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Law firm Holland & Hart welcomed 15 attorneys, including Colorado Law alumni Brad Williams (Law), Jordan Bunch (Engl鈥�08; Law鈥�11), Kevin McAdam (Law鈥�10) and Nathan Mutter (Law鈥�15), to the firm鈥檚 partnership in January 2021.听

Clay Pruitt (Film, Thtr) wrote and directed a short film, Our Place Together, starring a Tony Award nominee. The film held its North American premiere in August 2020 at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. The film follows two young husbands as they confront a diagnosis and its ramifications. Clay writes that the film was inspired by both of his parents鈥� cancer diagnoses and corresponding struggles.

Lucy Ohanian (Law) and Effie Seibold (MJour鈥�03; Law) were both recipients of Colorado Law鈥檚 Dan Barash Scholarship, which is awarded to students who hope to be public defenders. Now, Lucy is chief deputy of the Colorado State Public Defender鈥檚 Office, where she recruits and hires our state鈥檚 public defenders. Effie is the training director for the Colorado State Public Defender鈥檚 Office and has worked with three-quarters of the lawyers who have also received the Dan Barash Scholarship.

Investigative reporter and historian Cody Mcdevitt (Jour) wrote Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania. The book tells the history of a 1923 incident where the town mayor ordered 2,000 African-Americans and Mexican immigrants out of the city at gunpoint and a threat of imprisonment. Cody has reported for the Somerset Daily American in western Pennsylvania and lives in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.听

Juli Sarris (MLing; PhDEdu鈥�15) will be a Fullbright Scholar for the spring semester of 2021 at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo. She will be teaching second language acquisition theory, English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language methods and advanced EFL literacy. Juli teaches at many colleges along the Front Range, including CU, and lives in 麻豆影院, along with her husband and two adult children.

Julia Rhine (Class) was promoted to shareholder in Brownstein鈥檚 Denver office in January 2021. As a member of the firm鈥檚 Energy & Natural Resources Department, Julia helps her clients traverse Colorado鈥檚 oil and gas landscape.

Rajesh Bagchi (DBA) was named the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Marketing by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in July 2020. The American Marketing Association ranks Rajesh among the top 20 marketing scholars worldwide, based on publications in marketing鈥檚 top journals during the past decade.

Lifelong horn player Maddie Levinson (MMus) has sewn over 1,300 French horn bell covers and 鈥渂rass masks鈥� to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while allowing wind and brass musicians to continue playing together. Maddie has donated many of her masks and covers to communities in need, with the mission of bringing band programs back to schools. 鈥淚f there鈥檚 anything I can do to bring joy back to musicians, I鈥檓 on it,鈥� she said.

Drawing experience from her Colorado upbringing, Stephanie Harper (Engl) wrote a novel, Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside, released in October 2020.

Twins Cara (MCDBio) and Amy Faliano (MCDBio) working in the laboratories of the UC Health System. Cara is the coordinator of laboratory safety for UCHealth in the Denver Metro area, and Amy is a lead medical laboratory scientist at UCHealth's Highlands Ranch community hospital. Go to the Coloradan Website for an extended interview with the twins about their time on the frontlines of the pandemic.

Ben Miller (EnvEngr; MCivEngr鈥�13) and Lynn Pruisner Miller (BioChem, ChemEngr) are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Regan, in April 2020. They write, 鈥淩egan is an extreme CU legacy baby as many of her relatives are CU grads and will be fourth generation to attend.鈥� Her uncle and both aunts attended CU, Annie Miller (IntPhys; MS鈥�15), Nick Miller (Mktg鈥�12; MBA鈥�16) and Paige Pruisner (EnvEngr鈥�14; MCivEngr鈥�16); both grandmothers, CoLeen Pruisner (Pysch '08) and Kristi Prager Miller (Mus'81; Edu'82); paternal great-uncles Nelson Prager (Chem, ChemEngr'80; MD'84) and Frank P. Prager (ChemEngr, Engl'84) and their five children; paternal great-grandfather Frank C. Prager (ChemEngr'49) and paternal great-great aunt Betty Wise (PE'42). Ben, Lynn and Regan live in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

Project manager Crystal Boyd (MMuSt) spent five years spearheading efforts to build the Golden Valley History Museum in Minnesota. In 2019, the exhibit received a Minnesota History Award from the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums. In 2020, it received a national Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History. Crystal grew up in Golden Valley and now lives in Burnsville, Minnesota.

In 2011 Hayden Dansky (EBio, Phil), along with Caleb Phillips (PhDCompSci鈥�12) and Helen Katich (Geog鈥�13) founded 麻豆影院 Food Rescue after studying food waste in 麻豆影院 County. Using bicycles the team gathers soon-to-expire foods from over 40 locations and delivers them to communities in need. Hayden continues to work there as executive director, helping ensure operations throughout the pandemic. Caleb is a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and an assistant professor at CU. Helen is interim CEO of Fresh Food Connect, which helps prevent food waste through technology.听

In May 2020, Christine Thai (Fin, IntPhys;MBA鈥�17) co-founded and became the CEO of Therapeasy, a mental health organization helping people find therapists. To date, the platform has on-boarded over 140 Colorado mental health providers and facilitated over 830 client matches.听

In January 2021, Kissinter & Fellman P.C. announced that attorney Brandon Dittman (Law) had become a shareholder in the law firm. Brandon joined Kissinger & Fellman in 2015.

In December, Kaitlin LaFlamme (Fin) graduated with an MBA in leadership and change management from CU Denver, where she was an outstanding graduate. She wrote, 鈥淚 will always be a Buff, but I am now a proud Lynx, too.鈥澛�

Michael Bishof (PhDPhys) and Cynthia Perkon welcomed their fourth child in 2019. Winifred "Winnie" Rose Bishof was born last October, and baptized in December at Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Elmhurst, Illinois. She joins three older brothers in the family.听

David Varel (PhDHist), affiliate faculty at Metropolitan State University in Denver, published a biography titled The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power.听

Alabama native Jake Shuford (Psych) writes that his new novel from 25&Y Publishing, The Secret of the Green Anole, embodies a cross between the writing of Stephen King and Jordan Peele. Jake鈥檚 goal as a writer is to 鈥渙ffer readers a phenomenal story that allows them to escape their daily lives and explore the possibilities of what lies just beyond our vision.鈥�

While studying engineering at CU, Tyler Huggins (MEngr鈥�13; PhDCivEngr) and Justin Whiteley (MMechEngr鈥�14; PhD) bonded over their mutual love for science and passion for creating change. In 2014, the duo founded Meati Foods, an alternative meat company that makes steak- and chicken-like products from fungi. The company raised $28 million in its Series A funding round.