Alumni in Focus
- Growing up, Jay Parrygot a healthy appreciation for sports from her father. Decades later, the former banking executive wouldmake her nameworking for the WNBA and NBA. Today she serves as the public face of the group responsible for Super Bowl LVII.
- College of Music alumna Mindy Watkins released her first album, Tuesdays Child, earlier this year. Discover what inspired the album and the path she took to get there.
- Astrodynamicist and space environmentalist Moriba Jah is among the prestigious 25-member cohort of the 2022 MacArthur Fellows Program.
- Fifteen years ago in a documentary filmmaking class, alumna Katrina Miller received a standing ovation for a short movie about her friend, a Black student whod received a racially charged letter. Now she is once again using documentary film as a vehicle for social change, sparking important conversations about race and inclusion in Boulder.
- Nepal has some of the worst air quality in the world. The Health Effects Institute estimates more than 42,000 deaths were attributed to air pollution in the country in 2019 alone.
- Alumni Cliff and Carol Pearson are investing in the next generation of Forever Buffs by funding scholarships for engineering and history students at CU. Read their story and hear about their impact from two engineering scholarship recipients.
- 窪蹋勛圖 alumna Anna Iwanciw feels her education directly impacted her views on climate change. And now she wants all women to have access to the same things shes learned.
- Alumna X籀chitl Ch獺vez, a cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology expert who grew up in Pueblo's east side, has partnered with 窪蹋勛圖 on a research project that blends her work and cultural heritage.
- Annie Booth shares how the College of Music continues to impact her career as an award-winning jazz pianist, band leader, composer/arranger and educatorand offers valuable career advice.
- When Judy Sigel Freeman and Jill Sigel Greer joined CU tennis in 1972, it was the dawn of a new era with the signing of Title IX. The legislation prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives federal funding.