One would think that three kids and a horse training business might be enough to keep Jill Kunz Pelzel (PerMgmt’92) busy. “On the side” she serves as vice president of the Colorado Hunter Jumper Association and coaches CU’s nationally ranked equestrian team. In the aftermath of last year’s devastating floods, Jill also ran a food and supply drive for pets and livestock affected by the flood. She lives in Fort Lupton, Colo.
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Law firm Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney promoted Arturo M. Aviles (PolSci’93) to counsel in its Austin, Texas, office. Aviles has years of experience as counselor defending clients in litigation. He also served as mediator in a number of matters in Travis and Williamson County, Texas, and is a frequent speaker on mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution issues. Arturo lives in Austin.
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The Denver Public Library Friends Foundation has named Amy Eisenhuth Brimah (PolSci’94, Law’00) to serve as a trustee. In this function, she will help the Denver Public Library through advocacy, fundraising and enhancing the library’s activities. Amy lives in Denver.
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“The Boettcher Foundation tremendously helped me and my family when it awarded me the Boettcher Scholarship and paid for my college education,” says Kenzo Kawanabe (PolSci’94) of Denver. In February the foundation, which works to assist, encourage and promote a better quality of life for Coloradans, named Kenzo to its board of trustees.
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With summer in full swing, enjoy a game of golf on any of the many courses along the Front Range or check out Susan Dolce Lynch’s (A&S’94) Front Range Indoor Golf and Tap. It opened in December in Longmont, Colo., where Susan and her husband live with their children. Play on more than 50 courses, practice on the driving range or take lessons from a PGA teaching pro.
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Bonnie Burton (Engl, Jour’95) has her own reference in the online Star Wars wiki “Wookieepedia.” You read right. How to make it from CU-Boulder to “Wookieepedia”? Burton is a former StarWars.com senior editor and lead writer for The Official Star Wars Blog. For three years, Wired magazine featured her on its list of “100 Geeks You Should be Following on Twitter.” She also worked for Disney Interactive and NBC Universal. Bonnie lives in San Francisco. Read about her on page 52.
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Cantor Colburn has named intellectual property lawyer Matthew Brad Lawrence (ElEngr’95) a partner at its firm in January. Brad, who worked as counsel at Cantor Colburn, focuses on protecting clients’ inventions through carefully planned patent procurement, integrated with other strategic considerations like development of licensing strategies.
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The global media and entertainment company Starz announced the promotion of Joe Zamora (Fin’95) to vice president of finance. After 15 years with Starz, he is responsible for budgeting, planning and internal reporting activities as well as financial deal support for Starz Networks’ distribution and studio agreements. Joe lives in Denver.
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Denver-based photographer Thomas Carr (MAnth’96) combined his passion for photography and archaeology. He uses his camera skills as a staff archaeologist for the Colorado History Museum and regularly takes wedding, portrait, nature and fine art photos. You can see his photos at thomascarrphotography.com.
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The Integer Group is among the world’s largest promotional, retail and shopper marketing agencies. In January the Lakewood, Colo.-based company, hired Sharon Gury (Hum’96, MBA’10) as director of insight and strategy. Sharon lives in Longmont, Colo.
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Call that an exciting trip back to Colorado! Toni Momberger (Ling’96) wanted to guest teach a CU journalism class on the morning of Sept. 12, 2013, and visit her son who is a student at CU-Boulder. However, the floods hit town that week. Toni, editor of Redlands Daily Facts in Redlands, Calif., where she lives, went to Denver in the afternoon as planned. At a ceremony at The Denver Post, she was named Journalist of the Year for Small Dailies.
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There aren’t too many chances to attend the annual meeting of the Tokyo chapter of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. But Danielle Rocheleau Salaz (Jap’96, MA’00) made it happen last June. The assistant director of the CU Center for Asian Studies traveled to the Japanese capital and Kyoto as part of a goodwill delegation spearheaded by Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock to celebrate the inauguration of United’s direct flight service between Denver and Tokyo. Danielle lives in Westminster, Colo.
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The Quarterly Forum, a leadership organization connecting Colorado’s influential executives and companies, named Ryan Heckman (Fin’98) executive director in January. Prior Ryan spent his 17-year-long career as a private equity investor. Before he entered the financial market, the Colorado native and passionate skier became the youngest member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team. He lives in Denver.
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Former Leeds business school dean and current Trinity University President Dennis A. Ahlburg promoted eight members of his faculty to full professor in February. Mark Lewis (MAstro’98, MCompSci’00, PhDAstro’01) was one of them. Effective this fall, he will be a professor at Trinity’s computer science department. Mark lives in San Antonio.
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Months have passed since the Seattle Seahawks left the Denver Broncos shattered after Super Bowl XLVIII. But let’s be honest. That loss still stings for Alan Jackson (Jour’00), the creative services director and executive producer of Denver Broncos football coverage at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. Alan produced the radio broadcast for Newsradio 850 KOA and the Broncos Radio Network in MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. “It was obviously a horribly disappointing game, but it was still an incredible experience!” Alan wrote just a few of hours after the game. He lives in Centennial, Colo.
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Former Alumni Association board member and social media guru Paula Berg (Comm’01) spent four years as digital media leader at Linhart Public Relations in Denver. At the end of 2013, Paula moved to California and joined Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. She lives in San Francisco.
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Denver-based national law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck earlier this year announced 11 new shareholders, including Kristin MacDonald (IntlAf’01). She works in Brownstein’s corporate and business department and focuses her energy on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing and public and private securities offerings. Kristin, who lives in Boulder, has worked with some of the nation’s larger companies.
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In December 2013 Michael Piche (EnvDes’01) had some good news to share. The Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects named him the 2013 Young Architect of the Year. Michael lives in Basalt, Colo.
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In early January Prestige Estate Services launched its third branch in Richmond, Va. In May 2010 Alicia Weaver(Fin’02) started the company, which has branches in Denver and southwest Florida. Since then Alicia has grown the enterprise about 50 percent each year. She and her husband Brad and their son Jake split their time living in Florida and Lakewood, Colo.
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After graduating Leila Hemati Wing (BioChem’02) went to medical school in Detroit and completed her training in internal medicine at the University of Arizona. In August 2013 she joined the staff at Oro Valley Hospital in Arizona as an endocrinologist. Her husband, Zachary Wing (Aero’01), is director of science and technology at Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing. They live in Tucson, Ariz., with their three-year-old daughter.
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