Class Notes

Kelly Graziadei (Advert) recently became the entrepreneur in residence at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. She has over 20 years of leadership experience in technology and consumer internet.

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. 

Kate Whiteley (Jour) started her career as a television reporter and anchor before moving to public relations. Since 2018, she has worked for Caesars Entertainment, where she is vice president of corporate communications and production. She lives in Las Vegas. 

Craig Berkley (MJour) is a media technology consultant with more than 20 years of experience negotiating and managing partnerships in advanced media, video advertising, data and analytics. Previously, he was head of revenue for LiveRamp TV. There, he led the sales and development efforts of LiveRamp’s identity products and services across the video advertising industry. Prior to LiveRamp, he held senior executive positions at MasterCard, Charter Spectrum and Comcast.

Kevin Atticks (MJour) was appointed as Maryland’s secretary of agriculture by Gov. Wes Moore. Atticks founded Grow & Fortify, serves on the University of Maryland College of Agriculture’s Global Leadership Council and is on the faculty at Loyola University Maryland.

Jad Davenport (MJour), a National Geographic represented freelance photographer and writer, captured a flock of Iceland gulls outside of Ilulissat, Greenland, which sits at the mouth of the Ilulissat Kangerlua glacier (Jakobshavn Icefjord). The glacier produces 20 million tons of ice a day. See "Never-Ending Story" from the fall 2021 issue of CMCI Now for more of Davenport’s photos and an essay on visual storytelling. His memoir, Blue Horizons: In Search of the Last Wild Islands, will be out in early 2022.

In February 2021, Tom Stilwell (Jour) started a new role as vice president for corporate communications at “cybersecurity unicorn” Illumio. Previously, he ran communications at Zscaler and Splunk. Before moving into technology communications, Stilwell spent 12 years in broadcast news production working in the Colorado, Oregon and San Francisco Bay Area markets.

Kristin Patturelli (Advert) has come full circle to land back in journalism after a 20-year career in digital media. Working in sales at Muck Rack, she resides in Westchester, New York, with her husband, 7-year-old daughter and rat terrier and chihuahua mix, Don Vito. After 15 years in New York, she spends her free time counting down the days until she returns to the West Coast.

Peter Finch (MJour) is a news anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco and is the producer and host of the podcast Finch Files: Stories From San Francisco and Beyond. He has worked in San Francisco radio since moving there from Boulder in 1993. In 2014, he was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.

Kristin Patturelli (Advert'98) has come full circle to land back in journalism after a 20-year career in digital media. Working in sales at Muck Rack, she resides in Westchester, New York, with her husband, 7-year-old daughter and rat terrier and chihuahua mix, Don Vito. After 15 years in New York, she spends her free time counting down the days until she returns to the West Coast.

Greg Benchwick (Jour) is a longtime travel writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, Wild Blue Yonder and numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks. He also writes for the U.N. Development Programme and UNICEF. Last December he published his first fiction book, Martha: The Last Passenger Pidgeon, which helps children explore conservation, environmentalism and history. He lives in Denver, and when he’s not traveling for work he travels for fun with his 10-year-old daughter.

Meredith Long (Jour) is the chief revenue officer for Quantcast, a leader in artificial intelligence and its application for brands, agencies and publishers. She spent more than 15 years at Time Inc., serving in various roles including publisher of TIME. 

Sandy Blumberg (Advert) left his job as the director of field marketing at Coca-Cola to take on new role as the director of field & experiential marketing for Bulletproof 360.

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.

Dave Briggs (Jour) is an anchor for Yahoo Finance. Previously, he worked at CNN, NBC Sports and Fox News as an anchor. 

Drew Krejci (Advert) is vice president of corporate communications at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Krejci’s time in Boulder launched a career in communications that has taken him to New York City, Washington, D.C., and now Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Drew Krejci (Advert) is vice president of corporate communications at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Krejci’s time in Boulder launched a career in communications that has taken him to New York City, Washington, D.C., and now Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Justin George (Jour) joined The Washington Post last September as a transportation reporter focusing on national transit and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Before that he was the D.C. correspondent for The Marshall Project. Although he has spent over 15 years on the East Coast, he remains a diehard Broncos and Buffs fan.

In 2018, Beth DeFalco (Jour) joined Mercury Public Affairs, a global public strategy firm, where she specializes in media relations in the political realm. She previously worked as a spokeswoman for Bloomberg Philanthropies, the New York City subway system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker. She started her career as a journalist with The Denver Post, where she covered the shooting at Columbine High School before covering government with The Associated Press, Arizona Republic and New York Post. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Katherine Wojtecki (Jour, PolSci) is executive director for media relations at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. She previously worked at Golin, leading the media team for McDonald’s and Walmart. She also was a journalist at Bloomberg News, ABC and CNN, where she received an Emmy and Peabody award. She and her family live in Geneva, Illinois.