2000
Jennifer Grenardo is the author of a Catholic children’s book, “Danny Celebrates Advent.” Jennifer earned a master’s degree in reading and a doctoral degree in education for social justice after focusing on biology at CC and medical healing at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
2001
Nicholas Kahm was named visiting humanities scholar at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. His dissertation is titled, “Thomas Aquinas on Sense Appetite as Participating in Reason.”
2004
Luke Foley was named Vermont’s 2014 Teacher of the Year. Luke is an alternative program educator at Northfield Middle High School and lives in Warren, Vt. He will travel the state this year and work with teachers, and will be Vermont’s candidate for National Teacher of the Year. He has worked as a wilderness guide, field instructor, and program director for schools and programs in Vermont, the western U.S. and around the world. He taught social studies at Montpelier High School before taking his current job.
2006
Hilary Palanza’s dance company, Palanza Dance, is working in residence at the SafeHouse for Performing Arts in San Francisco. The company includes several CC graduates, including Colin Epstein ’08. In 2010, Hilary opened a dance school for children in the Presidio of San Francisco, where children ages 2-16 are taught creative movement, contemporary, jazz, and other styles.
2007
2009
Daniel Solomon has just begun his first year of medical school at the Medical School for International Health, a collaboration between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Columbia University Medical Center. The students spend three years in Beer-sheva, Israel, and the fourth year at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and other medical institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
SunShare, a Colorado Springs-based developer of community solar gardens, has opened an office in Denver and plans a third location in California. SunShare’s founder and president is David Amster-Olszewski ’09. The company develops the systems for residential, commercial, and governmental customers who want access to renewable energy, but don’t want or can’t accommodate rooftop equipment. Solar gardens are centralized groups of solar panels that take the place of thousands of small individual rooftop systems.