Fall 2025
Alumni Forge Their Own Paths to Success
Alumni News
![Tori Harwell ’20 Named Rhodes Scholar]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700147483/kentdenver/zh6jep6lq4ihqtqizv30/CreditWashU-ToriHarwell2.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1700147483/kentdenver/zh6jep6lq4ihqtqizv30/CreditWashU-ToriHarwell2.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1700147483/kentdenver/zh6jep6lq4ihqtqizv30/CreditWashU-ToriHarwell2.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1700147483/kentdenver/zh6jep6lq4ihqtqizv30/CreditWashU-ToriHarwell2.jpg","width":1200}])
Tori Harwell '20 has been named one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars in 2024. She is the second Sun Devil to earn this incredible distinction!
![Alumni in the Arts Share Advice with Students]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1700066230/kentdenver/zpuh4vyumpctqpwngkfs/AlumniInTheArts.jpg","width":2200}])
In September, four alumni with careers in the arts shared their professional journeys with Middle and Upper School students during special assemblies in Anschutz Family Theatre.
![Alumni Class Notes - Fall 2023]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1612297247/kentdenver/dzldacehiptsoxo4x7gx/ClassNotes_MainGraphic.png","width":2200}])
Catch up with your classmates, and submit your own good news!
![Rashida Williams '17 Finds Her Creative Light]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1700067220/kentdenver/fpngd9ttwatahjtjmz6g/RashidaWilliams.jpg","width":2200}])
Rashida Williams ‘17 currently runs her own creative agency and works as a professional artist out of her studio in Aurora.
![From Pick and Roll to Rock and Roll]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700254151/kentdenver/lbino06dsc5usyir5ozg/Rockers.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1700254151/kentdenver/lbino06dsc5usyir5ozg/Rockers.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1700254151/kentdenver/lbino06dsc5usyir5ozg/Rockers.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1700254151/kentdenver/lbino06dsc5usyir5ozg/Rockers.jpg","width":1098}])
Bill Tepley ’78 and Jon Starr ’78 first became friends on the KDS basketball court. They soon discovered a shared interest in music and have been playing in bands together for decades.
![KDS Roots Helped to Grow MASH Magazine]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700253793/kentdenver/ajjmxv5wbyztctpk9fkb/WillaSobel.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1700253793/kentdenver/ajjmxv5wbyztctpk9fkb/WillaSobel.jpg","width":400}])
Willa Sobel '18 created MASH Mag and then worked with two other Kent Denver alumni to create offshoots of the groundbreaking magazine.
![2023 Distinguished Alumni Honoree Cambrie Nelson '05]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1700254298/kentdenver/gnzjpasf5v0esgcwutry/CambrieNelson05.jpg","width":2200}])
From her time on Kent Denver's campus to her current role with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Cambrie Nelson '05 has been a difference-maker.