Allison Subasic is the first full-time coordinator of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center on the UC Davis campus. Subasic has worked with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community for more than seven years on local and national levels. She has served as volunteer co-director of the resource center for the past three years.
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Amanda Braley Boose, M.S. '94, and David Boose, Ph.D. '95, had a son, Eric, in February. The family is living in Spokane, Wash., where David is an assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University. Dena Mangiamele, M.P.V.M., is chief veterinarian for Los Angeles' Department of Animal Services. Her wide range of duties includes overseeing six animal shelters. Her husband is the state veterinarian for public health. Darren Marlowe joined the Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk law firm in its Santa Monica office as an associate attorney specializing in campaign and election law. Lanette Woo is a graduate student majoring in international business at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Woo previously volunteered with the Peace Corps in Thailand.
Natasha Bohla, a student at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, recently served as a writer for the school's moot court team, which won a number of awards at the Northwest regional rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, including first place team honors. Raul Cabrera-Almanza, M.S., Ph.D. '94, recently joined Texas A&M University as associate professor of ornamental horticulture. For the past five years he worked as assistant professor in nursery crops at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Daniela del Valle is a designer for Stratford Interior Design in Pleasanton. She designs model home merchandise displays. Temo Moreno, an art instructor at Lee Junior High School in Woodland, exhibited his paintings at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis this spring. Moreno received his M.F.A. from Boston University in 1995. Sean Shimada plans to open a new fitness center, Peak Performance, in Davis. The center, which is scheduled to open in July, will feature a bicycle aerobics class and include a women's center.
Jeremy Hallisey manages California Gov. Gray Davis' San Francisco office. Hallisey previously worked with the campaign manager for now-San Francisco mayor, former-California Speaker of the House Willie Brown. His father, Jeremiah Hallisey, is a former UC regent. Brenda Hensley teaches seventh- and eighth-grade math at Willis Jepson Middle School in Vacaville, where she is the department chair for mathematics. Pamela Swan, M.S., is the founding principal of an economic, planning and land conservation consulting firm, Swan & Associates, in Healdsburg. The firm received the Best Research award from the California Division of Tourism for a tourism and agricultural marketing study it conducted for Mendocino County. Swan serves on the UC Cooperative Extension statewide agricultural tourism working group. She and her partner, Hally, live in Sonoma County with their dog, Pele.
Marilyn Ryan Blair works for the engineering products division of Information Handling Services in Denver, Colo. She and her husband, Jim, had a daughter last August named Brooke. Photographer and writer Ed Darack has published his second book, Wind *Water *Sun, about his solo kayak trip along Baja California's coast. The book includes photographs taken during the five-month trek as well as anthropological and geographical details. Darack's stock photos are available through a number of agencies around the world, he has produced a line of note cards and posters, and he currently works with Poudre Canyon Press. Glen Frazier is a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He is based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Matthew Hargrove recently joined UC Davis as director of advocacy programs for Government Relations and Alumni Relations, acting as a liaison between the campus, alumni and the Legislature. Hargrove previously worked for then-Assemblyman Brooks Firestone, RSanta Barbara.
Aristotle Eder Evia received a J.D. and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in May. In October, Evia will join Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro LLP in Los Angeles as an associate litigator. Christie Martin also received a J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Master in Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in May. She will join the San Diego city attorney's office in the fall. Chris Tsubamoto produces an Internet zine, ii Stix (www.iistix.com), which features provocative articles on issues of interest to Asian Americans. Tsubamoto also works at the Crocker Nuclear Lab at UC Davis.
Susan Avila, M.F.A., showed her textile work in an international juried exhibition 
Juvenal Alvarez attends the Monterey Institute of International Studies where he majors in public administration and studies Spanish. Alvarez went on a 10-day study of Cuba with classmates earlier this year. Maria Garcia recently completed U.S. Navy basic training. Rafael Vargas received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support his M.D. studies at Stanford Medical School. The son of Mexican migrant workers, Vargas has served as a teacher and health practitioner for migrant farm workers and their children. Jeremy Veasey is one of four Americans playing on the World Football League's Landsberg, Germany, team. Veasey is an outside linebacker and wide receiver for the team.
Earl McCune, Ph.D., was named president of Tropian Inc., a Cupertino developer and manufacturer of advanced circuitry for wireless telephones. McCune has 20 years of experience and holds more than 10 patents in the wireless communication field.