Escaping war-torn Vietnam as a child was just the beginning for Nhi Aronheim (MTeleCom). She became valedictorian of her high school, and received a bachelor’s in mathematics from Centre College in Danville, Va., before coming to Boulder. Her career involved work in the telecommunications and marketing fields. Nhi has retired and is a volunteer mediator for the Colorado Better Business Bureau. She is writing a book about her harrowing journey, showing that even in the face of overwhelming odds, anything is possible. She lives in Englewood, Colo.

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The American Institute of Architects’ Chicago Chapter named Matthew McGrane (Arch) its Young Architect of the Year for his work as the associate principal and studio director at Farr Associates.

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James Robertson (Mktg’03) was recognized by Sacramento Magazine as one of its Top Lawyers of 2019.

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Robert Kyle Crowder (Psych) is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps and lives in Fredericksburg, Va. He works in government contracting for the U.S. Department of Defense. The married father of six children remains a huge Buffs fan.

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Former CU football player Sean Tufts (Soc;MBA’11) is president of Buffs4Life, which assists former CU student athletes and coaches. In June, the nonprofit held its seventh-annual Kyle MacIntosh Fun Run, named for Kyle MacIntosh (Comm’13), a former Buffs track athlete who died in 2015. Proceeds were donated to a college fund for the five daughters of former Buff TJ Cunningham (Comm’99), who was killed in February.

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Ben Linville-Engler (Biochem, MechEngr) was named the industry and certificate co-director for MIT’s system design and management program, the school’s master’s program in engineering and management. In his role, Ben will find companies the program can collaborate with on research projects. He also will spearhead the SDM certificate in systems thinking program. 

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Rajesh Bagchi (PhDBus) was named head of the marketing department at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. After graduating, Rajesh began teaching at Virginia Tech in 2008. He focuses his research on the psychological processes that underlie decision-making in consumers and managers.

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Kate Mishara (Jour) is a school leader at Wyatt Academy, a K-5Title I elementary school in the Denver Five Points neighborhood. “My work at Wyatt has transformed us from a school to a hub of community resources and an institution of learning,” Kate wrote. “At our school, we deeply believe in meeting the basic needs of our scholars and families.” To help provide for student and family needs, the school has built an all-natural food pantry, a no-cost clothing shop and a family computer lab. It will soon add a washing machine and dryer to the community resource center.

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Therese Vinal (Jour) is the in-game video host for the San Francisco Giants. Her work includes interviewing current and former players, as well as special guests, for video features shown during home games.

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A team of Buffs men’s basketball alumni competed in an amateur tournament this summer. Televised on ESPN, 64 teams competed for a grand prize of $2 million. Team Colorado included NBA veteran Chris Copeland (Pysch) and all-time leading scorer Richard Roby (Soc ex’08). The teamwas coached by Nate Tomlinson (·ˇłŮłó˛Ô’12).

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Christa Hasenkopf (PhDAtmos) is cofounder of OpenAQ, a tech nonprofit that makes real-time and historical air quality data available in any location. During her time at CU, Christa learned about the poor air quality in Mongolia, and it inspired her to use her degree for environmental justice. She went to Ulaanbaatar, the country’s capital, and began working to provide open data to its citizens, which led to the creation of OpenAQ

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Brett Forrest (Anth, Film) spent his summer climbing mountains, capping it off with a combination hike of Wetterhorn and Uncompahgre, two Colorado 14ers. It took him 10 hours to complete the 17-mile loop. Brett managed to climb five peaks in three days.He will be at Columbia School of Journalism this fall.

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In June Melissa Lee Kean (Art, EBio) was ordained a priest at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Denver by Right Reverend Kimberly Lucas, 11th bishop of Colorado. Melissa completed her master’s of theology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in May. She is now in Rome, Ga., where she serves as associate rector at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

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In 2018, best friends and former members of the CU Boulder equestrian team Carolyn Likas (Advert) and Brittany Lloyd (Jour) founded the company Town’s End Outfitters, an online destination for luxury women’s activewear. The company focuses on empowering women to participate in golf, tennis and equestrian sports. “Our friendship formed during our time in Boulder, and our experience in the advertising program enabled us to build a marketing plan which eventually became the foundation for our company,” wrote Carolyn.

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The cannabis industry exploded in Colorado in January 2014. A few months later, Jackson D. Tilley (Comm) took an internship at O.penVAPE, a Denver-based vaporizer company. He published a book, Billion Dollar Dimebag: An Insider’s Account of America’s Legalish Cannabis Industry. The book is a “first hand account of the 21st-century wild west,” writes Jackson. In his book, he traces the path of the booming company as well as the cannabis sector. Along the way, he got sober, moved to a hurricane zone, quit, un-quit, invented new ways to market an ancient product and got a dog named Bobby Kennedy— not necessarily in that order, he writes.

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Longmont, Colo., resident Taylor Raven (MMus) was selected as a Filene Artist by the Wolf Trap Opera (WTO), which enabled her to participate in a competitive summer training residency program for emerging professional singers.Through a rigorous annual audition tour, WTO selects its artists from among the best classical vocalists in the country. The residency program took place in Vienna, Va.

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In 2016, Lauren Zavala (ArtHist) founded her company Zavala Bespoke and began applying her art to unique surfaces, including clothing, purses, fabrics and a variety of other “canvases.” In June, Lauren and Zavala Bespoke were featured in Forbes.

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Olivia Sage Novotny (Soc) has moved to a remote village of 6,000 in the Japanese countryside. She will be teaching English to local children.

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Esmeralda Castillo-Cobian (EthnSt) began her first job this fall as the new seventh grade language arts teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Early College in Denver. Esmeralda previously interned at CU Boulder’s Latino History Project and was one of the School of Education’s outstanding graduates.

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Claire Lamman (Astro, Phys) was named outstanding graduate of the CU College of Arts and Sciences this year. Next up — an astrophysics graduate fellowship at Harvard.

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