As a kid, Nieves always thought she would be a doctor. But after realizing open wounds were not her thing, she settled into studying accounting and finance. Math and numbers just click for her, and she’s excited to use her skills to support communities and nonprofits as part of her career. Beyond the business world, she’s passionate about sustainability, loves thrifting, and has a heart for service.

Kevin (‘20) took his faith seriously as a teen, but he didn’t expect to be that involved in church when he headed to college. As a freshman, Kevin and his good friend and roommate agreed to try to find a place to go to church together. After much arguing, they settled on St. Aidan’s Episcopal, a compromise between Kevin’s Roman Catholicism and his roommate’s Lutheranism. There they were invited to Bread+Belonging, and from that first Sunday “the communities of St. Aidan’s and Bread+Belonging grabbed us and pulled us in,” Kevin remembers, “and we never left.”

Rudi is a living example of a “Renaissance human.” A senior at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he has a double major in English and Statistics and is working towards a certificate in Geographic Information Systems. “It is,” he says, “a lot of work, but fun.” In his spare time he enjoys biking around, cooking recipes from the 17th and 18th centuries, and creating things with his hands, currently by crocheting and embroidering. 

Rudi came to Bread+Belonging in a roundabout way. Friends in another campus group that he was part of came to B+B regularly and stubbornly kept inviting him. About a year and a half ago, with an open timeslot on Tuesday evenings, he finally came.