Tatjana Kommander Age - 46 - Los Alamos Rosev

Tatjana Kommander Rosev, 46 - a resident of Los Alamos passed away on November 7, 2011. Tatjana was born on May 1, 1965 to Dieter and Brunhilde Kommander in Ziegenhain, Germany. She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Emilie Gütter. She is survived by her mother, Brunhilde Kommander of Berlin, Germany; sister, Dr. Kristina Kommander-Salazar and husband Richard of Ponderosa, NM; husband, Boris Rosev of Los Alamos. After receiving a graduate degree in law from Bonn University, Germany, Tatjana worked at the Appellate Court in Berlin where she specialized in criminal law. As a certified legal and economic translator and interpreter, Tatjana legally assisted foreign visitors to Germany in German, English, French, Italian and Dutch. After relocating to Italy, she worked for a legal firm and a multinational corporation, specializing in law specific to the European Union, Tatjana received her B.A. cum laude from the University of New Mexico in 2006, double-Majoring in mass communication/journalism and sociology. She taught public speaking and Freshman Learning Community and was named “Outstanding Master’s Student 2007” and class valedictorian. She was one of two researchers contracted in 2008 to evaluate a nonprofit organization’s safe driving program in Albuquerque high schools. Tatjana was fascinated by intercultural communication and in particular, by the acculturation strategies of “globalized elites” a topic she had explored in her 2008 master’s thesis, passed with distinction. She was also interested in mass media/organizational communication because of her full-time work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Tatjana had presented at National Communication Association conferences, on women’s rights at UNM’s 2009 Civil Rights Symposium, and at the 2009 Western Social Science Association conference, where she was awarded Top Graduate Paper. In her spare time, she was a wildland firefighter, musher, artist, biker, and docent of New Mexico history. Mass of Christian burial for Tatjana Kommander Rosev will be celebrated on Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Sangre de Cristo Chapel of DeVargas Funeral Home with interment to be held at Guaje Pines Cemetery in Los Alamos at 12:00 p.m. The family of Tatjana Kommander Rosev has entrusted the care of their loved one to DeVargas Funeral Home & Crematory of the Española Valley. 505-747-7477

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