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Introducing Gina

Portland Magazine

Alumni

May 26, 2021

Gina Amato Yazzolino Gina Amato Yazzolino ’96 is UP’s—no, your—new director of alumni and parent relations, and she has hit the ground running here on The Bluff. Days into her new position, she masked up and joined the assembly line of volunteers who packed the commencement boxes for our 2021 graduates, the newest members to join the community of UP alums doing amazing things out in the world. She has also connected with Air Force ROTC Commander Col. Scott Grainger ’94, in support of a new Air Force ROTC alumni affinity group.

She wants to hear from you, not only about what you’re up to, but also how you want to be involved in UP’s future. If you have ideas, please reach out!

Gina has spent her career in the world of nonprofits—from Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oregon to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Archbishop Howard School at St. Rose. But UP is the first nonprofit where, on her first day on the job, as she drove that familiar bend on North Willamette Boulevard toward the University’s main entrance, she took a deep breath and thought, “I’m home.”