Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila (Comm)is the executive director of Witness to Innocence, an organization dedicated to empowering exonerated death row survivors. His long history of civil and human rights work includes directorial positions at Amnesty International and serving as executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, Washington.

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After working for more than 35 years as sports director at WLNE ABC 6 in Providence, Rhode Island,Ken Bell(Comm)is retiring. Ken covered some of the most memorable moments in New England sports history, including the Celtics’ championships of the 1980s, the Red Sox winning the World Series and numerous Patriots Super Bowl victories. A Colorado native, he loves to spend time outside running and hiking.

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David Smail (Advert)is a professor of practice in CMCI’s Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design. Before returning to CU Boulder in 2016, David served as the chairman and executive director of BBDO Vietnam.

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Brent Schrotenboer (Jour), an enterprise and investigative reporter for USA Today, won his 11th national top 10 writing award since 2014 from the Associated Press Sports Editors, including those he won in 2021 with colleagues in explanatory reporting, projects reporting and event coverage. He has been with USA Today since 2012 and lives in San Diego, California. He has won 20 APSE national top 10 awards since 2001.

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During his time at CU BoulderTroy Hendershott (Jour)was working full time for HDNet, which is now AXStv, as the Program Manager from 2000-2012. He retired in a sense to fulfill his dream of traveling around the world. Hendershott left Denver on a one-way ticket to Belize and has traveled to 35-countries—living in 19 of them. He is always proud to be a CU Boulder Alum and hopes to inspire others. Throughout his travel experiences he’s learned an incredible amount of things and have worked a variety of jobs. Follow Hendershott on his.

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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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After more than 11 years in various roles with Alliance Wake Magazine—the last three years as Editor-in-Chief—Garrett Cortese (Jour)has moved on to a new opportunity and adventure. At the start of 2017 Cortese began his new job as the Editorial Director of Watersports for the Bonnier Corporation in Winter Park, FL. His biggest duties will be to oversee the creation and production of Wakeboarding Magazine and WaterSki Magazine, both of which he read as a child growing up in California. Aside from the magazines Cortese will also help produce digital content, special issues, and brand extensions for each.

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Adam Cole(Jour)is serving as the public affairs office for the U.S. Navy's Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet in Okinawa, Japan. Cole oversees social media strategy, visual information production, and media operations for 13 units that fall under this military command. He deployed with the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group this past fall, conducting a bilateral exercise with the Philippines and making port calls to Singapore and Hong Kong - overseeing social media/media output throughout the deployment. He continues to proudly serve.

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Peabody award-winning investigative reporterMarshall Zelinger (Jour)recently celebrated his first day on the air on the 9News programNext with Kyle Clark. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Denver7.

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

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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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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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