The College of Media, Communication and Informationwas 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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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
Christine Mahoney (Jour) is the public information officer and spokesperson for the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department. Before that, she spent 18 years at CU Boulder, first as an adjunct journalism instructor and then as the internship coordinator for CMCI. Mahoney continues to freelance in the industry, writing for magazines and websites and doing voiceover work.
Posted Oct. 18, 2022
Patrick Everson (Jour) and his wife, Annette (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. “It’s been a long journey from the Campus Press basement offices at Mackey, spending countless hours with the best peers from 1989–91. And CU continues to set me up for success,” Patrick Everson says.
Posted May. 4, 2022
Andrew Beadle (Jour) has worked in public affairs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the past 16 years and currently works in the National Press Office in Washington, D.C. Before joining the FBI, he was a print reporter for several outlets, including Congressional Quarterly. He lives with his wife and two children in Maryland.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
David Oliver (Jour) is a senior vice president for member solutions at the Georgia Bankers Association, where he has worked since 2008. His responsibilities include media relations, member education programs, and products and services. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Rachel, and 12-year-old son, Jack. In addition to rooting for the Buffs deep in SEC country, they enjoy traveling, watching Atlanta Braves baseball and spending time with David’s sister and fellow Buff, Leslie Oliver (Jour’96).
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Moyra Knight (Jour) is vice president for communications and corporate citizenship at Astellas, where she oversees internal, external and digital communications and corporate responsibility initiatives. She lives near Chicago with her husband—a former faculty member at CU’s School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program—and two children.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Eric Christensen (Jour) is the managing editor of sports at CBS4 in Denver. He and his wife, Megan Souther, live in Wheat Ridge. His son, Davis, is a freshman at CU Boulder.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Kelly Callahan (Advert) has been president of Williams Whittle Advertising in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2017. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three sons.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
Sarah Dawson Rothenbuhler (Comm) is the owner, president and CEO of Birch Equipment Co. in Seattle. Her responsibilities include strategic positioning, employee development, financial marketing and customer outreach. Once upon a time, she worked as an intern for the Seattle Seahawks.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Joe Nahra (Jour) is a senior business affairs executive at CAA Sports, a subsidiary of Creative Artists Agency, in New York City. He also teaches Intellectual Property and Licensing to graduate students in the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University. Before joining CAA in 2010, he spent 10 years at the NFL Players Association and formerly worked at IMG. The Cleveland native lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Meredith, and twin daughters, Cate and Lizzie.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
In 2018, Priscilla Slocum Lacy (Jour, PolSci) started a new business, Andy Lacy Art, with her artist husband. Priscilla serves as the business manager and uses her communication skills daily to launch products, develop the brand and close sales. The couple live in Louisville, Colorado, and their son, Jack, is a CMCI junior studying strategic communication. They also have two daughters, Katherine (IntlAf’09) and Megan, a 2018 Willamette University graduate.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Emmy Award-winning journalistTim Wieland (Jour)has 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, theDenver Business Journalrecognized him as a 40 under 40 winner for his work in the community.
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
Christine Mahoney (Jour) is the public information officer and spokesperson for the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department. Prior to that, she spent 18 years at CU Boulder, first as an adjunct journalism instructor and then as the internship coordinator for CMCI. Mahoney continues to freelance in the industry, writing for magazines and websites, and doing voiceover work.
Posted Oct. 24, 2017
Lance Wheeler (Comm) was a production manager in Los Angeles, making commercials and music videos, and later becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild. He lives in Honolulu with his wife and two college-age children, who study creative media and occasionally work with him on television projects.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024
Dimitria Cook (Jour, Engl) launched her own business as an executive and leadership development coach. She also founded the Building Beyond Belief writers retreat, and leads wellness retreats for women and veterans.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024
While at CU, Amy Jones (Comm) was the feature twirler for the national champion football team and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She had a career in sales, holding key roles in various industries and primarily focused on graphic design and large format printing. Later she began volunteering, working with local schools, women’s scholarships and educational foundations. While at CU, Jones met her husband, Clark Jones (Acct’91). The couple created the Garman/Jones endowments to fund scholarships for CMCI and Leeds students, and they also donate to the CU Athletic Department. They live in Southern California with their daughter and spend as much time in Boulder as possible.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
Jonathan Treisman (Comm) is the senior director for strategic planning for the Television Academy and Emmy Awards, where he works with Fortune 500 companies and innovative brands on sponsorship integrations within their high-profile entertainment industry events. Previously, he worked in business development at some of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies, including AEG, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Co.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
JB Brockman (Jour) creates content for the multimedia and marketing teams at Scaled Agile in Boulder. She has also written copy for Ogilvy and Leopard, as well as news stories for CBS4 in Denver and various small businesses. For fun, she rides mountain bikes, plays tennis, travels and is a volunteer ski patroller at Winter Park Resort.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
Matt Reed (Jour) is the newest communications strategist at Curley & Pynn Public Relations Management, where he manages media relations, social media and marketing communications to support the agency’s execution of strategic public relations for its clients. Before joining the firm, Reed was communications director and assistant superintendent for Brevard Public Schools. Reed also offers 24 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, including 16 years as senior editor for Florida Today—a member of the USA Today network.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
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