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Ally Chapel (ArtHist鈥�14) lives in New York City where she started an all-female, nine-piece New Orleans style brass band called Brass Queens. She writes she adopted the colors black and gold for her brand in CU鈥檚 honor. The band鈥檚 2023 album is called Black & Gold, and Ally wrote the title track as an anthem fully from the perspective of a CU fan. In December, they toured through Colorado. She writes that she 鈥渃o-founded the band, dedicated to showcasing the talents of female musicians, in 2019 as a way to disrupt a landscape that was dominated by male musicians and bandleaders.鈥� The band has played iconic venues like Blue Note Jazz Club and major events like the Met Gala, Governors Ball Music Festival and Exit Zero Jazz Festival and made TV appearances on Good Morning America.

During the pandemic, Joshua Siegel鈥檚 (Fin鈥�14) business partner David Right began delivering ice cream to homes via Instagram. The ice cream was a hit 鈥� it was named Denver鈥檚 best ice cream shop by Westword in 2022 鈥� and the pair decided to open a standalone ice cream store. Right Cream opened earlier this year in Denver鈥檚 Rosedale neighborhood at 2423 S. Downing Street and specializes in unique, homemade ice cream flavors and mix-ins.

Christina Manzi (Psych鈥�14) is a wildlife rehabilitator at the American Crocodile Education Sanctuary (ACES), a nonprofit wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center located in Belize. Based in Ambergris Caye, ACES is dedicated to the conservation and protection of Belize鈥檚 native wildlife and critical habitats. Their team of volunteers provides 24/7 emergency response for injured, ill, orphaned or displaced wildlife and offers assistance with human wildlife conflict resolution. Visit aceswildliferescue.org to learn more.听

As a real聽estate broker聽for Coldwell Banker聽Mountain Properties,聽Leah Canfield (Fin鈥�14),聽of Breckenridge, 聽Colorado, sells millions聽of dollars in property聽every month. She was聽named to the National聽Association of Realtors鈥櫬犫��30 Under 30鈥� list for her聽work. Prior to attending聽CU, Leah competed as聽an alpine ski racer for聽Breckenridge鈥檚 Quantium聽Sports Club, and at one聽point was the fastest聽super-G skier in the country. Leah also strives to聽give back to her community by volunteering with聽Mountain Mentors and聽dedicating her time and聽financial support to the聽Family and Intercultural聽Resource Center and the聽Summit Foundation.

Patrick Fort (Jour鈥�14),聽co-host and producer聽of the podcast 鈥淒ish聽City,鈥� won a James聽Beard Award in June聽for a story on how聽American Chinese food聽restaurants pioneered聽food delivery. The show聽was also named one of聽the 50 best podcasts of聽2021 by The Atlantic.听Dish City wrapped its聽fourth season earlier聽this year. Patrick lives in聽Washington, D.C. Read聽more about him in our聽Five Questions Q&A on聽page 56.

The Denver City聽Park farmers market,聽owned and operated by聽Peter (Mktg, Mgmt鈥�14)聽and Margo Wanberg聽(SLHSci鈥�15), ran from聽May 14 through Oct.听29, 2022, for its second聽season. More than 90聽Colorado-based farmers聽and agriculture-focused聽brands lined the City聽Park Esplanade to offer聽market attendees fresh聽seasonal produce,聽prepared foods, baked聽goods, beverages and聽more. This year, the聽number of participating聽farms grew from 12 to 16聽thanks to the couple鈥檚聽small farm program,聽which gives flexibility聽to small-scale farmers.听The market also began聽accepting Colorado鈥檚聽Supplemental Nutrition聽Assistance Program聽(SNAP) benefits and partnering with Double Up聽Food Bucks to increase聽access to fresh Colorado-grown fruits and聽vegetables. Peter and聽Margo met at CU, and聽after graduation Peter聽founded Jubilee Roasting Co., while Margo was聽co-founder of 3 Sisters聽Honey Harvesting.

On Feb. 1, Anshul Bagga (Law鈥�14), assistant director in the prosecution and code enforcement section of the Denver City Attorney鈥檚 Office, started as legislative counsel, where he serves as a legal advisor for the Denver City government. He has worked for the Denver City Attorney鈥檚 Office since 2014.

In June, Kirsten Runyan (ChemEngr) launched a mission-driven apparel company, melomys (), a California-based online store that plants five trees for every purchase. The company is named in honor of the tiny island rodent Bramble Cay melomys, the first species declared extinct due to human-caused climate change. The company has a goal to plant 1 million trees by 2025. The products are ethically made from eco-friendly fabrics with dye processes that minimize water use and pollution. Every product is made to order.听

CTO and co-founder of Atom Computing Ben Bloom (MPhys; PhD) is seeking to use quantum mechanics to build a quantum computer out of naturally quantum materials. The company raised $15 million in a Series A round of funding and debuted its first-generation quantum computer, Phoenix.

After graduating from CU, Kimberly Bellis (CivEngr) became a special operations officer and was deployed overseas. Now, she leads the special purpose acquisition division at Academy Securities investment bank. She also volunteers to help young girls develop healthy habits for Girls on the Run and is a veteran mentor at Veterati.

In May, Callie Fiedler Higgins (ElEngr; PhD鈥�17) was named a finalist in the 2021 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Callie works for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and invented a technology to detect microscopic flaws that threaten the safety and reliability of 3D-printed products, potentially revolutionizing the medical, plastics, coatings, optics and additive manufacturing fields.听

Artist Andrew Jensdotter (MFA) was featured in his first regional solo show since exhibiting at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019. 鈥淩oad Work鈥� opened May 15 at Denver鈥檚 K Contemporary and is the largest exhibition he has put together. The work is a result of his reflections during the pandemic.

Michael Salka (EnvDes) was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD in architecture. Michael writes he has worked on a variety of design projects targeting the intersection of ecology, technology and society, as well as research initiatives regarding the circular bioeconomy and nature-based solutions for development. He hopes the PhD program will further his studies of how locally integrated processes can optimize holistic environmental, economic and social sustainability in architectural and urban production.

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

Zhenghua Yang (Fin) founded Serenity Forge, a value-driven game development company in 麻豆影院. He is a TEDx speaker and was included in Forbes鈥� 30 Under 30 list. A lifelong gamer, Zhenghua was born in China and moved to 麻豆影院 when he was 10 years old. At 18, he was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder that kept him hospitalized for two years. Playing video games helped him cope, find support and ultimately make a miraculous recovery.

The cannabis industry exploded in Colorado in January 2014. A few months later, Jackson D. Tilley (Comm) took an internship at O.penVAPE, a Denver-based vaporizer company. He published a book, Billion Dollar Dimebag: An Insider鈥檚 Account of America鈥檚 Legalish Cannabis Industry. The book is a 鈥渇irst hand account of the 21st-century wild west,鈥� writes Jackson. In his book, he traces the path of the booming company as well as the cannabis sector. Along the way, he got sober, moved to a hurricane zone, quit, un-quit, invented new ways to market an ancient product and got a dog named Bobby Kennedy鈥� not necessarily in that order, he writes.

On March 20, Vanessa Ang茅lica Villarreal (MEngLit) accepted one of 10 Whiting Awards at a ceremony at the New York Historical Society. The Whiting Foundation gives $50,000 each to 10 diverse emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Vanessa was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the聽author of the collection Beast Meridian (2017) and the winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has been featured in BuzzFeed, The Boston Review, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News and elsewhere. She is pursuing a doctorate in English literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog.