The American Institute of CPAs announced the 2017 AICPA Leadership Academy graduating class, who participated in the four-day program. The graduates are: Mark Astrinos, Libra Wealth, San Francisco; Kiyosha Baird, Microsoft, Redmond, Wash.; Ross Baldwin, Arkansas Legislative Audit, Little Rock, Ark.; Amanda Bartlett, Dead River Company, South Portland, Maine; Andy Baum, Harper Hofer and Associates LLC, Denver; Sarah Bilant, Drake Rose & Associates LLC, Winnemucca, Nev.; Josh Borowski, Chief Industries, Inc, Grand Island, Neb.; Seth Cohn, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Arlington, Va.; Lauren Cox, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, N.C.; Ben Cozad, Entergy Corporation, New Orleans; Tyler Crawford, Barfield, Murphy, Shank and Smith, LLC, Birmingham, Ala.; Ho-Ming Fong, Aronson LLC, Rockville, Mass.; Eric Greene, PwC, Salt Lake City; Curt Hurd, Plante Moran, Southfield, Mich.; A.J. Hurst, Frazier & Deeter, LLC, Atlanta; Arey Jhang, Bauknight, Pietras, & Stormer P.A., Columbia, S.C.; Heather Kephart, Koniag, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska; Sherry Kneip, Spirit Realty Capital, Dallas; Josh Lance, Joshua Lance CPA, LLC, Westmont, Ill.; Anne Layne, McHard Accounting Consulting LLC, Albuquerque, N.M.; Luke Luckett, Anders Minkler Huber & Helm, LLP, St. Louis; Eduardo Morales, BDO, New York; Porschia Nkansa, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Renee Prince, Renee Prince, CPA, PC, Granbury, Texas; Ross Replogle, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd., Providence, R.I.; Rafael Rodriguez, E.F. Alvarez & Company, Miami; Melanie Rollo, Ellsworth & Stout, LLC, Las Vegas; Erika Ruiz, KPMG LLP, Boston; Luke Selvig, Boyum & Barenscheer PLLP, Minneapolis; Justin Sensenig, Weinhold Nickel & Co, LLP, Ephrata, Pa.; Becca Shane, Hamilton Place Strategies, Washington, D.C.; Jessica Smith, Reynolds & Rowella LLP, New Canaan, Conn.; Sean Stein Smith, Lehman College (CUNY), Bergenfield, N.J.; Wendy Thompson, Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores, Oklahoma City; Sarah Timmons, Atlas Van Lines, Evansville, Ind.; Elizabeth Watkins, FBMM, Inc., Nashville, Tenn.; Meagan Wellbrock, Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball, Chtd., Hays, Kan.; and Jessie Wright, Schroedel, Scullin & Bestic, LLC, Canfield, Ohio.