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How we stay true to our values while navigating a VUCA world

Dr. Mike DavisJuly 8, 2020

The U.S. Army War College applied the term VUCA to describe the state of the post-Cold War world. The geo-political balance of power in the Cold War destabili...

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Shane Boris ’00: ‘The scariest movie of the year’

Vicki HildnerJuly 8, 2020

Shane Boris '00 If you were watching the 92nd Academy Awards broadcast this year, you may have heard a familiar name when the Best Documentary Feature categ...

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Adam Bry ’04: ‘Skydio is smart’

Vicki HildnerJuly 8, 2020

When Adam Bry ’04 was sitting in a Colorado Academy Middle School classroom, already doing extra work on Upper School math, he could not have possibly...

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Shea Sweeney ’11: A writer’s journey

Tom ThorpeJuly 8, 2020

Shea Sweeney '11 with her MFA thesis “You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” This F. Sco...

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Christina Bradley ’08: Mental health is her issue

Amy VenturaJuly 8, 2020

Christina Bradley '08 Like the people she serves, Christina Bradley ’08 lives with mental health issues. The non-profit leader has depression—and she says i...

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Murphy Robinson ’06: At the helm of criminal justice reform

Amy VenturaJuly 8, 2020

Murphy Robinson '06 with Denver firefighters At his new job as Executive Director of Denver’s Department of Public Safety, Murphy Robinson ’06 already has a...

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Finding Your Path – Alumni Career Panel

Sue BurleighJuly 3, 2020

Finding Your Path: Alumni Career Panel Senior Launch Week looked very different this year. Instead of a Denver Zoo outing, Seniors and their Kindergarten Bud...

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Class of 1990 Virtual Reunion

Sue BurleighJuly 3, 2020

A Virtual Reunion By Brian Sibley ’90 The coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench in the works of a great many events this year, and class reunions were no ex...

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Class of 1970 Virtual Reunion

Sue BurleighJuly 3, 2020

A 50th CA Reunion in the age of COVID - May 22, 2020 By Jeff Lowdermilk I kept checking my watch and thinking to myself, “fifty years!” It all seemed so ...

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Welcome to the Class of 2020!

Sue BurleighJuly 3, 2020

Although this year’s Commencement was not traditional, it was nonetheless memorable. The Colorado Academy Alumni Association sought to make certain that the 202...

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Iain Hyde ’02: A conversation with a national emergency manager during COVID-19

Sue BurleighApril 7, 2020

Iain Hyde graduated from Colorado Academy in 2002. He received his BA from Colorado College and earned his master's degree in Public Administration from the Uni...

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Reid Aronstein ’12: State’s Global Business Development Manager talks COVID-19

Sue BurleighApril 7, 2020

Reid Aronstein ’12 is the Global Business Development Manager at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Previously he worked for P...

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Darby Shockley ’13: A conversation with a pediatric nurse during COVID-19

Sue BurleighApril 7, 2020

Darby Shockley graduated from Colorado Academy in 2013. She graduated with a BS in nursing from Boston College in 2017. Darby is a pediatric nurse at Children’s...

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Alumni Back to School Night 2020

Sue BurleighApril 7, 2020

The Colorado Academy Alumni Association's Mission Statement says that one goal is to provide alumni with significant opportunities for intellectual and social e...

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Alumni help current students with thoughts and advice

Sonia AroraApril 3, 2020

This winter, Colorado Academy hosted two alumni panels, one that focused on topics relevant to CA Juniors, and another for current Seniors that covere...

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Evan Pushchak ’02: A conversation with an ER Doctor during COVID-19

Sue BurleighMarch 31, 2020

Dr. Evan Pushchak '02 and his wife, Dr. Shelby Pushchak Evan Pushchak, MD, graduated from Colorado Academy in 2002. He received his BA in Philosop...

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Adam and Braden Overett: Fame on ice and onstage

Amy VenturaJanuary 7, 2020

You may have seen Adam Overett ’96 in the stage version of Dirty Dancing or in the Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza. Or you may have enjoyed the theatri...

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Maggie Dickman ’08: Saying ‘Yes’ to new experiences

Vicki HildnerJanuary 6, 2020

Maggie Dickman In many ways, Maggie Dickman ’08 could not be in a more different educational environment today than the one she experienced as a super-lifer...

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Paige Maney ’11: Following her improv dreams to Second City

Amy VenturaJanuary 6, 2020

It was her very first acting class in Chicago. She’d moved there after grad school with dreams of a comedy career. The instructor began leading the class throug...

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Class of 2019 Care Packages

Sue BurleighDecember 31, 2019

With the help of Alumni Parent Volunteers, members of the Colorado Academy Class of 2019 received Care Packages from the CA Alumni Association before their firs...

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Young Alumni Lunch

Sue BurleighDecember 31, 2019

Since 2007, Colorado Academy’s college-age alumni have returned to campus to join faculty and coaches for lunch at Café CA before the winter break. For faculty,...

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