Melinda Wong Durfee, '93 BS Hotel Administration, recently changed positions and is the associate director of event services at University of Redlands, home to San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California. The seminary recently joined with Redlands, expanding offerings both in the Bay Area and at Redlands' main campus in Southern California. She lives in Novato.  

Tricia Roy Brisendine, '00 BSBA - Marketing, obtained her Montana real estate license in 2013 and her broker's license in 2018. Then she and a partner opened their own brokerage, Lifetime Montana Real Estate, in the Flathead Valley. She and her husband, Rob Brisendine, '00 Hotel Administration, have four children. Her hobbies include boating, camping, hiking, fishing, kayaking, snow skiing, running, traveling, and watching her children participate in all their sports. The family lives in Kalispell.

David Engler, '02 BA Theatre Arts, recently took the position of assistant general manager at the Hyatt Place Jacksonville in Florida. This was a transfer from Huntsville, Alabama, within his management company, LBA Hospitality.

Mary Vail, '13 MBA, recently completed a nine-month international goodwill assignment with Bankers Without Borders, a Grameen Foundation initiative that harnesses the skills and services of the world’s brightest minds and institutions to accelerate the progress of social entrepreneurs dedicated to connecting the poor to their potential. Vail's volunteer assignment was to work with EcoZoom, a social enterprise based in Kenya. EcoZoom manufactures and distributes improved cookstoves and portable solar lights; two products that are valuable in improving the lives of those who need them, as well as reducing deforestation and carbon dioxide outputs. She was selected for the role of corporate marketer and storyteller to help the business expand globally more quickly by helping create and communicate a comprehensive understanding of progress and impact to investors, end-users, and the wider general public. She says the insight she acquired when she traveled to South Africa in 2013 as part of a cohort during her UNLV studies helped to prepared her for the assignment, specifically with regard to how cultural influence plays a strategic role in international business. During the research trip she visited organizations that benefit from EcoZoom’s cookstoves. There were two major tea plantations Unilever and Finlays (Kenya is the third top tea producer in the world) and Cherry Children’s Educational Centre, a non-profit school in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum. Her husband, David, accompanied her and assisted with the project.  

Maria Donnalin Maliwat, '98 BS Hotel Administration, is the mother of Carmella Gabrielle Maliwat Bugay, '17 BS Healthcare Administration, Anthony Emmanuel Maliwat Bugay, a junior studying nursing, and Brandon James Maliwat Bugay, a freshman pre-nursing student. The family lives in Henderson.