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Tara Bettale (Jour) is the communications manager for Colorado鈥檚 RTD FasTracks Eagle P3 project, the largest transit-oriented public-private project in the nation. She also is public information manager for several FasTracks light rail projects and was involved with the Denver Union Station renovation and the city鈥檚 free MetroRide project.

Born in the village of Chukudum, South Sudan, Micklina Peter Kenyi (PolSci) was the first 鈥渓ost girl鈥� from the Kakuma Refugee Camp to flee and resettle in Colorado after bombing hit her community. Separated from her parents, she walked for weeks to the border of Kenya and was placed in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, which put her and other girls in danger of rape and violence. After her graduation, she raised funding for a school in South Sudan that will open in 2016. She has worked to bring lost girls from Sudan to the U.S.

The Butterfly Groove: A Mother鈥檚 Mystery, A Daughter鈥檚 Journey is marketing professional and writer Jessica Barraco鈥檚 (Jour) first book. The memoir catalogs the life of her mother after she passed away at an early age. Jessica lives in San Diego.

Jeff Popp (PolSci), co-founder of Denverbased backpack company CO.ALITION, was featured on the TV show Shark Tank. CO.ALITION, which developed the first backpacks integrated with smart mobile technology 鈥� including power for charging mobile devices and wireless hard drives for uploading files or streaming movies 鈥� was selected from 50,000 other business to pitch to the 鈥淪harks.鈥� The episode aired Jan. 29, 2016.

Beecher Tuttle (Engl) is an editor for eFinancialCareers鈥� North American website and is based in New York. He previously worked for FINS.com, a career-focused editorial website formerly owned by the Wall Street Journal. He has covered technology, business and healthcare beats for many publications and also has worked as a recruiter.

Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney hired Laura Henneman (Advert) as an associate attorney in Chicago. She will be concentrating on the defense of toxic tort claims. While at CU, Laura was a recipient of the Chancellor鈥檚 Achievement Scholarship.

The Alaska Arts Confluence held the first installation of original maps by local cartographer Jeffrey Moskowitz (Geog) in December. The installation highlights areas of southeast Alaska using up-to-date satellite imagery, topography and bathymetric features. He acquired data for his maps from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA. Jeffrey combined his love for backcountry recreation with his training in cartography to start his聽own mapmaking and publishing business, Hemlock Lines of Haines, in 2015. His art aims to help humans identify themselves in the surroundings they can鈥檛 see in everyday life.

Jacob Elyachar (Jour), chief content producer and writer for jakes-take.com, received the top designation in the national 2015 Small Business Influencer Awards. Jakes-take.com uses an investigative approach to covering pop culture. Jacob was nominated in the journalist category for his achievements and community support. He is also a columnist for Examiner.com and SciFi4Me.com.

Chris Hoyd (Law) is the founder and CEO of RightRaise, a free crowdfunding platform focused on legal, social and civic matters. For its first campaign, RightRaise partnered with PowerCorps PHL, a Philadelphia-based affiliate program of Ameri Corps focused on youth violence prevention and workforce. Fellow alum Gabriel Kuettel (IntlAf鈥�14) works as a community strategist for RightRaise.

Actress Caroline Barry (Thtr) was the star of 10 Days in a Madhouse, a 2015 biopic about 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly, who feigned mental illness to report on the happenings within a women鈥檚 insane asylum. At CU Caroline participated in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Touring Show and performed for thousands of children and teenagers statewide. After shows she held workshops that taught the audiences about the complexities of bullying and how to deal with it in their own lives. Caroline says being selfless and helping others is the secret to happiness.

The national law firm Arnstein & Lehr LLP welcomed Joseph L. Hoolihan (PolSci) to its Chicago office as an associate in the litigation practice group. Before joining the firm, Joseph was a judicial extern with the Honorable Marvin Aspen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also worked as a clerk at a Chicago law firm and served as a member of Northwestern鈥檚 Bartlit Center Trial Team.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offered Chelsea Raubenheimer (Span) a grant to travel to Brazil for an English teaching assistantship. Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential. Chelsea is one of more than 1,900 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. student program during the 2015- 16 academic year.

Zach Siegel (PolSci; Law鈥�15) joined the real estate department in the Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and will work on large-scale, mixed-use development projects. He has experience in negotiations and drafting contracts, which includes navigating city government contracts, concessions agreements and a variety of leasing requirements.

Coloradan associate editor Christie Sounart (Jour) married Levi Henry (Math) last October in Littleton, Colo. The couple celebrated with a trip to Hawaii. They live in Denver.

Known as the name 鈥淏allroom Cancer鈥� to the music world, Jake Sheppard (Bio) is creating electronic music in L.A. He was mentioned on Entertainment Weekly鈥檚 website, which described his single 鈥淢isinterest鈥� as 鈥渇ascinatingly strange.鈥� Jake started making music at CU. The video for 鈥淢isinterest鈥� is the work of classmate Aric Van Halen (Film鈥�13), whose father, Alex, is a co-founder of the rock band Van Halen.

When bombs hit Stella Nawi Lunyaramoi鈥檚 (IntlAf) village in South Sudan, Stella fled to a Kakuma refugee camp and was eventually relocated to Boulder through the Community of South Sudanese and American Women, which aims to bring 鈥渓ost girls鈥� from Kakuma Refugee Camp to the U.S. After graduating from CU, Stella was chosen as a White House intern in the office of Michelle Obama. She finished her internship and began working on a documentary, The Dawn Will Break.

Matthew Reed (Geol) accepted a position with the Kansas City district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a geologist. He is from Broken Arrow, Okla.