Shannon Rice Wilkinson, '01 BSBA - Management Information Systems, was recognized as the Las Vegas Women in Technology "High Tech Entrepreneur" for 2017. The awards are sponsored by HiTech Las Vegas, Women Advancing, Las Vegas Community Tech Fund. She is the president and co-founder of Axiom Cyber Solutions.  

Marisa Rodriguez, '04 BS Business Administration - International Business, '13 JD, is an associate with Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, a national litigation boutique firm. She was selected as a 2017 Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Star for her work in personal injury defense.  

Melissa Burns,  '02 BA Communications Studies, works for CERT, a division of the Software Engineering Institute. In May she earned a Master of Information Systems Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College. Her hobbies include reading, running, traveling, volunteering, and learning. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sun-Jung Choi, '04 BS Hotel Administration, '08 MBA, is a compliance/audit investigator for the Nevada Securities Division. She also earned a degree in Asian History at Korea University.  A chartered financial analyst and a chartered alternative investment analyst, she is the author of a book, An Insider's Guide to Smart Investing. She describes herself as a crazy art lover who paints with oils every Sunday. She also enjoys attending performances at UNLV's Judy Bayley Theatre.  

Greg Dorchak, '88 Film Studies, has a film production company called Class Clown Pictures, which has just released its first feature film, Kopy Kings, a workplace comedy. His acting credits can be found on imdb.com. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in digital media from the International Academy of Design and Technology in 2012. He is married to Carmen Zayas, '88 BA Communication Studies. After graduation Carmen worked as a journalist for several publications in Arizona and New York. She earned a master's degree in organizational leadership & ethics from St. Edwards University. After moving to Texas she embarked on a career in human resources, earning her senior professional in human resources certification. Carmen has been a vice president of human resources in two large organizations, as well as running her own human resources consulting business. She now is a senior human resources professional at a tech firm in Austin, Texas. Besides working as a producer on her husband's indie film productions, she is also a local activist passionate about politics, feminist issues, and reproductive rights. The couple, who met at UNLV and have been married 31 years, live in Austin.      

Jonathan Marshall, '98 BS Business Administration - Management,  recently launched his own medical billing service, RPM Billing, for doctors and hospitals nationwide. He says his purpose in creating the company was to provide the best billing service anywhere, using the foundations of excellent service, quality results and reporting, innovative use of data to optimize results, and efficient work to keep costs low. He lives in Reno.

Nancy Forni Flagg, '79 BA Elementary Education, '92 MA English, has remained active in the local community since retiring in fall 2013 from a long career at UNLV. She currently teaches Facebook and Twitter classes to AARP members and also volunteers with food deliveries and teaches basic computer classes to clients of HopeLink of Southern Nevada. She continues to operate her copy-editing and proofreading business, Finishing Touches Project Management, and finds her work with master's and doctoral students especially gratifying. Her stepdaughter, Emily Flagg Hoff, '00 BSE Civil Engineering, resides in Aurora, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew, and son, Sawyer. She is a project manager at Jacobs Engineering.            

Debbie Howarth, '03, Master of Hospitality Administration, graduated from Boston University's School of Education in May with a doctoral degree in curriculum and teaching: educational media & technology.  She completed additional work in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and computer-assisted language learning. Her dissertation is  "An Analysis of Pathway Programs and Social Integration in the Retention of International Chinese College Students: A Case Study Approach." She lives in Plainville, Massachusetts.

Kristi Dickinson, '05 MS Hotel Administration,  recently has become a WELL Accredited Professional. WELL APs are an exclusive group of individuals with demonstrated expertise and knowledge of human health and wellness in the built environment, and the WELL Building Standard. She lives in Solana Beach, California

Ralph Piccirilli, '04 BS Hotel Administration, has been promoted to table games manager and transferred to Sam's Town Hotel & Casino. He lives in North Las Vegas.        

Larry Strate, '76 MBA, UNLV emeritus associate professor of business, has written a book, High Lights, Low Lights, and Red Lights (Stoneydale Press), a glimpse into the Red Light District of Hamilton, Montana, during the heyday of Marcus Daly in the 1890s.  He presented a paper at the 43rd annual Montana History Conference and participated at the 2016 Montana Book Festival. 

Gregory Hall, '82 BS Education in Secondary Education, retired in 2011 after 24 years as an FBI special agent. Returning to Southern Nevada, he became active in volunteer work with military veterans. In early 2017, he appeared in an episode of the Travel Channel television show, Expedition Unknown, about the infamous airline skyjacker known as "DB Cooper." The episode was inspired by an article he researched and published in 2016 in which he advances a compelling new theory of how the unsolved hijacking was done. This marked his second time appearing as a researcher on a television show. In 2004, he appeared as a Word War II military historian on the History Channel documentary Rescue at Dawn; The Los Banos Raid. He traveled with the film crew for location shooting in the Philippines. His research for the documentary also led to the publication of a novel, Not Forgotten, depicting the same event. He is a U.S. Army veteran, having served near the end of the Vietnam War. He was a paratrooper in the infantry, trained and qualified as a door gunner on Huey helicopters, and attained the noncommissioned offer rank of sergeant. After that he attended UNLV on the GI Bill. After graduating, he entered the U.S. Air Force and obtained an officer's commission as a second lieutenant. He served in the security police (now known as security forces) career field before joining the FBI. His hobbies include traveling, motorcycle riding, restoring old cars, camping/hiking, volunteer work, reading, writing, historical research, seeing new places, and meeting new people. He lives in Boulder City.