Troy Brown:  

Life After graduating from EHS, I went to school at the University of Washington where I earned an MBA, followed up by a PhD in astrophysics (really a B.A. in the social sciences). While at the University, I developed a computing algorithm that became a precursor for the systems that now drive the Internet (oh wait, Al Gore did that). Nevertheless, things have been well. Just this year, I placed second on American Idol – damn, that was another guy who lives in Seattle. I am very fortunate to live in the same city as Bill Gates, though – the richest man in the world – who has a beautiful mansion on the lakefront. In my split-level house in the suburbs, if you stand on your toes and look out the bathroom window and over the trees, you can see a sliver of that water in the distance. I'm married (15 years this year) and have a 13-year old son named Hunter – or is it married 13 years, with a 15-year old son? Hard to remember. We named him Hunter because of all the hunting I used to do growing up in Wyoming. Terrorizing squeakies with rocks counts, doesn't it? I currently work in public relations, doing marketing communications and media relations. One of the things I do is write articles that are published in magazines read by tens of thousands of people – Time, Newsweek, etc. ...Expand for more