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Yoga instructor聽Julie Dean聽(Acct鈥�85) volunteers at Yoga Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization that sends 50 certified yoga instructors to teach in prisons and jails. In addition to teaching yoga, Julie has been a certified public accountant for 20 years and serves as a member of the yoga organization鈥檚 board of directors. She lives in Kirkland, Wash.

Award-winning producer and talent manager聽Daniel Sladek聽(A&S ex鈥�85) received an Emmy nomination in 2009 and a Producers Guild of America nomination as executive producer of the critically acclaimed film聽Prayers for Bobby. Daniel participated in this year鈥檚 Conference on World Affairs. He lives in Los Angeles.

Longmont, Colo., resident聽Thomas Stover聽(Law鈥�85) was named to the Colorado Super Lawyers list of top attorneys in Colorado for 2012. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers in more than 70 practice areas. He practices in areas of trust and estate planning, taxation, probate, charitable planning, real estate and business law.

With a career in education publishing spanning 20 years,聽John Ade聽(Thtr鈥�85) has joined publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vice president of marketing management for literacy and language. Throughout his career he has focused on elementary and secondary reading, language arts, English language learning and foreign languages. He writes he still manages to put his CU degree to good use by performing in local community theaters. He lives in New York City with his partner of 21 years.

After working in a range of industries,聽Carrie Crane Dickie聽(Jour鈥�85) has found her niche. She is one of the leading distributers of nutrition-based pharmaceutical products for LifeVantage Corp. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Clemente, Calif.

Last summer聽Susan Diesel聽(惭补迟丑鈥�85),聽Karen Dyce聽(Acct鈥�85) and聽Stanley Erwin* (Acct鈥�85) attended their 30th reunion for Homestead High School graduates in Cupertino, Calif. Susan writes that the three chose to attend CU independently and found each other there as freshmen in 1981. Susan lives in Norwich, Vt., Karen lives in Los Altos, Calif., and Stan lives in West Lake Hills, Texas.

President Obama appointed Miami resident聽Katrina Peebles聽(Jour鈥�85) to the President鈥檚 Advisory Committee on Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She also is on the board of directors for The Peebles Corporation, a real estate company working in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, Nev.

Freelance journalist聽Murray Carpenter聽(Psych鈥�85) mostly covers stories about science and the environment, reporting for the聽New York Times, theBoston Globe聽and NPR, among others. Murray lives in Belfast, Maine.

The 麻豆影院 Chamber honored聽Catherine Underhill聽(Art鈥�85), executive director of the Colorado Music Festival, as one of five 鈥淲omen Who Light the Community.鈥� Catherine was instrumental in the music festival merger with the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts in 2009. Today the festival reaches more than 20,000 individuals. She lives in Louisville, Colo.

David Bagby (Mktg鈥�86) founded Alliance Memory Inc., a memory technology company, in 2006. Today he is the president and CEO. With over three decades of experience in the memory marketing industry, Bagby continues to drive positive change and stand out as a market leader in the evolving technology landscape. His daughter, Courtney Bagby (Advert鈥�15), is a fellow CU alum.

Stephen Koehler (Phys鈥�86) assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in April 2024. Koehler was commissioned in 1986 after graduating from CU 麻豆影院, became a designated naval aviator in 1989 and has logged more than 3,900 flight hours in F-14 Tomcat and F-18 E/F/G Super Hornets. He previously served as the commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship Bataan, aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and Carrier Strike Group 9 and was the executive officer of aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.

In March, the 麻豆影院 International Film Festival (BIFF) celebrated its 19th year in operation. Sisters Kathy Beeck (Engl, PolSci鈥�86) and Robin Beeck (Comm鈥�88) founded the festival in 2004, and since that time, they鈥檝e grown it into one of the country鈥檚 most respected film festivals. It attracts more than 20,000 film enthusiasts, media and industry members annually. Named one of the 鈥�25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World鈥� by MovieMaker Magazine, BIFF brings films and filmmakers from around the world to 麻豆影院 for a four-day annual celebration.

Tim Tomasik (Advert鈥�86) was sworn in as聽the 149th Chicago Bar聽Association president.聽Tim, founding member of聽Tomasik Kotin Kasserman聽LLC, has practiced law聽for nearly three decades.聽Among his most notable聽accomplishments is his聽work as a lead attorney聽on the plaintiffs鈥� executive聽committee in the World聽Trade Center litigation,聽securing a $1.2 billion聽settlement against the airlines for security breaches聽that led to the 9/11 hijackings and air crashes.

叠别别产别听叠补丑谤补尘颈听(MCDBio鈥�86), an聽award-winning writer and聽anthropologist known聽for her travel narratives,聽memoirs and guide-聽books, released . In the book,聽Beebe recounts her聽experience making the聽500-mile pilgrimage on聽the Camino de Santiago聽across southern France聽and聽northern Spain, and聽her quest to unearth the聽mystery of the symbol of聽the goose along the path.

The 2022 Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award was awarded to David Theobald (Geog鈥�86; PhD鈥�95) by the North American Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. David works as a research scientist in Fort Collins at Conservation Planning Technologies, a company he founded in 2013 to address challenges in conservation planning through use of spatial analysis and earth systems data and design. He focuses on land-use trends in the U.S.

At the 41st annual CU law alumni awards banquet March 10, Victoria J. Ortega (Span鈥�86; Law鈥�90) will be presented with the distinguished achievement award for public service from Colorado Law. After working in the Denver City attorney鈥檚 office as an assistant city attorney, Victoria works as the city鈥檚 deputy clerk and recorder at the Denver Clerk and Recorder Office, where she oversees a variety of subjects including finances, human rights, community partnerships and data protection. She lives in Denver.

The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals selected Michael Parker (ArchEngr) as the next bankruptcy judge in the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division. Michael is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and has been with the firm since the end of his two-year bankruptcy clerkship in the Western District of Texas with Hon. Ronald B. King in 1995. He was scheduled to take the bench on Nov. 2, 2021.

California bankruptcy attorney Robyn Sokol (Fin) joined Leech Tishman as a partner in the business restructuring and insolvency practice group. Robyn has also served as a judicial law clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California for the Honorable Robin Riblet; and as a judicial law clerk for Judges Ahart, Lax, Lasarow, Marchand Zurzolo.

The Nature of Fear: Survival Lessons from the Wild, Daniel Blumstein鈥檚 (EPOBio) most recent book, came out in September 2020. Daniel is a UCLA professor in ecology and evolutionary biology and a member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He spends his summers in Gothic, Colorado, studying yellow-bellied marmots

Last year, after over 30 years in sales and marketing, Kim Swilpa (Mtkg) retired to focus on family and travel. After a visit to Sri Lanka she was inspired to start the nonprofit Elebalance, which aims to create a peaceful coexistence between elephants and humans. Elebalance feeds into the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society鈥檚 Project Orange Elephant, which helps farmers plant citrus trees to naturally deter elephants from their crops. Find out more at elebalance.org. Kim lives in Montville, New Jersey.聽