Notes from the Class of 2009

Jason Mitchell (Advert) and Eric Dieter (Advert'08) founded Movement Strategy when they were at CU Boulder. The company, which turned 10 years old last summer, is a social-led creative agencyand has offices in Denver, New York City and Los Angeles.

Sally Ho (Jour) is part of an Associated Press team being honoed for its coverage of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Sally lead coverage of the initial reporting on the shooting at teh Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, which recieved the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for best deadline reporting. 

David Stiller (Comm) is the president of Heritage Aviation. He joined Heritage in 2014 to transform the company into an employee-owned organization and has presided over the establishment of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and the implemation of open book management. Dave holds a Master of Fine Arts in emergent media from Champlain College and lives in Burlington, Vermon, with his wife. 

Mike Wiley (MComm) is the co-owner and chef of three restaurants in Portland, Maine–Eventide Oysters, The Honey Paw and Hugo's– and of Eventide Fenway in the Boston, Massachusetts. In 2017, he and his business partner won a James Beard Award in the Best Chef: Northeast category. 

Allie Sandza (Jour) is a senior producer for NBC News’ Meet the Press, where she has worked since 2017. She lives in Washington, D.C.

In August 2019, Kerstin Ulf (Advert) was named brand and marketing director for Protect Our Winters, a nonprofit based in Boulder that works with athletes, thought pioneers and forward-thinking business leaders to affect systemic political solutions to climate change. Kerstin previously worked at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Levi Strauss. She is a passionate backcountry skier and mountain biker.

Andrew Woodruff (Advert, Mktg) is vice president in account management for TBWA WorldHealth, which specializes in pharmaceutical advertising. He has worked in telecom, cable and internet, health care, and new business. Andrew married his wife, Melissa, in September 2018. They live in Chicago and love to travel, golf, cook and take ski trips back to Colorado.

Brad Cochi (Jour) is the director of digital media for the Colorado High School Activities Association. Cochi has been covering high school sports for more than 12 years through multiple media outlets and was the sports editor for the CU Independent while a student at CU Boulder.

After producing Stephanie Ruhle Reports on MSNBC, Ariel Peele (Jour) has returned to NBC New York as the executive morning producer. While with Stephanie Ruhle Reports, Peele produced coverage of the pandemic, 2020 election, insurrection, impeachment and inauguration.

Kim Fuller (Jour) is a co-founder of Jaunt Media Collective, a collection of print and digital lifestyle publications based in Colorado. In 2021, Fuller, who lives in Vail, launched Covered Bridge, a print magazine for the Vail Valley.

Molly Rettig (MJour) published her first book through the University of Alaska Press, titled Finding True North: Firsthand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska. After moving to Fairbanks, Alaska, to work as a reporter for a local paper, Rettig explored the East Coast, where her assumptions about Alaska and herself were tested. She began writing her book, centered around one place that can be many things to many people—and how all of it can be true. 

Kim Fuller (Jour) is a co-founder of Jaunt Media Collective, a collection of print and digital lifestyle publications based in Colorado including the titles Spoke+Blossom and CO YOGA + Life. In 2021, Fuller, who lives in Vail, launched Covered Bridge, a print magazine for the Vail Valley.

Jennifer Newell Davies (Comm) joined Trice Imaging as the marketing manager in January 2022. With offices in Del Mar, California, and Stockholm, Sweden, she is using both her journalism degree and Nordic studies minor.

Christopher Bell (PhDMediaSt’09) is the director of creative inclusion at Skydance Animation. Before moving into this role, he served for 11 years as an associate professor of media studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Recognized nationally for his expertise in the area of children's culture, he teaches and has published in the areas of critical analysis of popular culture, rhetorical theory, representation theory and the history of mass media.