Max Nelson (Comm) is the vice president of marketing communications at OpenX, a leading tech company focused on programmatic advertising. He previously held leadership positions at public relations agencies like Method Communications, and he was named to PR Week’s Innovation 50 list of rising stars in public relations. Nelson lives in Los Angeles with his wife and young daughter.

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Amy Bower (Jour) was appointed as the assistant U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina. Before being appointed, she was a civil litigator in private practice. After graduating from CU, she went to the Charleston School of Law where she received her JD. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Cody McDevitt (Jour), an investigative reporter and historian, wrote Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania. The book tells the history of a 1923 incident in which the town mayor ordered 2,000 African Americans and Mexican immigrants out of the city at gunpoint and under a threat of imprisonment. McDevitt has reported for the Somerset Daily American in western Pennsylvania and lives in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

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In March 2021, Morgan Bast (Jour) was named the new marketing director for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. In that role, she oversees the resort’s marketing department, creates and analyzes marketing campaigns, and manages the Steamboat brand across all resort outlets, including the Steamboat Grand Hotel. Before joining Steamboat, she worked at Vail Resorts for 10 years, ending as regional director of marketing for Breckenridge and Keystone Resorts.

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Spencer Trierweiler (Advert) is the senior vice president of creative for the advertising agency Motive, leading brands like Mtn Dew and Pepsi. Happily married to a (gulp) Nebraska graduate, Trierweiler enjoys his time skiing, hiking and biking the trails with his dogs. He is excitedly expecting his first child.

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Joshua Hernandez (Jour) is the co-founder of Impossible Possibilities, a volunteer-based education nonprofit that supports students in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and abroad through college scholarships and literacy programs. He is an avid traveler, photographer and nature enthusiast, and he’s writing his first novel, Maven the Raven and the Search for the Last Imperial, which uses birds as main characters. Hernandez married Celine Gallais in August.

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Aly Jamison (Comm) won a Stevie American Business Award for her work in the communications field. Jamison works for the global sales training company RAIN Group as a public relations manager. She’s also a San Diego Blood Bank gallon donor.

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In 2004, Melissa Stockwell (Comm) became the first woman to lose a limb in the Iraq War when she lost her leg to an IED during a routine patrol in Iraq. After a long and challenging recovery, she went on to win three paratriathlon world championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Her memoir, The Power of Choice: My Journey from Wounded Warrior to World Champion, was published in 2020, and in 2021, she competed in the Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

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While at CU, Grant McGilvray (Jour) was a member of the BuffVision family. After college, he won two technical achievement Emmy Awards while at Root Sports Rocky Mountain. He’s now creating next-generation broadcast and distribution ecosystems as an engineering architect for NBCUniversal while living in Denver with his wife, Jessica (Psych), and two sons.

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Effie Seibold (MJour; Law’07) is the training director for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office and was an adjunct professor at Colorado Law. She lives in «Ƶ with her husband and their two incredibly active little boys.

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Jason Hoff (Jour) is a creative director and writer in advertising at Apple. Hoff began working in New York for agencies like BBDO, Cliff Freeman and R/GA, and he famously wrote the original campaign “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” for Las Vegas tourism. He lives in San Francisco.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Alanna Rizzo (Bus’97; MJour’03), a seven-time Emmy Award winner, rejoined MLB Network’s roster of on-air personalities where she is a contributor to High Heat with Christopher Russo. Rizzo has also covered the Los Angeles Dodgers’ trips to the World Series in 2017, 2018 and 2020. She most recently won the 2020 Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association’s TV Reporter Award. In July 2021, Rizzo made history as part of the first all-woman broadcast crew to call a Major League Baseball game. In 2019, she founded Guidry’s Guardian Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps rescue dogs from the streets and out of high-kill shelters.

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John Branch (MJour) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. He’s renowned for covering the offbeat in the sporting world, from alligator hunting to wingsuit flying. He’s the bestselling author of two books that have been featured multiple times in Best American Sports Writing, and his most recent book was released on June 1, 2021. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Jason Gewirtz (Jour) was in Tokyo to cover his fifth Olympic Games as editor and publisher of SportsTravel magazine. In June, he was named to the board of directors of the Sports Events and Tourism Association.

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Michael Davies (Jour’94) spoke with CMCI students before a Buffs game to share his experiences as a senior vice president with FOX Sports. His team was setting up for the Big Noon Kickoff broadcast.

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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.

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JB Brockman (Jour) creates content for the multimedia and marketing teams at Scaled Agile in «Ƶ. 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.

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