In February, Rebecca Neumann (PhDEcon) won a Governor’s Financial Literacy Award in Wisconsin for her efforts to increase financial literacy among the state’s citizens. Rebecca serves on the board of directors for SecureFutures, an organization that empowers teens through financial education.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

In August, Vail Resorts named Chicago native Taylor Ogilvie (Hist), currently the general manager of Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin, as the new vice president of the company’s urban ski areas. In addition to overseeing Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan, he will continue working as the general manager at Wilmot Mountain.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Nicole Tobin (Art, Eng, Fren) and Brian Wooton (Acct’96) married in 2016. Nicole writes that the couple welcomed son Everett Wooton to the world in 2017 and will be sure to show his ĂŰĚÇÖ±˛Ą pride in his ĂŰĚÇÖ±˛Ą onesie. The couple lives in Fort Collins, Colo., where Nicole works at CSU.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Veronica Amey-Perrin (Fren) joined the neuropsychology unit at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Kan. Veronica and husband Jim enjoy hiking and fishing in their spare time and will move to the West Plains area.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

Marshall Scallan (Engl) joined real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield as managing director within its capital markets group for the Washington, D.C., region. Outside of work, Marshall volunteers as a sous chef at Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit whose mission is to end chronic homelessness.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

Michael Chessa (Engl) and Alison Herlands were married on Feb. 11 at the Loeb Boathouse in New York’s Central Park. Michael works as a trial lawyer with Gersowitz Libo & Korek in Manhattan. The couple met in January 2011 during a criminal-law orientation at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Filmmaker Michelle Kantor (Film) is co-founder of Cinefemme, a nonprofit organization that supports female professionals in the film industry. Michelle is currently working on a documentary titled Red Star and a narrative feature titled The Rebel.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

In April, Chris Newton (Engl), director of ecommerce for Stonebridge Companies, published a book on growing online businesses titled How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth. At Stonebridge Chris is in charge of digital marketing for more than 50 hotels across the U.S. His career allows him to merge passions for travel and digital technology. Chris loves spending time with his wife and two kids, traveling and hiking. He has been recording music in Boulder with Motion for Alliance, a band he and friends started in college.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

R. Ashby Pate (Engl), a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of Palau, an island country in the western Pacific, has returned to Alabama, where he is of counsel at Lightfoot Franklin & White in Birmingham. As his firm puts it, “Ashby may have the most interesting resume of any lawyer practicing in the State of Alabama.” He’s also recorded two albums of music and written a children’s book. Ashby and wife Christine have two daughters.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

In December the Boston Globe reported on Damon Corkin’s (BusAd, Span) love of Spanish and the tour company he founded. At age 26 Corkin booked a one-way flight to Ecuador, where he taught English and started Andean Discovery. The Massachusetts firm arranges tours in Ecuador, Colombia, the Galapagos Islands and Peru. Damon and wife Angela live in Sudbury, Mass. with their daughters Olivia and Stella.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

Janea Ashanti Scott (Law) of Sacramento has been reappointed to the California Energy Commission, which she joined in 2013. Janea was a deputy counselor for renewable energy and special assistant to the counselor at the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Secretary from 2009 to 2013. From 2000 to 2009 she held several positions at the Environmental Defense Fund, including senior attorney.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

Real estate attorney ł§±đ˛ą˛ÔĚýµţ˛ąłó´Ç˛őłó˛â (Mktg) was named one of eight new shareholders at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a Denver-based firm. Sean’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions, emphasizing acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial proper-ties. He has experience representing lenders and borrowers in connection with real estate financing transactions and regularly serves as counsel to buyers, sellers, owners and hotel operating companies.

Posted Jun. 1, 2016

In February, ¸é˛â˛ą˛ÔĚý˛Ńł¦łŇ´Ç±ą±đ°ů˛Ô (Mktg) closed the largest residential real estate sale of the past two-and-a-half years in San Diego for $17.7 million. Ryan and wife Kristina Hoyer McGovern (Advert’03) are hopeful that one day their two daughters, Madison and Kinley, will follow in their footsteps by attending ĂŰĚÇÖ±˛Ą-Boulder.

Posted Jun. 1, 2016

Maureen McGinnis (PolSci), an elected judge in Troy, Mich., took office last year. Before she was elected, she practiced law at the law offices of Donald E. McGinnis, Jr.

Posted Mar. 1, 2016

Ball Aerospace program manager Lisa Hardaway (PhDAeroEngr) was awarded the 2015 leadership award for outstanding dedication to space exploration from the Women in Aerospace (WIA) organization. She worked as program manager for Ball’s Ralph imaging instrument, which flew aboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. She also has worked with the Hubble Space Telescope, on the company’s star tracker program and was part of Ball’s Deep Impact mission. WIA recognized Lisa for her dedication to guiding, supporting and mentoring female engineers throughout her career.

Posted Mar. 1, 2016

After exhibiting signs of depression post-graduation, Abel Laeke (Kines) wrote about his experience in a book, No Pressure, No Diamonds: My Life and What It Takes to Lead. Abel ran for a city council seat in Pueblo in November. Although he was unsuccessful, he said he has not given up.

Posted Mar. 1, 2016

On April 25, 2014, Michael Diaz (CompSci) and Lynne Diaz (ApMath’00, CivEngr’06, MS’08) welcomed their fourth child, Ethan Diaz. Michael holds a scrum master position at CA Technologies and Lynne is enjoying staying home with the kids in Timnath, Colo.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

Mick Correll (CompSci, MCDBio) is chief executive officer of Genospace, which provides a platform for genomic and other biomedical data. He has worked in genomics for more than 15 years. Prior to Genospace, Mick co-established the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He lives in Cambridge, Mass.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

Chicago law firm Franczek Radelet named Amy Kosanovich Dickerson (PolSci, Soc) partner. She is a member of the firm’s education practice group and represents Illinois school districts, private schools and higher education institutions. Prior to law school at Loyola University Chicago, Amy taught fifth and sixth graders as a Teach for America corps member.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

Lindsay McKae (Econ, PolSci) of Denver was elected partner of the law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber. She represents lending institutions in complex finance transactions. She also advises ‎private and public clients on acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing of real estate assets, in addition to business formations, corporate ‎compliance and stock and asset sales and purchases.

Posted Mar. 1, 2015

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