2001 Group Study Exchange Outbound Team Members

Tracey Belding

Born and raised in the Seattle area, Tracey is now 32 years old. She earned a Bachelor’s of Civil Engineering degree at the University of Washington. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Washington.

Tracey works for the consulting engineering firm Hammond Collier Wade Livingston, and is primarily involved in projects involving water resources. She is particularly interested in how to provide safe drinking water and effective sanitation to communities in developing countries.

For the past five years, she has volunteered her time and expertise to an organization known as “Water for People,” which raises money to support water and sanitation projects throughout the world.

Tracey also is interested in back-country skiing, in mountain and rock-climbing, and in making jewelry with silver, gold and precious stones.

She is married and lives in Seattle.

Brad S. Lichtenstein

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 35 years ago, Brad moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1991 to attend medical school at Bastyr University. Dr. Lichtenstein now is a licensed naturopathic physician and certified personal trainer.

Realizing that health and wellness are more than the absence of disease, he reminds us that every moment is an opportunity to be alive, awake and at peace. Drawing from his experience as a dancer, actor and writer, Brad seeks to restore people’s sense of imagination and creativity in order to enrich the quality of their lives. As a naturopath, Brad’s medicine is based on many of the traditional systems of healing that originated in Asia

During the past five years, Dr. Lichtenstein has specialized in HIV care. He is a supervising physician at the university’s teaching clinic and has taught in the counseling, oriental medicine, homeopathy, and philosophy departments at Bastyr University.

Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth was born in Providence, RI 26 years ago. She received a BS in Family Counseling from the University of Rhode Island, and is currently enrolled in the MSW Program at the University of Washington. 

Elizabeth has served as a Vista Volunteer working with the Fremont Public Association, and as a housing specialist for the Plymouth Housing Group. She is presently the program coordinator for involuntary treatment at Harborview Medical Center. 

Kelly O’Rourke

Now 31, Kelly was born near Washington D.C. However, she has spent most of her life in three states: California as a child, Oregon as teenager, and Washington as an adult. She attended New York University, for an undergraduate degree in Marketing and began her career with a marketing position at Ford Motor Company.

She made an early career change to environmental issues including work as a biologist, educator, park ranger, and administrator. She recently earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies.

Currently, she works for the City of Seattle, in the department that provides water supply, on projects related to water resource management. Even though Seattle is famous for its rain, it has several water supply problems including lack of rain during peak demand times, increasing demand due to a booming population, and environmental concerns such as declining salmon populations. In her spare time, she enjoys bird watching, hiking, and biking.

Gary A Zimmerman
Team Leader

A Rotarian for more than 20 years, Gary is a member of the Rotary Club in Bellevue, about ten km east of Seattle. At 62 years of age, Gary is a retired University administrator, having worked as the CEO of Antioch University in Seattle and previously as the executive vice president of Seattle University.

Gary was trained as a chemist at Caltech and the University of Wisconsin (PhD 1965). As a chemistry faculty member, he was active in the American Chemical Society and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

He has had a career in local and regional community service. In the 1970’s he was on the City Council of Bellevue and as Mayor of that city (with a population of about 80,000 people at the time). In the 1980’s, he served as Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, which provided transit service and wastewater treatment service to the greater Seattle area. Now he is on the governing board of the PacMed Clinics, a physician group of about 125 providers.

In his retirement, Gary teaches people how to do genealogical research. His family consists of his wife, three adult children and three grandchildren.

Honorable mention and special thanks: Willie Lewis was selected for the team, and for months put in a great deal of time and effort in preparation for the exchange. Unfortunately, Willie could not make the trip at the last moment due to other commitments. 

Willie S Lewis, Sr

Willie was born in the state of Georgia, which is located on the South Atlantic Coast of the United States, 40 years ago.

His family moved to Pennsylvania on the North Atlantic Coast when he was a child. After Willie completed high school, he served a four-year tour of duty in the United States Navy. During his naval tour he was stationed in Washington state, on the Pacific Coast in the northwestern part of the country.

Now he lives and works in the Seattle area. He is currently a Sales Manager with ADT Security Services, working in the home security department. He has been in this industry for 18 years. His firm provides electronic alarm systems that respond to fire and unauthorized intrusions into protected areas and provides remote monitoring of the systems.

Willie also is a Christian Minister serving in a community church. He is married and has one son.