Erin K. Albiston, '00 BA Communication Studies, earned a master's degree in public policy and administration from Boise State University in 2004 and is employed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management at the National Interagency Fire Center. Albiston lives in Nampa, Idaho.
Vanessa Collard, '00 BS Hotel Administration, is a wholesale marketing manager for Christofle, a luxury tabletop manufacturer. She lives in Rye Brook, N.Y.
Christel Eves, '00 BA Communication Studies, is married to Tank Stearman and has two sons, Caleb and Cole. They live in Washington, Utah.
Teri Kellenberger, '00 BS Hotel Administration, had a baby boy, Riley, in February.
Stephanie Liggio, '00 BA Communication Studies, is a mortgage consultant with White Horse Mortgage Services in Bronxville, N.Y., and is licensed in New York and Connecticut.
Linda Montano, '00 BS Special Education, teaches sixth- through eighth-graders in New York City.
Hanako Nagano, '00 BS Hotel Administration, moved from California to Mesa, Ariz., and works as a housekeeping manager at The Phoenician.
Michelle Scher, '00 BS Hotel Administration, is a cost accountant at the Bellagio. She is pursuing a master's degree in hotel administration.
Mickey Sharp, '00 BA Theatre Arts, was the first graduate of the adult senior theatre program | at age 77 | and is a retired standup comic.
Michelle Shensky Silva, '00 BA Communication Studies, finished her contract as a dancer with Siegfried & Roy and moved to Washington, D.C. to be with husband Cristian Silva. She works for Charles E. Smith Realty as a leasing consultant at the high-rise Ballston Place apartment complex.
Brad Leonard Weiss, '00 MA Communication Studies, is the program director and an afternoon radio personality at WIXM-FM in Atlantic City-Cape May, N.J. He also is an announcer for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies Ice Hockey Team. He lives in Ventnor.
Jennifer Williams, '00 BA Psychology, is completing her thesis for a master's degree in experimental psychology and works as a research associate at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. She lives in Sunnyvale.
Tina Wininger, '00 BA and '03 MA Sociology, has taught classes in sociology at UNLV and worked on various research projects.
John M. Wright, '00 BS Biology, is a firefighter in North Las Vegas. Haley Albertson, '01 BS Hotel Administration, is catering/convention services manager at Caesars Palace.
Thomas Anschutz, '01 BS Hotel Administration, graduated cum laude from UNLV's School of Law in May.
Krista D. Blaisdell, '01 BA Communication Studies, is a senior account executive with Impress Communications, a Las Vegas public relations and advertising firm.
John R. Burfening, '01 BA Architecture, works with Wynn Design and Development on the Wynn Las Vegas Resort.
Daniel Castro, '01 BS Hotel Administration, is a customer service supervisor with Frontier Airlines and lives in Portland, Ore.
Catherine Clein, '01 BA English, graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in December and is an assistant public defender in Wichita County, Texas.
Lacy M. Johnson Drummond, '01 BS Accounting, is an analyst at Southwest Gas Corp. and a certified public accountant. She was married in June 2003.
Melissa T. Inouye, '01 BS Fitness & Sports Management and '02 BS Recreation & Leisure Studies, is the first assistant softball coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., a Division I school and member of the Southland Conference.
Mark Kiyojima, '01 BS Hotel Administration, is a beverage shift manager at the Rio and an adjunct bartending instructor at the Community College of Southern Nevada.
Thomas C. Klimek, '01 BS Finance, was promoted to database manager at the MGM Grand Detroit Casino.
Rosemary Lato, '01 BS Accounting, is certified public accountant. She lives in North Las Vegas. Phil MacWilliams, '01 MA Ethics & Policy Studies, is an attorney in Washington, D.C.
David Allan Miller, '01 M.Ed., is the science department chair and teaches biology and zoology at Spring Valley High School. He also is in the Clark County School District's leadership pool for administrators.
Kim Nehls, '01 MA Communication Studies, is working on her Ph.D. in higher education administration at UNLV. She and her husband, Cory, are the proud parents of Grant Nehls, born in September 2003.
John Timothy O'Connor, '01 BS Accounting, is an auditor for the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Brandon Ring, '01 BS Finance, moved from San Diego to Scottsdale, Ariz., to be a financial consultant at Morgan Stanley. He has acquired several trading licenses along with life and health insurance licenses, and is working on his financial planner certification.
Robert W. Salley, '01 BA Political Science, graduated from John Hopkins University with a master's degree in teaching and is completing his second year as a Teach For America Corps member in the Baltimore region.
Susan S. Sayegh, '01 BA Criminal Justice, is a claims manager and court advocate. She is currently pursing a graduate degree in organizational management.
Christine Smith, '01 BA Political Science and '02 BA Public Relations, is pursuing a master's degree in public administration at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Connie White Yelder, '01 BS Management Information Systems, is operations specialist at Bechtel Nevada and pursing a master's degree in project management through the University of Maryland. She has a daughter, Jasmine Elizabeth.
Diane Gail Apodaca, '02 BS Education, has put her teaching career on hold as she works with her husband on their landscaping business. She also trains horses.
Tearsa Coogan, '02 M.Ed., is a special education teacher for students with mild to moderate disabilities with the Grossmont Union High School District in California. She also is furthering her education at San Diego State University.
Trevor H. Kainoa Daines, '02 BA Hotel Administration, is the sales manager at the 357-room Miramar at Waikiki in Hawaii. Previously, he was the destination representative for Fun Sun Vacation in Hawaii.
Amy Goodwin, '02 BS Biology, is attending Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Linda Hagenmaier, '02 BA Criminal Justice, is a private investigator. Previously, she was a federal agent for the Transportation Security Administration at McCarran International Airport, and then briefly at Silverton Casino. She has been married for 17 years, has three children, and enjoys being a Girl Scout leader.
Darrell Harris, '02 BA Criminal Justice, is a deputy probation officer with Mojave County in Bullhead City, Ariz.
Janet Kraft, '02 BA Psychology, is pursuing a doctorate in psychology in Arizona. She is specializing in juvenile forensic and neuropsychology.
Yassine Lyoubi, '02 BS Hotel Administration, is a manager at the Mon Ami Gabi, a Lettuce Entertain You restaurant in the Paris Hotel. She is also involved in the opening of the company's CafeL Ba Ba Reeba! tapas restaurant at the Fashion Show mall.
Karen Mangus, '02 BS Special Education, is a special education teacher in the Clark County School District and works part-time selling tires to local racecar drivers at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Danielle I. Marrone, '02 MS Exercise Physiology, is a certified massage therapist with the men's cross country team at the College of William & Mary and with Irish Thunder, an O'Shea Irish Dance Co. production in Williamsburg, Va. She also participated at the Olympic Games in Athens as a massage therapist.
Lantis I. Osemwengie, '02 Ph.D. Environmental Science, was promoted from chemist to research chemist.
Amy K. Park, '02 BA Communication Studies, lives in her native Honolulu where she is an account executive for Clear Channel Radio's Hot 93.9-FM.
Devon N. Pilarowski, '02 BA Communication Studies, is stationed in San Antonio with the U.S. Army and is a medic working in the emergency room at the Army's only Level I trauma center. Pilarowski is married to UNLV alum Glenn M. Pilarowski.
David A. Sferra, '02 MBA, is a senior revenue planner with the Walt Disney Co. in Anaheim, Calif. He is responsible for the planning, budgeting, and forecasting aspects of the Disneyland Resort.
Amy L. Smith, '02 BA Psychology, had a son, Dustin Cody Smith, in December 2003.
Thomas G. Steele, '02 M.Ed., is pursuing a doctorate in curriculum and instruction with a literacy major and women's studies cognate. It will be his sixth college degree; he has earned an associate's, two bachelor's, and two master's degrees from Holy Cross College, Tulane University, and UNLV. His goal is to teach at the university level and write books.
Christy Denise Barricman Webster, '02 BS Management Information Systems and BS Kinesiology, was married May 16 at Kauai, Hawaii, and is an operations manager for FedEx.
Joshua Aaron Wikler, '02 BS Secondary Education, is an English teacher at Silvestri Middle School. He and his wife, Jennifer, were married in 2003.
Bret Winograd, '02 BS Hotel Administration, is the general manager of SeaBlue at MGM Grand and was previously an assistant manager at Aqua restaurant at the Bellagio. He was married in the spring.
Lawrence Banks, '03 BA Environmental Studies, works in Kuwait as an environmental specialist for Combat Support Associates.
Tina Marie Bonmon, '03 BA Communication Studies, is a mid-day radio personality for Power 88.1-FM in Las Vegas.
Kay-Lynn Bowman, '03 M.Ed., has been accepted to attend the doctor of pharmacy program at the University of Southern Nevada in Henderson. She and her husband, Gregory A. Robbins, welcomed a son, Connor Alexander Robbins, in June 2003.
Mehmet Erdem, '03 Ph.D. Hotel Administration, is assistant professor of hospitality information technology in the School of Hotel, Restaurant, & Tourism Administration at the University of New Orleans.
Bradley Fausett, '03 BS Finance, is the owner and director of Home Care-Giver Services, which provides nonskilled home care for elderly and disabled clients. He lives in Littleton, Colo.
Norman Gamboa, '03 MM Music, is director of orchestral studies at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan.
Michael Huerta, '03 BA Philosophy, is in his second year of law school at Nova Southeastern University.
Sarah Johnson, '03 BA History, is a graduate assistant for a professor at Texas Woman's University.
Lorraine Jurist-Lazier, '03 Master of Social Work, works for the Nevada Division for Aging Services as a social worker for disabled, low-income seniors needing personal-care attendants or assisted living services.
Ryan A. Kosso, '03 BS Hotel Administration, does account and data security administration and coordinates purchases for the Henderson department of information technology. Previously, Kosso worked for MGM-Mirage.
Shelly Lyn Marshall, '03 BS Human Services, was mobilized to serve in Kuwait after graduation and spent six months as part of the Naval Expeditionary Support Force. She is currently employed part time by the Clark County department of juvenile justice services in its psychological services division.
Lucas M. Moore, '03 BA Political Science, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and is attending flight school. He will be designated a naval aviator in less than two years.
Melinda Rhoades, '03 BS and '04 Master of Social Work, is employed at a therapeutic foster care agency. She and her husband have three children.
Angie Spiker, '03 BS Elementary Education, had her biography published in the 2003-04 edition of the National Dean's List. She lives in Hemet, Calif.
Alba Thomas, '03 MA Spanish, and current UNLV graduate student Elissa T. Amaral have opened T and T Translations, which specializes in the translation of documents between Spanish and English.
Jaime VanHouten, '03 BA Film, is an escrow closer at Edina Realty Title and lives in Oakdale, Minn.
Gayle Wilde, '03 BS Fitness Management, was a specialty actress in Miss Congeniality 2 when it filmed at the Treasure Island. She also coordinates and models in fashion shows and is working on a master's degree in health promotion at UNLV.
Camilla Brunold, '04 BS Hotel Administration, works at the Fremont Hotel and Casino as a cashier in the main cage. She lives in Pahrump with two daughters, Tiffany and Kristen.
Mark Curry, '04 MA Communication Studies, works in television and film production and for such companies as the Discovery Channel and VH1.
