Ms. Adams retired as a Public Relations manager from US WEST and previously worked as a reporter for the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Bellevue American (now King County Journal). She was a member of Women In Communication (it was Theta Sigma Phi in those days!), International Association of Business Communicators and remains an active Pi Beta Phi alumnae.
Jennifer Addams graduated from the University of San Francisco Law School in 2000 and is now a practicing public law attorney in Oakland, CA.
Kaci Aitchison is the News Director for the Bob Rivers Show on 102.5 KZOK-FM. She also active with Jet City Improv and runs marathons in her spare time!
Mr. Allen is the President & CEO of the Washington State Association of Broadcasters. Allen is admitted to practice law in Washington State and Washington, D.C. He has practiced broadcast communications law and lobbied on behalf of the broadcasting industry since 1980.
Craig Anderson is a Senior Partner at the law firm of Andersen & Bonnifield. the firm represents primarily contractors, engineers and waste management companies. he has two daughters, one of which attends the University of Washington.
Margo Anderson is a constiuent liaison for the US House of Representatives.
Ms. Arfin Moved to San Francisco right after graduation, determined to make her name in advertising, but found incredible stereotyping and a reluctance to let her do more than be a secretary. She worked for a weekly newspaper in San Francisco (Jewish Bulletin), raised a family, and then returned to work as secretary to the president of Stanford University.
She had this to say about her 50th college reunion in 2003: "We could have spent much more time visiting the Department but the little time we did spend there made me (as well as the others on the tour) realize that much has changed since 1953. In fact the Communications building was barely completed that year and already there has been at least one major remodel. At Lewis Hall we were a relatively small group of 50 or 60 journalism majors (divided by editorial or advertising groups) involved with taking all our classes together during our junior year and busy putting out The Daily in the afternoons. Those were intense and rather stressful times for us but also a lot of fun. My big disappointment in 1952 was getting permission to stay out all night (not easy to get in days of sorority standards) to help cover the national election only to find out that Eisenhower had won even before our western polls had closed! Today you have modern technology and TV (I Love Lucy was still in it's prime back in '52) and digital media not to mention all sorts of computer aids. Truly, the visit was an awakening for me."
Martin Arnold retired after 34 years with a major forest products company, attained both an MA and MBA, established a PR firm, and now teaches in the communications department at the University of Connecticut; live in Trumbull, CT. In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports that he and Marsha, his wife of 41 years, have four grandchildren, "soon to be six!"
Dr. Artwick is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Her new textbook, "Reporting and Producing for Digital Media", is the newest addition to Blackwell Publishing's Media and Technology series. The book integrates sound journalistic perspective with the skills needed to research, report, write, and present news in a world of digital and converging media.
Larry Asher is the president of Worker Bees, an independent Seattle advertising and marketing communications firm serving clients such as Swedish Medical Center, Vulcan Real Estate, and Univar Corporation. He formed Worker Bees in 1992 after serving as a partner and creative director for the Portland-based ad agency, Borders Perrin & Norrander.
In addition to his advertising and marketing communications practice, Larry is a co-director and instructor at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts, a school that provides professional development and portfolio courses in graphic design, advertising, computer graphics, and web design.
Since completing her Ph.D., Dr. Bach has been employed at the University of Montana in the Department of Communication Studies. She has served as chair of the department, just completed A six-year sting in administration (4 years as assistant provost and 2 years as interim dean of the Davidson Honors College), and is now back in the classroom and, she reports, "loving it!"
Dr. Bach was recently selected as one of two candidates for second vice president of the National Communication Association, and is very honored to receive this accolade. If she wins the election, she will assume the role of president in 2009.
Sean Baker is an assistant professor at Towson University’s Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies in Maryland. He teaches several mass media and communication courses including: Mass Media and Society, Mass Communication Research and Cyberspace and Communication. In the classroom, his primary topics of interest are history, theory, criticism, methodology, and multimedia design courses.
Though Baker’s research interests are diverse, he is presently focused on cultural studies and crime in the media, current and historic news representation of minorities, as well as information technology and television studies. He is currently working on a content analysis of the Mary K. LeTourneau trial.
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Ken Baldwin lives in Los Angeles, CA and works as a salsa instructor and actor.
From Ken's Web site:
Ken Baldwin has instructed and worked with some of Hollywood's most recognizable stars... Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Celia Cruz, Emilio Estevez, Mario Lopez, Ali Landry, Sofia Milos, Eriq La Salle, Pilar Montenegro and Paulina Rubio to name a few. He has danced or choreographed in film, television, music video, commercials and live concerts. He is the in-house salsa instructor at the world-famous Conga Room in Los Angeles and Mama Juana's in Studio City, CA.
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Rob Ballenger reports: My news producer duties at National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C. have recently taken me away from the newsroom desk and out into the field. I was assigned to New Orleans, where NPR has established a bureau to ensure long-term coverage of the city’s and region’s recovery. I walked through the mostly deserted streets of the now-infamous Lower Ninth Ward as well as equally devastated outlying areas. There I interviewed residents, volunteer medical workers, and local government officials about their struggles to revive basic healthcare services to a population that had already been underserved before hurricane Katrina. Soon I’ll be heading back to NPR’s New Orleans base to revisit them and help chronicle the next chapter of the region’s lengthy and oftentimes painful rebirth.
Dr. Susan Balter-Reitz ('97), Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Graduate Studies at Montana State University, Billings is a 2005 recipient of the Winston and Helen Cox Fellowship.
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Mr. Baroud accepted position with Al-Jazeera's new English news service based in Doha, Qatar. Al-Jazeera will be launching an English website in August-September, 2003, and they hope to soon have English television broadcasts as well. Mr. Baroud has been offered a job in the research department for the English service, and he is one of two candidates to head that department. Regarding is Digital Media studies, Mr. Baroud says "I wanted to let you know that during my interviews and negotiations, I was asked several questions about the digital media program. This is the best I could have ever hoped for, and I wanted to thank you for preparing me for such an opportunity. With the knowledge I now have from the program, I feel very confident that I can do an excellent job in this capacity."
Gina Barton works at San Diego State University in the University Advancement Office. She completed her MS Ed degree at USC in 2001, and got married up in Seattle in May 2004.
Program Director, Literacy & Community Programs: Humanities Washington
David Blandford is Director of Public Relations for Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau, where he oversees the public relations department and directs many aspects of organizational communications. He has served in Seattle's tourism industry for more than 15 years.
Blandford is the 2007 President of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He has served on various committees for several years and joined the chapter's board of directors in 2003. He has also served on the board of the Society of American Travel Writers.
Prior to his work in Seattle's tourism industry, Blandford held other marketing and communications positions in Seattle and in Washington, D.C.
Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau is a non-profit economic development agency responsible for competitively marketing Seattle as a destination for meeting and convention groups and leisure travelers. Visitors spend $3.97 billion in Seattle and King County annually, contributing $342 million in state and local tax revenues. Direct visitor spending benefits hotels, retailers, restaurants, attractions, transportation services and other businesses, and supports jobs for nearly 60,000 people in the Seattle region.
David started at The Seattle Times in 1983 as a copy editor and reporter. He has overseen two Pulitzer Prizes winning projects four other projects that were Pulitzer Prizes finalists.
Diane Borden is the interim director of the School of Communication at San Diego State University. Professor Borden teaches graduate seminars in mass communication law and theory as well as undergraduate courses in journalism.
A former journalist herself, Borden’s research explores how mass media and other cultural institutions, such as the judicial system, have historically impacted images of women and minorities. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection of communication, gender and the law. She is the co-author of a textbook on editing for contemporary print media and editor of a book on journalism in the new online environment. Currently, she is involved in a number of ongoing research projects, including a study of cyberlibel and gender.
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Heather Bosch, a radio reporter/anchor for Newsradio 710 KIRO has been awarded another Edward R. Murrow Award, the third such national honor in as many years. Bosch earned this latest journalism award in the Best Use of Sound category for her series "The Sound of Movie Music," which featured a world-renowned organist performing with silent films at Seattle's Paramount Theater.
This award follows four regional Murrow wins earlier in 2007.
"What amounts to a 'three-peat' of national honors is quite an accomplishment for Heather and also reflects the quality of education she received at the University of Washington." says Allan Townsend, Bosch's husband and Web master.
In 2007, Bosch was also named an Alpha XI Delta's national "Woman of Distinction." She was nominated by the Greater Seattle Alumnae Association. To quote the press release, "The award recognizes members who exhibit excellence and extraordinary leadership in their professions and philanthropic pursuits." Bosch was presented the award at the Alpha XI Delta's national convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.
You can hear Bosch on News Radio 710 KIRO, where she reports from just about anywhere. Visit her web site (http://heatherbosch.com) for more on her stores, including a live interview during the Seattle windstorm and stories filed from Sri Lanka on the recovery efforts in tsunami ravaged countries. She is also a frequent contributor to the CBS Radio network. She did a live report for them - from under her desk - DURING the 2001 earthquake that rattled Seattle. After graduating from the UW, she received a post graduate diploma in broadcast journalism from the Centre For Journalism Studies - University College Cardiff, Great Britain and has worked in Great Britain and around the Pacific Northwest in both radio and television.
A list of recent awards (note: You must win the regional award to move onto national judging):
2007 National RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, Individual: Best Use of Sound
2007 Regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, Individual: Best Use of Sound, Best Series, Best Investigative Report, Best Serious Feature
2006 National RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, Individual: Best Series
2006 Regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, Individual: Best Series
2005 National RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, Individual: Best Use of Sound
2005 Regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards, Individual: Best Investigative, Best Series, and Best Use of Sound
OTHER:
2007 Alpha Xi Delta National Women of Distinction Award
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John is a partner in Triage Inc., which he helped establish in 1997. The Los Angeles-based television production company has been involved in a large number of projects for Fox Family Channel, HBO, UPN, ABC, Lifetime Television, USA Network/SciFi Channel, Showtime, History Channel and The Disney Channel. Triage's television specials include "Miss Universe 2001," "Miss USA 2001" and a Christmas special, "Home for the Holidays" (all for CBS).
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Dianna Brealey has worked in PR and marketing since leaving the UW. She is now a Marketing & Events Officer for Washington Region NorthernTrust Bank. Before moving back to Seattle, she spent eight years in Palm Springs working for the Marriott in various PR jobs. She ended her time with the Marriott as Sales Manager for Desert Springs JW Marriott Resort & Spa and Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa. During her college years, Dianna interned at Convention Services Northwest, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research/Guilds & Special Events and KYCW, Young Country 96.5.
Cristina Brendicke is a Researcher for "Northwest Afternoon" on KOMO TV, Channel 5 in Seattle, WA. She was an intern at the station during her senior year at the UW. She graduated in June, 2005 and moved into a paid position by the end of summer.
Sue Brockman recently join the University of Washington Alumni Association as the Director of Marketing Communications and Revenue Development.
Rita Brogan ('72, '75) is featured in the September 16-22 issue of Northwest Asian Weekly. She is a 2006 nominee for the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's Entrepreneur of the Year award. As the chief executive officer of PRR, a public affairs consulting firm, Ms. Brogan oversees the 38th largest minority-owned company in Washington and the 74th largest PR firm in the United States.
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Marketing Intern: Seattle Sonics & Storm
William Brubaker is a Snohomish County Councilman (2 terms), President of the Puget Sound Regional Council, Co-Chair of the Regional Transit Authority and Chairman of the Snohomish Transportation Authority. He is a former Emmy award-winning anchor-reporter for KOMO Television News. He also worked at KXLY Radio and TV in Spokane, WA; KPOJ Radio in Portland, OR and ABC West in Los Angeles. A retired Captain, United States Naval Reserve, he is the author of "Never as it Seems" and "A Fine Time to Rhyme." He also contributed to "Wings at the Ready, a History of the Naval Air Reserve." Mr. Brubaker is the 1991 recipient of the Freedom Foundation Award for Public Communications
Dr. Bruner is currently Associate Professor of Critical Political Communication and Graduate Director for the doctoral Public Communication track and the M.A. sequences in Mass Communication and Human Communication & Social Influence at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Bruner's research focuses on such topics as collective identity construction (e.g. national identity), critical globalization studies (e.g. the relationship between economic globalization and global governance), and ideological criticism (including, but not limited to, "structuring fictions" such as the divine right of kings, state sovereignty, and free trade). His books, Strategies of Remembrance: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity Construction (University of South Carolina Press 2002) and Market Democracy in Post-Communist Russia (Wisdom House 2005, co-edited with V. Morozov) engages debates related to national identity construction and transformations in political power, the communicative strategies involved in free market policy implementation, and the state of global governance. He is currently completing research for two books: (1) a monograph on the historical relationship between economic innovation and republican forms of government; and (2) an edited volume on globalization discourse. His essays appear in such journals as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Text & Performance Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Controversia, Communication Studies, Discourse & Society, The Western Journal of Communication, Argumentation & Advocacy, and Rhetorica. In 2003 the NCA Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division honored him with its New Investigator Award.
Luke Burbank graduated with a communications degree from the University of Washington in 1998, with an emphasis on editorial journalism. “I think I was a pretty bad student,” recalls Burbank. Since graduating from the UW, he has worked in radio. Most of his career has been working on National Public Radio. Last December, Burbank moved back to Seattle and has his own talk radio show on 710 KIRO called “Too Beautiful To Live.”
Ms. Burke is working as the Manager of Publications for the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). She is in charge of designing the state championship programs for high school athletics and activities across the state. This includes design, advertising and some writing and photography. She also does freelance photography on the side. Prior to joining WIAA, Burke worked as a communications consultant for the Puyallup School District. She took photos, wrote stories for the Web and print, and copy edited. After graduation she worked at The Herald in Puyallup for four years. She started as a reporter, was promoted to Assistant Managing Editor after a year and then shared Interim Editor duties, along with regular reporting duties, with a co-worker. She did a little bit of everything at the paper, from reporting on city council meetings and writing community features to taking photographs to editing stories to being the community point of contact.
Allison works in New York City at Allied Live, a full-service entertainment marketing agency whose clients include Broadway and Off Broadway productions, national tours, and theatrical institutions. Allison is an Associate Account Executive in the Internet Division.
Fitz Cahall writes:
I graduate in the March 2002 and currently reside in Corvallis, Or. Since then I've been working as a freelance outdoor writer for a variety of publications. I wanted to bring my journalism training to the world of rock climbing and other adventure sports. It's been a struggle, but I finally feel like I've started to turn a corner in my freelance business. This winter (2007) I entered into the world of new media and launched a podcast. I approached it more as a learning experience and an opportunity to explore a new medium rather than a viable outlet for my work. Most of all, I had collected some wonderful stories through the years that just didn't have a home in the magazine world. They were intriguing tales, but often focused on regular people not the sponsored athletes most outdoor athletes continually cover. I wanted to give these stories a home. I thought I might get a few hundred hits. To my complete surprise, it struck a chord out there in the Internet realm. We jumped to thousands of downloads pretty quickly. Along the way, I got to take my recording gear to a remote desert sandstone spire and participated in the first ascent (a multi day climb) of the biggest rock spire in the country. It was wild to have the mic rolling while hanging from ropes. After the second episode, the Dirtbag Diaries exploded. Patagonia stepped forward to sponsor the show. Now I'm teaming up with photographers to provide multimedia content for not only the podcast but for various Internet sites both at home and abroad. It's been an incredible leap in my career, which in the previous months I had considered abandoning due to severe financial struggles.
You can check it out online at http://thedirtbag.libsyn.com. Our most recent episode was a profile of adventure photographer Corey Rich who I had covered in the past for SPJ's Quill Magazine. His tale is truly inspiring for young journalists.
Harold Carr retired from The Boeing Company after a long career in public relations. His service includes over 20 years as director, then vice president, of public relations and advertising. He was also in charge of Boeing's historical archives and the company-wide weekly newspaper, Boeing News. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 2004 Jay Rockey Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, and has served as a board member for several civic organizations. He also served two years as president and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Flight.
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Leading Communication scholar, author of books, book chapters and scholarly articles on culture and communication, cross-cultural communication, and language and communication. He has been a leader in linking culture to communication and in demonstrating that communication is the vehicle by which meanings are conveyed, identify is composed and reinforced and feelings are expressed. Educator and mentor; distinguished faculty member in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Aileen Carrell began working for Starbucks Coffee Company as a Retail Store Manager in Fall of 1990 and she has been with the company ever since. After spending 5 years managing various retail locations in Seattle and Federal Way, she was hired as a Coffee Specialist in the coffee procurement division. Coffee Specialists evolved into Coffee Education Specialists and she became the first Coffee Education Manager for Starbucks, developing the strategy and growing the members of a global team of Coffee Education specialists. In Spring of 1994, she took on another new role for the company as Green Coffee Sustainability Manager. This role collaborates with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) division to strategize and implement sustainable best practices in the production and procurement of green (unroasted) coffee. The Sustainability team provides subject matter expertise to educate and message Starbucks coffee sustainability platforms within and outside of the company.
In addition to a long tenure with Starbucks, Carrell and her husband are officers of Phoenix Ventures, LLC, a small venture capital firm dedicated to providing high quality, in-demand services and products to communities throughout the Puget Sound. They are most proud of their chain of Laundromats in Lakewood, Olympia, Lacey and Spanaway, WA. The laundromats are clean, safe and attended; and the machines are new and well-functioning.
Carrell also makes time to nuture her talent career by acting in local commercials and corporate videos or providing voice-over work for various projects. She serves as a board member for The SIDS Foundation of Washington, and she is a member of the Faith in Action group serving her church community and, according to Carrell "best of all, I am "Mom" to my two young, joyful sons."
As a senior, Ms. Cartwright did a short internship for Wells, Rich, Green, a national advertising agency with an office in Seattle. She says "The experience was awesome - and in the course of those weeks I became acquainted with several people working in the advertising industry in Seattle. As luck would have it, I was offered two jobs as a result of making these acquaintances."
Directly after graduating from the UW, Ms. Cartwright began a full time job with McCann-Erickson, Inc., a worldwide advertising agency. She considered herself fortunate because at that time very few of her classmates were finding work.
Since that time she has worked at other agencies and for private corporations in advertising, marketing, or creative positions. She was a partner in four different advertising agencies. Today she is the sole owner of Cartwright Creative Group LLC in Bellingham, WA. She has developed campaigns for companies and organizations ranging from financial institutions to oil pipelines, Mercedes-Benz dealerships, public accounting firms and the United Way.
"When I look back, I remember my days in the Communications Building as wonderful moments full of excitement at learning about an industry I have always found fascinating. And I am thankful for Professor Bowen's belief in me as a candidate for a sought-after internship."
Mr. Cassidy is the Communications Director for Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, which operates 18 healthcare facilities in Washington and Oregon. He was the business manager of The Daily in 1973.
Dr. Castor is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Maria Castro is working at Washington Mutual Home Loans helping homeowners achieve their American Dream in Pasadena, CA; She graduated with USC's Strategic PR MA in May 2004.
Outside of work, she is the creating media director of a nonprofit called Answering the Cry of the Poor/GK777. Maria says of her work and her education at the UW:
"We work with the poorest of the poor in 3rd world countries to build colorful villages that include education, livelihood programs, community empowerment, and health programs. It's a great nonprofit, very well thought through. So I decided I should use my MA for some kind of good. I'm very content and the work is fulfilling. This might sound a little cheesy, but it was at UW that I really learned HOW to think. And to stretch it even further, I think it was (Professor Baldasty) who challenged the students to use our skills to make change where we thought there should be change. Although it took me longer than I wished, I am glad that about 3 years later, I am able to work on something what's way more important than making money and getting ahead."
Chan works for University of California, Irvine's University Advancement department. She is currently part of the fundraising campaign for the new School of Law. She writes:
"UC Irvine's proposal to establish a school of law was approved by the Regents of the University of California in November 2006. UCI School of Law will be the first public law school to open in California in more than 40 years and only the second to exist in Southern California. Fulfilling a longstanding vision of the campus, the school is expected to open its doors to its first class of law students in fall 2009.
Currently, we are conducting a national search for a dean to lead the law school. Over the next several years, we will recruit founding faculty and staff for the school, as well as our inaugural class of students. The School of Law will be temporarily housed at Berkeley Place. Eventually, its own individual building and law library will be built on the campus, too. I am very excited for this huge endeavor for UC Irvine."
Senior Human Resources Assistant and part-time faculty: Seattle Central Community College
Fiona Chew is an associate professor in television, radio and film at Syracuse University. She teaches courses on electronic media research, theory and writing at the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Formerly a television and film producer, Chew now researches the media industry in which she once worked. Most notably, Chew’s body of scholarship focuses on message effects and analysis, as well as health communication. Since 2003, Chew has conducted two national surveys of family physicians to assess the use of health technologies, including the internet. Chew has also investigated the impact of television and mass media on audience perceptions, and was involved in a four-country project which looked at the impact of a television series on health.
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2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Ron Chew has served as Executive Director of the Wing Luke Asian Museum since 1991. Prior to his work at the Museum, Chew served for ten years as editor of International Examiner and as a community organizer for more than 20 years. Ron has guided development of more than 15 award-winning exhibitions and publications at the Museum, including the permanent exhibit Executive Order 9066: 50 Years Before and 50 Years and Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: The First 100 Years now in its second edition.
He has served on several boards, including his current tenure with the Seattle Public Library Foundation, as well as his prior work on the Western Museums Association, King County 4Culture and the National Endowment for the Humanities advisory boards. He is also the recipient of the Washington State Governor's Heritage Award; Humanities Washington Heather Frank Memorial Award; Washington Museum Association's Institutional Excellence Award; and most recently the 2004 Western Museums Association Director's Chair Award and the prestigious Ford Foundation/Advocacy Institute's Leadership for a Changing World Award, which recognizes the work of national leaders in the field of social advocacy and community building.
Web Developer/Computer Programmer: Routh Crabtree Olsen/Northwest Trustees, Inc.
Ms. Clark is a graduate of the Department of Communication ('80) and the UW School of Law ('84). Her practice emphasizes real estate development, land use and environmental law. Her particular expertise is in representing public pension funds and institutional investors in all aspects of real estate development and investors. She has significant experience in real estate acquisitions, transfers, leasing and financing, as well as in obtaining land use and environmental permits and approvals for commercial and residential developments before state and local administrative and municipal agencies and officers.
Named "Super Lawyer" 2003-2005 by Washington Law and Politics, Ms. Clark is a member of the American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association and the King County Bar Association. She is on the board of directors for Washington Women Lawyers, a member of the Northwest Women's Law Center and Commercial Real Estate Women and an adjunct professor for Seattle University School of Law.
Loren Cochran is the director of the Freedom of Information Service Center for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Cochran was a television producer in Seattle, Boston and Tampa. After leaving TV, he spent several years as a media litigator. He graduated from the Boston College Law School in 2002 and for the past few years has worked as an associate at Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim LLP in Tacoma, where he advised the newsroom at the Tacoma newspaper, and has handled defamation and freedom of information lawsuits.
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pcogan@earthlink.net or phil.cogan@exim.gov
Phil Cogan recently left his position as executive vice president for Bernstein Crisis Management,Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona to begin work as Director of Public Affairs for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) in Washington, D.C. Ex-Im is the official export credit agency of the United States, helping create and sustain U.S. jobs by supporting U.S. exporters, large and small. Phil's responsibilities include domestic and international news media relations, Internet based communications, internal communications, supervising speech writing, and communications support for Ex-Im marketing activities. For 23 years Phil provided public affairs support for emergency responses as a senior public affairs manager for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for seven years as deputy director of public affairs for FEMA. Phil retired as a Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve after 25 years of service in the Army and Navy. He lives with his family in Fairfax Station, Virginia.
Program Manager of Community Development: Pioneer Square Community Association
John Cook is Electorate Officer and Adviser to the Honourable Simon Crean MP, Shadow (Opposition) Minister for Regional Development and Member for Hotham in the Australian Federal Parliament. He lives in Melbourne, where Mr Crean's electorate is located, but also works in Canberra in Parliament House when it is in session. He is looking forward to the next Federal election, due in 2007, when he is confident that the Australian Labor Party, now in Opposition, will win government.
Communication Specialist II: King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, Public Affairs
Carlene Cross' second book, "Fleeing Fundamentalism," was published in 2006. Ms. Cross received her MA in Communication from the UW in 1995 and a BA in History in 1993.
Search Strategist at Don’t Blink Media, an online advertising agency in Seattle.
For the majority of her career, Heidi Dahmen produced for non-scripted, network primetime and cable television programs airing on ABC, CBS, FOX and UPN, as well as USA, E! Entertainment, TLC and TV Land. She's also produced for major television syndication companies including Disney's Buena Vista Productions, NBC Universal and Paramount Domestic Television. In addition to working in reality, talk, magazine, clip and documentary formats, she acquired and sold a life rights story which was made into an ABC television movie. Heidi started her career as a producer at KOMO TV, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, working on locally produced programs and specials before being hired by Buena Vista Productions and moving to Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Communications and an emphasis on Broadcast Journalism. A native of Seattle, Heidi misses the Northwest, but admits she doesn't miss the rain.
Lisa Danielson is a public affairs consultant at Seattle-based Gogerty Stark Marriott (GSM). Her project work includes a variety of public affairs and public relations disciplines on behalf of several Fortune 500 companies. She serves as past-President of the Board for Seattle Works, on the City Club Board of Governors and is a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow's Class of 2005.
Ted is living in Munich, Germany while on leave from television advertising in Seattle. He worked for 20 years at both KIRO-TV and Seattle's WB network. He is enjoying soaking in the European culture along with his young son. Ted has this to say about his time at the UW: "While I got to study under many legendary Professors including Don Pember, Bill Ames and Pat Cranston. I would have to cite you, Jerry (Baldasty) as the one that had the greatest impression on me. Your passion for the subject and the way you could relate it to us using current events and trends along with injecting a little humor in your lectures always made your classes something to look forward to."
Ted is married to UW Communication alumna Teresa Davis: BA, 1993
Teresa is living in Munich and is the Communications Manager for Microsoft's Eastern European Headquarters. She is responsible for public relations in 17 central and eastern European countries.
Teresa is married to UW Communication alumnus Ted Davis: BA, 1982
Melanie is the Owner/Founder of PrimeSource Communication, Inc.
Karen works at the UW Alumni Association and is the Alumni Relations Manager for Arts & Sciences.
Anchor/Reporter: KEPR in Tri-Cities, WA.
Nicole Dettmar works as a human resources and payroll coordinator at the University of Washington and is also attending graduate school at the University of North Texas, School of Library & Information Sciences via distance learning. she is a 2006 recipient of a Health Informatics fellowship at the University of North Texas funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Anna works in public relations for Rubenstein Associates, Inc. One of her clients is the New York Post.
After interning in the Marketing Department in 2004 at KSTW, Bradley Dobbs was brought on full time as a Sales Coordinator in September 2004. After a year, he was promoted up to Account Executive at KSTW. He prospects new business for the station and creates fun marketing and advertising proposals for new clients as well as current clients.
During her senior year, Marisa Dorazio interned at The Seattle Times and the The Oregonian through the legislative reporting course. She landed a job on the communications and marketing team at Edmonds Community College in January 2005. Dorazio is the Public Information Specialist and works in the College Relations and Advancement Office, where she does media/public relations and marketing for the college.
Wendy majored in Communications/Advertising & Public Relations. She holds several awards, is the Past President of the Seattle Professional Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications, and has worked as vice president of marketing for Seafirst Bank and Director of Marketing for AAA Washington. She is now a principal at The Marketing Partners, Inc., a Bellevue, WA marketing, advertising and public relations agency specializing in helping regional companies effectively market their products. Wendy has been there since 1993.
Douglass is the Communications Director at Casey Family Programs, the largest foundation focused on foster care. Prior to joining Casey, She was a communications director for The Moyer Foundation. She worked at Cell Therapeutics, Inc. as Public Relations Manager in Corporate Communications and she had a marketing and communications consulting business focused on professional services companies. Before starting her consulting practice, she was the senior marketing manager at Exponent, a multidiscipline science and engineering consulting firm with more than 700 employees and offices in 19 locations throughout the United States. Douglass has been a public relations professional for more than 15 years.
Following graduation, and not knowing any better, Chris headed straight to Hollywood seeking a media career. Somewhat surprisingly he found one, starting literally on the ground floor (no room for a chair) as a sound effects sorter at a small-but-popular commercial audio production studio called SSI. Chris eventually worked his way up to an engineer's chair where he helped produce national advertising for several top ad agencies as well as TV and radio promos for CBS and NBC and sound effects tracks for numerous Saturday morning cartoon shows.
Since graduation from the UW, Tom Douthitt has worked in marketing and new product development positions for several large medical device manufacturers. Most recently he was General Manager of Abbott Labs Coronary Technologies group. He returned to the Seattle area to work with a small start-up organization called Cardiac Dimensions Inc. They are developing a new non-surgical treatment for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). Douthitt heads up the Marketing, Business Development, and European Clinical Trial activities.
Stephanie is working at the UW in the office of Development & Alumni Relations in the Regional Gifts Program. She works with alumni and friends of the UW in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and her husband John Scroggs (BA, 1988 UW School of Business) have a two-year-old, Maggie, who keeps them busy.
John Dresel is owner and of Nailgun Content Solutions, an e-commerce service provider specializing in on-line merchandising and product descriptions for several of the largest on-line retailers, service providers and referral sites. A Seattle-based company, Nailgun creates, among other content, product description for hundreds of hotels located around the globe and also college descriptions and course descriptions for large college referral sites.
Dresel is the former president of Tully's Coffeeand a veteran in the service, broadcast and entertainment industry. Prior to moving to Tully's, he was president of the Ackerley Television Group, Inc. -- whose parent company, The Ackerley Group, is a media and entertainment company with diversified groups of professional sports teams, outdoor advertising, broadcast and interactive media.
Mr. Dresel ran broadcast operations, sales and financial duties for 18 television stations, including ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. His resume also includes president of Full House Sports and Entertainment and the vice president and general manager of KJR AM Radio 950 and KLTX FM Radio 95.7.
Read about John's visit to campus...
A criminal lawyer for 20 years, Thomas Eckhardt has 300 jury trials and a client list that includes lawyers, movie stars and the homeless.
Since 1989, Timothy Egan has worked on the West Coast as a writer for the New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, now as a national enterprise reporter. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of team of reporters who did a series on how race is lived in America. He has done special projects on the West, on the census, sprawl and on endangered species and the state of Indian country. He has also been a featured radio essayist for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Egan is the author of six books:
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006). 2006 National Book Award winner for nonfiction.
The Winemaker's Daughter (2005). His first novel.
Breaking Blue (2004).
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest with M. Wylie Blanchet (2002).
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West with Timothy P. Egan (1999). Winner of the 1999 Governors Writing Award from Washington State, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (1991).
He was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Whitman College in 2000 for his writings on the land. Mr. Egan is a 2006 member of the University of Washington Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame.
On July 1, 2003 Mike Eguchi retired after a 34-year career with Fisher Communications, Inc., Seattle. He is currently serving as an At-Large Trustee with the University of Washington Alumni Association and is an adjunct Professor of Management at Seattle University's Albers School of Business and a partner in a communications consulting firm, Storyteller Communications with fellow alum Doug Tolmie.
After teaching for 9 years in UC Davis' Rhetoric & Communication program, Karen Ellison moved back home to help out in the family business - Midvale Telephone. The phone company is a family owned company specializing in providing local telephone service in remote and rural areas. The company has over 3,000 customers spread over four states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona. In addition to her responsibilities with the family business, she sits on the Board of directors for Syringa Networks, a fiber optic transport company based in Boise. She is also on the Oregon PUC's Advisory Board for their universal service fund and is the President of the Arizona Local Exchange Carriers Association.
John Enger Started working after graduation for the Neighborhood Telephone Directories, headquartered in West Seattle, and retired from there in April, 2006. He has to his credit 35 years of publishing the local telephone directories known as the Banana Pages. He was the COO when the company was sold in 1998 and stayed on as the General Manager for the new ownership group until retiring. The company started the world's first true Internet Yellow Pages and sold that technology to InfoSpace in 1997. In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports "I am married and have two wonderful children, plus 2 fantastic grandchildren. My son is stationed on a submarine at Bangor and my daughter is enjoying her first year in college at the UofW [2006]. Interests are travel, spectator sports, reading, hiking, but I also will be serving as President of the West Seattle Rotary Club next year, an organization I've belong to for 30 years."
Event & Program Coordinator: Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
M.S. in Communications from Portland State University. M.A.T. from National University. Founded a community newspaper in Rye, NY in 1996 (sold majority ownership in 2002.)
Marilyn Fancher is a senior vice president and creative director of APCO Worldwide in Washington, DC, a global public affairs consultancy. Fancher produces broadcast programs, commercials, film and video for corporate and political clients.
Online Account Executive: KING5.com/Belo Media Group
Mr. Farmer writes a Sunday political column for the daily Nevada Appeal of Carson City, NV. In October of 2003, he won a columnists' award at the annual convention of the Nevada Press Association.
In February, 2004, Maria Federici, a 2003 graduate of Speech Communication, was hit by flying debris while driving on I-405. The accident left her with serious and permanent injuries and her story has become well known both locally and nationally. Department of Communication faculty Lisa Coutu and Barbara Warnick visited Ms. Federici recently to discuss possible ways to continue her Communication studies. Lisa Coutu has this to say about her: "She was a bright, engaged student. She still is bright & engaged, but she now has many challenges to overcome." For donation information and to learn more about Maria Federici, visit her web site.
Flight Attendant: Alaska Airlines
Patricia Fisher was a longtime area journalist and a mentor to many writers, particularly to young African American journalists. She was the first woman and the first African American to write editorials for The Seattle Times and she was a co-founder of the Black Journalists Association of Seattle. Patricia Fisher died in early 2006. Her Seattle Times obituary (2/13/06), begins: "Open doors lead to open minds. That's the way Patricia Fisher saw things. And for untold numbers of Northwest journalists, she proved a willing mentor, who not only took on but sought out such responsibilities."
cynthia@flashmediaservices.com
Cynthia Flash is a media consultant, editor, writer, public relations specialist and owner of Flash Media Services.
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
A recently retired KIRO TV reporter and anchor who has been involved with professional organizations (including the Seattle Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists), community organizations (including Achievement Rewards for College Scientists as member and public relations chair, AIDS Housing of Washington as a board member and chair of fund-raising committee, Junior League of Seattle as a Sustaining Member), and the University (as co-chair of the UW Graduate Diversity Fellows Dinner in 2004-5). She has mentored many aspiring young journalists.
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Patricia Foote is assistant managing editor for administration and suburban news in The Seattle Times newsroom. She oversees staffing, policies, compensation and other human-resource issues in the newsroom and has responsibility for The Seattle Times' suburban news bureaus on the Eastside and in Snohomish County. She has been with The Times for 28 years.
Foote started her newspaper career at age 15 as a vacation fill-in at The Highline Times, followed by other South King County weeklies. She was hired by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to edit its weekly entertainment section before becoming a reporter in The Seattle Times View section in 1973. Her assignments included arts-and-entertainment editor and lifestyle editor before leaving in 1986 to teach journalism at the University of Washington. She returned to The Times in 1990 as news features editor and was subsequently named assistant managing editor for features, and later for hiring and staff development.
Her professional memberships include the Society of Professional Journalists. The Times was nationally honored for its features sections during her tenure and she received The Times' Publisher's Circle Award in 1998.
Lisa Fortini-Campbell is the president and managing director of the Fortini-Campbell Company, which she founded in 1990. She is also an adjunct professor at the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University where she teaches the Communications Strategies program, as well as a wide-range of executive education programs. Previously, Fortini was an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism where she taught courses in communications theory, research methods, consumer insight and account planning. She is also the author of “Hitting the Sweet Spot,” where she offers theory and practical help for creating truly consumer driven marketing and advertising efforts.
Prior to founding the Fortini-Campbell Company, Fortini spent a decade in advertising. Starting as a research analyst at Leo and Burnett, she then moved to Young & Rubicam in Chicago where she served as research director for five years. By the end of her agency career, Fortini managed the Chicago office of the San Francisco-based advertising agency, Hal Riney and Partners.
Kim Freeman is a program development specialist for Healing Waters International. She does research looking for areas all over the world needing water projects.
Read more about Kim's work:
*Healing Waters International
*Summer, 2005 Internship working with AIDS Orphans in Ethiopia
Dorothy Fribrock is retired and has written a 500 page book, "Sockeye Sunday and Other Fish Tales," about her 70 years in Snug Harbor, Alaska.
Reporter: A.M. Costa Rica (an online daily newspaper in San José, Costa Rica)
Mr. Fullerton is the Vice President of Corporate Relocation for Anchor Moving Systems and he is happy to help any of his fellow alumni with their moving needs.
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