Catherine Guzelian Bazile (Mus, PolSci), formerly a member of the energy group at Holland & Hart LLP in Denver, has opened a private practice, Summit Energy Law LLC, in Englewood, Colo. The firm will specialize in matters pertaining to oil and gas title and transactional work.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Tucker Hamilton (AeroEngr) and Aaron Frey(AeroEngr’02; MS’03) are both F-35 test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Tucker and Aaron are two of a handful of people testing all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Aaron is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps; Tucker serves in the Air Force. The friends grew up together in Evergreen, Colo., and played basketball on the same middle school team.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Emmy-award winning producer Alexis Martin Woodall (Film) was nominated for a 2017 Emmy for her work on Feud: Bette and Joan. Alexis has won Emmys as a member of producing teams for The Normal Heart and The People v. O.J. Simpson. She and husband Dave recently opened a restaurant, Red Herring, in Eagle Rock, Calif.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Daniel Livesay(Psych) wroteChildren of UncertainFortune, which delves intothe 18th-century migrationof elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica toGreat Britain. An assistantprofessor at ClaremontMcKenna College, hefocuses on early Americanand Atlantic history,examining the intersectionof race, family and slaveryin North America and theCaribbean.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Juli Rasmussen (Jour) and Aaron Clymer (MechEngr’12) won the software competition Go Code Colorado. They were the first team from the Western Slope to win in the competition’s five- year history. The team, which included two other members, won $15,000.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

CristaNewmyer- Olsen (Engl, Soc;Law’07) said she has committed herselfto “fighting the good fight.” Born and raisedin Colorado’s San Luis Valley, she is currently the district attorneyfor the 12th Judicial District of Colorado. As a law student, Crista took primarily American Indian law classes.Her favorite professors included Jill Tompkins, then clinical professorin the American Indian Law Clinic, and Professor Emeritus Charles Wilkinson, whom Crista remembers fondly as a “wonderful professor in addition to a delightful human being.” Outside the courtroom, Christa enjoys spending time with her family and hermenagerie of cats, dogs and horses at her home in Mosca, Colo.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Alexis M. Woodall(Econ, Film) won her third Emmy Award in the Outstanding Limited Series category for her work as executive producer for the show Assassinationof Gianni Versace, which details the fashion designer’s murder. She has won several Emmys including for The Normal Heart in the Outstanding Television Movie category and The People vs. O.J. Simpson in the Outstanding Limited Series category.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Juli Rasmussen (Jour’02) helped organize the golf tournament Tiara Rado in Grand Junction in collaboration with the local Rotary and one of CU’s alumni chapters, Grand Valley Forever Buffs. The tournament raised money for engineering scholarships for Colorado Mesa University and CU Boulder students.

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Kaite Barchas Wilson (Phil, Psych) was named Community Leader of the Year in the young professional category by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. Katie is president of The Market Group, Inc., a boutique marketing, public relations and events firm. She is also the founder of the High-Heeled Happy Hours, a women’s networking event series that honors female business leaders, and raises funds and awareness for local charities. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia, with her husband, three kids, two dogs, two cats and one fish.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

After Ryan McMunn (Mktg) and his wife Allie recovered from COVID-19, they knew they had to act. The Tricam Industries CEO utilized his business experience to source hundreds of masks from a Chinese factory that produces ladders for his company. They donated the masks to UC Health Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Ryan lives in Denver and also is CEO and founder of BRIC language systems and founder of Leroy Street Capital.

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Writer and assistant professor of politics Ahmed Khanani (IntlAf) serves as co-director of the Center for Social Justice at Earlham College. His book All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy was published in January.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

In 2004, Melissa Stockwell (Comm) became the first woman to lose a limb in the Iraq War when she lost her leg to an IED during a routine patrol in Iraq. After a long and challenging recovery, Melissa went on to win three paratriathlon world championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Melissa’s memoir, The Power of Choice: My Journey from Wounded Warrior to World Champion, was published in 2020.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Michael Hake (Mktg) of Erie, Colorado, and Gary Shirman (Soc’80) of Boulder formed Boulder Wealth Advisors, a financial planning and investment management firm.

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

Holly Morphew (IntlAf) is CEO and founder of Financial Impact, a financial coaching practice, and author of Simple Wealth. Published in 2021, the book became a No. 1 bestseller in nine out of 10 categories on Amazon.

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

ٱԱ’s Brad Turner (Jour, Mus) is working at Colorado Public Radio making podcasts. As executive producer of CPR’s Audio Innovations Studio, he released a new podcast, Music Blocks, a five-minute music appreciation podcast designed in collaboration with Colorado educators. The show helps teach music appreciation to middle and high schoolers, featuring contemporary music along with examples from different genres and cultures. “We touch on music by Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo, but also Beethoven and John Coltrane,” he wrote. “Each installment looks at how artists express a different emotion through music.”

Posted Nov. 5, 2021

Freelance writer and editor Heather Mundt (MJour’02) published her first book, Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure, in May. The book details more than 60 destination options, sorted geographically and with rankings of difficulty and age-appropriateness. Her two sons are featured throughout the book. Heather thanks Doug Cosper, her favorite CU journalism professor, in her book’s acknowledgments section.

Posted Jun. 21, 2022

Executive producer of Colorado Public Radio’s Audio Innovations Studio, Brad Turner (Jour, Mus’02), contributed to the podcast “Music Blocks,” which won the “Best Podcast for Kids” Ambie award. “Music Blocks,” geared for middle and high schoolers, explores how songwriters and composers express emotion through sound.

Posted Jun. 21, 2022

Aaron Perry (Ger’02;MA’02) published hisdebut novel, .The eco-thriller is Colorado-based and includesscenes from the CUBoulder campus beforethe protagonist makesa fateful decision. Aaronis also the co-founder,executive director andhost of the community podcast.Aaron lives in Boulder.

Posted Nov. 7, 2022

Four-time Emmy Awardnominee Kevin Wendling(Psych’02) won his firstnational sports EmmyAward for best Outstanding Technical TeamEvent. Kevin has beenan operations producerfor ESPN and ABC since2003. In the last year, hehas worked on ESPN’sMonday Night Football,College Football Saturdays and the CollegeFootball National Championship, Monday NightFootball with Peyton andEli, the Women’s CollegeWorld Series, the MLBAll Star Game, NCAAConference Championship Basketball, the LittleLeague World Series andthe Rose Parade.

Posted Nov. 7, 2022

KhalilahLouis Caines(Psych’02) is a professorof social work at SaintLeo University in SaintLeo, Florida. Khalilahserved her communityas a social worker forover a decade in manypositions, including childwelfare case manager and adoption caremanager. In 2016, shetransitioned to teachingsocial work courses atSaint Leo University,where she’s been since.Caines has a master’sdegree in social work,numerous certificationswithin her field and iscurrently working towarda PhD in public affairsfrom the University ofCentral Florida.

Posted Nov. 7, 2022

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