Laurel Walk
Laurel Walk, Loan Officer
Laurel is a 2008 addition to the professional staff of Colorado Lending Source. A native of Fiddler's Green (scoreboard end) and a graduate of the University of Colorado, Denver, with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in both Political Science and Swedish pop groups from the 70's (at least those with tousled hair, eye-catching collections of matching jump suits, shirts split down to the navel, and, catchy names like the "Garvis", "Gery Johns" and the "Inge Lindqvists").
Before joining CLS, Laurel spent several years in the trenches with a national SBA bank lender under the tutelage of the famed, world renowned and legendary lender AnneMarie Murphy, also an aficionado of Swedish pop groups, but only those located on the north side of Colorado Springs. Here (at the bank, not in Colorado Springs) Laurel developed a finely honed level of expertise in all facets of SBA lending, as well as a passion for clog dancing, the steps for which she often rehearses between her desk and the water bubbler, as the mood strikes her, waving her kerchiefs in the faces of any lingering miscreants as she thumps up and down the corridor. It is rare to find such an appreciation for the intricacies of commercial lending in combination with clog dancing, in this day and age, although in medieval times, the two were inexorably linked at the hips, as any historian worth his or her weight in sea salt, would be quick to point out.
A champion pie taster, marathon runner, bean roaster, curling player, bobsled team member, pied currawong breeder, all-American pigeon fancier, gourmet cook, speed reader, magazine editor, blog master, Star Trek collectibles collector (Captain Kirk and Spock, exclusively), 4H judge (poultry), "silly walk" connoisseur, wrestling federation official, soccer coach, secret shopper, Abba nut, marzipan chocolate lover, "no fear" t-shirt hoarder (she has almost 600), amateur astrologer (that means she looks at stars, right?), Harry Potter fan club member, go cart racer, Spiderman costumier, Adobe Illustrator expert and fluent Spanish speaker, Laurel's musical interests include: Alejandro Sanz, Ana Gabriel, Anaís, Thalía, Luis Fonsi, Maná, Joan Sebastian, Wisin & Yandel, Juan Luis Guerra, RBD, Ricky Martin, Andrea Bocelli and Yani. In her rare spare time, Laurel delights in all manifestations of logical positivism's ... Especially on Tuesdays.