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Julia Waneka (Comm)Ìýrecently founded The Story Dept., a creative communications consultancy in San Francisco, California, focused on consumer brands. She began her career working in the natural food industry in Boulder, consulting for brands including The Kitchen Restaurants, Niman Ranch, Whole Foods Marker and Smucker Natural Foods. In San Francisco, she supported brands such as MyFitnessPal, Birchbox and CreativeLive.Ìý

Ted Vardell (Comm)Ìýand his brother Tommy Vardell, former NFL fullback started a Boulder-based nonprofit called Brotherbird Foundation in 2016 to encourage youth to explore art, music and sports. The organization has hosted programs at the Temple Grandin School of Autism, Denver School of the Deaf, Malley Elementary, OUR Center of Longmont, Columbine Spanish Immersion Elementary and Mountain Children's Foster Home.Ìý

Victoria Doramus (Advert)Ìýis based in London with the Amy Winehouse Foundation as a self-employed director of philanthropy and is involved in the Women's Prison Association. She also volunteers for Room to Read and Best Friends Animal Society.Ìý

Robert Barba (Jour)Ìýis deputy spot news editor forÌýThe Wall Street Journal. He focuses on real-time coverage, including stories on mergers and acquisitions, executive changes, and quarterly results. Before his appointment atÌýWSJ, he held financial reporting positions at Bankrate, American Banker and Tresaure Coast Newspapers.Ìý

Alex Stone (Jour)Ìýus a national correspondent for רC News Radio who is based in Los Angeles, California. He has reported on many high-profile events, including Hurricane Katrina, the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, the Carr Fire in California and memorial services for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.Ìý

Liz Haltiwanger (Jour)Ìýhas been named the general manager of KKTV 11 News in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Springs. She started at the station in 2003 as the producer and led the news department for 10 years. Liz is a board member of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Freedom of Information Coalition and is the president of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Springs Press Association.Ìý

Andy Vuong (Jour)Ìýis the senior manager of communications at Charles Schwab. He lives in Lone Tree with his wife and two children.Ìý

Meredith Long (Jour)Ìýis 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 ofÌýTIME.Ìý

After 18 years at 9News in Denver,ÌýCheryl Preheim (Comm)Ìýanchored her last newscast for the station in 2016. The Indiana native has interviewed countless newsmakers, including former President Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai. Cheryl and her family now live in Atlanta, Georgia, where she works as a morning anchor for WXIA.Ìý

In June 2017,ÌýAlison (Ali) Bay (Jour)ÌýÌýwas appointed deputy press secretary for Californian Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. She previously served as the deputy director for the California Department of Public Health's Offic eof Public Affairs. Alsion has lived in California for 20 years.Ìý

Jennifer Alsever (Jour)Ìýhas spent two decades building a career in journalism. She's worked forÌýThe Denver PostÌýand worked as a freelance writer forÌý¹ó´Ç°ù³Ù³Ü²Ô±ðÌý³¾²¹²µ²¹³ú¾±²Ô±ð,ÌýThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Inc.Ìý³¾²¹²µ²¹³ú¾±²Ô±ð,Ìý°Â¾±°ù±ð»åÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýFast Company.ÌýIn 2017, she also plunged into fiction, releasing the first two novels in a young adult trilogy calledÌýThe Trinity Forest Series. Jennifer lives in the mountains just outside of Vail and enjoys reading, writing mountain biking skiing and yoga.Ìý

Emmy Award-winning journalistÌýTim Wieland (Jour)Ìýhas been the news director at CBS4 in Denver since 2004. He serves as guest faculty at the Poynter Institute and on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. In 2010, theÌýDenver Business JournalÌýrecognized him as a 40 under 40 winner for his work in the community.Ìý

Timothy Tomasik (Jour)Ìýhas been a practicing trial attourney in Chicago for 28 years and recently became a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He's the president-elect of the Illinois Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocated and has been inducte into the International Society of Barristers, where he now serves o the board of governors. Away from his work, he has served as board president of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth, a foundation that provides grants to mentor programs dedicate to serving Chicago's underprivileged youth. He lives in Western Springs, Illinois, with his wife, Jennifer and two daughters, McKenzie and Maeve.Ìý

Tessa Diestel (Jour’18) spent the summer reporting on the climate of hate in America as a Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow. In addition to contributing reporting for stories on the News21 Hate in America website, Tessa was a producer for the documentary American Hate. She shared her experiences with CMCI through updates, stories, photos and more as she reported from multiple cities in four states.

Jay Rothman (Jour)Ìýis the vice president of production at ESPN, where he's the lead producer ofÌýMonday Night Football. Last fall, he invited four CMCI seniors–Changler Gould (Jour, PolSci'18), Tessa Diestel (Jour'18), Rachel Robinson (Jour'18) and Ashley Ben-Porat (Jour'18)–to Kansas City, Missouri, to go behind the scenes at a liveÌýMonday Night FootballÌýproduction.Ìý

Kim Christiansen (Jour) will be the new female voice of the "Train Call" announcements at Denver International Airport after winning a statewide contest among many longtime newscasters. Kim, who grew up in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, has spent her entire career at 9News working as a news writer and producer, general assignment reporter and news anchor. She has won seven Heartland regional Emmy awards for spot news, news writing and news reporting.Ìý

Peter DeLuca (Advert)Ìýis the senior vice president of brand communications and acquisition at T-Mobile in Seattle, Washington. Previously, Peter was the chief marketing officer for Banana Republic and worked at Charles Schwab in various senior marketing leadership roles. His son Chris is following his father's footsteps on campus this fall.Ìý

Benilda Samuels (MJour)Ìýhas been promoted to chief operating officer of Nurse-Family Partnership, a national program that serves first-time mothers and their children.Ìý

Griselda San Martin (MJour’13) is a Spanish documentary photographer based in New York City. Her project,ÌýThe Wall, includes a photography series by the same name and a short documentary titled The Other Side, which she produced, directed and edited. The project focuses on Friendship Park, a portion of the U.S./Mexico border between San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, where families meet through the metal fence that separates the two countries. The photography series is the winner of The FENCE 2018 Juror’s Choice award.

Eugene Rosenquest (Jour) is an account representative for ADT Corporation in Volusia and Lake counties, Florida. He will be visiting Boulder this year for the first time since 1981.