Tami Dokken (Jour, Art) recently moved to Washington, D.C., to become the World Bank’s first chief data privacy officer. She previously lived in Dallas and worked as a global data privacy and protection officer and associate general counsel at MoneyGram International. Her son, Jack Sandberg, is a junior in CMCI’s Department of Information Science.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
In 2019, Julie Gillum Lue (Jour), a former park ranger living in Montana, published her third children’s book, What I Saw in Rocky Mountain: A Kid’s Guide to the National Park.ĚýHer earlier book, What I Saw in Grand Teton, was a 2018 finalist in the High Plains Book Awards. Her writing has appeared in publications including High Country News and Montana Outdoors.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Since 2014, Brian Rooney (Jour) has been managing director of Goldman Sachs in New York City. Previously, he spent more than 20 years working for Bloomberg. Brian lives in Katonah, New York, with his wife, Carolyn.Ěý
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Stephanie Marchesi (Advert) is president of the health sector and eastern region at WE Communications in New York City.Ěý
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Doug Hochstadt (Jour) is the senior vice president of revenue and yield management for Disney-ABC. He is also the head of box office for Pantomonium Productions, a nonprofit theater company whose mission is to reach underserved children and families. He lives in New York City with his wife, Katherine, and daughter, Ella.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Neill Woelk (Jour) joined CUBuffs.com as its contributing editor in 2015 after three decades as a sports reporter, columnist and sports editor at the Daily Camera. He and his wife, Sue, live in Frederick.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Jenny Herring (Jour) works in institutional client relations at Wilshire Consulting. Based in Broomfield, she writes proposals for institutional investors including large pension plans, university endowments and corporations. Previously, Jenny spent much of her career providing public relations and marketing for financial services companies.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Linda Villarosa (Jour) runs the journalism program at The City College of New York in Harlem and is working on a book about race, health and inequity. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and her cover story, “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life or Death Crisis,” was nominated for a 2019 National Magazine Award.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Rick Mullen (Jour) has lived in Malibu, California, since 1990 and was elected to the Malibu City Council in 2016. During the 2018 wildfires, he worked with media outlets and elected officials—including President Donald Trump—as the city’s mayor. Rick is a retired Marine Corps colonel with 30 years of active and reserve service and was a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He and his wife, Jenny Ball, have two children, Marshall and Tatiana.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Michael Knisley (MJour) joined the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism as an assistant professor in fall 2018. He is also the sports editor of the Columbia Missourian, a community digital and print news organization staffed by students and managed by faculty.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
John Estabrook (Advert) lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has owned and operated the windows and doors branch of Pella Corp. since 1997. He and his two partners recently purchased Pella Mid-Atlantic, which serves Maryland, Northern Virginia, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Zack Horrell (Jour) lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and celebrated his 90th birthday in April. After graduating from CU Boulder, he started working at the Rocky Ford Daily Gazette. He then spent over 40 years with Lesher Communications newspapers in California before retiring in 1995.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Joan Barthelme Bugbee (Jour) a proud Phi Beta Kappa, retired from a 45-year communications career in 1996 as vice president of corporate communications for Pennzoil Co. Bugbee, who now lives in Roanoke, Virginia, says, “I’m a widow, have two sons, have traveled extensively in retirement and still send op-eds to the paper when the spirit moves me.”
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Zoe Beard-Fails (Advert’17) moved to New York City after graduation, where she works as a page at NBC Universal assisting with audience services on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers. During her time at CU, she was a forward on the women’s basketball team.Ěý
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Paige M. Ensor (Advert) moved to New York City shortly after graduation to pursue a career in advertising. Through the 2018 MADE program, she was selected by IBM to participate in its summer advertising internship, after which she was hired as a campaign production manager for the Watson and Developer campaigns in IBM’s Worldwide Advertising department. In December 2018, she launched her first global advertising campaign, called “Behind the Code,” for IBM.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
After graduating from CMCI, Kimberly Coffin (CritMed, StratComm’18) found a way to stick around. She joined the college staff in 2019 as CMCI’s video and multimedia coordinator, and loves capturing the stories of students, faculty, alumni and friends. Kimberly specializes in video production and photography, and has previously worked for clients including Modern Market, Buck Ross Productions, HGTV’s Tiny Paradise and the University of Colorado Law School.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Durango native and professional cyclist Sepp Kuss (Advert) won the Vuelta a España in September, becoming the first American cyclist in a decade to win a Grand Tour.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Vanessa Harmoush (Jour) is the deputy communications director for the Colorado speaker of the House and the Colorado House majority. She also sits on the Denver Young Democrats board as its community liaison, and on the Policy Committee of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Freelance journalist Gloria Dickie (MJour) recently received a National Geographic Early Career Explorer Grant to fund her reporting on human-bear conflict in northern and western India. She previously spent two years reporting on trash management and black bears in the American West for her master’s project in CMCI. Gloria has reported on bears from around the globe, including polar bears in Svalbard, Norway, grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park and panda bears in the Min Mountains of China.Ěý
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Lauren Lanier (Jour) is a digital sales strategist for Learfield, a sports marketing firm that manages multimedia media rights and sponsorship initiatives for more than 130 collegiate institutions nationwide. Lauren’s focus is on managing digital and social media markets for college programs in the Western region, including the Colorado Buffaloes. Before taking this position she was a communications coordinator for College Football Playoff.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
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