Ashley Leonard Osak (Comm) was selected by Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP to receive the Indiana Lawyers’ 2016 Leadership in Law Up and Coming Lawyer Award. Ashley is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of PSRB, where her practice focuses on transactional and regulatory healthcare matters.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

After spending a few years in Asia observing people eating insects, former Marine Corps officer Dave Baugh (Mgmt) and twin brother Lars started a sustainable cricket-based protein brand. Lithic, an Aurora, Colo.-based venture, creates products that are gluten, soy and lactose free, and their cricket-based bars contain more than 15 grams of protein. Dave writes that around 80 percent of the world eats insects regularly and says that they were ready to get Americans on board.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

In October, Kevin Smith (Acct, MS) married Sara Weisberg (EnvSt’10) in Bodega Bay, Calif. Kevin and Sara celebrated by going on safari in Kenya and Tanzania. The couple resides in San Francisco.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

Christie Petrosino (Engl) married Roman Payan (Advert’11) on Oct. 22, 2016, at the Boulder Country Club. The couple met at Cosmos Pizza on The Hill in Boulder during their undergraduate years at CU. Many fellow Buffs attended the wedding. Christie and Roman live in Los Angeles and both work in advertising.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

Golden, Colo., native Jack Jones (Econ) spent a year and a half on Wall Street in New York City before realizing stocks weren’t for him. He now works three jobs: Tends bar at Red Rocks, runs his own wine company and plays forward for the Colorado Switchbacks, a professional soccer team based in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

In May, Marty O’Connor (Film) received an MBA from Chapman University alongside his mother, who received an honorary MBA for attending every class with him to help him take notes. A 2012 accident left Marty a quadriplegic. He lives in Orange County, Calif.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

After graduating, Tiffany Gambardella (MusEdu) took a job teaching music at Lompoc Valley Middle School in California, where she’s in her fifth year of teaching. She connected with Wayne Asbury (MusEdu’72), a music teacher retired from the school and fellow Buff. Tiffany enjoys that they both attended college at CU and ended up teaching at the same middle school in California.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

On Oct. 19, Nestor Bravo (MSpan) became a U.S. citizen at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Centennial, Colo., office. Nestor is vice principal of John F. Kennedy High School in Denver and serves as its athletic director. He manages the Spanish curriculum for Denver Public Schools.

Posted Mar. 18, 2018

"If all goes well, I'll be sending Buff love just shy of the North Pole this August!” writes Neil Almy (Fin), who is on a year-long sailing expedition with the goal of sailing farther north than any other vessel in history, through the Northwest Passage to the very edge of the Polar Ice Cap. The mission, called the Infinity Exhibition, includes a team of 22 individuals hailing from 10 countries and is being filmed as a follow-up documentary to Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World. Read more about his journey

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

In June, Stu Gillespie (Law) became the second person to summit Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colo., in a sport called “stand up spike” (SUS), which combines cross-country skiing and endurance long boarding. Stu is a staff attorney for the environmental advocacy organization EarthJustice, where he specializes in protecting public lands and wildlife. Stu was formerly a professional cyclist in Girona, Spain, from 2004 to 2006.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

When Curt Hammerly (EnvDes) isn’t working as technology manager for CU’s environmental design program, he’s making art, usually ceramics. Curt makes mugs, pots, planters and accessories, as well as posters. He sells his work on Etsy. He started making art after he broke his neck and needed a creative outlet. Read more about him in the Summer 2018 Forever Buffs Q&A. 

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Heather Hansman (Jour’10) wrote the book Downriver, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in April 2019. The book discusses fights over water rights to the Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River. The Green River runs 730 miles from Wyoming to Utah. In her research for the book, Heather set out on a journey in a one-person inflatable raft to paddle the entire river. 

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Daniel McCormick (ChemEngr’01; Law’10) was elected partner at Kilpatrick Townsend. He is a member of the electronics and software team in the firm’s Denver office.

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Chasing Coral, a Sundance Film Festival award winner and Netflix original feature produced by Larissa Rhodes (Film, Span’10), received an Emmy Award in the outstanding nature documentary category. The film discusses how coral reefs, a vital part of Earth’s ecosystem, are vanishing at an alarming rate around the globe. Larissa is a film producer and director of creative development at Exposure Labs, where she develops environmentally and socially motivated projects. She previously worked on the Emmy Award-winning documentary Chasing Ice.

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Sarah Kleinman (PolSci, Art), a doctoral candidate in art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to do research in Trinidad and Tobago. At the University of the West Indies she’ll work on her forthcoming dissertation, “The Curatorial Practice and Exhibitions of Kynaston McShine.” McShine (1935–2018) organized some of the most consequential art exhibitions of the 20th century, writes Sarah, and is recognized as the first curator of color to work at a major museum in the United States.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

For Sarah Off (Mus), good music and doing good are all in a day’s work. After earning her undergraduate degree in violin performance at CU, where she studied with Lina Bahn and Judith Ingolfsson, Sarah continued her academic pursuits at Arizona State University, earning master’s and doctoral degrees in violin performance. Along the way, she co-founded the Mt. Blanca Summer Music Conservatory, a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality, affordable performance experiences for young musicians.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

NASA engineer Nick Bradley (AeroEngr, MS) was awarded the Early Career Public Achievement Medal last year for his work at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. The award is given to individuals who have significant performance during the first 10 years of their career. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

Sara Price (Mktg) joined the FX hit series Mayans M.C. as a member of its writing staff this year, before the release of the show’s third season. Sara is a former Buffs track and field athlete and club soccer player, who moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in TV writing. Although she grew up in Colorado, she writes, “I found myself equally at home in the California waves and Eastern Sierras.”

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Jacqui Dietrich (MBA) is head of brand, sales and marketing for Startup Space, which helps economic and small business development organizations connect entrepreneurs to resources in their communities while providing data analytics and management systems.

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

In May, Gerardo Ortiz (Advert) delivered the CMCI commencement address virtually. For the event, he created a powerful video, ROAM., available to watch at colorado.edu/cmcinow. Gerardo is creative director at Uninterrupted, founded by Maverick Carter and LeBron James. He lives in Los Angeles.

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

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