Albab Seifu ’11,  Ashley Johnson ’06 (holding Prowler), Nick Rogerson ’08, and Cullen Hughes ’94 celebrated the co-incidence of four CC alums living and working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last summer.

Johnson, who is pursuing a master’s degree in international development at Georgetown University, was working with the U.S. Agency for International Development and based out of the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. While there she met up with Seifu, who returned home to work in Addis Ababa after graduating from CC; Rogerson, who runs Betasab Global Family Initiative, serving orphaned and vulnerable children just outside of Addis; and Hughes, a USAID foreign service officer.

“It truly is a small world to run into fellow CC Tigers halfway around the world,” Johnson says. “We organized an impromptu alumni reunion in Addis, which probably was a first. We met up at a fabulous spot in the heart of Addis, in a neighborhood called Bolé at a gallery called Makush. Makush is an Ethiopian-owned combined art gallery and restaurant that showcases artists from across the country.”

Toni Larson ’62 and Robert Preston ’11 met each other on a Denver Sister City delegation trip to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, led by Denver Mayor Michael Han-cock in August. The delegation celebrated the 25th anniversary of Mongolian independence and the 14th anniversary of the sister cities relationship.

Preston spent the summer in Mongolia interning in the Foreign Relations Department of the Governor’s Office of Ulaanbaatar. He currently is pursuing a dual master’s degree in Business and International Studies at the University of Denver. Larson, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, currently is vice president of the League of Women Voters of the United States and frequently runs into CC grads on her travels.