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Leeds 2026 Award Winners

Undergraduate Graduation

Join the Leeds community in recognizing these student and faculty award winners for their outstanding achievements!


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Undergraduate Award Winners

Academic Excellence Award: Carson Carere 

Academic Excellence Award: Rocco Cieslak 

Accounting Division Outstanding Student Award: Ariel Chen 

CESR Impact Award: Undergraduate Student: Mia Scara 

Curi Capital Undergraduate Finance Award: Carson Carere 

Henny Reinhardtsen Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics Division Outstanding Student Award: Brayden Bengtson 

Henny Reinhardtsen Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations Division Outstanding Student Award: Gwenyth Brass 

Kim and Gail Koehn Real Estate Leadership Award: Aidan Fletcher

Marketing Division Outstanding Student Award: 

  • Jocelyn Feir
  • Madeleine Hemstreet
  • Jaquelyn Spradley
  • Zoe Unsell

Social Responsibility and Sustainability Division Outstanding Student Award: 

  • Natasha Visnack
  • Madeline Blakely

Tom Thibodeau Academic Achievement Award: Anna Pumilia 

Undergraduate Personal Financial Planning Award: Emily Archer 

Undergraduate Impact Award: Sena Kavi


Graduate Award Winners

CESR Impact Award: Graduate Student: Natalie Wise 

Colorado Society of CPAs Gold Key Award: Ian Ross 

Curi Capital MBA Finance Award: Sarthak Awasthi 

Curi Capital MS Finance Award: Max Hemsky 

Evening MBA Outstanding Student Award: Karina Cowie Rowley 

Executive MBA Student Excellence Award: Geri Johnson 

Hybrid MBA Outstanding Student Award: Kavita Chitta Vrat 

Kim and Gail Koehn Real Estate Leadership Award: Alex Corren

MBA Marketing Outstanding Student Award: 

  • Ethan Brand-LaBarge
  • Lily Jensen 

MS Accounting Outstanding Student Award: Grace Young 

MS Business Analytics Outstanding Student Award: Matthew Baumgartner 

MS Business Analytics Outstanding Student Award: Rebecca Yoder 

MS Supply Chain Analytics Outstanding Student Award: Chirag 

MS Taxation Outstanding Student Award: Annabella Arreola 

Tom Thibodeau Academic Achievement Award: Alex Corren


Faculty Award Winners

Joseph L. Frascona Teaching Excellence Award: Alixandra Barasch

David B. Balkin and Rosalind and Chester Barnow Innovative Teaching Award: John Ploumitsakos

MBA Teaching Excellence Awards

  • Core Course: Shaun Davies
  • Elective Course: Diane Hirschhorn

Executive MBA Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Jeff York

Master of Business Analytics Faculty Award: David Dobolyi