Adventurer Katie Writer (Geog) of Talkeetna, Alaska, is a pilot, journalist and photographer. Her latest piece, “General Aviation’s Role in Studying Climate,” will appear in the October issue of the AOPA Pilot magazine. See her photography, oil and acrylic art at katiewritergallery.com. 

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Combining hospitality expertise and design savvy, Amy Sharpiro Morris (Econ) founded her own design firm in 2019. The Morris Project, based in Brooklyn, New York, helps hospitality professionals think holistically about strategy and design. 

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Robb Jeffrey (EnvDes, Mktg) was accredited as a “Certified Cicerone,” for his professional knowledge of beer. Robb began his beer career at the Coors Brewing Company while attending CU. He spent time at Miller Brewing Company, and is now celebrating his twelfth year at Anheuser-Busch as a training specialist. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

This year, Linda Tegarden (PhDBus) was conferred emerita status at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She joined the faculty in 1994, and made contributions in her work on technology innovation. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. 

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Frances Tourtelot (Advert) and Allison Langeler Hastey (Soc’04) recently celebrated six years of owning Merritt+Grace, a Denver-based marketing agency. They write that they use their combined 35+ years of marketing expertise, which started while they were students at CU, to serve a variety of clients, including the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, former office of Governor John Hickenlooper and Cirque du Soleil.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Faegre Drinker partner Heather Carson Perkins (Acct; Law’98) has been elected to the governing committee of the American Bar Association Forum of Franchising. She also co-presented at the 42nd Annual Forum on Franchising and served a three-year term as editor-in-chief of the forum publication The Franchise Lawyer and associate editor of The Franchise Law Journal.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

With over 20 years of experience representing clients, Cynthia Hegarty (PolSci) has been hired as legal counsel for Winthrop and Weinstine. She is also the chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law section.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

In 2020, Kenneth (Ken) Frenchman (Mktg) joined several colleagues to launch their own law firm, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna. The firm plans to continue representing a client base of Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds and private equity firms.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Eagle, Colorado-based journalist and author, Jennifer Alsever (Jour) released her latest young adult novel Extraordinary Lies, a paranormal mystery. When news about her Trinity Forest Series trilogy was featured in the Coloradan magazine several years ago, Atlanta-based film producer Matthew Moore (Engl’93) reached out, and they’ve since begun working on adapting her stories for the big screen. Jennifer credits her son Jacob Beauprez (MechEngr ex’24) with pushing her to write.

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Karla McManamon Miller (Law), under the nom de plume Piper Bayard, has three recent book releases. Spycraft: Essentials is a primer on espionage and the U.S. intelligence community. Key Figures in Espionage: The Good, the Bad, & the Booty is a collection of biographies of key figures in espionage. Timeline Iran: Stone Age to Nuclear Age is a brief history of Iran, focusing on the past few decades and recent events. These books and others can be found at her website, BayardandHolmes.com. Karla describes herself as “a recovering attorney who now works from her home in Colorado.”

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

While living in Hawaii, Lisa Lucas (EnvCon) published her book, Seed to Sea: Kumulipo Connections Volume 1. She writes that she misses Colorado, her old home.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

This January, Billy Humphrey (Engl) was featured on the Travel Channel’s Expedition Bigfoot for an encounter he allegedly had with the creature on his West Virginia property near the New River Gorge Bridge. Billy was a nonbeliever before the sighting, when he says he and his wife saw Bigfoot at about a 30-foot distance. He was also featured on Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot on Valentine’s Day.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

As a junior at CU, Sande Golgart (Mktg) was a forward on the varsity basketball team. Almost 27 years later, as the president of California-based company Zonez, he has helped in the company’s creation of Clean Zonez Panels, which filter air at individual workstations, rooms and other spaces.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Adam Bedard (CivEngr), co-founder of ARB Midstream, was named a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Mountain Desert Region Award, which honors entrepreneurial business leaders whose ambitions deliver innovation, growth and prosperity while creating companies that transform our world.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

As a public librarian and arts advocate Cathy McKee, now CJ Di Mento, (Psych) led the designation effort for, and is now leader of, one of California’s first cultural districts, the Oceanside Cultural District in Oceanside, California. The designation effort was a competitive process with state legislators naming only 14 districts in the entire state. She writes she is “working in a vibrant community to help increase opportunities for arts and culture to thrive equitably without generating displacement in a time when arts organizations are severely impacted by COVID-19.”

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Dawn Davis Loring (MDance) has co-written a textbook titled Dance Appreciation that was published by Human Kinetics in January 2021.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Currently the longest-tenured college president in the state of Wisconsin, Patrick T. Ferry (PhDHist) will retire as president of Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor in June 2021. When he retires, Patrick will have served 24 years as president of the Mequon-based school, with seven of those also at the helm of the Ann Arbor campus.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

David Scott (Mgmt) was selected in March 2020 for the FBI's Senior Executive Service, where he serves as chief of the public corruption and civil rights section in Washington, D.C. After graduating from CU and receiving a commission through the Army ROTC program, David served in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer prior to joining the FBI in 2003.

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

After leaving her job at Samsung in Seoul, Julia Yoo (Law) earned her law degree at CU and founded the Law Center for Women Prisoners, a nonprofit focused on assisting and advocating for incarcerated women. Three years later, she joined the law firm Iredale & Yoo in San Diego. She continues her work fighting police misconduct at the National Police Accountability Project, where she was the first female and the first person of color to be named president. 

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University Hollis Robbins (MEngl) has published her sixth book, Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition. Hollis credits Professor Kelly Hurley, Professor Nan Goodman and Professor Katherine Eggert for helping her to hone the craft of studying literature while she was a student at CU.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

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