Margaret Haynes (MBA’91) has been announced as Right At Home’s CEO. Haynes has more than 25 years of senior management experience, including a decade on the leadership team at Right at Home — eight of which were spent as the COO. Right at Home, a leading in-home senior care brand, has over 650 franchise locations in the U.S. and seven other countries. Margaret previously served as senior vice president of financial services at First Data Corporation. She lives in Bellevue, Nebraska.

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Hong Kong resident Dana Magenau (Chin’91) is the vice president of commercial and corporate partnerships at the Kai Tak Sports Park, a more than 70-acre mega complex that includes a 50,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof, a 10,000-seat indoor sports arena, a public sports ground and 600,000 square feet of retail. Dana’s colleague and fellow Buff, Meg McWilliam (ArtHist, EnvDes’05, MArch’07), associate principal architect at Populous based out of Los Angeles, is the lead architect of the main stadium. Kai Tak Sports Park will be Hong Kong’s largest sports and entertainment structure. The raising of the over 6,000-ton roof trusses was recently celebrated with a traditional Bai Sun Ceremony.

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Margaret Hart (MFA’93) is a professor in the art department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. This October, Boston’s Kingston Gallery featured an exhibition of Margaret’s work, along with guest artists, that focuses on climate change through the lens of social and climate justice. Visit margarethartart.com to see her work.

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Boulder to Birmingham, an Emmylou Harris tribute band created by singer and songwriter Tricia Parish (Psych’93), features a blend of country and western music with instruments including the electric guitar, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, bass, vocals and percussion. While battling stage 4 breast cancer, Tricia continues to perform music with Boulder to Birmingham. She also released an original album in 2010. To find a live performance or to learn more, find Tricia Parish Music and @BouldertoBirmingham on Facebook. Tricia lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

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Rumaih Al-Rumaih (PhDElEngr’95) was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister of transport and logistic services. Rumaih was also assigned by royal decree as president of the Public Transport Authority, which oversees the kingdom’s land, railway and maritime transport.

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Jenn Spinelli (Econ’95) is CEO of Watson Buys, a Denver-based home-buying company. In August, she was featured in an article, “How Homebuyers Can Safely Cancel Home Deals,” published by Wealth of Geeks, a financial education and pop culture site.

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This July, global law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP elected Connie Milonakis (Fin’98) as a partner of the firm. Connie works in London with Davis Polk’s corporate practice. She focuses on capital markets transactions and advises international corporations.

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Metropolitan State University promoted Chalane Lechuga (Engl’98) as full professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. She also serves as MSU’s director of faculty diversity research and development in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Chalane was born and raised in Denver and attended Denver North High School.

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In July, Andrew Luxen (Atmos, PolSci’01) was appointed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis as a district court judge for the City and County of Denver beginning in January 2023. Andrew has worked as a chief deputy district attorney for the Denver District Attorney’s Office since 2019, and has worked in the office since 2006.

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Khalilah Louis Caines (Psych’02) is a professor of social work at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Florida. Khalilah served her community as a social worker for over a decade in many positions, including child welfare case manager and adoption care manager. In 2016, she transitioned to teaching social work courses at Saint Leo University, where she’s been since. Caines has a master’s degree in social work, numerous certifications within her field and is currently working toward a PhD in public affairs from the University of Central Florida.

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Jefferson Dodge (MJour’02) was named Colorado State University’s director of internal communications in June. Jeff, who worked for CU’s former faculty and staff newspaper Silver & Gold Record for 12 years, has been at CSU since 2014, serving most recently as interim director of the university’s News and Media Relations team.

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Aaron Perry (Ger’02; MA’02) published his debut novel, Viriditas. The eco-thriller is Colorado-based and includes scenes from the CU Boulder campus before the protagonist makes a fateful decision. Aaron is also the co-founder, executive director and host of the Y on Earth community podcast. Aaron lives in Boulder.

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Four-time Emmy Award nominee Kevin Wendling (Psych’02) won his first national sports Emmy Award for best Outstanding Technical Team Event. Kevin has been an operations producer for ESPN and ABC since 2003. In the last year, he has worked on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, College Football Saturdays and the College Football National Championship, Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, the Women’s College World Series, the MLB All Star Game, NCAA Conference Championship Basketball, the Little League World Series and the Rose Parade.

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The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver named Brittany Kauffman (Law’03) its CEO. “Over the 10 years of Brittany’s time at IAALS, she has become trusted and respected by staff and partners nationally and internationally for her follow-through and attention to excellence, her mastery of IAALS’ areas of focus and her passion for the mission,” said IAALS’ founding executive director.

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Owen Locke (Fin’03), a sixth-generation Colroadan, launched Locke + Co. Aspen Aged Rye Whiskey in 2016 with his best friend. The whiskey spends two years in oak barrels followed by eight months with hand-cut and charred aspen wood discs, sourced from his family’s property in Fairplay, Colorado. Owen hopes to continue growing the company.

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Dana Query (Comm’03) and her husband, Dave, own Big Red F Restaurant Group, including Jax Fish House, Centro, West End Tavern, The Post Chicken & Beer and Velvet Elk Lounge. They reside in Boulder and are active community members. Their two sons, Harrison and Matt Query (Psych, Soc’12), recently co-wrote a thriller novel, Old Country. Harrison wrote the screenplay for the story, which was bought by Netflix in a seven-figure deal the same month the brothers landed a book deal.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology physicists Ian Coddington (PhDPhys’04) and Kevin Cossel (PhD-ChemPhys’14), along with Nathan Newbury, were finalists for the 2022 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the science, technology and environment category. They were recognized for developing a revolutionary system to detect methane gas leaks from oil and gas production facilities in addition to identifying other pollutants that contribute to global warming. Working with collaborators at CU, this technology has been transferred to a startup company that has made strides in expanding its capabilities and deploying the system in key oil and gas-producing states.

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Jonathan Lucero (Fin’04; Law’07) and his wife, Brittany, welcomed a third addition to their family. Zoé Sofía Lucero was born three months premature, and Jonathan writes she has made a miraculous recovery. Judge Lucero serves as a municipal court judge in Aurora, Englewood and, occasionally, Castle Rock, Colorado.

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Patrick Salvi II (Mgmt’04) was named president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. In 2007, he graduated from Notre Dame Law School and joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. as an attorney, where he was named managing partner of the Chicago office in 2017. Patrick concentrates his legal practice on cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice and masstorts. He also serves as a board member of Legal Aid Chicago, an organization that provides free legal services to people living in poverty. In recognition of his outstanding legal work, Patrick has been listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America, an elite guide in the legal profession, for the past six years.

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After living in London for nine years, Merici Vinton (PolSci’04) moved to Washington, D.C., to join the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) at the White House. Over the past year, she has led Child Tax Credit Implementation for USDS. After graduating from CU, Merici received her MBA at University of Denver and then went on to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and set the digital and data strategy for its first director, Elizabeth Warren. Her family lives on Capitol Hill and loves visiting Denver and Boulder.

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