Class Notes

With more than a decade of experience in the coffee industry, Marcus Young (Engl) joined Boot Coffee and SupplyShift in San Rafael, Calif., as a senior trainer and quality advisor at Boot Coffee’s campus and SupplyShift’s training lab. He helps connect coffee roasters, trade houses and certification bodies to SupplyShift’s cloud-based platform for managing supply chains.

Jason Wyrick (MechEngr) was promoted to senior vice president of digital platforms at American cable and satellite television network Starz. He lives in Englewood, Colo.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper appointed Elizabeth Moulton Brodsky (Soc; Law’97) to a seat on the Boulder County Court. Elizabeth previously served as a magistrate judge presiding over domestic relations cases. She was in private practice until 2011.

Law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP recently appointed Schuyler Kraus (Soc) to the management committee of the firm’s New York office. Schuyler previously co-chaired Hinshaw’s consumer financial services practice group and currently serves on the firm’s executive committee.

John Worrell (Econ), senior sales engineer for online file sharing service Box.com, works in Sydney, Australia. He made the move Down Under with wife Christine Bohan Worrell (Psych) and their two children, Reese and Gray, in August 2015.

Sharon Cairns Mann (MComm) won the 2016 Colorado Authors’ League Annual Award in the short fiction category for “Knife River Flint.” The story appeared in Rozlyn: Short Fiction by Women Writers and Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story in 2015. Sharon began writing “Knife River Flint” while taking an evening class at CU Boulder in 2003.

Think Network Technologies, a small Durango, Colo., company run by CEO Melissa Glick (Advert), provides information technology solutions. It has been named a Colorado Company to Watch 2016. Melissa joined Think in 2009 and previously worked as a broker for Century 21. She lives in Durango.

Brent Schrotenboer (Jour), an enterprise and investigative reporter for USA Today, won his fifth national top 10 writing award since 2014 from the Associated Press Sports Editors. Brent, who lives in San Diego, has been with USA Today since 2012, covering various legal, business and social issues related to sports. He has won 14 national Top 10 awards since 2001.

Andy DeRoche (PhDHist) has taught history full-time since 1998 at Front Range Community College in Longmont, Colo., where he lives with his wife, Heather, and their two children, Ellen and Zeke. Andy also lectures part-time at CU Boulder, most recently teaching courses on the U.S. Civil War. Andy’s book, Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa, was published in May. Andy is an avid supporter of CU football and basketball.

Scott Lininger (Art) co-founded Bitsbox, a Boulder company that teaches kids to love software coding with monthly app projects that arrive in the mail. In May Bitsbox was selected to participate in Aspire, an AT&T accelerator that supports promising educational technologies.

In March, the Boston Museum of Science named Todd Sperry (InfSys) senior vice president for marketing strategy and communications. Todd is in charge of public relations, advertising and social media initiatives. An avid ski mountaineer, he lives in Cambridge, Mass.

On May 26, Freight Books released Shawn Stein’s (Span) book, Idols and Underdogs: An Anthology of Latin American Football Fiction, in the United Kingdom. An associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, Shawn plans to create a digital soccer-fiction bibliography to help advance the emerging field of literary soccer studies.

In February 2016 Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Keri Yoder (Law) as a judge in the 7th Judicial District, which includes Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel counties. She previously worked as an assistant district attorney in the district. Keri and husband Kevin Geiger (PolSci’95) live in Telluride.

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.

Brokerage firm Drexel Hamilton announced the formation of an energy industry research team that includes John Ragozzino (Fin). He has 15 years of institutional equity experience, and has previously worked for Wells Fargo and RBC Capital Markets.

Regina Brigid Stewart (ArchEngr) teaches math at Arvada West High School in Colorado. She recently obtained her master’s degree and next year will be teaching AP calculus. She loves spending time at home with her children Tyler and Kiera and baking in the kitchen.

After years of successful homebrewing and beer writing, Dave Carpenter (MAeroEngr) was named editor-in-chief of Zymurgy, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association. Dave lives in Fort Collins, Colo.

Last October the Centennial, Colo., men’s tennis team, a part of the U.S. Tennis Association’s adult league, took the national title at the USTA National Championships for adults with the hard work of team captain Jerad Harbaugh (Bus, MInfSys) and teammates Bryan Knepper (Psych), John Dietz Fry (Biochem’00) and Chris Celechovsky (EPOBio’98). Jerad, Chris and Bryan played on the CU men’s varsity tennis team during their time at CU Boulder.

After working in communications for more than a decade, Gwendoline Van Doosselaere (Anth, ArtHist; MJour’07) is now executive director for Ecology in Classrooms & Outdoors, an elementary school that connects students with the natural world, in Portland, Ore.

One of the most impressive women’s cross-country and track stars in CU Boulder’s history, Sara Gorton Slattery (Econ; MEdu’05) will be inducted into the CU Athletic Hall of Fame Nov. 17. Sara was the first CU woman to earn All-America honors as a freshman after finishing eighth in an NCAA meet. She is married to former CU distance runner Steve Slattery (Econ’02).