University of Denver Autumn 2025

RELEASES

Why I Find You Irritating: Navigating Generational Friction at Work reveals a fresh and easily implemented framework for understanding generational perspectives. Chris De Santis (MBA ’78) FROM KNOW-HOW TO HOW-TO Alumni Share Their Expertise Go Girl 2: The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure includes travel writings, poems, photos, a planning guide, and a resource section. Elaine Lee (JD ’77) Marathon Leadership: 26.2 Essential Lessons for Modern Leaders offers easy to-understand and applicable lessons to help those confronting Preparing Early Career Teachers to Thrive: Sustaining Purpose, Navigating Tensions, and Cultivating Self-Care addresses the post-pandemic crisis of early-career teacher turnover that harms students But…GOD Gave Me a Pencil shares strategies for overcoming literacy challenges and ways the author has helped her children and students navigate their own learning difficulties. Rhonda Richmond (BA ’03, MA ’07, MA ’13) leadership challenges. David Knapp (PhD ’96) and entire school systems. Kristina Valtierra (PhD ’14)

Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems Rebecca Winning (MA ’79) Rebecca Winning takes us on a journey through her midwestern upbringing, relationships, deep connection with the natural world, and meditations on finding meaning in her latest book, “Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems.” Included are previously published poems from her early years, as well as 30 new, unpublished works. The poems offer personal reflections on love, loss, family, marriage, infidelity, divorce, healing, aging, death, and new beginnings. Each poem

crystallizes a point in time that celebrates the mystery and wonder of our everyday lives. Winning explores themes of human frailty and connection, reverence for the natural world, and the intersection of the seen and unseen. Her book is a meditation on finding one’s best self and living in harmony with—and gratitude for—the interconnectedness we all share.

A Colorado Panorama Don Morreale (BA ’72, MA ’10) Don Morreale shares 168 vignettes of Colorado historic figures whose faces grace a wall on the side of the Colorado Convention Center in his most recent book, “A Colorado Panorama.” Morreale was inspired by the photo-based, computer-generated tile mural by CU photography professor Barbara Jo Revelle, and the controversy surrounding it. “Apparently, Denver City Council had a problem with some of the characters the artist had chosen to represent on it,” explains

Morreale. “One in particular irked the Council members—Black Panther Lauren Watson. The Council insisted Revelle remove his image. When she refused and threatened to abandon the project altogether, they backed off, at least partially. The Council withheld money for an interactive touch screen that would have informed viewers of the identities of the faces on the wall. For years, viewers were confronted with a 600-foot-long collection of anonymous faces. Colorado historian Dr. Tom Noel later created a guide that offered one-line descriptions of each figure. I used Dr. Noel’s guide to track down the IDs of each face, and then did my research with the help of local historical societies all over the state.” Featured Coloradans include Butch Cassidy’s cattle-rustling girlfriend, the first Asian American in space, and an Oscar-winning blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter.

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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER MAGAZINE | AUTUMN 2025