For Tonya Wagner, becoming dean of Viterbo's College of Business, Leadership and Ethics perfectly meshes her love of higher education with her knack for being a change agent in the business world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Megan Pierce serves as the director of multicultural student success and global engagement, a new position in a new department that works to create a safe and identity-affirming space for students, promote social justice and equity initiatives, orient and support international students, and provide study abroad opportunities.
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.
Nicholas Carlstrom appreciates what he describes as Viterbo’s close community and family culture. Now as a resident assistant living and working in Rose Terrance, he strives to provide that sense of belonging to the 20 students living on the third floor.