ٱRobin Beeck (Comm)and Kathy Beeck (Eng/PolSci’86) founded the Boulder International Film Festival, which will celebrate its fourteenth year next Feb. 22-25, 2018. The festival has become a hot spot for movie stars and film enthusiasts from around the country.

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Heidi L. Wagner (Jour) is the senior vice president of government affairs and policy for Global Blood Therapeutics Inc. Before joining GBT, she spent more than eight years at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, where she held roles on the company’s management team. Before Alexion, she had an 11-year tenure at Genentech, and earlier in her career she was a health policy director and consultant to the trade association Healthcare Leadership Council.

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Rob Decker (Comm)is a photographer and graphic artist based in Longmont. After working for clients including American Express, Dell, Dick’s Sporting Goods, the National Association of Realtors, Overstock.com, Stanford University,The Washington Postand others, Rob is now focused on his National Park Posters project, creating vintage-style posters for parks around the country.

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In April,Elizabeth Hernandez (Jour)returned to Boulder to report on the university that taught her a thing or two about reporting. Prior to landing theBoulder Daily Camera’s higher education job, Elizabeth dug deep as a fellow at the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative newsroom in Washington, D.C. Before that, she called theDenver Posthome for two years, first as an intern and then as a staff reporter covering breaking news and education. When she’s not filling her reporter’s notebook, she enjoys reading and writing but detests arithmetic.

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Tim Coy (Advert)was awarded the Maurice Hendry Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2016 by the Cadillac & LaSalle Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to motorcar restoration and preservation. He has designed and proofread the organization’s international magazine,The Self-Starter, since 2004. He continues to operate Ad Type & Design Inc., a firm specializing in graphic design and publishing, founded in 1995. He previously worked in advertising and marketing for theRocky Mountain News, the Denver Newspaper Agency andThe Denver Post.

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For more than 40 years,Bill Lerner(Comm)has helped grow and develop iPark, his family’s parking garage business (previously known as Imperial Parking Systems), into New York’s largest garage and parking facilities operator. Bill also started the organization Billy4Kids to provide shoes for underprivileged children around the world.

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At the Lippin Group, a brand communications firm,Pamela Ruben Golum (Comm)has managed notable client accounts including Dick Wolf and hisLaw & Orderfranchise, various projects for the Disney Channel and the Emmy Awards. Previously, Pam worked as a journalist with Fairchild Publications and at radio station KBOL in Boulder. She and husband, Rob, live in Los Angeles, California, with their two daughters, Caroline and Jennifer.

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Dave Curtin(Jour)won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1990 and currently is the Assistant Director of Executive Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Emmy winnerSavannah Sellers (Jour)was recently announced as co-anchor ofNBC News'Stay Tuned,Snapchat’s first daily news show. Featuring current events and entertainment news, it will run every day at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and at 1 p.m. on weekends.“It’s the first daily show of any kind on the platform,” saidNick Ascheim, senior vice president of digital atNBCNews. “Snap has been very public that it wants to invent mobile television.”

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Laura (Schneider) Moetz (MJour)joined Accenture PLC in September 2016 as a marketing and communications manager based in New York City. Previously, Laura was a manager of internal and employee communications for Willis Towers Watson.

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Stephanie Lyra (Jour,Thtr)works as an editor at Bunim Murray Productions. She was nominated for an Emmy this year for outstanding picture editing for an unstructured reality program for her work on A&E’sBorn This Way,a series following seven young adults who have Down syndrome. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Emily Talley(Comm)retired from professional golf this year after playing 3 seasons on the LPGA Symetra Tour and a 4th and final season on the Ladies European Tour. Emily resides in Oslo, Norway with her fiancé, Andreas Høye (Finance ‘14) who was on the CU cross country ski team. Emily is the content and sales manager for an outdoor adventure start-up and app called Outtt which is based in Oslo.

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The Green Bay Packers signed a contract extension makingDavid Bakhtiari (Comm ex)one of the NFL’s highest-paid tackles. In 2013, David started every game at left tackle, becoming the first rookie to do this for Green Bay since 1978.

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Tiffany (Mathews) Cross (Advert)is working for the Kellogg Co. as the Pringles USA associate brand manager.

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Beth Bartel(MJour)works as an outreach specialist at UNAVCO, a Boulder-based scientific facility supporting research in natural hazards and other sectors of Earth science. she dabbles in much of what she worked on in the journalism program at CU--video production, photography, public relations, design, web content, and social media. Her favorite parts of the job are supervising interns, teaching science communication, fostering local, regional, and international partnerships, working at the interface of science and society, promoting diversity, and also trying to drive cultural change through effective communication.

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Dave Briggs(Jour)is currently an anchor of "Early Start"on CNN, airing 4-6 am ET. Prior to this, Dave was an NBC Sports studio host for the Rio Olympics.

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Kristin Boehm(Jour)joined NYC-based Hawkins International Public Relations as digital director in May 2017. Previously, Kristin was Director of Dan Klores Communications' digital division, Editor of People.com and Director of News and Engagement for People, where she oversaw daily digital operations and worked to integrate the print and digital teams to expand content offerings across all platforms.

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He has called more games than any other St. Paul Saints broadcaster. He was nominated for a Regional Emmy in 2010 and was the runner-up for Broadcaster of the Year in 2013. Three years later Saints broadcasterSean Aronson (Jour)has been recognized by Ballpark Digest as the Broadcaster of the Year in all of minor league baseball.

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After graduating with a Communication andPsychology double major,Sean Martin (Comm)worked as an IT consultant at a Boulder startup. He did this for 2 years before landing back at CU as full time staff doing IT work and project management! Martin now is a System Administrator at Facilities Management at CU Boulder. He is now engaged to his fiance and has settled into a home in Longmont.

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Holly Shrewsbury(Jour)is currently serving as the Communications Director for Colorado's Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne, and as Interim Communications Director for Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

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