Mill Creek Elementary

Highly Capable Class of 2002

Dagney Crivell

After attending Mill Creek Elementary, Dagney went on to Heatherwood Middle School followed by high school at Henry M. Jackson High School. She then attended the University of Washington from 2009-2013 and graduated with a BA degree in Business Administration, with focuses in Finance and Information Systems. Dagney currently lives in Greenlake, WA and works for Ernst & Young as a member of the Information Technology Risk and Assurance team within the Advisory Services practice.

Karen Johnson
(formerly Karen Chinnery)
Karen

Karen and husband Josh at her graduation banquet following her commissioning as an officer in the Air Force

Karen's family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in 2003 where they still reside. Following her high school graduation in 2009, Karen decided to return to the west coast for college or as close as she could get! Karen attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO and graduated in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. The weekend following her graduation, she married a 2011 USAFA graduate from Nordland, WA: Joshua Johnson. Karen is currently employed as an aircraft maintenance officer by the United States Air Force stationed at Tinker AFB, OK where she ensures the planes her husband flies are fully capable to perform whatever mission is required at a moment's notice. They recently bought a house in Oklahoma City and are busy setting up a home

Kayla Teel

A lot has happened to Kayla since 2002! She moved to Southington, Connecticut in 2004 and lived the New England life for nine years. After graduating high school Kayla spent a year in Monterey Bay, CA studying film production but ultimately returned to the east coast and earned her BFA in Acting last Spring from Central Connecticut State University. Upon graduation she could feel the Pacific Northwest calling her home, so she spent her summer working on film projects and choreographed a musical before returning on August 5th. Kayla now lives in Fremont with Kelsey Fitzpatrick, works as a nanny for a family with three little girls, and will be making her Seattle theatrical debut this December in a new musical titled The Faithfull.

Olivia Church

After high school, Olivia moved to Incline Village, NV to attend Sierra Nevada College. She was majoring in entrepreneurship and loved it for first couple years, but then decided she wanted to go to culinary school. Olivia is currently saving to go to a school in Portland next fall. She lives a few minutes from Lake Tahoe with her puppy, Meiko, and some pretty amazing roommates. She works for a mom and pop coffee shop that just made it through it's first year as well as Northstar Ski Resort during the winter.

Nathan Tjio

Nathan and his sister Amy, who is a student at University of Idaho

Nathan recently graduated from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the UW with a degree in Accounting. Hes currently looking for work in Accounting or Finance, while he stays busy helping out at his church and working a temporary job.

Kathryn Katy Gross

This past June Katy graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a major in general engineering (with an appropriate and sustainable concentration) and a minor in chemistry. While at SPU, she competed as a track and field athlete, specializing in the heptathlon. The heptathlon is basically the female version of the decathlon, with seven events (100m high hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump, javelin, 800m) instead of ten. In the final track meet of her career this past May, she placed 6th at Division II Nationals, earning a spot as an all-American athlete. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Washington, working towards a masters degree in Environmental Engineering with a water quality focus. After grad school she is looking forward to finding a job related to stormwater management, groundwater/surface water remediation, or sustainable design.

Colin Chang

Colin is currently on his way to Phoenix, Arizona to facilitate a regional conference for AIESEC, the largest non-profit student-run organization in the world! Within the local chapter of AIESEC in Seattle, he is the current Vice President of Outgoing Exchange, responsible for matching 35 students to internships abroad, year to date. The picture above was his own international internship in Tianjin, China that he was a part of in the summer of 2012. Colin has since graduated from the University of Washington in June 2013 with a degree in Business Administration and is working for a start-up company in the greater Seattle area alongside his role in AIESEC!

Kate Katie Stevenson

Katie lives in Seattle, where she studies marine biology and environmental studies at the University of Washington. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, backpacking, skiing, and traveling. This summer, she studied neotropical ecology in the Andes and the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Later this year, she looks forward to finishing her capstone project, a course in scientific scuba diving in the San Juan Islands, and an internship with a great white shark cage diving company in South Africa. The Harry Potter series is still Katie's all-time favorite read.

Sarah Bhak

Hi everyone!! Here's what I've been up to lately. I graduated from Pepperdine with bs in business and finance. I'm currently living in Los Angeles, CA and working at Fidelity Investments as a financial advisor. I'm currently trying to stay active and just ran a half marathon last August! For my future, I hope to become a financial analyst and work for a big corporation. LA is definitely a lot of fun but Mill Creek will always be home

Macy Medema

I attended the University of Washington and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority there, which was a blast. I really enjoyed my time at college, and graduated in June with a degree in biochemistry. As much as I loved learning about biochem, I couldn't picture myself in a career in the industry, since I craved something more creative. By chance, I fell in love with computer science my junior year and ultimately want to end up pursuing that further. I ended up applying for a summer internship with an apparel and accessories company in Rhode Island called Kiel James Patrick.The internship turned into a job, so I packed up and moved across the country in September! It's a total dream job for me- a mix of social media, photography, and web design, and I am absolutely loving it! Hope all is well!

Kelsey Fitzpatrick

Kelsey ended up staying in the Mill Creek area for her childhood and graduated from Henry M. Jackson High School in 2009. She then followed her mothers footsteps and attended the University of Washington, where she became a proud husky and a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi. She spent her next four years at the school committed to her sorority and her double-major in Mathematics and Economics, while working odd jobs and doing internships to help pay for college finances. In 2013, she graduated with her degree and was offered a full-time job as an Investments Analyst in downtown Seattle at Mercer, one of the largest consulting firms in the world. Kelseys next pursuit is to achieve the title of Chartered Financial Analyst and to possibly obtain her MBA one day. She is now living the life she had always dreamed, enjoying the perks of corporate life and sharing an apartment in Fremont with her life-long best friend Kayla.

Daniel Halligan

Daniel Halligan is an astronaut-entrepreneur-nuclear submarine pirate-race car driver with a masters in breakfast and a minor in French speaking women. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for saxophone and vocals, and currently resides back in the Northwest, climbing the music and art scene one dimly lit stage at a time. He is the current world record holder of both the long jump and the short jump.

Hanna Kaas
(formerly known as Hannah George)

Hannah (left) and her sister

Hannah graduated from UW Foster School of Business in 2012. During that time, she worked as an Executive Assistant at a small media company and started a portrait photography business. She also had the opportunity to study abroad in Rome where she acquired her love of espresso and fine food. After graduation, Hannah started a job at Safeco Insurance doing auto claims and a year later got promoted to an agent Training Coordinator. In May of 2013, Hannah married her boyfriend, Tucker, of three years and is now Hannah Kaas. Tucker and Hannah now live in Mukilteo and try to travel as much as possible!

Colin Bundschu

Between 5th grade and the end of high school I stayed in the Mill Creek area, going to Jackson High School with many other people from our class. After graduation I went to Harvey Mudd College in the sunny Inland Empire (east of LA) where I dabbled with engineering before I earned a bachelors in Computer Science. During this time I interned at Microsoft and upon receiving my diploma moved back to Seattle where I work there full time. Currently I am at Microsoft Game Studios, making games for the Xbox One. I am also working toward getting my private pilot license.

Whitney Taylor

Whitney Taylor has just entered her fifth and final year as a student at Bellevue College. She currently has her Associates in Interior Studies and a Certificate in Sustainability. With just a few more classes to go and an internship in the near future she will graduate at the top of her class with her Bachelors in Interior Design. Just as always she thrives working on a schedule with deadlines and responsibilities and seeing a positive end result. Architecture and Design has inspired and shaped her life and she is beyond excited to fulfill her dream. Eventually, Whitney strives to work at a large design firm, and hopes to one day open her own practice. In addition to dedicating her life to her education, she has worked at a physical therapy office for the last five years. She prides herself on working all throughout school, which has allowed her to successfully pay for all student expenses and acquire zero student loans. In her little spare time she enjoys being active, working out, spending time with her family, and taking as many mini weekend vacations as possible. Whitney lives in North Everett with her amazingly supportive boyfriend, two loving puppies and two sweet kittens. Whitney lives by the motto, Do what you love, and love what you do.