The founder and CEO of Lifesprk, Joel Theisen has been driven to improve care experiences for seniors and their families by providing holistic, person-centered services through coordinated efforts from all care partners.

Kim (Dwyer) Larson ’81 capped a career in nutrition, which included becoming the Seattle Mariners baseball team’s first sports nutritionist and launching a wellness coaching and consulting business, by writing a book on battling high blood pressure.

After years of hard work and several near misses, 2021 saw Debra (Kempf) Shumaker '93 complete her quest to become a children's picture book author, with one book out in May and another to be published this fall.

When Carolyn Colleen (Bostrack) ’07, ’10 decided to become an author, she decided to tell her own story of overcoming adversity to earn three college degrees and tap into her entrepreneurial skills to pave her own path to success helping others.

For Viterbo vocal music performance grad Katherine Weber ’10, music has opened the world to her. Literally. She now lives in Amsterdam, engaged to a U.K. native, and has performances planned this year in several European countries as well as the U.S.

As an inner-city Milwaukee kid, Adrian Boyd ’92 didn’t see himself as a world traveler. His basketball skills and work ethic, however, led to him logging countless miles as a pro basketball player and entrepreneur, making a particularly big splash in New Zealand.

Josh Lichty is an assistant professor in the School of Education. Prior to teaching at Viterbo, he taught elementary and middle school for 16 years, including coaching numerous sports—he is currently coaching football and track in Onalaska. Lichty received his master’s degree in educational leadership from Viterbo in 2017.

The theme of the high school commencement speech Renee (Heuss) Volk ’99 gave, taken from a Dr. Seuss book, was telling: “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” The travel-loving mother of four has seen much of the world and now lives in a 300-year-old house in Germany.

Dillon McArdle has been named the director of the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center effective July 1. He succeeds Michael Ranscht, who became executive director of university relations in 2020.

Melissa Edgar, who graduated May 16 with a BS in biology, had already been accepted by the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. She recently learned she had been awarded the Dean’s Scholarship, an incredibly prestigious and rare four-year, full-tuition medical school grant.