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Meet Kevin Alltucker
My unique experiences help me find creative solutions for businesses, community, and government. I've been a mountain guide, a construction engineer, and a University of Oregon Professor in Family and Human Services. I've been married to my wife for 42 years after meeting her at Oregon State University. We have two adult sons who are working to make our world a better place. I'm in the "encore" phase of my life, which means I get to choose what projects to work on
Lane Community College
Board of Education
In 2023 I was elected to the Lane Community College Board of Education. As a LCC graduate, I experienced first-hand the magic of community college. LCC taught me the pure joy of learning and it prepared me well for life. As a Board member, I support President Stephanie Bulger as she works to make LCC even better
Eugene Parks Foundation
Building Exceptional Parks
I joined the Board in 2023 because I want to help make our community better. More than just places, Eugene’s Parks play a crucial role in community’s economic and social well-being, going beyond being mere green spaces. They are dynamic places that build and grow thriving communities that co-exist, protect, and preserve nature and wildlife habitats.
Eugene’s Parks provide livability, connection, and equity, making them the most democratic institutions that unify people from diverse backgrounds, bridging social divides through shared experiences.
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Oregon Justice Network
Making communities safer
I joined the board of Oregon Justice Network because I want to help a former student start his nonprofit organization. Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. The work centers around youth mentorship, advocacy, and supported reentry.
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A Better Response to Homelessness
Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce
In 2021 I joined the Chamber's Business Leaders Task Force because I was concerned about homelessness in our community and wanted to learn more. Since then I've learned a lot and what I can tell you is that the level of trauma being experienced by unsheltered folks is staggering and the results of that trauma will reverberate for years. We have to do a better job of helping people find hope, health, and housing. We have to gear our social services to help people gain autonomy, authority, and agency over their lives by addressing their needs so they at least have a chance of being self-sufficient. And, we need to factor accountability into the whole shebang. I'm not talking about handcuffs, I'm talking about holding people and service providers accountable for their actions. I believe more housing is the long-term structural solution to the problem, but if we don't attend to the day-to-day personal suffering and the damage to our neighborhoods and businesses, we will never achieve our long-term goal of more housing.
When I was 12 years old my parents shipped me from my hometown in Eugene, Oregon, a post Vietnam-war bastion of unshaven tie-dyed pot-smokers in Birkenstocks, to be a mule packer in the high Sierra mountains of California, a buzz-cut, western-shirted, country-music-filled space with a wad of chew in its mouth that revered hard work, ranch dressing and the American dream.In my professionally edited 70,000 word memoir: The Mules of Mineral King, I share humorous experiences of learning the lost art of mule packing and how to navigate the roughest and most dangerous trails in the world while keeping the paying customers (dudes) safe and entertained. The book contrasts my summer job as a packer and the laughable amount of responsibility and risk placed in my lap, with my school year life as a geeky junior high student that demanded minimal efforts and no danger. The book is a hybrid western adventure, cultural history and conventional memoir that spans the decade that shepherded the unraveling of the American west. Along the way I emerge as a fully-fledged packer and a man questioning societal hyper-masculine role models that I had accepted as normal but proved sorely inadequate in fostering a romantic relationship with a beguiling young woman.
Published by Riverfeet Press
Available now from Riverfeet Press and Amazon
The Mules of Mineral King
A memoir by Kevin Alltucker
My Art
During the Covid pandemic, Brian Obie created an art studio in an empty office space and invited all employees and their families to come and make art. Irene and I did that and I produced a lot of not-so-great paintings. As time went on, I got a little better. I am still a beginner and I want to learn more.
Maude Kerns Art Center c. 1970
My Publications
Here are a few of my publications
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Lane County's Juvenile Justice System: A Critical Race Perspective (2020)
An Evaluation of the Phoenix Treatment Program, Lane County Youth Services (2019)
Ad Hoc Committee on Police Policy: Report to Council (2021)
Program Evaluation: City of Eugene Teen Courts, Bethel and West Eugene (2015)
Different Pathways to Juvenile Delinquency: Characteristics of Early and Late Starters in a Sample of Previously Incarcerated Youth (2006)
The Mules of Mineral King
Published Dec 2024 by Riverfeet Press
Available for purchase from Riverfeet and Amazon
A Program Evaluation of the Communty Dispute Resolution Program (2017)
Property Development
I'm a landowner of property that will be developed
My brother Michael and I own what used to be the Eugene Sand & Gravel plant site located near Delta Highway and Greenacres. There are about 30 acres of developable land on the site which is currently in the Urban Reserves and outside of the City of Eugene limits. We have started the land-use process that will ultimately bring the property into the Urban Growth Boundary and into the city.
