Meet the Alumni Board
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Executive Committee
Andrei Stephens ’08
PresidentMajor: Economics
Current location: Cincinnati, OH
Serves on: Griffins of the Last Decade Committee
What is your favorite movie? "Speed Racer (2008)"
Katie Rempe ’05
Vice PresidentMajor: Anthropology
Current Location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
Favorite spot on Reed's campus when you were a student? "I actually truly loved the views from the second floor library desks, I miss having such a cozy, quiet place to work."
Dylan Rivera ’95
Past PresidentMajor: Political Science
Current location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
What was the first concert you attended? "U2, on the Joshua Tree tour."
Laramie Van Duzer Silber ’13
SecretaryCurrent location: New York/New Jersey
Serves on: Griffins of the Last Decade Committee
Favorite spot on Reed's campus when you were a student? "Definitely the canyon. Or the upper catwalk in the reading room in the library."
Alumni Trustees
Carla Beam ’76
Major: Psychology
Location: Anchorage, AK
Tell us about a moment of joy you've had over the past year. "Buying a 1988 VW Westfalia Van and finding out that I can still figure out how to use a clutch."
At-Large Members
Grant Taylor Burgess ’13
Major: Literature
Location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Favorite spot on campus while a student? "Eliot Hall Chapel or that little brick room in the old part of the library just off the main reading area."
Maya Campbell ’15
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Serves on: Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Favorite spot on Reed's campus when you were a student? "The living room of the MRC and the Canyon."
Jen Delfino ’05
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Serves on: Diversity and Inclusion Committee
What was your most recent streaming binge? "All of Mike Flanagan's series. Totally worth it."
Claire Dennerlein Manson ’02
Major: American Studies
Location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
Who is your celebrity doppelgänger? "People used to say both Blossom and Sarah Jessica Parker, but honestly I think SJP has aged better. hahaha. I still think I can be a ringer for Mayam Bialik."
Sofiya Deva ’17
Location: Miami, FL
Serves on: Griffins of the Last Decade Committee
Who is your celebrity doppelgänger? "Freida Pinto"
Matt Giger ’89
Location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
Tell us about a moment of joy you've had over the past year: "When my youngest son, Harrison, chose to attend Reed in the fall."
Kip Guy ’90
Location: Portland, OR
Serves on: Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Valentina Lanlan Jin-Trowbridge ’11
Major: Biology
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Serves on: Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Most recent streaming binge? "Romantic Comedy movies—1000% worth it!"
Caitlin Mckenna ’08
Major: History
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
What is your official Hogwarts house? Is it accurate? "I attended the school Hogwarts was based on (Fettes College in Edinburgh, UK), so I always say my official boarding house was the one I was actually sorted into, Arniston. It was the absolute, hands-down, puffin-lovin' best."
Bronwyn North-Reist ’07
Major: Literature/Theatre
Location: Canoga Park, CA
Serves on: Reed Career Alliance
Worst movie/TV show you've seen recently? What made it terrible/why should people stay far, far away? "Even the worst movie/TV show is someone's favorite, and I think that's a beautiful thing."
Vasiliy Safin ’07
Major: Psychology
Location: New York
Serves on: Griffins of the Last Decade Committee
A moment of joy from the past year: "Helping a person from my hometown (in Eastern Ukraine) reunite with his mother in the U.S. After a difficult journey and many hours spent with CBP at the airport, he was admitted into the country on my birthday."
Angélique Thomas ’09
Location: New Orleans, LA
Serves on: Diversity for Inclusion Committee
If you could be doing anything right now, what would it be? "Sitting in the sun with a cat on my lap and a book in my hands."
Presidential Appointees
TBA
Alumni Committee Chairs
Lilia Raquel Rosas ’94
Co-Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Major: American Studies
Location: Austin, TX
Laramie Van Duzer Silber ’13
Serves on: Griffins of the Last Decade Committee (Chair), Alumni Board Secretary
Major: Anthropology
Location: Washington, NJ
Chapter Leadership Council Representatives
Peter Miller ’06
Major: Political Science
Location: New York, NY
Who is your celebrity doppelgänger? "While I share a psychic bond with the Season 9 character of Peter Miller, I'd have to say I'd be Creed Bratton. Redistricting is terribly complicated and I worry sometimes that my colleagues and friends have no idea what I do at work."
Student Liason
TBA
Nominations Committee
Sarah Getz ’04Major: Psychology
Current location: Princeton, NJ
Gregory Ippolito ’89
Current location: Austin, TX
Dylan Rivera ’95: chair
Major: Political Science
Current location: Portland, OR
Lisa Saldana ’94
Major: Psychology
Location: Eugene, OR
Andrei Stephens ’08
Major: Economics
Current location: Cincinnati, OH