The College of Media, Communication and Information was established in 2015. The CMCI alumni community includes you, your classmates and all graduates of the Department of Communication and the former School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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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

Kevin Corke (Jour; MJour’02) lives in Washington, D.C., and is a White House correspondent for Fox News. He travels the globe on Air Force One, including trips to Finland, England, Scotland, China, Canada, France and Argentina, where he covered the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Sisters Robin 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.

Posted Oct. 24, 2017

Look for Scott Takeda (Jour) on your TV this fall. He is a recurring guest star on a new comedy called Panhandle and recently shot with Catherine Zeta Jones in the new Disney+ series National Treasure. He still appears on General Hospital.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

While working at IBM, Jennifer Hatfield (Advert) submitted many patent disclosures for the IBM Call for Code Embrace initiative, which seeks to support racial justice by calling on Congress for change. Jennifer writes that it was very rewarding to connect with others and use technology to make the world a better place.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Mari Kim (Coleman) Novak (Comm) is chief marketing officer at YieldMo, an advertising technology and data company based in New York City. She lives in Morris County, New Jersey, with her husband of 20 years, along with her son and daughter.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

James S. Singell (Comm) just returned to Indianapolis from an assignment in Tokyo as marketing director for Eli Lilly in Tokyo, Japan. He was worked for Lilly since 1992 in a variety of sales and marketing roles in the United States and also in Shanghai, China.

Posted Oct. 24, 2017

After volunteering as co-chair of Marshall ROC, an organization supporting Marshall Fire survivors, Jeri Curry (Advert) became its executive director. A Boulder native, Curry attended both Boulder High School and CU Boulder before completing Georgetown University’s nonprofit executive program. Curry’s career includes leading private companies and nonprofits, as well as humanitarian, media, technology and women’s empowerment projects globally.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

​​Pete Baumgartner (Jour) is the managing editor for Central Asia and the Middle East at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, Czech Republic. Baumgartner served as a senior correspondent for RFE/RL in Munich, Germany, and Washington before moving to Prague. Before moving to Europe, he was the sports editor of CU Boulder's Campus Press and worked for the Longmont Daily-Times Call and the Rocky Mountain News. He enjoys traveling, skiing and attending European soccer games. He lives outside of Prague with his wife.

 
Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Kevin Gammon (Advert) started his career in Chicago at FCB advertising agency as a young creative working on the Coors and Gatorade accounts. He then moved to San Francisco to continue working for FCB as a creative director before working for McCann’s Microsoft team. He started his own agency in 2009. Thirteen years and two college-graduated kids later, he is still running Teak, his small creative agency, in San Francisco.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

​​Pete Baumgartner (Jour) is the managing editor for Central Asia and the Middle East at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, Czech Republic. Baumgartner served as a senior correspondent for RFE/RL in Munich, Germany, and Washington before moving to Prague. Before moving to Europe, he was the sports editor of CU Boulder's Campus Press and worked for the Longmont Daily-Times Call and Rocky Mountain News. He enjoys traveling, skiing and attending European soccer games, and he lives outside of Prague with his wife.

Posted May. 4, 2022

Ken McConnellogue (Jour) recently retired after 15 years as vice president for communication in CU’s Office of the President. He is busy relaxing, plowing through mysteries and furiously checking off projects on the home improvement list. He has a new appreciation for the saying, “Man die. House done.”

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Troy Rappold (Comm) released his first book, Learn to Walk, Try to Fly: A Faith that Guides for a Lifetime, last October with Credo House Publishers. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Michele Heller (Jour) recently joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as manager of communications and media relations. Previously, she was an Obama administration communications appointee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. A journalist by trade, Michele has worked as an editor and reporter in Washington, D.C., Beijing and Hong Kong, including at The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, American Banker newspaper and The Standard in Hong Kong. 

Posted Nov. 12, 2019

 

B.J. (Hoeptner) Evans (Jour) is in her 10th year as communications manager for USA Volleyball in Colorado Springs. She worked her fifth Olympic Games in Rio as the U.S. volleyball teams won three bronze medals.

Posted Oct. 24, 2017

Eric Rasmussen (Jour) is a partner with Aventi Group, a product marketing agency for B2B technology companies. Rasmussen lives in Denver and spends a lot of time on Hawaii’s Big Island. He recently jumped on the pickleball bandwagon.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Susan Ganter (Comm) worked in development for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Foundation, which provides funding to support athletes’ journeys to the Olympics. Ganter was responsible for raising money through programs such as special events, hospitality programs and more. Currently, she is a co-owner of The Golden Mill Food Hall and Community Gathering Place in Golden with her spouse, Wes Ganter (EnvCon, Econ’93)

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Patrick Everson (Jour) and his wife, Annette Stanford Everson (Bus'92), live in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked at the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 22 years before moving to Covers.com in 2016 as a national reporter covering the sports betting industry. In July 2021, he moved into his current role as the vice president of content for Props.com.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Carolyn Maas Hinkley (Jour) is the acting communications director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Arctic Energy Office, based in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is also the proud mother of Christine Hinkley (StratComm'22).

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Moyra Knight (Jour) is vice president of communications at Astellas and manages the company’s on-market products across all regions worldwide. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, a graduate of the Arthur Page Future Leaders Program and a member of PageUp. Knight has more than 25 years of experience in communications and corporate foundations. She is married with two children and lives in Glenview, Illinois.

Posted Oct. 18, 2022

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