Meet Our Newest Members

July brought Three! new member households to Washington Commons.  One couple is relocating to the Sacramento area due to a new job position and the other two households were drawn to Cohousing as the pandemic and life changes made living in community with others a sensible and attractive lifestyle.

​Welcome JH & JiChul, Becki & Alec, and Jay!  We are excited to be building community with you! 

Meet JH & JiChul

My family has been in Albany, New York since 2013. We are originally from South Korea. My name is JeongHyun and I am a wife of JiChul and a mother of two lovely children. My daughter is a junior at UIUC, and my son will be a freshman at Boston University this upcoming semester.

My husband has been semiconductor researcher and engineer over 23 years. This year he started a new job as vice president of research and global marketing for a semiconductor equipment company located in Sacramento, CA. So we have to make a plan to move Sacramento. I worked as an interior designer in Korea and I luckily have been working on several projects in Albany for my friends. Also, I studied and researched Cohousing for my Ph.D. 10 years ago. I would love to get all kinds of experience about real cohousing life. So my husband and I thought this is the perfect time to look for and join a cohousing community. We are really excited to learn about Washington Commons cohousing and we look forward to getting to know all the members.
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My favorite activity is reading a book, watching a movie, any kind of making things by hand and walking. And JiChul also likes outdoor activities like jogging, biking and walking. Washington Commons cohousing is located just near the riverwalk and we found it is the perfect place to enjoy these activities.  We hope to share our experiences and activities with you and it makes us happy that we can have a chance to get good cohousing neighbors.

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Meet Becki & Alec

​The Ambrose-Winters family hails from Davis, CA. We have lived in Village Homes for the past 18 years where we have fostered many dogs, fixed many bikes and grown many tomatoes. Our daughter (in the photo with us) graduated from Earlham college in 2020 and is in a teacher training program in the Kansas City school district where she is preparing to be a middle school science teacher. Alec used to practice geology by remediating “dirty ground water” sites. Becki is a professor of education at UC-Davis focused on working with teachers to develop anti-racist approaches to math teaching. We joined Washington Commons so we could have a one-story domicile with friendly neighbors. Our experience in the Davis Friends Meeting has given us first-hand knowledge of the joys and challenges of corporate decision making. We look forward to putting what we’ve learned into practice with our new community at Washington Commons.

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Meet Jay

I am a librarian with the San Mateo County Libraries.
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My interests are science (biology, astronomy), history, aviation, and tinkering with computers and automobiles. I graduated from UC Davis with a BS in biology, continuing at California State University East Bay, dropping out for library school at San Jose State University.
 
I'm an inactive private pilot, became licensed in 1968 while a student at UC Davis, and received an instrument rating in 1975. Flying clubs gave me the opportunity to fly single-engine Cessnas, Pipers, Grumman-Americans, and a retractable-gear Mooney and Beechcraft Bonanza.
 
I am captivated by (and am good at) editing. For several years I edited a flying club newsletter, and now enjoy editing and sometimes writing blogs for the San Mateo County Libraries. Each email I send is edited.
 
Appreciating our connections as living beings with all of earthly life comforts me. Evening walks see me gazing at stars and planets, knowing I am a part of the world, and made of elementary particles nearly 14 billion years old.