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Jessica Landram, '12 BS Business Management, is a licensed clinical social worker. 

Marty Baier, '99 BA Hospitality Administration, is the SW regional director of sales and marketing for KG Hotel Group. He enjoys cycling, spending time with his kids, wife, and two dogs. Two of Baier's children attend 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ while the third will graduate from UNR in spring. Says Baier, "We try not to hold that against him."

Keith Dussell, '19 Grad Certificate Career and Technical Education, is the associate director of administrative services at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. Dussell is preparing to enroll in an Ed.D. program in 2025.

Dot Winter, '74 BA Education, is a retired teacher.

Ken White, '90 BS Marketing, is an economic development specialist and main street director for the City of Eden in North Carolina. White is living life and enjoying spending time with his sons and their families, including his 2-year-old grandson.  

Colette (Hill) Kraemer, '89 Business Management, is a certified real estate appraiser.

Laurie (McRitchie) Eden, '00 BA Communication Studies, is the co-creator of the book series, Tater Tot and Shadow, created with her mother, a retired Clark County School District teacher. Inspired by her love for rescue dogs and travel, the book series follows the travel adventures of her two jet-setting rescue chihuahuas as they explore exciting and historic locales across the United States. Her fourth book, Tater Tot and Shadow Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, is a top seller on Amazon’s Top Wishlist Travel Books for Nevada. As a native, she blends some of her favorite memories of growing up in the Entertainment Capital of the World and the Las Vegas that people know today. When Eden isn’t writing, she’s traveling with her husband, planning events, selling real estate, and checking out the latest restaurants in Austin, Texas, where she resides.

Alex Sugden, '73 BS Hotel Administration, has worked full time since 1966 at Desert Inn, BaliHai Motel, Frontier Hotel, Tropicana Hotel, Rainbow Vegas Hotels. He started AJS Management Corp. and owned and managed several apartment communities and developed three self-storage properties. He retired in 2021. Sugden enjoys playing golf, scuba diving, and riding his ebike. He has great memories of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and the instructors who introduced him to the hospitality industry.  

Andrea Orwoll, '17 JD, recently launched her business, Your Legal Doula, which helps families understand, assert, and protect their birth rights. As a Nevada-licensed attorney, Orwoll wants to expand what the law can do for moms.

Eric Sway, ‘99 BA Communication Studies, is a salesman with 13 years in the steel industry and 10 years in building products for commercial and industrial buildings in northeast Ohio. He is head coach for both girls and boys soccer at Crestwood High School in Mantua, Ohio and for the U17 and U19 girls at Canton-Akron Force Soccer Club, which won the U17 Ohio State Championship. He coached in the national championship in July 2024 in Denver. He is married to Stacee (Appiano) Sway, '01 BS Business Administration. Their son, Andrew Sway, ‘24 Kinesiology and Exercise Science, was a goalkeeper for the 2023 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ men’s soccer team.    

Heather Richardson, '04 BA Interdisciplinary Studies and '11 MSW, retired from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ as the program coordinator of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Fostering Scholars Program, where she launched the first campus-based program in the state of Nevada for students who had experienced foster care. Richardson spent 19 years dedicated to public service at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and Clark County working with young people who had experienced foster care. She is now enjoying time with her husband, five children, and new grandchild. Her daughter, Aspen Cable, graduated from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in '23 with a BA in criminal justice. Her daughter, Alayna Richardson, is a junior at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in the College of Education.  

Kristen Shubert, '91 BS Hospitality Management, was named captain of the United States Wine Tasting Team for the 2024 International Blind Wine Tasting Competition, sponsored by La Revue du Vin de France. Four wine professionals are chosen to represent the US each year. This is Shubert's sixth competition, finishing as high as third place against 40 countries. She's completed certifications of WSETIII, Spanish Wine Scholar, and French Wine Scholar. Shubert is currently the president of the non-profit Cellarmasters of Los Angeles, and makes wine for three different labels in California. She also represented her country as a jet ski racer 2000-2003 in the Pro Women's class of the IJSBA World Finals.