Notes from the Class of 2000

Want to know what it’s like to live and work as a ghost whisperer? Check out Laura Powers’ (Thtr’00, MPolSci’10) book, Angels: How to Understand, Recognize and Receive Their Guidance. Laura’s mission as a ghost whisperer and medium is to connect people with spiritual resources and empower them to make positive life choices.

Clae K. Anhold, described by proud dad Eric Anhold (PolSci’00) as “6 pounds, 6 ounces of love,” was born this June. Eric is a CU-Boulder Alumni Association advisory board member and chair of its events and outreach committee. Eric and family live in Denver.

Major Rebecca Ernst Lange (PolSci’00), the deputy legislative assistant in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., received a national leadership award from AmeriCorps Alums. She served in AmeriCorps, the national public service program, before coming to CU. Rebecca graduated from Air Force ROTC and is on active duty with the U.S. Air Force.

Lindsay McKae (Econ, PolSci) of Denver was elected partner of the law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber. She represents lending institutions in complex finance transactions. She also advises ‎private and public clients on acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing of real estate assets, in addition to business formations, corporate ‎compliance and stock and asset sales and purchases.

Mick Correll (CompSci, MCDBio) is chief executive officer of Genospace, which provides a platform for genomic and other biomedical data. He has worked in genomics for more than 15 years. Prior to Genospace, Mick co-established the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He lives in Cambridge, Mass.

Chicago law firm Franczek Radelet named Amy Kosanovich Dickerson (PolSci, Soc) partner. She is a member of the firm’s education practice group and represents Illinois school districts, private schools and higher education institutions. Prior to law school at Loyola University Chicago, Amy taught fifth and sixth graders as a Teach for America corps member.

On April 25, 2014, Michael Diaz (CompSci) and Lynne Diaz (ApMath’00, CivEngr’06, MS’08) welcomed their fourth child, Ethan Diaz. Michael holds a scrum master position at CA Technologies and Lynne is enjoying staying home with the kids in Timnath, Colo.

Ball Aerospace program manager Lisa Hardaway (PhDAeroEngr) was awarded the 2015 leadership award for outstanding dedication to space exploration from the Women in Aerospace (WIA) organization. She worked as program manager for Ball’s Ralph imaging instrument, which flew aboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. She also has worked with the Hubble Space Telescope, on the company’s star tracker program and was part of Ball’s Deep Impact mission. WIA recognized Lisa for her dedication to guiding, supporting and mentoring female engineers throughout her career.

After exhibiting signs of depression post-graduation, Abel Laeke (Kines) wrote about his experience in a book, No Pressure, No Diamonds: My Life and What It Takes to Lead. Abel ran for a city council seat in Pueblo in November. Although he was unsuccessful, he said he has not given up.

Maureen McGinnis (PolSci), an elected judge in Troy, Mich., took office last year. Before she was elected, she practiced law at the law offices of Donald E. McGinnis, Jr.

Real estate attorney Sean Bahoshy (Mktg) was named one of eight new shareholders at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a Denver-based firm. Sean’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions, emphasizing acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial proper-ties. He has experience representing lenders and borrowers in connection with real estate financing transactions and regularly serves as counsel to buyers, sellers, owners and hotel operating companies.

In February, Ryan McGovern (Mktg) closed the largest residential real estate sale of the past two-and-a-half years in San Diego for $17.7 million. Ryan and wife Kristina Hoyer McGovern (Advert’03) are hopeful that one day their two daughters, Madison and Kinley, will follow in their footsteps by attending CU-Boulder.

Janea Ashanti Scott (Law) of Sacramento has been reappointed to the California Energy Commission, which she joined in 2013. Janea was a deputy counselor for renewable energy and special assistant to the counselor at the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Secretary from 2009 to 2013. From 2000 to 2009 she held several positions at the Environmental Defense Fund, including senior attorney.

In December the Boston Globe reported on Damon Corkin’s (BusAd, Span) love of Spanish and the tour company he founded. At age 26 Corkin booked a one-way flight to Ecuador, where he taught English and started Andean Discovery. The Massachusetts firm arranges tours in Ecuador, Colombia, the Galapagos Islands and Peru. Damon and wife Angela live in Sudbury, Mass. with their daughters Olivia and Stella.

Filmmaker Michelle Kantor (Film) is co-founder of Cinefemme, a nonprofit organization that supports female professionals in the film industry. Michelle is currently working on a documentary titled Red Star and a narrative feature titled The Rebel.

In April, Chris Newton (Engl), director of ecommerce for Stonebridge Companies, published a book on growing online businesses titled How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth. At Stonebridge Chris is in charge of digital marketing for more than 50 hotels across the U.S. His career allows him to merge passions for travel and digital technology. Chris loves spending time with his wife and two kids, traveling and hiking. He has been recording music in Boulder with Motion for Alliance, a band he and friends started in college.

R. Ashby Pate (Engl), a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of Palau, an island country in the western Pacific, has returned to Alabama, where he is of counsel at Lightfoot Franklin & White in Birmingham. As his firm puts it, “Ashby may have the most interesting resume of any lawyer practicing in the State of Alabama.” He’s also recorded two albums of music and written a children’s book. Ashby and wife Christine have two daughters.

Michael Chessa (Engl) and Alison Herlands were married on Feb. 11 at the Loeb Boathouse in New York’s Central Park. Michael works as a trial lawyer with Gersowitz Libo & Korek in Manhattan. The couple met in January 2011 during a criminal-law orientation at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

Veronica Amey-Perrin (Fren) joined the neuropsychology unit at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Kan. Veronica and husband Jim enjoy hiking and fishing in their spare time and will move to the West Plains area.

Marshall Scallan (Engl) joined real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield as managing director within its capital markets group for the Washington, D.C., region. Outside of work, Marshall volunteers as a sous chef at Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit whose mission is to end chronic homelessness.