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CU 叠辞耻濒诲别谤鈥檚 study abroad program brought Heather Corinne Cumming (Hum鈥�03) from Norwich, England, to the U.S. Peace Corps, where she served as a volunteer from 2004 to 2006 in Zambia. She founded her own organization in 2009 that serves remote villages in rural Zambia, rural Sierra Leone and formerly the border point of Ethio-South Sudan with water wells, clean and sustainable water year-round and simple irrigation systems. She is looking to begin a project site in North Sudan or Mali. Learn more about her work at or email her at ssaapafrica@gmail.com.

Attorney Payal Salsburg (MCompSci鈥�03) received the 2022 community service award from the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts. An attorney at the Boston law firm Laredo & Smith, Payal focuses her practice in the areas of business litigation, corporate advice and counsel and white-collar criminal defense.

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

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

The Institute聽for the聽Advancement of the聽American Legal System聽(IAALS) at the University聽of Denver named 叠谤颈迟迟补苍测听碍补耻蹿蹿尘补苍 (Law鈥�03) its聽CEO. 鈥淥ver the 10 years聽of Brittany鈥檚 time at聽IAALS, she has become聽trusted and respected by聽staff and partners nationally and internationally for聽her follow-through and聽attention to excellence,聽her mastery of IAALS鈥櫬燼reas of focus and her聽passion for the mission,鈥澛爏aid IAALS鈥� founding聽executive director.

Multimedia marketing and engagement expert Jessica Kizorek (Span鈥�03) has developed an international presence as a video storyteller, entrepreneur and activist. Working primarily with large nonprofits 鈥� including the AARP Foundation and Special Olympics 鈥� through her company Two Parrot Productions, she has created hundreds of short films and video-centric fundraising campaigns. She has covered a multitude of humanitarian causes as a journalist and documentarian in over 60 countries. Jessica is also passionate about empowering female entrepreneurs through her organization, Badass Businesswomen. A published author, Jessica has 10 books to her name and has appeared on major news outlets such as Fox, NBC, CNN, Weekend Today and the Better Show. After obtaining her master鈥檚 degree from Florida International University, she is now pursuing a doctorate degree in business administration.

After starting聽as an intern聽for the City of 麻豆影院聽in 2001,聽Cris Jones聽(EnvDes鈥�03) is now聽director of community聽vitality for the city. Cris聽intends to use his experience in this new role to聽lead the advancement of聽the department in support of cultural vibrancy,聽district vitality and聽access for all throughout the city and within聽叠辞耻濒诲别谤鈥檚 key economic centers. Cris also聽serves as the ex-officio聽executive director of the Downtown 麻豆影院 District, University Hill General Improvement District and 麻豆影院 Junction Access General Improvement District.聽

Since 2014,聽惭补迟迟听厂别别蹿别濒诲迟聽(MChemEn-gr鈥�03; PhD鈥�04) has served聽as executive director of聽the Gates Biomanufacturing Facility (GBF), a聽research organization聽advancing cell and gene聽therapy research. After聽graduating from CU,聽Matt later returned to聽work at the CU Anschutz聽Medical campus to help聽develop protein and cell聽biological therapies. In聽June 2023, he gave a tour聽of GBF to Senator and聽former Colorado Gov.聽John Hickenlooper and聽Federal Drug Administration Commissioner聽Robert Califf. Matt also is聽cited as a world expert in聽protein refolding.聽

叠辞耻濒诲别谤鈥檚 Trevor Seelye (Econ鈥�03) and Elizabeth Seelye (Jour鈥�02) are co-owners of Independent Power, which specializes in helping customers build plans to transition their homes, businesses and vehicles to operate with clean energy. In addition to solar and electrification projects in 麻豆影院, Denver, the Front Range and Bozeman, Montana, Independent Power has also built solar, storage, wind and hybrid systems in Rocky Mountain National Park and at military bases in the Indian Ocean.

Jeff Parker (MAeroEngr鈥�03; PhD鈥�07) and Bradley Cheetham (MAeroEngr鈥�11) co-founded Advanced Space, a startup that develops technology to enable sustainable exploration, development and settlement of space. In 2022, it launched the successful CAPSTONE satellite, which orbits the Moon.
鈥淲e love what we do, and Advanced Space lets us do it,鈥� Parker said. 鈥淲e have fully intended this company to be multigenerational: something that will outlast anyone here. How often do you get the opportunity to help define interplanetary missions, test out new navigation technologies, and inspire engineers all at the same time?鈥�