Fall 2012
Class Notes
2012 Alumni Hall of Fame
Meet the newest members of the Communication Alumni Hall of Fame.
Ann Darling: Ph.D., 1987
Award-winning professor and researcher, writer, editor, community leader
Lorraine Howell: B.A., 1982
Author, teacher, producer, transformative communications professional
Katie King: B.A., 1983
Writer, editor, digital media leader, journalist, producer, teacher
Elaine Ikoma Ko: B.A., 1975
Community builder and civic activist, mentor, leading communication executive
Doug Ramsey: B.A., 1956
Award-winning author, journalist, lecturer, exceptional American jazz scholar
Nominate a friend or colleague!
In Memoriam
James B. King (’48), retired Seattle Times editor. Read more.
Alumni Profiles
- Dave Ammons (’70): Cowboy journalist to government guru
- Suzanne Selfors (’90) publishes Smells Like Pirates
- Frank Wetzel (’50): Retired editor found competition with larger papers ‘part of the fun’
- Alex Quade ('92), director of ‘Horse Soldiers of 9/11,' presents film screening
- UW Board of Regents Chair Harrell (’76) on KUOW’s ‘The Conversation’
- Boston news anchor Lisa Hughes (’90) reflects on time in Seattle
- Inara Verzemnieks ('96) awarded $30,000 for promising writing career
Alumni Updates
Kari Shull Costanza (’85) is Global Editor at World Vision International, a humanitarian organization headquartered in London. She developed World Vision’s first Information Resources department. Information Resources reports and requests more than 400 stories and accompanying photos annually for WVUS and partnership purposes. She developed Share system—a story assignment management system to assign stories, accept ideas, track story progress, and document story usage for use by all World Vision offices. During her 5 years in World Vision video department, she edited, wrote, and produced 300 videos about the organization’s work. During 10 years with World Vision magazine, she reported, researched, and wrote 21 cover or secondary feature stories. She has have written at least 100 stories on various topics from sponsorship to microenterprise to child sex tourism. Over the past 16 years she have traveled to around 30 countries to write stories, shoot photographs and video, train communicators, and participate in communications meetings. Since 2004, she has planned and conducted story-gathering trips for World Vision President Rich Stearns as well as other high profile authors and speakers such as Max Lucado. Stories, photos, and videos from these trips have been disseminated worldwide and used in Stearns’ book, The Hole in our Gospel and Lucado’s Outlive Your Life.
New Comm grads are getting cool jobs!
Lydia Rin Kye (’12) is a Site Merchandiser for amazon.com Business, Industrial & Scientific.
Kiera Warren (’12) is an events coordinator for Bold Hat Productions. While still a student, Kiera served as an events assistant for the Department of Communication.
Lucas Anderson (’12) recently joined the Seattle Weber Shandwick team. Check out “Two Minutes with Lucas Anderson” on webershandwickseattle.com.
Alex Eckstein (’10) is an Associate Director of Advancement for the UW College of Arts & Sciences Social Sciences team. Alex was already an accomplished team member as the Advancement and Events Coordinator for the Women’s Center and has a long tenure at the UW, including serving as a UW student caller in 2007-2008 and then as Student Calling Manager from 2008-2010 for the 80 student callers on campus. She also served on the 2010 Senior Class Gift committee. She left the UW for a short while to work in Advancement at the Moyer Foundation and Habitat for Humanity. Welcome back Alex!
