In her former career in academia, Betsy Lay was part of her university’s emergency-response team. Unfortunately, such positions are vital in an age when college campuses can become the scenes of mass shootings or other violent events.
Lay, now cofounder and owner of Lady Justice Brewing in Englewood, Colorado, says she still finds the emergency-response training she received to be applicable. Over four years of business at its former location in Aurora, Colorado, someone once threw a storm grate through the window; people disposing of drug paraphernalia occasionally sparked small fires in the taproom’s restrooms; and twice, the next-door business was the site of deadly shootings.