraete. Chapter contributors include both human and animal specialists, among them UC Davis veterinary professor Stanley Marks, Ph.D. ’96. The comprehensive text is the first devoted to veterinary oral surgery, according to the publisher. |
| 1998Nathan Fox founded Fox Test Prep, an educational company that publishes instructional, irreverent books and DVDs, and offers classes and private tutoring to help students prepare for the Law School Admissions Test. Fox’s latest book is Breaking the LSAT. |
| 1999Thachvu Ho is the creator of REgel, a topical gel that utilizes natural ingredients to help relieve pain, repair injuries and recover from workouts faster. Alongside teammates, Ho set a new world record at the 2011 World Masters Athletics World Championships in Sacramento, representing Team USA in the 4x100 meter relay (men’s 35–39 age group) with a time of 41 minutes, 89 seconds. |
| 2001Jonathan Eastman is an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery with the UC Davis Health System. He joined the Medical Center’s trauma services in September. Eastman completed a five-year residency in orthopaedic surgery at UC Davis in 2011, and spent a year as an orthopaedic trauma surgery fellow at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. |
| 2002Jennifer Alves and her husband, Matthew Toepel, welcomed their first child, son Austin, in July. They live in West Sacramento and look forward to taking Austin over the Causeway to visit campus and buy him an Aggie onesie. |
| 2003Matt Silady, M.A. was recently named associate chair of California College of the Arts’ brand new MFA in Comics program. Katie (Devany) Thrasher and her husband, Joe, welcomed their third daughter, Catherine Anne, in March. Thrasher is a homemaker, and her husband is president of Resource Action Programs. They live in Reno, Nev. |
| 2004Ian Fraser-Shapiro recently completed his Ph.D. in archaeology at the University of Alberta. He received his master’s degree in archaeology at California State University at Long Beach in 2007. |
| 2007Scott Thomas Anderson’s new book, Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America, was recently published by the Coalition for Investigative Journalism. Anderson won a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship in 2010, and spent 18 months as an embedded reporter with law enforcement agencies across the country. His articles have appeared in Sacramento News & Review and Sierra Lodestar magazine. |
