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MCA BOARD |
 Bruce Livingston moved to Moscow in 1997, following fifteen years practicing corporate law in St. Louis Missouri and two appearances before the Supreme Court of the United States. He is employed as a lawyer with the Federal Public Defender's Capital Habeas Unit. Livingston is the Chair of the Moscow Arts Commission, a board member of the Latah Economic Development Council, and a Co-President of Rendezvous in Moscow, Inc. which produces the summer concert and arts festivals Rendezvous in the Park and Rendezvous for Kids. Livingston graduated from Duke University and the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, after growing up in a small college town, Oberlin, Ohio. He and his wife Jean live in Moscow so they can raise their two children in a nice college town and enjoy its excellent quality of life. Debbie Reynolds is one of MCA's original board members. I have lived on the Palouse most of my adult life (30 years), and have loved this gentle but changeable land from the first moment I arrived - fresh off a farm in Indiana. I graduated from U of I's Ag Econ program, however, my lifelong work has been bookkeeping. I have a 27 year old son, two stepsons ages 13 and 10, a six year old granddaughter, a horse, a dog, and the nicest husband in creation. We are in business together, designing and building certified Green Homes. We are also the new part owners of Howard Hughes Video Rental in Moscow. I am involved with MCA because I believe in the rights and powers of all individuals. I do not believe the elite of either wealth or social class or those who long for inordinate power are entitled to control the fate of their fellow man. We are all the same in the final analysis, and I like putting forth my effort to (I hope) bringing us all to a finer appreciation of one another and enhancing our desires and abilities to work together for common benefit. Joe Campbell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington State University. He is co-founder of the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference and co-editor of the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy Series published by MIT Press. In 2006, he was a recipient of the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award, in recognition of significant and meritorious achievement in teaching. Joe and his family have lived in Moscow for over10 years. He is a member of the board of the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre and co-founder of the Cowgirl Chocolates/Red Door softball team. Lynn Wells-Tanimoto has called Moscow home since 1989. Her academic background is in Biology and Anthropology, and she has spent most of her career in research and conservation for federal and state agencies, and non-profit groups. Lynn works in the University of Idaho's College of Natural Resources and with the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute. She has a home in Moscow's historical "Swede town" neighborhood, and lives there with her husband, Philip, and son, Ian. She's on the board of directors of the Palouse Land Trust, and active with the Palouse Asian American Association, the Latah County Historical Society, Rendezvous For Kids, and Moscow's schools. Lynn enjoys gardening, birdwatching, music, reading, writing, spending time with her family, and being involved in her community. Julia Parker has been on the board since the first public meeting in 2001. She has an academic background in natural resource sociology and health. Julia has a great deal of volunteer experience including volunteer work with Moscow United Youth Soccer, the Village Bicycle Project, Moscow Public Schools, the Green Party, various local campaigns and Safe Passage in Guatemala. She is currently a volunteer writer for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News' Town Crier Series and for the Community News. She works part-time for both Gritman Medical Center and the University of Idaho. Brandy Sullivan and her husband Jack (a professor at The University of Idaho) have been living in Moscow since 1997. They have two children, Connor (7 yrs.) and Terra (4 yrs.), and are part owners of the One World Cafe, which was opened in downtown Moscow at the corner of Main and Sixth St. on March 1, 2005. Brandy finds great challenges and rewards in being a local small business owner and is proud to be a part of the business community that helps Moscow thrive. She has demonstrated through experience that the Moscow community can and will support locally owned businesses, which in her view is critical to maintaining the character and uniqueness of our downtown. She believes that we need to work to enourage local entrepreneurship and new businesses and to support those who take that risk, benefitting the entire community. Brandy supports the enhancement and improvement of our downtown while involving the citizens in shaping development and retaining local control, thereby keeping dollars in our community. Brandy is also a Speech-Language Pathologist, working part time at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and at Gritman Medical Center. She has been a runner for over 20 years and began running marathons in her late 30's. Brandy is an optimist who finds commonalities among diverse community members, and believes that we can work together to shape the growth and change in Moscow that future generations will take pride in. Tom Preston is currently an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University and has lived in Moscow since coming to the Palouse in 1994. He received his M.A. at the University of Essex (United Kingdom) and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH). He is also a Faculty Research Associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, New York. He is a specialist in security and defense policy, foreign affairs, and political psychology. He teaches undergraduate courses on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security policy, and political analysis. At the graduate level, he offers seminars on international security and the psychology of leadership and decision-making. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious William F. Mullen Excellence in Teaching Award by the WSU College of Liberal Arts and in 2007 was named as one of WSU's prestigious Innovators in recognition of his cutting-edge research (http://www.wsu.edu/theinnovators/overview.html) . He is the author of The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs (Columbia University Press, 2001), 'From Lambs to Lions': Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), co-author of Introduction to Political Psychology (Erlbaum, 2004), and has written numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters on leadership, international security, the use of active-learning simulations in the classroom, and foreign policy analysis. He frequently serves as a consultant for various U.S. governmental departments and agencies. Within the community, he is also a member of the board for Rendezvous in the Park and has been known to coach his son's T-ball team on occasion. He is married to his British-born wife Frances and has two very energetic young sons. Karri Fedale has lived in the Moscow area since 1978, having moved here from her hometown of Wichita, Kansas. Karri is the acquisitions and budget manager for the UI Law Library. She also handles much of the human resource responsibilities for the library. She has worked at the University of Idaho in various capacities of related work since 1983 and for the Law Library since 2003. Her educational background is in Human Resources and Sociology. Her interests in the quality of life in Moscow was first realized in the early 1980's when she worked for Moscow Title and kept the books for the early efforts of downtown revitalization with MDA, the Moscow Downtown Association. Still interested in being a part of working on formulating positive decision-making for the town she and her family love and will always consider home she has chosen to become more involved with local government by becoming a board member of the MCA. She stays busy outside of work with her position with the City of Moscow's Fair & Affordable Housing commission and other voluntary pursuits such as local fund-raisers. Personally, her interests include any excuse to be outside, whether it's white-water rafting, gardening or spending time with her three grown children. Jeanne Clothiaux came into the world a mountain and tree lover. Not long after that she fell in love with food and not long after that, wine. She moved to Moscow in 1998 to live out her dream of climbing ridges and getting cozy in the quaint town nestled below. Soon Red Door Restaurant was born, her first and only child. A few years into the restaurant's life, once she had gotten to know the place and tuned in to the goings on, she perceived a lack of open public discussion on issues important to many of the community's members, herself included. On one charged evening in the fall of 2002, a lively group of good-hearted, jovial spirits came together to figure out a way to engage community members and elected officials in meaningful discourse. The result was the founding of the Moscow Civic Association. Jeanne has been on the MCA board of directors since that night. She also sits on the board of directors for Friends of the Clearwater (www.friendsoftheclearwater.org). She spends most of her time managing the restaurant but is also involved in developing a web site to promote locally-owned businesses and is currently working on a Master's degree in philosophy. She and her husband, Mark Solomon, inhabit a cabin on Moscow Mtn. where they watch the ravens play and pull weeds and thin grand firs to restore a long-neglected previously logged forest back to tamarack and cedar. This has required that half of the year one of her weekend pastimes be uphill skiing (with skins). In the summer, when she is not digging in her garden, you will find her on her mountain bike. Of late her hobbies include reading anything written by Michael Pollan; practicing yoga in a wood-fired sauna; roasting beets, winter squash, and venison; and drinking a dry Alsatian Riesling while Mark rolls out the ravioli dough. Morels soaking, the man singing, heat stove ablaze. Between Moscow-time and mountain-time, she finds an approach to living that is deeply satisfying. top |
Bruce Livingston (President) Debbie Reynolds (Treasurer) Joe Campbell (Vice President) Lynn Wells-Tanimoto (Archvist) Julia Parker Brandy Sullivan Tom Preston Karri Fedale Jeanne Clothiaux (Secretary) Steve Streets Kurt Obermayr Jamie Nekich Kathy Beerman Pat Carter David Peckham Jodi Shirkey |
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