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For the past 10 years Greg Butler (Acct) and Brian Fisher (Mktg) have successfully run their business, This is a Clue Trivia. They and their employees are found at about 40 bars a week across Colorado and Texas, and are continuing to grow.聽

Rajesh Bagchi (PhDBus) was named head of the marketing department at Virginia Tech鈥檚 Pamplin College of Business. After graduating, Rajesh began teaching at Virginia Tech in 2008. He focuses his research on the psychological processes that underlie decision-making in consumers and managers.

Kate Mishara (Jour) is a school leader at Wyatt Academy, a K-5Title I elementary school in the Denver Five Points neighborhood. 鈥淢y work at Wyatt has transformed us from a school to a hub of community resources and an institution of learning,鈥� Kate wrote. 鈥淎t our school, we deeply believe in meeting the basic needs of our scholars and families.鈥� To help provide for student and family needs, the school has built an all-natural food pantry, a no-cost clothing shop and a family computer lab. It will soon add a washing machine and dryer to the community resource center.

Therese Vinal (Jour) is the in-game video host for the San Francisco Giants. Her work includes interviewing current and former players, as well as special guests, for video features shown during home games.

Maria O鈥橫alley (PhDEngl鈥�08) co-authored the book Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution. Maria is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, where she specializes in colonial and early American literature, multicultural and transnational literature, poetry and Emily Dickinson.

Benjamin Kramer (Fin鈥�08) joined the Fort Collins-based law firm Gast Johnson & Muffly as a shareholder. He joined the firm in 2015 and focuses on business, real estate and estate planning matters. He is co-chair of the firm鈥檚 pro bono program and president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Larimer County Bar Association.

Rick Thomas (PolSci鈥�08) was promoted to shareholder at the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. He is a member of the firm鈥檚 real estate department in its Denver headquarters, and he represents developers, buyers and sellers of a variety of properties, including senior living facilities, shopping centers, golf courses, medical office buildings and hospitals.

Carlin Karr (Comm) drinks wine for a living: She's wine director for the聽Boulder restaurants Frasca Food and Wine and Pizzeria Locale聽and Denver restaurant Tavernetta. She was named one of this year鈥檚 鈥淪ommeliers of the Year鈥� by聽Food & Wine聽magazine, and was featured聽in an article titled 鈥淟iquid Diet: Sommelier Carlin Karr Crushes LaCroix and Tastes 50 Wines Before Dinner Service.鈥� Carlin lives in Boulder with her husband, Adam, and their dog, Coche.

Ted Vardell (Comm) and his brother Tommy Vardell,聽former NFL fullback, started the Boulder- based nonprofit called Brotherbird Foundation in 2016 to encourage youth to explore art, music and sports. The organization has hosted programs聽at the Temple Grandin School of Autism, Denver School of the Deaf, Malley Elementary, OUR Center of Longmont, Columbine Spanish Immersion Elementary and Mountain Children鈥檚 Foster Home.

After graduating聽from CU聽Margot聽Hensler Phelps聽(Astro)聽worked at Caltech, helping install the Advanced聽Laser Interferometer聽Gravitational-Wave聽Observatory (LIGO) in聽Hanford, Wash., and聽Livingston, La. During her聽time on the team (three聽members of whom won聽the 2017 Nobel Prize in聽Physics), she patented an聽optics cleaning process.聽She then completed her聽doctorate in gravitational 聽wave research at the聽University of Glasgow.聽In March she will begin聽a post-doc position聽at the Albert Einstein聽Gravitational Wave聽Institute in Hanford,聽Germany. 聽

On Sept. 9,聽Kate Goltz Moulton (Psych) and聽Kevin Moulton (Biochem, MCDBio鈥�08) were married at the Sunrise Amphitheater in Boulder. The couple dated for 11 years after meeting their junior year at a party on The Hill. Officiant Jared Leidich (AeroEngr鈥�09) also graduated from CU.

Cable Hill Partners, an investment advising company, hired Kendall Acheson (IntlAf) as its newest lead adviser. Active in his Portland, Ore., community, Kendall serves on the board of New Avenues for Youth and on the finance committee of the Portland Japanese Garden.

After moving to Argentina on a whim in 2010, David Burg (Hum) stumbled into his dream career. While looking for a season ski pass in the Catedral Alta Patagonia region, he ended up with a job for South America Snow Sessions, an adventure travel business. Today he is director of finance for SASS and serves as general manager for its backcountry program in Argentina. David splits聽his time between SASS鈥� global headquarters in Rincon, Puerto Rico, and his home base in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Jevan Fox (Engl) writes that he is keeping 彩民宝典 front-of-mind at all times. He is helping launch Bixler Collegiate (bixlercollegiate.com) licensed fine jewelry, and is launching in a big way with CU. The line, in sterling silver and 14k gold with diamonds and gemstones, will be available via the company website and local retail outlets, as well as through the Alumni Association. Jevan resides on the East Coast with another Buff, his wife Jerusha Fox (贰苍驳濒鈥�11).

Nichole Geddes (Advert) of Heat ad agency in San Francisco appeared in Adweek鈥檚 list of 鈥�50 Creatives Whose Brilliant Ideas and Beautiful Craft Will Make You Jealous.鈥� Nichole was recognized for her creative work on TV ad campaigns for the travel site Hotwire.com and EA Sports鈥� football video game Madden 16.

Nikita Duncan Coulombe (Art, Psych) co-authored Man, Interrupted, a book that explores why young men are struggling academically and socially, which was published in April. Nikita is passionate about understanding human nature and co-founded the sex education blog BetterSexEd.org.

Rajesh Bagchi聽(PhDBus),聽associate professor of聽marketing at Virginia聽Tech, received the Early聽Career Award from the聽Society for Consumer聽Psychology for his聽contributions to the field聽of consumer psychology. Rajesh鈥檚 research聽interests are in pricing,聽numerosity, goals and聽loyalty rewards. He聽has co-authored many聽journal articles examining how consumers view聽or deal with numbers in聽their decision making.聽His other research has聽involved how willingness聽to buy is influenced by聽color and word sounds.聽He has also won several聽research and teaching聽awards, including the聽Young Scholar Award聽from the Marketing聽Science Institute in 2013.

After graduating,聽Orla Stiles (Comm)聽moved to New York to work聽in fashion, got engaged聽and moved back to Los聽Angeles, her hometown.聽While wedding dress聽shopping, she felt there聽wasn鈥檛 a stylish option for the 鈥渃arefree,聽fashion-forward鈥� bride聽in L.A. She took a risk聽and in January officially聽opened Solstice Bride聽on Abbot Kinney Blvd.聽in Venice, Calif. 鈥淚magine a fuss-free space聽where you can drink聽champagne with your聽friends, listen to your聽favorite tunes and try on聽effortlessly cool wedding gowns,鈥� said Orla.聽She has even sold a few聽gowns to CU alumni.

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.