CCU Alumni Council

A Liaison to the Greater CCU Community

Colorado Christian University's Alumni Council advises the University in matters related to alumni relations and serves as a liaison to the greater CCU community. The Council plans and implements alumni activities and programs, initiates and deepens relationships with and among alumni, advises CCU on policies and programs related to alumni, and increases the quality of services to our alumni.

Council Members

Cassidy Burke

Vice President of Aumni Council

Cassidy has been an assistant coach for the CCU Volleyball program since 2014 and was the Alumni Council President for CCU’s 100th year. During her time at CCU, she has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of players in the program and various alumni events. She has coached two NCAA DII All-Americans and helped the Cougars win three NCCAA Regional Championships and make three RMAC tournament appearances. Cassidy graduated in 2013 top of her class completing a double bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Accounting with a double emphasis in Marketing and Biblical Studies. During her years at CCU, she has completed two Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Organizational Leadership and emphases in Project Management and Team Culture.

Before coaching college teams, Cassidy coached club volleyball for eight years and co-founded a club in the Denver area. She has led three athletic missions’ trips to Costa Rica and continually finds new ways to bring the community together with the CCU program. Cassidy graduated from CCU in 2013 with All-Academic honors and played four season with the CCU Volleyball program, ending her career with the program’s first ever NCAA National appearance. In 2013, Cassidy was named CCU’s Female Athlete of the Year in addition to receiving the CCU Cougar Award for four years of excellence in competition, the classroom, and the community she has successfully utilized her education in the financial world, working for companies such as Janus and WHV Investment Management.


Charles Curtis

Lead Ambassador of the Alumni Council

Charlie graduated from CCU in 2009 with degrees in both Business Administration and Youth Ministry, minoring in Finance and Theology, and specializing in Management and Biblical Studies. He highly recommends this powerful concoction of coursework! His time at CCU has been an incredible blessing in his life, from the highest quality education, spiritual development, meaningful friendships, and marrying his sweetheart. He is a proud husband and father to three beautiful children living in Parker, CO. In his spare time, most of Charlie’s volunteer time is spent helping Christian givers and entrepreneurs transform their wealth and businesses into powerful engines for impact. He loves watching people when they realize they can impact people’s lives in powerful ways, not by giving more, but giving better! Charlie found his vocational calling as a financial advisor helping families and institutions navigate decisions around increasing, preserving, and transitioning wealth. He is currently employed at Wells Fargo and he is grateful and honored by the trust his clients place in him. Charlie loves to learn, after CCU he became a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, earned a certificate in Financial Planning from California Lutheran University, and is currently enrolled in the Master of Investment Management and Financial Analysis program at Creighton University.


Ali Weber

Member of the Alumni Council

Ali Weber is the owner and operator of IMaliTY EVENTS, an event planning and venue management company in which Ali enjoys connecting imagination and reality to bring ideas to life. Ali has a breadth and depth of experience in the special events industry along with skill sets in marketing, communication, and social media. Born and raised in the Mile-High City, Ali played four years of volleyball on scholarship at CCU as a double major to earn a BS in Business and a BA in Communication. On top of running IMaliTY EVENTS, she currently works for the City and County of Denver as a Staff Assistant in the Southwest District of Parks and Recreation at Washington Park. Ali believes it takes no talent to give everything you have; she earnestly seeks to display such character in all of her endeavors, striving to follow the widow's model in Luke 21:1-4 to show up where she needs to be, to have a willing heart, and to give all she has for the glory of Jesus Christ. She looks forward to engaging the CCU community and to serving the university that formulated the foundation of her heart and head.


Tim Butler

Member of the Alumni Council

Tim is a native of Dallas, Texas, but moved to Denver in the fall of 1972 to attend Western Bible Institute. He graduated from Western Bible College in 1976 with a major in Biblical Studies and a minor in Christian Education and married Joy Blackie (also a student at Western Bible College) in August of that year. Two years after graduating from WBC, Tim joined the staff of Denver Area Youth for Christ in 1978 and still serves a Chaplain through YFC’s Juvenile Justice ministry to youths who are incarcerated. During his tenure with the organization, Tim has served in several leadership roles, both locally and nationally, and now leads a team of more than 40 adult volunteers who provide religious services and pastoral care to approximately 350 youths who are placed at three different juvenile facilities in the Denver metro area. When he’s not in jail attending or leading a church service for the youths, Tim attends Littleton Bible Chapel (where he was commissioned as a Minister of the Gospel in 1982), with his wife. Tim and Joy have two adult children, Mark and Anne, a daughter-in-law (Jana), and are eagerly expecting their first grandchild (a boy) in June of this year!


Stacey Vlasik

Member of the Alumni Council

Stacey sought out CCU's College of Adult & Graduate Studies when she was laid off from her job of 15 years. She realized that she needed to finish her degree, and CCU seemed the perfect place. Stacey graduated with a Bachelor's in Organizational Management with an emphasis in Human Resources in 2006, being the first in her family to graduate from college. But God wasn't done yet. God also provided the means for Stacey to pursue a master's degree, graduating with a Master's in Business Administration in 2011. Since that time, Stacey has been enjoying her second career in Human Resources. She currently works as a Human Resource Business Partner for Goodwill Industries of Denver. The one piece of advice Stacey would give? "Step out of the boat....God has amazing things in store!"


Bill Banks

Member of the Alumni Council

Bill Banks received a B.A. in English from Wheaton College; M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; and a Master of Arts in Counseling (2001) and MACI (2011) from Colorado Christian University. He is a third generation Coloradoan, who loves hiking our mountains, running, biking, traveling, coaching people, sharing God’s Word, reading and writing. While owning both a roofing and remodeling business, and a financial coaching practice, he was a church planter in the early 90’s. As a grandfather he is enjoying a new stage of life with his children, step-children, and wife Connie. He looks forward to walking more closely with the Lord, and sees Colorado Christian University as an important partner in his life’s journey.


Joan Evans

Member of the Alumni Council

Joan E. Evans (nee Hillyard) was born in Detroit, Michigan in May 1933. Upon graduation from High school, Joan was employed as a Secretary for General Motors Corporation and New York Central Railroad, Detroit. In 1955 she married G. Evans. Joan transferred to a State of Michigan psychiatric hospital as Medical Secretary in 1957. She became Executive Secretary to the President of American Title Association, Denver. Following a move to Colorado Springs in 1963, she was a board member of the YWCA. Joan was President of Women’s Fellowship, a Session Member and Red Hatters group member at the Christian churches she attended. Joan attended Colorado Christian University, graduating with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems Management in 1999. She retired in 2008 from the U.S. Government as a Computer Specialist. In retirement she has fulfilled her desire to travel throughout the U.S. and Europe.


Edna Ogle

Member of the Alumni Council

Edna Ogle graduated from Rockmont College in 1949. She is retired with her husband Jack and her three daughters Ruth, Beth, and Mary in Arvada, Colorado. She recently had her memoirs published in a book she wrote, "Teaching School on the Wyoming Prairie in the 1940’s". A captivating true story of a “…young girl who began her career in a country school house on the Wyoming prairie.” The book narrates her life through the hilarious, heartwarming tales of living on the prairie and teaching the next generation. We encourage you to experience Edna’s ups and downs as she writes about her frustrations and victories as a loving school teacher, by checking out her book.


Brittany Corona

Member of the Alumni Council

Brittany Corona serves as EdChoice’s director of state policy, working in states to advance policies relating to parental choice in education. Prior to working at EdChoice, Brittany was a domestic policy studies researcher at The Heritage Foundation. Her research and commentary has appeared in state news outlets across the country and on digital venues such as National Review Online, The Federalist and The Daily Signal. Brittany currently serves as a Centennial Institute Fellow in Denver, Colorado and on the American Enterprise Institute Values and Capitalism Ideas Council, presenting the moral case for free enterprise at college campuses across the country. She is also an active member of the Philadelphia Society and a national member of the America’s Future Foundation. Brittany graduated with honors from Colorado Christian University with bachelor’s degrees in political science and social science.


Wayne J. Munguia

Member of the Alumni Council

Wayne J. Munguia is a graduate of CCU’s Organizational Management program receiving his BA in 1999. Studying Computer Science at George Mason, he has been in Information Technology for nearly 30 years as an IT Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst and an Application Developer. He has worked in IT with multiple Fortune 500 and start-up companies alike. With a certificate in Biblical Studies and soon to complete a Masters in Christian Ministry at New Geneva Seminary, Wayne spends his extra time teaching with Good News Prison Ministry at Colorado Territorial Prison in Canon City and his local church at Monument, the Ascent Church. His wife Janette also teaches as a tutor for The Classical Academy, where their 3 children attend. He currently is writing a book which takes you through the Smithsonian Natural History museum and compares the evolutionary and creation view of the things you will see. Their family verse is Joshua 24:15 “choose for yourselves today whom you will serve…as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

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