Real estate attorney K. Bradley Rogerson (PolSci) joined Hanson Bridgett in San Francisco as counsel. He represents clients in real estate, finance and business transactions.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Lauren McCain (MPolSci; PhD’03) is a federal lands policy analyst with Defenders of Wildlife, a nonprofit conservation organization. She works to defend, strengthen and expand federal law, policy and management that conserve wildlife and habitat on federal lands. She co-founded and served as executive director of the Southern Plains Land Trust, which protects grassland species on private lands in the Southern Great Plains. She also has helped conduct conservation field projects in Africa and Mongolia, studying wild animals. She lives in Denver.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

The Denver-based nonprofit MyLifeLine.org Cancer Foundation appointed health care executive Pete Sheehan(PolSci) CEO. Pete drives strategic planning, business development, product innovation and partnership development efforts for the organization. He lives in Denver with his wife and two children.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

ł˘˛ą·É˛â±đ°ůĚýMichele Blair (PolSci) has practiced family law in Colorado since 2000. She is a sole practitioner at Blair Law Firm, P.C., specializing in divorce, parental responsibilities, child support and spousal maintenance cases.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Sarah Kauss (Acct), the inventor of a popular, sleek, stainless-steel water bottle in 2010, was named to Forbes’ “40 Under 40” list. Sarah has sold millions of the bottles, available through J. Crew, Starbucks and other retailers. She even received a nod of approval from Ellen DeGeneres.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Last October Joy Roberts (Soc) was awarded the 2014 Specialized Prosecutions Attorney of the Year Award from the Association of Deputy District Attorneys. Joy is a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Entrepreneur and engineer Marco Campos (CivEngr) was named the 2015 9News Leader of the Year by the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation and 9News. Through his engineering, procurement and construction services firm, Campos EPC, Marco is dedicated to investing in STEM education efforts, especially those focused on helping female and under-represented minority students. He lives in Denver.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

With more than 12 years of experience in the healthcare and benefits field, Christopher Walker (PolSci) joined Edgewood Partners Insurance Center as director of healthcare compliance. The company consults on retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits. Christopher is based in San Francisco.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Lt. Col Brian Filler (InfoSys), commander of the 471 Missile Security Forces at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, reflected on his time spent at CU as a student employee in the housing and dining department in an essay written for the base. He explained that many of the people he worked with had a positive influence on his life. “People who are passionate make a difference,” he wrote.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Amanda Kahlow (Advert) is CEO and founder of 6Sense, a San Francisco startup that received $12 million in venture funding. The firm, which is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Venrock and Salesforce, also won the innovation showdown contest at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference. Amanda previously spent 14 years as the CEO and founder of CI Insights, a big-data services company.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Uranium producer Energy Fuels promoted attorney Curtis H. Moore (Law, MBA) to vice president of marketing and corporate development for the Lakewood company’s holding and operating subsidiaries in the U.S. Curtis has worked with the company for more than seven years. In his position, he leads the uranium sales and marketing department.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Ryan Thompson (Jour) is assistant general counsel and an adjunct writing professor at Niagara University in New York. He was admitted to practice law in 2004 and previously worked at a Fifth Avenue firm specializing in litigation. He lives in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Skoler, Abbott & Presser, a labor and employment law firm in the Springfield, Mass., area, hired Erica Flores (Bus, Jour) as an associate. Erica joined the firm after relocating to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania, where she was an associate in the employment law practice group of the firm Morgan Lewis.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Buff love was in the air when Ron Geschwer (Psych), a CU alumni chapter leader of NY Buffs, met Desiree Bandelier (Psych’08) at a NY Buffs chapter event. The couple was married last September.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

The Denver-based Fruition Internet Marketing team hired Mark Kranjcec (Mktg) as director of strategic partnerships. After graduating from CU, Mark worked for the Daily Camera as retail advertising director. He also has worked at Prairie Mountain Media and is a volunteer for B Strong Ride, an annual bicycle event that honors cancer survivors.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Historic Columbia named Sean Stucker (Engl) its director of facilities. Sean, a native of Columbia, S.C., is responsible for maintaining the organization’s historic buildings and structures. He previously worked with Trinity Design & Build in North Carolina. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Georgia in historic preservation.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Dana Whitelaw (MAnth; PhD’10) has worked in wildlife conservation and education for more than 20 years. At CU, she focused on the ecological strategies of ring-tailed lemurs in southwestern Madagascar, where her work led to doubling in size of a reserve. A native Oregonian, Dana serves as executive director of the High Desert Museum in Bend, Ore.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Anne Verrill (PolSci) owns two restaurants in Maine, Foreside Tavern in Falmouth and Grace, which is located in a former Methodist church in Portland. Anne is a mother of two and lives
in Falmouth.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Dallas natives Zack Fickey (Comm) and John Reardon (Fin’03) own and operate the Texas craft brewery Deep Ellum Brewing Company. The pair credit their success to great brews, creative marketing and design and their CU experience. “Couldn’t have made this possible without the love of craft beer right in our own backyards for so many years,” Zack writes.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

As grants manager at CU’s BioFrontiers Institute, Meagan Balink Taylor (Jour) uses her six years of experience in grant writing and sponsored research administration to help faculty submit grant proposals, develop budgets and navigate regulations. She lives in Broomfield, Colo.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

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