NEW BOARD MEMBERS
The Rev. Alcena E. Boozer, a native Portlander, was a teacher, counselor, and administrator for Portland public schools, retiring as principal of Jefferson High School in 1997. She has served as rector of St. Philip the Deacon Parish in Portland, assisting priest at Grace Memorial and St. Stephen, and in
other positions at Emanuel in Birkenfeld, St. Augustine in Clatskanie, and St. John the Baptist on the OES campus. She also served as dean and chaplain of the Upper School at OES. Alcena has served on several diocesan committees and on the boards of Tri-Met, Loaves and Fishes, and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, where she served a term as president. She holds a BA from Oregon State University and a master’s degree and an administrative certificate from Portland State. She studied for the priesthood at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.
Moira Buckley has enjoyed a dynamic career in financial services. She joined Prudential Financial in 1993 and currently serves as Director, Strategic Initiatives, leading a group that is responsible for creating a strategy for the use of social media. She has a BS in criminology from Southern Oregon State College
and completed an Executive Management Program at University of San Francisco. Moira has been a board member for Youngset Cooperative Preschool and a trustee for the SIDS Foundation of Oregon. She and her husband, Mike, have three children, two of whom are at OES.
Todd Prendergast is a founding partner of Realty Trust Group Inc., a local full service residential real estate firm, with more than 16 years’ experience in real estate sales and marketing, specifically, a number of high profile urban condominium projects in the Pearl District and South
Waterfront. He attended Jesuit High School and University of Portland and recently served on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Portland. He and his wife, Mariniah, have two children, one in high school at OES.
Scott Keeney is co-founder, president, and CEO of nLIGHT Corp., an international semiconductor laser manufacturer. In 2006, he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Technology in the Pacific Northwest. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA in economics from the University of Washington. He has served on the boards of the Community Foundation
of Southwest Washington, the Washington Technology Center, and nConnect, which he founded to pair engineers, scientists, and other professionals with small groups of students to serve as mentors. He and his wife, Janet, have two children at OES.
Adam Kobos ’91 is a partner at Stoel Rives law firm. He graduated from OES in 1991, and he earned a BA from Amherst, an MA from Harvard University, and a JD from Stanford University. Adam was recognized as one of Portland Business Journal’s Top Forty Under 40 honorees for 2013, and he also is a board member of the Portland Chinese Garden. Adam served on
the OES Alumni Council from 2008-2010 and on the OES Mission/Vision Task Force in 2011-2012. He and his wife, Betty, have one child at OES and another enrolling in the fall.
The Rev. Canon Sara Fischer shares her time between Saint David of Wales Episcopal Church in Southeast Portland, where she is rector, and the Diocese of Oregon, where she is Canon for Congregational Vitality. Prior to attending General Teological Seminary in New York, she worked in a variety of settings, including as a freelance technical writer. Since being ordained in 2003, Sara has
served at several Portland-area parishes and has held a variety of leadership positions at the diocesan and national church level. She is a founder of Rahab’s Sisters, a Portland outreach ministry to women marginalized by the sex industry, homelessness, or addiction. She and her husband, Mark, have one child at OES.
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