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Kevin Atticks (MJour) was appointed as Maryland’s secretary of agriculture by Gov. Wes Moore. Atticks founded Grow & Fortify, serves on the University of Maryland College of Agriculture’s Global Leadership Council and is on the faculty at Loyola University Maryland.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Jad Davenport (MJour), a National Geographic represented freelance photographer and writer, captured a flock of Iceland gulls outside of Ilulissat, Greenland, which sits at the mouth of the Ilulissat Kangerlua glacier (Jakobshavn Icefjord). The glacier produces 20 million tons of ice a day. See "Never-Ending Story"from the fall 2021 issue of CMCI Nowfor more of Davenport’s photos and an essay on visual storytelling. His memoir,Blue Horizons: In Search of the Last Wild Islands, will be out in early 2022.

Posted Nov. 22, 2021

In February 2021, Tom Stilwell (Jour) started a new role as vice president for corporate communications at “cybersecurity unicorn” Illumio. Previously, he ran communications at Zscaler and Splunk. Before moving into technology communications, Stilwell spent 12 years in broadcast news production working in the Colorado, Oregon and San Francisco Bay Area markets.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Kristin Patturelli (Advert) has come full circle to land back in journalism after a 20-year career in digital media. Working in sales at Muck Rack, she resides in Westchester, New York, with her husband, 7-year-old daughter and rat terrier and chihuahua mix, Don Vito. After 15 years in New York, she spends her free time counting down the days until she returns to the West Coast.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Peter Finch (MJour) is a news anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco and is the producer and host of the podcast Finch Files: Stories From San Francisco and Beyond. He has worked in San Francisco radio since moving there from Ƶ in 1993. In 2014, he was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Kristin Patturelli (Advert'98) has come full circle to land back in journalism after a 20-year career in digital media. Working in sales at Muck Rack, she resides in Westchester, New York, with her husband, 7-year-old daughter and rat terrier and chihuahua mix, Don Vito. After 15 years in New York, she spends her free time counting down the days until she returns to the West Coast.

Posted May. 11, 2021

Greg Benchwick (Jour) is a longtime travel writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, Wild Blue Yonder and numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks. He also writes for the U.N. Development Programme and UNICEF. Last December he published his first fiction book, Martha: The Last Passenger Pidgeon, which helps children explore conservation, environmentalism and history. He lives in Denver, and when he’s not traveling for work he travels for fun with his 10-year-old daughter.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Meredith Long (Jour)is 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 ofTIME.

Posted Nov. 15, 2018

Sandy Blumberg (Advert)left his job as the director of field marketing at Coca-Cola to take on new role as the director of field & experiential marketing for Bulletproof 360.

Posted Mar. 16, 2018

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.

Posted Oct. 24, 2017

Dave Briggs (Jour) is an anchor for Yahoo Finance. Previously, he worked at CNN, NBC Sports and Fox News as an anchor.

Posted Oct. 12, 2022

Drew Krejci (Advert) is vice president of corporate communications at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Krejci’s time in Ƶ launched a career in communications that has taken him to New York City, Washington, D.C., and now Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Posted Oct. 12, 2022

Drew Krejci (Advert) is vice president of corporate communications at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Krejci’s time in Ƶ launched a career in communications that has taken him to New York City, Washington, D.C., and now Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Posted May. 4, 2022

Justin George (Jour) joined The Washington Post last September as a transportation reporter focusing on national transit and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Before that he was the D.C. correspondent for The Marshall Project. Although he has spent over 15 years on the East Coast, he remains a diehard Broncos and Buffs fan.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

In 2018, Beth DeFalco (Jour) joined Mercury Public Affairs, a global public strategy firm, where she specializes in media relations in the political realm. She previously worked as a spokeswoman for Bloomberg Philanthropies, the New York City subway system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker. She started her career as a journalist with The Denver Post, where she covered the shooting at Columbine High School before covering government with The Associated Press, Arizona Republic and New York Post. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Katherine Wojtecki (Jour, PolSci) is executive director for media relations at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. She previously worked at Golin, leading the media team for McDonald’s and Walmart. She also was a journalist at Bloomberg News, ABC and CNN, where she received an Emmy and Peabody award. She and her family live in Geneva, Illinois.

Posted Nov. 12, 2019

Richard Khleif (MJour; PhDMediaSt’07) has held global leadership positions in communication for various technology companies for 25 years. He has also been an adjunct professor for nearly 20 years, serves on strategic advisory boards at two universities, and is an invited speaker at home and abroad on media and communication topics. He established a CMCI scholarship in 2018 to help graduate students channel their research interests toward engaging various publics in meaningful dialogue and critical thinking about media. Richard lives with his family in northern Colorado and enjoys travel, languages and anything with an engine.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Since March 2017, Justin George (Jour) has been the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Marshall Project. He previously worked at The Baltimore Sun, where he was embedded with the local police department to cover the internal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, part of a body of work that made the Sun a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Steven Alvarez (MJour) is a former U.S. Army public affairs officer with 26 years of military service. In 2016, his book, Selling War: A Critical Look at the Military’s PR Machine, was published by Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. The book provides readers with insight into the inner workings of the military’s public relations apparatus during wartime.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

In 2017,Ryan Thompson (Jour)was appointed to lead Niagara University's new Office for Equity & Inclusion as the school's first full-time Title IX coordinator. Thompson previously served as NU's assistant general counsel and as an adjunct writing professor. Thompson returned home to Buffalo, New York in 2012 after working for years as a newspaper reporter and editor in New York City and Boston.

Posted Mar. 16, 2018

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