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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fashion photographer Sammy Keller (Comm) has always loved taking photos. She works for the Denver-based vintage shop Orenda Lou and has also worked with Urban Outfitters. When she isn’t doing freelance work, Sammy works full time at Rooster Magazine in Boulder.

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In June 2018, Adrian Garcia (Jour) joined Bankrate in New York City as a data reporter. He previously covered business and data stories for the online news startup Denverite and the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

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Jackie Fortier (MJour) is StateImpact Oklahoma’s senior health care reporter. In a partnership with Kaiser Health News and National Public Radio, Jackie covers health in Oklahoma and the health care industry for local and national audiences.

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Wisdom Amouzou (Comm) was nationally recognized for his social justice impact in education. In 2015, he co-founded the HadaNõu Collective, an organization that cocreates innovative learning spaces in K–12 schools. He serves as the executive director of Empower Community High School, an innovative high school launching this fall in Aurora, Colorado, that will feature a four-year ethnic studies program, experiential project-based learning and a student-led school model. Wisdom was a 2017 Camelback Ventures Fellow and winner of the 2017 Teach for America Social Innovation Award.

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Rachel Dubrovin (Jour) is the manager of digital editorial for Major League Fishing. She joined MLF in 2017, before the league’s expansion and creation of the MLF Bass Pro Tour. She manages a team of professionals and has the privilege of visiting some of the most beautiful communities and lakes in America to tell stories about one of the greatest sports there is: professional bass fishing.

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Cydney Ricker (Jour) is the manager of football communications and administration for the Kansas City Chiefs. The 2018 season marked her seventh season with the club’s communications department. Previously, she was a public relations intern for the Denver Broncos and worked for the CU Boulder Sports Information Department from 2006 to 2010.

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Baker Machado (Jour) is an anchor and host at Cheddar, the business-and-lifestyle TV network that broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. His daytime program, Between Bells, airs at noon ET. Baker was a correspondent for E! News in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2016. In March 2019, he married Jared Shulman.

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Following a 34-year career,Richard Spiegel (MJour'07)retired from the U.S. Army in October 2019. He and his wifePolly (PolSci'90)then took a five-month road trip and tour throughout the United States. In March 2020, Rich joined the Veterans Administration as the chief for stakeholder engagement with the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection. He and Polly live in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Andrew Villegas (Jour) recently moved back to Colorado from Louisville, Kentucky. In January 2019, he started a new job as morning editor for Colorado Public Radio.

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Mike Tarson (Jour)ԻAllyson Valentine (Advert)are married and live in Fairfield, Connecticut, with their son and twin daughters. Tarson joined NewsNation in March and is a supervising producer onElizabeth Vargas Reports. Prior to that, he was with CNN for 15 years. After eight years of teaching in public schools, Valentine started Pop Studio, a balloon decor company, in 2020.

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Brit Stueven (Comm) is the creator of The Break Changer, which helps people break smarter, work better and live with more intention. The idea for TBC was sparked while she was living in Dusseldorf, Germany. Since June 2015, she has worked with more than 2,000 people through workshops, online programs, one-on-one coaching and sessions for companies. As the owner of Brit Stueven PR, she helps small-business owners with storytelling, email newsletters, design and community building. Since 2013, she’s worked with over 100 businesses and nonprofits. Brit lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her husband, David (Bus’07).

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Chris Avantaggio (Advert) is an associate creative director at The VIA Agency in Portland, Maine, and founder and creative director of the Maine lifestyle brand LiveME. He and his team at The VIA Agency recently developed the “Be an Outsider” campaign for L.L. Bean. He misses the Rockies but is happily rooted back in Scarborough, Maine, with his wife and three young sons.

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Beth McDowell Cleveland (Jour) is a partner at the creative communications firm Praytell, a two-time winner of PRWeek’s Agency of the Year and the only agency to ever win Best Place to Work every year in business. She helped start Praytell in 2014 and has grown the company to six offices across the U.S. and London. She lives in the San Francisco area.

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