Crista Newmyer- Olsen (Engl, Soc;Law’07) said she has committed herself to “fighting the good fight.” Born and raised in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, she is currently the district attorney for the 12th Judicial District of Colorado. As a law student, Crista took primarily American Indian law classes. Her favorite professors included Jill Tompkins, then clinical professor in the American Indian Law Clinic, and Professor Emeritus Charles Wilkinson, whom Crista remembers fondly as a “wonderful professor in addition to a delightful human being.” Outside the courtroom, Christa enjoys spending time with her family and her menagerie of cats, dogs and horses at her home in Mosca, Colo.