Tyler Bianchi

Tyler is a Junior at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a dual emphasis in Finance and Real Estate. He enjoys spending his free time trail running, mountain biking, and climbing in the Colorado foothills, improving his amateur cooking skills, and watching David Attenborough narrated docuseries. He loves being involved in the business school, most recently serving as teacher’s assistant for a global experience class that culminated with a business visit to Tokyo in spring of 2023. Additionally, he is the Mental Health Chairman and Alumni Relations Chairman of Sigma Nu Fraternity at the University of Colorado Boulder. A new challenge he is taking on this semester is learning Italian ahead of his semester abroad in Italy.

Sophia Brooks

Sophia is a rising senior at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the progress of earning a BS in Strategic Communications with an emphasis in PR and a double minor in Philosophy and Leadership Studies through the Presidents Leadership Class. After graduating, she plans to work for a year as an English teacher in East Asia, then return to school to study law. She dreams of helping communities in need have better access to education and clean water.

She is drawn to Peak 2 Peak because she feels passionate about personal growth and psychology. From her previous experience conversing with Ewa, she learned valuable lessons and would love to learn how to help other people grow in a similar way.

Sophia lives a balanced life by keeping the mind, body, and spirit in harmony. Outside of school, she loves fitness, dogs, yoga, cooking, reading, and anything outside.

Angela Grayson

Angela is a rising senior. She began her Air Force ROTC career in the General Military Course where she learned the basics of drill and leadership. During this time, she distinguished herself as a conscientious follower, rising leader, and loyal wingman. In 2021 she was selected to attend Field Training where upon graduation she entered the Professional Officer Course. She was made the Public Affairs Crosstown Liaison for her Air Force ROTC Detachment. In the Fall of 2021, she was responsible for the detachment’s public image on social media websites. In 2022 she moved up to a high-level position in the Cadet Wing where she served a term as the Commander’s Executive. In this role, she worked directly under the Cadet Wing Commander. She took her first leadership role in the Fall of 2022 where she managed the physical fitness of over 200 cadets at ten universities as the Cadet Wing’s Physical Fitness Officer. In 2023, she served as the Aerospace Studies 100 level teaching assistant. In this role she served as a mentor to the freshman class and worked directly underneath the Aerospace Studies Assistant Professor. This Fall she will take the position of Flight Commander where she will oversee a flight of cadets in the General Military Course and lead them through a semester of training.

Angela studies Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She has served in other leadership roles in her campus community. She is an active member in the Society of Women engineers and has supported numerous volunteer projects hosted by the organization. She was briefly the Vice President of the Astronomy club and was tasked to find creative ways to hold club meetings during the COVID-19 Pandemic. She worked at the Mines Career Center for two years where she managed their social media campaigns and served as a Student Ambassador for the school in the summer of 2022.

Angela will graduate from the Colorado School of Mines in December of 2023 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Aerospace Studies. She lives in Golden, Colorado.

Joshua Higgins

Joshua is a senior at the Colorado School of Mines where he studies Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While at Mines, Joshua has enjoyed a rich AFROTC cadet career full of leadership experiences, personal development opportunities, and genuine relationships. In AFROTC, Joshua spent his first two years learning the fundamentals of followership and teamwork. Since then, Joshua was increasingly entrusted with the management and lead of teams and cadet projects, ranging from small volunteer events to 4-hour cadet trainings. This semester, Joshua is the cadet advisor to Col Spears and Det 105’s cadet command team, providing insight and feedback through honest dialog.

At the beginning of Spring 2023, Joshua was given the opportunity to partake in a Peak-to-Peak moderated discussion through Det 105. In any relationship, there exists a need to not only communicate, but understand and be understood. Over the past few years, Joshua has refined his skill of communicating to understand but still sees many ways he may improve. The skills covered during his Peak-to-Peak experience showed a valuable avenue for him continuing his development. For every position he has held, including his current one, Joshua has needed to ensure he could facilitate candid and genuine conversations. Ultimately, he wants to be able to help people see eye-to-eye and meet their needs a personal level.

Joshua will graduate from Mines with his two degrees in December 2023 and will commission into either the Air or
Space Force. He will then pursue a Master’s in Robotics at Mines starting in Spring 2024.

Walt Morgan

Walt is an Integral Coach who partners with clients from all walks of life to achieve the personal and professional developmental goals that are most important to them.

He served in the U.S. Navy for 23 years as a helicopter pilot and retired at the rank of Commander. He has also been an associate professor, teaching leadership and management and an in-house leadership consultant, coach and facilitator for a Fortune 200 healthcare company.

Walt lives in Boulder with his wife Dana, their two teenage children and Hank, the dog. He loves exploring the backcountry with dear friends and a fly-fishing rod.

Alyssa Radtke

Alyssa is originally from Centennial, Colorado, but now lives in Denver. After about a year and a half working in aerospace and defense, she returned to Leeds to work as the Assistant Director of the Leeds Scholars Program and Specialty Programs & STEM Initiatives where she gets to live her passions every day of working with talented and driven students, pursuing academic, leadership, and professional excellence within CU, and traveling internationally.

Beyond her professional career, Alyssa continues to be involved at CU Boulder. She served as the Director of Student Advisory on the LSP Alumni Board and further developed the alumni mentor program and continued to push for changes in the application and interview process to allow for a more holistic review. Alyssa is also a member of the Forever Buff Advisory Board for the CU Boulder Alumni Association where she is currently working on the CU Boulder Alumni Awards initiative and working to make young alumni, including those who graduated during COVID, feel included and heard within the association and the university. Lastly, outside of all things CU, Alyssa enjoys traveling, Formula 1, hockey, and football, and goes to as many concerts as she can.

Alyssa is a class of 2021 graduate from the Leeds School of Business with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Operations Management, minors in Germanic Studies and German, and Certificates in Global Business and Social Responsibility & Ethics.

David Roberts

David Roberts is a senior at the University of Colorado, Boulder studying Biochemistry. He will commission as an officer in the spring of 2024. He hopes to pursue research chemistry with the Air Force and eventually, go to medical school. He likes to frisbee golf and sings a capella.

Elizabeth Serino

Elizabeth is a rising senior. Her career interests and passions have spanned jobs from stunt car driving, teaching, coaching, working as a first responder, engineering and serving in the military as a fighter pilot. She has a diverse background in athletics competing in sports from ice skating, soccer, tennis, volleyball, and horse riding. She found her niche in swimming and water polo in middle school and dedicated her high school career to both sports. While pursuing high school athletics she was heavily involved with programs and clubs in her community which followed her into her college career.

Once she received her acceptance into CU, she quickly changed gears from engineering to Political Science to further interest in policy and leadership allowing for a schedule to hone her flying aptitude and ability. While in college, Elizabeth has been involved in Camp Kesem, Political Science Club, the Boulder Center for Leadership Program, Co-Founder of Teal Rope, a program to help those facing unhealthy relationships with themselves or others around sexual assault and mental health, led the AFROTC Boxing program and is currently working on building flight hours.

This past summer she worked as a Cadet Training Assistant with world-class jiu-jitsu trainer Argelio Chappotin lll and is now an Air Force Combatives instructor. She is awaiting news on her pilot slot and beginning her senior year. She will graduate in May with a degree in Politics, and minors in Leadership and Philosophy.

Nichelle Somers

Nichelle is a 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force. She is a KC-135 Command Pilot with over 2,500 hours of experience flying world-wide. In this capacity, she has led aircrews on combat missions around the world, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea, just to name a few. She is also an experienced leader, having led at multiple tactical, operational, and strategic levels. In 2020 she led all coalition air operations for East Africa, a task that affected millions of people in over 15 countries. She is also an experience leader in operational planning and management, having contributed heavily to designing the air campaign in Libya for Operation New Dawn. She has lived around the world, including Japan and England during her time in the Air Force. Now, Nichelle is back ‘home’ and leading operations at Detachment 105, the 5th largest Air Force ROTC detachment in the nation. In this effort she mentors, instructs, and guides more than 200 cadets as they embark on their own Air Force careers.

Nichelle is a Colorado native and has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Human Services from UCCS and a Master’s of Aerospace Science from Embry-Riddle University as well as a BA in Astronomy from CU Boulder. She lives in Erie, CO with her husband and three kids and enjoys skiing and playing soccer mom.

Nicole Woods

Nicole Woods is a senior who studies Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Nicole comes from a family of three generations of airmen and has a goal of continuing that extensive legacy: by becoming the first officer and woman in her family to join. She attends the 105th Cadet Wing, Detachment 105, and currently serves as the Fall 2023 Cadet Wing Deputy Commander for the unit. She dreams of becoming a member of the intelligence community once she commissions. Outside of school and Air Force ROTC, she enjoys spending her time weightlifting, running, reading, and writing.