Board Members
The goal of the Brown Club of Oregon is to provide a community for local Brown University graduates and other lifelong learners to interact. This goal is realized through various cultural, educational, and recruitment activities sponsored by members of the Chapter. It allows Brown alumni to maintain some connection to their alma mater despite residing 3000 miles away.To further this mission, the Brown Club of Oregon has a diverse group of active members, including these Board Members:
Sage Cohen '91, President
Sage is founder and principal of the marketing communications firm Sage Communications.
She serves as managing editor and columnist for Writers on the Rise and
writes a monthly column for Black Lamb. Her poems and essays have been published in journals and anthologies including
Cup of Comfort for Writers, Poetry Flash, Oregon Literary Review, blueoregon.com
and San Francisco Reader. Sage was awarded first prize in the 2006 Ghost Road Press poetry contest.
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I am the class of '83 but graduated in '84. I was conceived near the Brown campus but born in Portland. I applied to camp Bruno only because a great high school soccer player, Alan Schauffler, went there. Boy did I luck out. After college I worked at Roger Williams hospital in a vascular lab. Later I moved to Germany and labored in the shipyards of Hamburg. Eventually I graduated from medical school there. I have hitchhiked across North Africa and the United States, lived behind the Iron Curtain, and spent a little time in jail after protesting the Trojan nuclear power plant. Now I have settled down. I have a wonderful wife Colleen, three beautiful sons Jimmy, Arlo and Paul, and a great job in internal medicine. As a friend once said, "My life is finally boring, and I love it."
Marlowe Kulley '03, Treasurer & WebMaster
Marlowe is proud to call Portland home many years of carpet bagging from cities like Providence, Washington, DC, San Francisco,
Long Beach, and Seattle. Most recently she lived in Sydney, Australia while completing her Master's degree in Sustainable Development.
Marlowe currently works for the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development helping small businesses become more sustainable. In her spare
time she is helping organize the annual conference of the World Carfree Network, Towards Carfree Cites VIII, being hosted in Portland in June 2008. She also manages the websites
Routesetter.com and
Climbing Wall Management.
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Gail grew up in Ohio, Texas and Minnesota. After graduating from Brown, she earned a degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and became a magazine writer. Later she served as SVP of Corporate Communications for North Carolina-based Wachovia Corporation and earned an MBA from Duke. She is the co-author of "Love in Black and White" (HarperCollins, 1991), which tells the true story of her courtship and marriage to South African freedom fighter and author Mark Mathabane (author of "Kaffir Boy" and other books). She and her family relocated from NC to Portland in 2001. She currently does communications for Kaiser Permanente and enjoys running the Wildwood Trail through Forest Park with friends. For more information about how BASC works, please see the BASC section of the web page.
Emeritus Board Members
Sam Blackman '98 - Chair Emeritus Jr
Sam has been involved with the Brown Club of Oregon since returning to the state at the turn of the millennium. Initially the Club’s Communications Director, after a couple years at Chair Emeritus Greg Fowler’s insistence Sam became Chair. In 2007, he was honored and privileged to find a talented replacement in Chair Sage Cohen. In other slices of life, Sam is an engineer working for a startup company named Elemental Technologies; enjoys volunteering for progressive political organizations like the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Stand for Children, and the 13 Enviros; and with his wife Adriane is looking forward to the impending birth of their first child.
Greg Fowler '68 - Chair EmeritusGreg is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University, and a Ph.D. graduate in biosciences from Brown in 1968. Greg Fowler believes that an informed and engaged public should be part of the conversation about the ethical and social implications of genetic technologies. Toward that end, he explores the broad spectrum of social issues raised by mapping the human genetic code through his own non-profit organization, Geneforum.org, a Portland-based civic organization that promotes democratic process in public policy development about genetic technology. Building on Oregon's history as a vanguard of public involvement in health policy issues, Geneforum is committed to the premise that citizens can educate the experts about the values that bind a community together and create a common basis for problem-solving.
Debi Coleman '74 - Secretary EmeritusMs. Coleman is General Partner of SmartForest Ventures and Chairperson of the Board of Merix Corporation, a leading manufacturer of complex electronic components. Ms. Coleman is well known for her roles in the early success of Apple Computer, where she was CFO, VP Operations and CIO. When she was named CFO for Apple, she was the youngest CFO in the Fortune 500. Ms. Coleman is on the boards of directors of Applied Materials, Synopsys, Brown University, and the Brown Club of Oregon.