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 on 2021. Sugden enjoys playing golf, scuba diving, and riding his ebike. He has great memories of UNLV 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, has 23 years of outside sales experience — 13 years selling steel and 10 years selling building products for commercial and industrial buildings in northeast Ohio. Sway has been a varsity soccer coach for five years. He'd head coach for both girls and boys soccer at Crestwood High School in Mantua, Ohio. He's also head coach for U17 and U19 girls at Canton-Akron Force FC, where they just won the U17 Ohio State Championship. He also had the opportunity to coach in the nation championship in July 2024 in Denver. He's been married to Stacee (Appiano) Sway for 23 years. They met in the Boyd Hall dorms in 1997. They have a 22-year-old son Andrew, who is a senior at UNLV where he's been the goal keeper on the UNLV men’s soccer team for the last four years. Andrew will graduate from UNLV this December. Sway still misses and loves Las Vegas, UNLV, and visits two to four times yearly and is just as proud to be a UNLV Rebel as he was in 1997 when he first attended.    

Heather Richardson, '04 BA Interdisciplinary Studies and '11 MSW, retired from UNLV as the program coordinator of the UNLV 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 UNLV 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 UNLV in '23 with a BA in criminal justice. Her daughter, Alayna Richardson, is a junior at UNLV in the College of Education.