In January law firm Wilson Elser announced that Melissa Shisler (Law’96) joined the firm’s Denver office as counsel. She is a member of the firm’s national appellate, fidelity/surety, general liability and casualty and insurance and reinsurance coverage practices. While she attended CU law school, Melissa was a member and associate editor of the University of Colorado Law Review. She lives in Littleton, Colo.
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Writer and historian Andrew DeRoche (PhDHist’97) is planning a research trip to the museum in Las Animas, Colo., that houses the personal papers of former ambassador Llewellyn “Tommy” Thompson (A&S’28). Tommy worked closely with U.S. presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon. He also played a key role during the Cuban Missile Crisis by advising President Kennedy how to respond to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, with whom he had lived for a time. Andrew writes no historian has ever had access to the diplomat’s personal papers before, so he is excited to see what they have. Andrew has published two books and many academic and encyclopedia articles. He lives in Longmont, Colo.
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South by Southwest featured The Pool, an interactive art installation in Republic Square Park near Austin, Texas, created by Jen Lewin (EvnDes’97) of Jen Lewin Studio and her studio assistant, environmental design student Daniel Nordson. Her piece consisted of large illuminated circles that, when stepped on, flashed from blue to pink. Wired featured Jen’s art in March. She lives in Boulder and has been creating large interactive pieces for the public for 15 years.
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Apple recognized Jordan Schugar (Engl, Geog’98) as one of the nation’s most notable and innovative teachers with its prestigious Apple Distinguished Educators Award. He is one of 90 U.S. educators selected for the award and will serve as an “ambassador of innovation” at education events around the world. Jordan is an instructor at West Chester University and specializes in teaching writing, composition, literacy and educational technology. He lives in West Chester, Pa., with his wife and two children.
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On Dec. 21 Courtney Nowlin Opdyke (Hist, PolSci’98) and Christopher Opdyke (Econ’99) welcomed their third son, Andrew Clement. The family lives in Park City, Utah.
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Director, editor and producer of the film Born & Raised, Joshua Dragge (Film’99) received a certificate of merit at the Williamsburg International Film Festival. The film Born & Raised secured distribution with R Squared Films. It played at Logan Film Festival in Logan, Utah, and Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa, Fla., in March. Joshua lives in Torrance, Calif.
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Michael Diaz (CompSci’00) and Lynne Bryant Diaz (ApMath’00, CivEngr’06, MS’08) had their third child, Callan Diaz, and moved to Castle Rock, Colo.
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Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, announced that Julie Koehler (MCivEngr’00) of Boulder received the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Envision certification. She works in Denver and specializes in the water/wastewater industry.
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Foreign Service Officer Trey Lyons* (PolSci’00) serves at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Ga., where he leads a unit focused on the country’s foreign policy and its conflicts with the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions. In April Trey was a panelist for CU’s 65th Conference on World Affairs in Boulder. He received the 2011 Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the Alumni Association. Trey enjoys foreign languages, travel, cycling and hiking with his wife.
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Davis Graham & Stubbs added lawyer Nathalie Bleuzé (Law’01) to its trial department where her practice focus is primarily on labor and employment issues. Nathalie has significant experience in employment discrimination and harassment, wage and hour rules and layoffs and terminations. She lives in Denver.
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Gevurtz Menashe Larson & Howe added Ryan C. Kaiser (Span’01) as an associate attorney. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 Super Lawyers Magazinerecognized Ryan as a “Rising Star.” Gevurtz Menashe is one of the largest firms in the country with a practice limited to divorce and family law. Ryan will handle family law matters in Oregon.
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Personal stylist and former Alumni Association student worker Erin Edwards (Engl, Jour’02) works for Stella & Dot, a company that specializes in boutique-style jewelry and accessories sold through in-home trunk shows and online. Erin lives in Superior, Colo.
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F-22 pilot Maj. Brock Lange (Geog, Astro’02) is stationed in Hampton, Va., where he flies the U.S. Air Force’s most sophisticated fighter. His wife Maj. Rebecca Ernst Lange (PolSci’00) works as an air intelligence officer in the Air Force. In December Brock was part of a story run in Airman Magazine, the official magazine of the U.S. Air Force.
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On Sept. 8, Taylor Schierburg (Bus, Comm’02) married Ryan Surroz at the Denver Country Club. The couple resides in Washington Park in Denver with their yellow lab, Stryker.
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In February structural engineer from Lakewood, Colo., Jerod Faris (CivEngr, Math’03, MCivEngr’12) returned home from a project trip to Santa María del Real, Olancho, Honduras. Jerod was part of team of architects and engineers from across North America who volunteered their time with Engineering Ministries International’s America Latina office in Costa Rica. The team spent weeks in Honduras developing the concepts and designs for Clínica El Buen Pastor.
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Associate professor Ross Haenfler (PhDSoc’03) teaches sociology at the University of Mississippi. His interests focus on how people pursue social change in their daily lives as part of lifestyle movements such as slow food, voluntary simplicity and green living. As a graduate student at CU he co-authored The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference. In April he spoke at CU’s 65th Conference on World Affairs. Ross lives in Oxford, Miss.
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Writer, actor and producer of the film Born & Raised Nick Loritsch (Film’03) was named best actor and the film was rated “most undervalued” byReel Georgia. Born & Raised has secured distribution with R Squared Films. The film played at Logan Film Festival in Logan, Utah, and Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa, Fla., in March. Nick lives in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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In April Leah Buechley (MCompSci’03, PhD’07) served as a panelist at CU’s 65th Conference on World Affairs. She is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group, exploring the integration of high and low technology from cultural, material and practical perspectives engaging diverse groups of people in creating their own technology. Leah has studied theater, dance, fine art and design at the college level. Her work has been featured in The New York Times.
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Chad Bennets (Bus’04) of Saint Cloud, Minn., married Hillary O’Hara. The couple met while sitting next to each other in class while in the MBA program at Emory University. They graduated in 2011 and live in Atlanta, Ga. Chad is a senior associate at Pricewaterhouse-Coopers’ consulting groups.
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Assistant professor at the University of Denver Erica Chenoweth (MPolSci’04, PhD’07) won the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Erica works in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and won the award for ideas set forth in the book she co-authored, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict. Through their research of uprisings involving more than 1,000 people from 1906 through 2006, the authors learned nonviolent campaigns succeeded twice as often as the violent ones and that governments where peaceful resistance took place were far more likely to become or remain stable democracies.
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