Bank on Lamarr
Lamarr Banks is not just a people person; he’s an entrepreneurial people person with a passion for business models, ideas, and technologies. As the Urban Hub Community Manager for the Greater Green Bay Chamber’s...
Author: Michael Shaw
Still Rising
Call Nadia Neziri an “early opportunity adopter”—that rare personality who equally enjoys risk-taking and trail-blazing. First, as a member of the inaugural graduating class of the Rising Phoenix program in 2022, an innovative groundbreaking...
Meet a high school senior with a college degree
Ponder upon this compelling academic conundrum: How can a student wear the hat of a sophomore and a senior concurrently? The solution becomes clear when you meet a Rising Phoenix, like Aylin Galaviz. She’s...
An artist rediscovers her muse
Kasie Lin Bazan still remembers her first art exhibition, on the family refrigerator. “My mom, especially, has always been very encouraging with my art and signed me up for art classes when I was...
Digging Kayla
Kayla Lass is the featured student speaker at the 2 p.m. commencement ceremony on May 13, 2023. Kayla Lass has always been a ‘libero’ at UW-Green Bay and proud of it. For those not...
Discovering Hannah
Hannah Beauchamp-Pope is the featured student speaker at the 9:30 a.m. commencement ceremony on May 13, 2023. It’s a Sunday night, and while many of us are escaping into our favorite TV shows, Hannah...
Tina Sauerhammer, M.D., found world-wide acclaim in the operating room, then happiness in Green Bay
A phoenix, by definition, rises. Reaching among the highest heights of UW-Green Bay achievers is Tina Sauerhammer, M.D. Today, 20 years after a meteoric rise as a student, physician, celebrity and surgeon, Dr. Sauerhammer...
Rising Phoenix Empowered Nadia Neziri to Test-Drive College
There’s fast-tracking your college experience, and then there’s Nadia Neziri’s academic life in the fast lane. “I have a summer internship and I’m taking two summer classes.” While that’s not so unusual, consider for...
Upgrading a nonprofit with knowledge
No money, no mission. It may surprise you to learn that the goal of most not-for-profits is to be profitable. The biggest difference between a for-profit and not-for-profit enterprise? Just follow the money. For-profit...
Marketing and University Communication enjoys recognition last fiscal year
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: Do work worthy of recognition, but don’t worry about being recognized. Of course, there’s also nothing wrong with enjoying the spotlight now and then, especially when someone else shines it...
