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William (Bill) Galbraith: BA, 1946 (Journalism)

Bill Galbraith worked 13 years for the United Press as an editor and a reporter covering a variety of federal agencies including the State department and the White House. For the following 25 years he worked for CBS News as news editor of the Washington Bureau. He closed his career with CBS as Director of News Operations in Washington.

Philip Garland: BA, 2001; MA, 2003

Philip Garland oversees quality and new directions for SurveyMonkey. Previously, he was director of Global Knowledge/Chief Methodologist at Survey Sampling International. He has published papers in academic journals and book chapters in the areas of public opinion, internet marketing, media coverage of political affairs, and intergroup relations. Garland also holds a PhD in Communication and an MA in Political Science from Stanford University.

Frank Garred: BA, 1958

2007 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Frank Garred served a year in Korea as a lieutenant after graduation, then joined the Aberdeen, Wash., Daily World in 1960 as a bureau reporter covering Pacific County. In 1962, he was hired as editor of a new weekly newspaper near Tacoma with the mission of challenging the strong family-owned Tacoma daily, the News-Tribune. The economic and ownership uncertainties of the suburban newspaper led Garred to form a coalition with two other Washington state community newspaper owners to buy the Port Townsend Leader. From 1967 to 2002 he retained ownership and management of the independent Leader. Concerned that the Leader might leak into corporate ownership if a crisis sale of his newspaper was forced, in 1989 he recruited a junior partner and created an equity contract with the commitment to transition ownership, which he did 12 years later. In 1998, he purchased an interest in a neighboring newspaper publishing company and assumed the role of publisher for The Gazette and other publications of the company. Garred has served as president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and sat on its board for nearly 16 years. He served on the board and as an officer of the National Newspaper Association, and was president of that organization in 1993. He served in the same capacity with the National Newspaper Association Foundation, representing the organization on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications for seven years following his presidency. He is a past president and board member of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, an organization that supports the creation and development of strong editorial voices among the world’s community newspapers. He also has served in numerous capacities on community-service and nonprofit organizations. In 2003, he began teaching as an adjunct instructor for journalism reporting at Western Washington University. For three years he was executive director of the Washington Coalition for Open Government, an educational and advocacy nonprofit group committed to maintaining and improving transparency in government at all levels. Since January 2005 he has been a journalism instructor (reporting and writing) and adviser to the student newspaper at Peninsula College, in Port Angeles.

Karen Gaudette: BA (Communications and Political Science), 2000

Karen Gaudette is a food writer with PCC Natural Markets and a freelance journalist. She left The Seattle Times in 2009, where she covered food, transportation and residential real estate. Previously, she covered the city of San Bernardino for The Press-Enterprise and the California energy crisis for The Associated Press in San Francisco. She interned with AP during the UW’s Olympia program and also interned for The Wall Street Journal. Gaudette is a UW Alumni Association Career Connections contact for fellow Huskies. She reported and edited for The Daily during her undergraduate studies and in fall 1999 served as editor-in-chief.

Alexia Gibbon: BA, 2004

Local Sales Assistant: KOMO 4 Television

Kelly Gilblom: BA, 2010

Kelly Gilblom is a Nairobi-based Reuters journalist covering oil and energy in East Africa.

Rolf Glerum: BA, 1955

Glerum started his professional career in 1959 as promotions specialist for the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, later to merge with Western Pine Association to form Western Wood Products Association. His responsibilities with WCLA included news and feature writing, trade show coordination, builder and architect relations, do-it-yourself news articles, and other related activities.

Robert Gluckson: MA, 1992

Robert Gluckson is teaching an online college level Photojournalism History course through Humboldt State University Extended Education. For more information on Robert Gluckson, including details of the online course, visit Gluckson’s web site.

Jean Godden: BA, 1973

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Jean Godden attained recognition in Seattle serving as a city columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times. That status was achieved after years as an award-winning urban affairs reporter, editorial writer, editorial page editor, business editor and restaurant critic. She attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, later graduating from the UW School of Communications. She was propelled into community activism following a double school levy failure that resulted in the cancellation of her son’s kindergarten class. She worked with other parents to organize a cooperative kindergarten. That led to her election as PTA president. She then joined League of Women Voters, Citizens Against Freeways, the Municipal League and the United Way. She helped organize the Lake City Community Council, wrote its bylaws and served as an elected director. In the late 1960s, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman appointed Godden to his charter review committee and later named her to the City’s Board of Adjustment. Godden chairs the Finance & Budget committee, which deliberates and makes recommendations on all matters relating to the financial management and budget policies of the city. During her first term, she was chairman of the Energy & Environmental Policy Committee and led the council in stabilizing City Light’s finances, lowering electric rates by 8.4 percent across the board and achieving three years of greenhouse gas neutrality. She orchestrated passage of a Critical Areas Ordinance that protects fish-bearing streams, wetlands and wildlife and curtails use of pesticides.

Susan K. Godfrey: BA, 1970

Susan Godfrey is working for the University of Washington and looking for network opportunities with other communicators.

Daena J. Goldsmith: MA, 1988; PhD, 1990

Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been there since 1993, serving as Associate Head, Director of Graduate Study from 1999 to 2002. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, she spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Speech Communication, University of Maryland, College Park. She was also a Visiting Professor Visiting Professor at the Communication Studies Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Leoule Goshu: BA, 2007

Goshu is spending the summer after graduation working on a research paper with Dr. Laura Briggs, Acting Head of Women Studies at the University of Arizona. He is critiquing a gay rights special interest group, Human Rights Campaign, for promoting corporations with questionable human rights records in third world countries. His work attempts to synthesize gay rights with the third world. Goshu will attend Harvard this September. The Seattle Times recently ran a story on Goshu featuring his time at the UW.

He was also named “Future Gay Hero” in the October 11th, 2005 edition of The Advocate.

Erica Graham: MA, 2004

Erica Graham is currently pursuing her Masters in Business Administration at the University of Michigan. Prior to this, she worked in the film industry at a film production company.

John Graham: BA, 1971, Editorial Journalism

John Graham graduated in the midst of the Great Seattle Depression of 1971 (there were billboards with the message “Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights?”), he finally got a job in communications in 1972 as a Public Information Specialist for the Army Medical Command at Madigan Army Medical Center near Tacoma. After a stint with the Easter Seal Society in Seattle, Graham got a job in Journalism–Editor of the Issaqah Press, a weekly. While there, he married Polly Rachford, a 1975 grad of the UW Medical School’s Occupational Therapy program. They then moved to the Portland area, where Graham began an almost 30-year career in energy efficiency for utilities and consulting companies. The couple had two daughters, one now living in Seattle and preparing to go to grad school at the UW, and the other with her husband in Tonasket, WA. Graham and his wife lived in Yreka, CA; Yakima, WA; Portland and Vancouver, WA before moving to Hawaii in 2006. They have lived there ever since, and love the climate, the physical beauty of the place, and the slower pace of life. He would love to hear from any Communications grads anywhere, and any Husky Alums in Hawaii! Aloha!

Jack Greenewald: BA 1947, Journalism

Mr. Greenewald spent 25 years as owner of newspaper, printing and publishing companies, then purchased a travel agency and traveled throughout the world for thirty years.

Christine Gregoire: BA, 1969 Speech Communication

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

2004 Department of Communication Distinguished Alumna

The honorable Christine Gregoire is Washington’s 22nd Governor. Prior to serving as governor, Gregoire served three terms as attorney general, the first woman to be elected to the position in Washington. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2003 WA State Physicians for Social Responsibility Award and the 2001 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumna award.

Travis Griffith: BA, 1999

Travis Griffith is the author of Your Father Forever, published in 2005 by Illumination Arts in Bellevue. Dr. John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, said of the book, “Your Father Forever is an inspiring and reassuring book that touches our hearts and comforts our children.” He has also completed a novel, which is currently being shopped with agents.

Dr. Marita Gronnvoll: BA Speech Communication, 2000; MA, 2003

Gronvoll is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

Reynaldo V. Guioguio: PhD, 1980

Dr. Guioguio is a Professor of Journalism at the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. His academic activates include Former President, Philippine Communication Society (PCS); Affiliated with Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) and Former Chairman, Graduate Studies Department, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Communication Policy and Planning, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands.

Edwin Guthman: BA, 1944

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Reporter and editor (Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Star, The Seattle Times, and the Los Angeles Times). He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for National Reporting while at The Seattle Times for his series on the clearing of Communist charges against Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school. He served as press secretary for Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Guthman died Aug. 31, 2008 at his home in Los Angeles. His obituary was printed in The Seattle Times and by Columns Magazine.

Rebecca Haines: MA, 1985 (Speech Communication)

Rebecca Haines had a rare malignancy in 2004, and after a chemo pill and surgery at the University Hospital, she is now experiencing remission euphoria! She recently purchased a condominium and is speaking about her experience to a few small groups, to spread the word of hope and possibilities. She continues to work as a registered nurse at an assisted living facility part-time and swims 1/2 mile per week, which she says is “both exercise and recreation!” Her inspiring story of diagnosis and recovery is published in the support group newsletter for the type of tumor she had. Please see: www.liferaftgroup.org then click on “Coping,” then “Member’s Stories,” then click on her name. Her story is called: “Fifty-one weeks from diagnosis to remission.”

Hatti L. Hamlin, APR, Fellow PRSA: BA, 1972

In a career spanning 36 years, Hatti has counseled clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to government, non-profit and educational institutions. They have included household names like American Express, Clorox, Sara Lee, Microsoft and GE Capital, as well as local and regional companies ranging from wineries to consulting firms, Internet companies, hospitals, retailers, medical equipment manufacturers, utilities, banks and real estate companies.

Alexander Campbell Halavais: PhD, 2001

Dr. Halavais began as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) directly after graduating from the UW Communications program. He now serves as the director of the MA in Informatics at UB, an innovative program that addresses the social and organizational aspects of information and communication technologies. His research looks at “social computing” and its impact on social change, journalism, education, and public policy.

James F. (Jay) Hamilton: BA 1983; MA 1986

Hamilton, an Associate Professor at Grady College, University of Georgia, has published a second book in 2008, in the wake of Democratic Communications; Formations, Projects, Possibilities, that was published by Lexington Books in February. His new book Alternative Journalism, co-authored with Chris Atton (Napier University, Scotland), is coming out with Sage Publications in December. It conducts a cultural, historical, political-economic, and sociological analysis of alternative journalism, and is the first book-length study of the topic.

Verna Harbaugh: BA, 1992 (Emphasis in Editorial Journalism )

huskeez@aol.com

Currently employed by Nootka Hotels, Inc., as Director of Sales for University Inn and Watertown (hotels are located in Seattle, WA, next to the University of Washington campus).

Board member & Marketing Chair – Greater University Chamber of Commerce.

Board member & Media Director – WA State Group Tour & Travel Association.

Rob Harper: BA 1969

Rob Harper When natural disasters hit Washington, many are left shaken, distressed and emotionally drained.

For Rob Harper, it’s a long day at work – and a way to make a difference.

The 1969 broadcast journalism alumnus is a public information officer for the Washington state Emergency Management Division. During emergencies and natural disasters, he helps the community to respond effectively.

Joanne Harrell: BA Communications 1976; MBA Business 1979

2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Recently named to the UW Board of Regents by Gov. Chris Gregoire, Joanne Harrell has held various management positions at InfoSpace, US West Communications and Microsoft, where she currently serves as chief of staff for the Original Equipment Manufacturing division. She has a commitment to continued learning that has led her to study management and marketing at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and the Brookings Institution. While executive director of the United Way of King County from 1997 to 2000, Harrell led the chapter to successive national fundraising records and wide recognition for excellence in marketing communications and brand management. She grew the non-profit from the 14th to the largest United Way program in the country. She serves and has served on a host of boards, including REI, Seattle Urban League, YWCA, the Salvation Army, the Seattle Art Museum, UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs, and the International Women’s Forum. Harrell is the 1997 recipient of the African American Achievement Award, Omaha, Neb., and the 1992 recipient of the “Women of Achievement Award,” Seattle.

Jack Hart: BA, 1968 Journalism

Jack Hart is a managing editor at The Oregonian, the Pacific Northwest’s largest daily newspaper. He also has served as the newspaper’s writing coach and staff development director, as editor of its Sunday magazine and as a general assignment reporter. He previously worked as a reporter at the Eugene Register-Guard and the Whidbey News-Times.

Katherine G. Hendrix: PhD, 1994

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Memphis.

Awarded the “Top 3 Paper” in the Spirituality Division for “The spirit that strengthens me: Teaching with a religious foundation,” a paper she presented at the National Communication Association conference held in San Antonio, TX in 2006.

Jaime Herrera: BA, 2004

Jaime Herrera represents Washington state’s 18th district.

Verena Hess: MA, 2000; PhD, 2006

Verena Hess Before entering the UW Department of Communication’s graduate program, Hess worked in Silicon Valley for four years in technology and gained media-related knowledge as well. Her particular graduate studies focused on political communications, but as a teaching assistant for the department, she was able to tap into her background in media to teach her students basic concepts in new media. Hess also worked at the UW Carlson Center as an education and communications consultant and provided vital support to the director. She was also an important part of the Department of Environmental Health, where she worked as a researcher and conducted interviews to better understand ergonomics regulations in the state of Washington. Originally, Hess considered higher education as a career goal, but came to realize how many other opportunities she had. She ended up at Microsoft after meeting a Microsoft employee on a plane when flying back from a job interview in California. One thing led to another and she was hired as the Senior Marketing Manager focusing on SharePoint. At Microsoft she works in communications, focusing on analysts and their perspectives about the social computing space for big businesses.

Erin Hicks: BA, 2007

Assistant editor for menshealth.com in Allentown, PA.

Harry F. Higgins: BA 1986 (Broadcasting)

Mr. Higgins is a news photographer at KCPQ-TV, Seattle Fox News affiliate. He has been married to Moyra since 1991 and is a U.S. Navy submarine veteran. He is a member of NRA, NPPA, NGS, The Mountaineers, and the UWAA.

Randy Y. Hirokawa: MA, 1977; PhD, 1980 Speech Communication

2006 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

A former Scheidel lecturer for the UW Department of Communication, Randy Hirokawa is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hawaii, Hilo and a former faculty member at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Iowa. Hirokawa is known widely for his expertise in the area of small group communication and decision-making effectiveness. His scholarship has contributed to the development of a theory called the “functional perspective.” This theory accounts for group decision-making performance in terms of the role that group communication plays in facilitating or impeding the group’s efforts to perform crucial cognitive and interpersonal decision-making functions. This theory has been identified as one of the three most influential theories of small group communication. His publications include three edited books, 36 refereed journal articles, and 24 book chapters. He has served as the editor of Communication Studies, the journal of the Central States Communication and on the editorial board for five journals (Small Group Research, Organizational Science, Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research). Hirokawa was the 2008 keynote speaker at the Department’s Alumni Hall of Fame celebration.

Emily Hodge: BA, 2003

Emily Hodge is working as a nanny and planning her return to Italy where she hopes to live and work.

Gerald Hoeck: BA, 1944

2008 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Gerald Hoeck was a founding partner of a Seattle advertising agency: Miller, McKay, Hoeck and Hartung. The agency was well known for its innovative creative work; its clients included Rainier Beer, Bar-S Meats, KING Broadcasting, MD Tissue, West Coast Airlines, and Bardahl. He also worked on Warren Magnuson’s Congressional and Senate campaigns and helped Congressman Henry M. Jackson in his U.S. Senate race. In 1960 he served as the advertising manager of the Democratic National Committee. He played a major role in the 1964 election of four Washington state congressmen: Tom Foley, Brock Adams, Lloyd Meeds, and Floyd Hicks. In 1972 and 1976, he worked on the Jackson presidential campaigns.

Jenni Hogan (Vesnaver): BA, 2002 Communications and Economics

jhogan@komotv.com

Jenni Hogan is a member of the KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Team as morning traffic anchor. She was most recently traffic anchor at KOMO-TV in Seattle. Prior to that she was a traffic reporter at KOIN-TV in Portland, OR, and the first female sports director at KLEW-TV in Lewiston, Idaho. A native of Australia, Hogan has lived in the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years. At the UW she captained the women’s crew team and has two national championship rings in the sport. She is actively involved with her alma mater, serving on the UW’s Department of Communication alumni board of directors and leading its mentorship program. She is also a volunteer for the American Heart Association.

Hillary Holman: BA, 2006

Hillary Holman graduated from the UW with a degree in Communication and a degree in Comparative History of Ideas (CHID). Her primary interests are interpersonal and intercultural communication in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. After graduation, Holman worked with a peacebuilding and reconciliation program in Croatia where she served on the leadership team and as a small group facilitator. She has visited 33 countries, but has a particular interest in Eastern Europe. Holman enjoys teaching English, and has taught in Croatia and in the Seattle area. Since returning to Seattle, Holman has been working for World Vision. She is currently a member of the Correspondence Team in the Donor Contact Services Department and enjoys having the opportunity to put her Communication degree to good use serving donors from the more than 90 countries where World Vision works.

Piper Hopkins: MC, 2006

Piper Hopkins has a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, and an MCDM from the University of Washington. Hopkins is an artist.

David Horsey: BA, 1975

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

David Horsey is the Department of Communication’s 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s award-winning editorial cartoonist, he has been driving and drawing throughout the United States as candidates for the 2008 presidential elections work for voters’ support.

Lorraine Howell: BA, 1982

Lorraine Howell lorraine@mediaskillstraining.com

After 12 years as a television news and talk producer, Lorraine Howell started her own business doing media training and presentation skills training: mediaskillstraining.com. She is the author of Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!

The Association for Women in Communications named Howell the AWC Headliner Award winner in 2009.

Rob Huff: BA (Journalism), 1995

robert.huff@aerojet.com

Rob Huff is the Communications manager for Aerojet, an aerospace and defense company headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. In this position, Huff is responsible for the company’s media relations, employee communications and Web site production.

Lisa Hughes: BA, 1990

Emmy Award-winning journalist Lisa Hughes is news anchor for CBS4 News In Boston. She joined the station in June 2000 after working as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the CBS-TV Station Group’s satellite news service.

Karla Hulse: BA, 2004

Khulse@windermere.com

After graduation, Karla Hulse spent some months backpacking around Europe. She returned home to Seattle to start her career as a Real Estate Agent and is now working for Windermere Real Estate out of the Queen Anne office. Born and raised in Washington, Karla is familar with the area and enjoys approaching the real estate market from a professsional angle. She says “please feel free to contact me with any of your real estate questions!”

www.HOMESinNW.com
(206) 650-2735

Sandra L. Hunt: MA, 1992; PhD 1996; Med 2001 Speech Communication

Dr. Sandra Hunt writes:

“I am in the middle of a personal 10-year field experiment, so to speak, in which I am trying to find out how much influence one teacher can have in the public school system.

So far my efforts are proving fruitful. I am in my fifth year of teaching 4th grade. My school has shown that it is possible for a team to close the achievement gap in reading–we have gone from 60% to 90% of our students passing the reading WASL in the last four years. We are the only district school to meet the 90% goal two years in a row. We continue to make progress in writing and math. Mac Parks would be pleased to know that his statistics classes are being put to good use as I coach teachers on how to use student performance data to inform instruction. Also, several years ago, I set up a “4th-grade Teacher Roundtable,” a monthly forum in which 4th-grade teachers plan and implement their own professional development. It has become so popular, the district is considering institutionalizing it for all grade levels. This year, I’ve joined the district’s strategic planning team. I’m on the leadership subcommittee and will be helping to design a new 360 degree performance appraisal system for district administrators.

In addition to these endeavors, I am working on my National Board Teacher Certification. I find what I am doing engrossing, fulfilling, (my colleagues might say consuming) and of service to my students, the community, and my profession. I appreciate the knowledge and skills I learned in the Speech Communication Department every minute of the day.”

John Hutcheson: MA, 2003

John Hutcheson is a captain in the U.S. Air Force serving the Pentagon in the Air Force Office of Public Affairs. He has been in the Air Force for eight years and earned a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Pennsylvania State University. His graduate work at the UW focused on the role the Bush administration and the news media played after September 11 in contributing to a resurgence of U.S. nationalism. John’s committee members were David Domke, Nancy Rivenburgh and Patricia Moy.

Edward Inch: PhD, 1992

Edward Inch currently serves as acting dean of the School of the Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. In addition to his work as acting dean, Inch chairs the Department of Communication and Theatre. He has taught a wide range of introductory and advanced courses ranging from Introduction to Communication Studies to Executive Communication for MBA Students.

Currently, Inch’s research is focused on conflict resolution and dispute resolution. At the moment, he is working with the Massen Dialogue Project in the Balkans. The project’s aim is to create dispute resolutions for ethnic groups that will enable peaceful development of governing systems and political processes.

Carol Insalaco: BA, 2006

Insalaco is employed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the External Affairs and Communications department. Her time is split between Publications (Internal and External Communications) and Media Relations (media and public relations).

Evelyn Keiko Iritani: BA, 1978

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

For her work as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Evelyn Iritani received the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 (with Abigail Goldman, Nancy Cleeland and Tyler Marshall). The award was for a seven-part investigative series on Wal-Mart. She began her journalistic career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and spent 17 years there before moving to the LA Times. She received the 1995 Washington Governor’s Award for “An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States Told in Four Stories from the Life of An American Town and she is a Apast vice president of the Asian American Journalists Association. Her other awards are: Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Newspaper Reporting for “The Wal-Mart Effect,” 2004; Los Angeles Press Club first place award, Los Angeles Times Editorial award, and the George Polk Award for Economics Reporting for “The Wal-Mart Effect,” 2003; Los Angeles Press Club, first place and Overseas Press Club of America Malcolm Forbes Award, best business reporting from abroad for “China: The Giant Awakes,” 2002.; T.W. Wang Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2000; Times Mirror Journalist of the Year, 1999; Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for Analysis or Explanatory Journalism for “World Economic Crisis Stories,” 1998; The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, staff reporting for “Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions,” 1997; Hearst Newspapers, first place business reporting, 1994; National Asian American Journalists Association, second place writing award; and the 1994; and the National Asian American Journalists Association, first place writing award in 2000, 1990 and 1989.

Nathan Isaacs: BA, 2000

Nathan Isaacs is a Business Development Manager at Optimization Technologies.

Robin Forrest Jacobson: BA, 1972

Robin Jacobson worked for King Broadcasting for years and is now a Public Relations Manager for The San Juan Island Visitors Bureau.

Leo Jeffres: M.A., 1968

Leo Jeffres is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cleveland State University, where he has also served in a variety of administrative roles, including chair of the Department of Communication, graduate director, and the director of the Communication Research Center.

Jeffres’ research focuses on mass communication theory and methodology, neighborhood and urban communication systems, communication technologies, ethnic communication, as well as audience analysis. He also works with students on the content analysis of the “watchdog function” of the press.

Among his many accomplishments, in 1983 Jeffres traveled to the University of the Philippines as a Visiting Fulbright Associate Professor where he taught courses in culture and communication and conducted research on development communication. While in the Philippines he also taught a graduate seminar at the Asian Institute of Journalism in Manila.
More recently, Jeffres was named a fellow of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research in 1998. He was also a recipient of the “most prolific communication researcher” for the period of 1996-2001 by Communication Research Reports, as well as for the period of 1980-1985 by Journalism Quarterly.

More information on Leo Jeffres’ work >>

Bruce Johansen: BA, 1972; PhD, 1979

2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Bruce Johansen has been teaching, researching, and writing in the School of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for 27 years as of 2009. During that time, he has held two endowed chairs: Robert T. Reilly (1996-2002), in the School, and Frederick W. Kayser (2003-2009), a university-wide research distinction. He is the senior ranking professor in the Department of Communication with a cross-listing in Native American Studies. He has published 31 books (with three more in various stages of production as of 2009). Johansen also merits distinction as a teacher. In 1991, he was presented with an award for creative approaches to teaching free expression by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Johansen has earned a national and international reputation as a scholar and public interpreter of Native American history and present-day issues, as well as environmental issues, most notably global warming and toxic chemical pollution. This work has taken him into many fields: history, anthropology, law, the Earth sciences, and many others, including his home field of intercultural and environmental communication. His work has been published in Spanish, French, Norwegian, Polish, German, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Chinese, and Japanese. As a scholar, he has been cited in more than 300 books and almost 300 academic journals around the world, including more than 75 legal journals. His work also has been used in more than 220 college courses, and several legal decisions, as well as at least 250 web sites. His books have been the subject of 175 reviews. When The Progressive celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009, a book of the magazine’s best writing during the century included Johansen’s on-the-scene reporting from the Arctic describing global warming’s effects on the Inuit.

Sue Lockett John: PhD, 2008

Sue Lockett John is a research associate for the University of Washington, Department of Communication journalism program. She assists professor David Domke with program research, strategic planning, outreach and other initiatives.

Alycia Johnson: BA, 2005

Assistant Buyer: Macy’s NW

La’Chris Jordan: BA, 2001

New Voices Ensemble Theatre — a Seattle-based theater dedicated to producing and developing works written by local and national playwrights of color — will present a staged reading of Betty’s Wish by award-winning playwright La’Chris Jordan at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The staged reading — in collaboration with the Northwest Playwrights Alliance — will be held on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the Seattle Rep’s Poncho Forum. A talkback with the playwright and cast will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public. Jordan was named as one of “50 Playwrights to Watch” by the Dramatist Guild. Her play “The Source” was part of the Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Summerfest 2007. Acting credits include a role in “Birth.”

Edmund K. Joyce: BA, 1977

Ed Joyce is Editor, Breaking News for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC). He also oversees KPCC’s business/economy coverage. Joyce received first place from the Society of Professional Journalists San Diego Chapter in the “radio breaking news/live” category for his coverage of the La Jolla landslide. He won second place for “regular beat coverage (environmental beat)” and second place for “radio, use of sound,” in the SPJ competition. Joyce also won first place in the “Breaking News” category from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated as a member of the KPBS news team that covered the 2007 San Diego wildfires.

Tamar Katriel: MA, 1980; PhD, 1983

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Tamar Katriel is a leading scholar in the Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Studies. She is the author of four books and numerous articles that appeared in Communication, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Education journals. She has held a faculty position at the University of Haifa, Israel, since graduating in 1983. She has been a visiting scholar in a number of American Universities, including The University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University; The University of Texas, Austin; Rutgers University; and Harvard University. She is author of several books and articles that have appeared in communication, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and education journals. Her published books include: Dialogic moments: From soul talks to talk radio in Israeli culture (2004); Keywords: Patterns of Culture and Communication in Israel (1999); Performing the past: A study of Israeli settlement museums (1997); and Communal webs: Communication and culture in contemporary Israel (1991).

Polly Keary: BA, 2003

Polly Keary is a staff writer for the Monroe Monitor and the 2006 recipient of the Portfolio Award for news writers, the WNPA Better Newspaper Contest’s top award. Keary took home the top award in 2005 too! In 2006, she visited the military hospital at Balad in Iraq, the base at Ramstein in Germany where many wounded soldiers receive further treatment before returning to the states, and Bagram in Afghanistan.

Robert Keatley, B.A. 1956

2006 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Robert Keatley is founder and currently is editor of the Hong Kong Journal, an online quarterly hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and devoted to articles about political, economic and social issues relating to Hong Kong and its neighborhood. It is intended to provide background information for those concerned about the territory and its development. He has served as editor of three newspapers during his career in journalism in the U.S. and overseas. After earning degrees from the University of Washington and Stanford University, he joined the Wall Street Journal, where he spent most of his career. He was a reporter in San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong, and became the Journal’s diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Keatley was the paper’s foreign editor in New York in 1978 before becoming editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong in 1979, and concurrently publisher in 1983. In 1984, he was named editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, Belgium. He returned to Washington in 1992 to serve as a writer and editor specializing in international political and economic issues. He retired from the Journal in 1998 and returned to Hong Kong, where he was editor of the South China Morning Post, the leading English-language daily in the SAR. After completing his tour with the SCMP in 2001, he returned to Washington. He is a director of the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs.

Zachary Y. Kerr: BA, 2004

Kerr received his Masters in Journalism and Communication from the Ohio State University and is currently works for the Columbus AIDS Task Force as an MSM HIV Prevention Specialist, where he provide HIV Prevention and Education to communities in Central Ohio.

Jeff Kerssen-Griep: MA, 1986; PhD, 1997

Dr. Jeff Kerssen-Griep is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Communication Studies at the University of Portland. He is also the 2004 recipient of the school’s most prestigious teaching award, the Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Portland, the University of Portland magazine, describes him as “the exuberant ebullient erudite energetic elastic articulate amused educated openhearted Jeff Kerssen-Griep, who teaches all sorts of communication courses and is a scholar of what he calls ‘facework’ as a crucial aspect of learning.”

Pooja Khandekar: BA, 2000 Communication and Political Science

Ms. Khandekar is currently working on an MA in journalism from CA State University, Northridge and is a Web Editor for UW Educational Outreach.

Carlton Kim: BA, 2004 Communication and Business Administration

Upon graduation, Carlton spent two years in social work advocating for affordable housing and the elderly. Now, he works for a company that produces online content and marketing campaigns.

Carolyn Kim: BA, 2006

Carolyn Kim is a Program Coordinator for the University of Washington Educational Outreach department. To keep her journalistic skills going, she interns for the Ballard News Tribune as a photographer/reporter, and she is transitioning from KUOW/NPR to BCC’s KBCS station (91.3, A World of Music & Ideas) where she will have the opportunity to host live and on-air.

Sarita Kincaid: BA, 1996

Sarita Kincaid is a Global Analyst Relations Manager running a team at Cisco Systems, Inc. She works with the industry analysts who are quoted in press articles (Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Network World, etc.) and her job is to educate them and influence them to give positive quotes and to recommend products to customers. She also works with the analysts to get them to write reports about Cisco and technology; she does what she refers to as technical “bake-offs” between competitive companies and products. Kincaid started in PR; she was on the board of the UW PRSSA chapter.

Dylan King: BA, 2006

E. Dylan King earned her Master of Public Administration degree from the UW Evans School of Public Affairs, where she works as a Program Coordinator. She was invited to present her thesis work at the 2012 Symposium of Public Affairs Research and was awarded the Dean’s Award for best poster for “The Role of Social Networking Technologies in Government Communication: An Analysis of Twitter Usage at Washington State Department of Transportation (@WSDOT)”.

James King: BA, 1948 Journalism

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

James (Jim) B. King, retired Seattle Times executive editor and senior vice president, died Oct. 17, 2012, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 89. King was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a member of the UW Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame. Read more about King and his remarkable life in the Seattle Times. Under his leadership, The Seattle Times grew from a strong Washington daily newspaper into a paper that was nationally recognized as one of the best in the western United States.

Katie King: BA, 1983

Katie King is an online publishing specialist with wide-ranging journalism background and international strategic planning and business development experience. A writer, editor and experienced news and content operations manager, Katie works with clients to define and achieve content publishing goals. She formerly served as Senior Vice President for Global General News at Reuters, where she coordinated the launch of Reuters’ global multimedia, multi-lingual online news reports which were the pioneering Internet news products in the United States and around the world. Prior to that she was responsible for creating and producing “What On Earth,” a groundbreaking daily multimedia publication for kids that was distributed by cable giant TCI to schools across the country. Katie was a Fellow in Harvard’s prestigious Nieman Foundation for leading U.S. and international journalists. For Reuters, she covered major news events in Latin America including the U.S. invasion of Panama and was chief correspondent in both Mexico and Brazil. She has lived and worked across Latin America and Europe and is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese.

Ann D. Kirkwood: BA, 1976 Communication BA, 1976 English

kirkann@isu.edu

Ann Kirkwood is the winner of an International George Peabody Award (2000) for a documentary, “Hearts and Minds,” concerning teens and mental illness. This documentary, and a second one called “In Our Own Voice” also won an excellence in public broadcasting award from the National Educational Television Association and an excellence in public education award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Recognized in 2003 by the Idaho State Planning Council on Mental Health for exemplary educational programs on children’s mental health, Ms. Kirkwood has advised the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill nationwide Technology and Communication Task Force. She is director of Red Flags Idaho, a school-based mental health program funded by the Idaho Governor’s Office and now in its fourth year. She worked for 18 years as a reporter, editor and publisher at various newspapers across the United States, wining two national awards for editorial writing from the National Newspaper Association and numerous regional and state awards for reporting and editing. Following newspaper work, she was employed nine years for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare as a senior public information officer. While with the agency, she was active in the International Association of Public Participation and taught classes on stakeholder involvement and facilitation techniques. She now specializes in mental health, disabilities and communication technology as a senior research associate for Idaho State University.

Elaine Ikoma Ko: BA (Communications) 1975

Magna Cum Laude
MBA, City University

Elaine Ikoma Ko is the Director of the Office of Social Responsibility at the Port of Seattle; she began in January 2008. Her current responsibilities are to align the Port’s business practices with social responsibility objectives through programs and initiatives and champion the small business program for the Port of Seattle. Prior to joining the Port of Seattle, she was the Executive Director, Operations Director at Inter*Im Community Development Association for six years.

Her journalism work began as the editor for Cleveland High School newspaper. She has also worked as a writer for Asian Family Affair and the International Examiner in the 1970s. She was a guest writer for North American Post and has had extensive speaking on topics of public policy, women, community service; small business, and other topics.

Ko lists her background to include student activism in the 1970s at the UW and leadership in the Asian Student Coalition. She began community organizing in Seattle’s International District/Chinatown; led organizing for affordable housing and established the ID Housing Alliance as its first executive director in 1977, a non-profit that is still operating strong today. She served in Mayor Norm Rice’s cabinet in the 1990s as Director of the City of Seattle Office for Women’s Rights, and earlier as Coordinator of King County Women’s Program. She was named a Top Ten Contributor in NW Asian Weekly (1994) and operated her own financial services small business for seven years.

Her current volunteer activities include: Leadership Tomorrow Alumni Committee, Union Gospel Mission Women and Family Shelter; International District Rotary; National Association of Asian American Professionals; API
Women and Family Safety Center; Grants Committee for Japanese Community and Cultural Center (Nikkei Heritage Association), Tabor 100; Urban Enterprise Center Advisory Board. She coordinates makeover days for homeless women three times per year.

Tom Koenninger, B.A. 1953

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Tom Koenninger, Editor Emeritus for The Columbian, died September 30, 2010, after battling cancer. Koenninger retired as editor and vice president of The Columbian at the beginning of 2001. He continued to write a weekly column, serve on The Columbian‘s editorial board and serve as moderator of The Columbian‘s reader Advisory Council until his death. He served a four-year term (2001 – 2005) as chairman of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. He received the state trustee award for leadership in 2003. He also served on the board of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust; Lewis and Clark Steering Committee, and board of the Friends of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. He was president of the Clark College Alumni Association and a member of its board, and co-chairman of the stewardship campaign for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. He served as chairman of the Vancouver School District’s Management Advisory Task Force and was a member of the Visiting Committee of the UW Department of Communication.

John Komen: BA, 1958 – Communications Radio-TV

While a senior at the UW, Komen worked full time for The Associated Press in Seattle (he was recommended for The AP job as a radio-news writer by one of his School of Communications professors); worked for The AP in Seattle, transferring to Olympia in 1961 to cover state-house and political news; hired by KOMO-TV news in 1963 as a field reporter, became KOMO-TV News night anchorman and later 6 p.m. anchorman/news editor (director); hired by ABC-TV news in 1967 as correspondent based in New York City, covered 1968 presidential campaign assigned at various times to campaigns of Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew (also covered 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Republican National Convention in Miami, Robert Kennedy death watch in Los Angeles, crash of nuclear-armed bomber in Thule, Greenland, various protest marches and city riots), colleagues in New York City included Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Marlene Sanders, Ted Koppel, John Scali; returned to Seattle in late 1969 as 11 p.m. news anchorman for KING-TV news; hired by the Tacoma News Tribune newspaper in 1976 as chief editorial writer, became associate editor, then managing editor, promoted to editor, retiring in December 1995 as editor of the editorial page after 19 years with the News Tribune.

Alixandra Knapp: BA, 2004

After graduating from the UW, Alixandra Knapp spent time working in a research lab focused on stem cell biology, transplantation and gene therapy at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She was awarded a full scholarship to Boston College in Massachusetts to pursue a graduate degree in molecular and cellular biology. Alixandra is currently finishing her degree, working at Children’s Hospital Boston in clinical research and looking forward to pursuing more education.

Brian Knutsen: BA, 1981

In March 2005, Brian Knutsen was appointed General Manager of the Space & Intelligence Systems Mission Systems organization for The Boeing Company. Brian was editor of the University of Washington student newspaper, The Daily, in the fall of 1980 and graduated from the University in 1981.

S&IS Mission Systems, with headquarters in the Washington, D.C., area, has major business operations in Maryland, Colorado, California, Maine and Kent, WA. Mission Systems is the designated customer-facing organization for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and it provides support for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Mission Systems is also a technology capability center for Global Situational Awareness for Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems unit.

Brian has over 20 years of service with Boeing, and most recently was as the director of S&IS Government Operations. He and his wife, Martha, and their two sons reside in Arlington, VA.

Don Kraft: BA, 1948 (Journalism)

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Don Kraft, a longtime advertising executive in Seattle, has served as secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, chairman of the AAAA Western Region and of its Puget Sound Council, international chairman of the Affiliated Advertising Agencies International and as a board member of the Advertising Association of the West and the Seattle Advertising Federation. His achievements include: president of the Rotary Club of Seattle, president of the University of Washington Alumni Association (receiving its Distinguished Service Award); chairman of the UW Tyee Board of Advisors and of the UW Development Fund Board; prime minister of the Seattle Seafair; the fiftieth King Neptune in 1999; campaign chair of United Way of King County in 1994. Kraft was instrumental in starting the Department’s Fred Baker Endowment for Professional Education in Advertising and Public Relations.

Glenn Kuper: MA, 1990; PhD, 1998

Glenn Kuper is a consultant at Tsongas Litigation Consulting in Seattle after nine years in the public sector, mostly working for the Governor’s Office. Tsongas provides a full range of research and trial consulting services, including case strategy, pre-trial jury research, development of case themes, witness preparation, jury selection, courtroom visuals, assistance with opening statement and closing argument, and post-trial juror interviews. Glenn was formerly an executive speechwriter and deputy communications director for Governor Gary Locke, as well as a communications professor at the University of Puget Sound.

Mort Lachman: BA, 1939 Journalism

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Beginning as a writer for Bob Hope in the late 1940s, Lachman continued his career in television as a producer for numerous acclaimed series including: All in the Family, One Day at a Time, and Kate and Allie.

Robert Laing: BA, 1969; MA, 1972; PhD, 1975

After over twenty years working in foreign countries, Laing returned States’ side in 2006 as in currently working as a diplomat in residence for the State Department at Arizona State University doing lectures, speaking at career fairs and talking to students. Although Laing is 61 years old, he is uncertain about retirement as he’s trying to decide whether or not he’s going to serve another tour. However, in the end he wants to retire back in Seattle where it all began.

Dan Lamont: MC, Digital Media, 2004

In the late ’70s, while still a UW student and the photo editor of The Daily, Dan Lamont began working in the alternative media, first as staff photographer, then as Photo Editor and Special Projects Editor for the Seattle Sun. Mr. Lamont helped launched the Rocket, a biweekly music and entertainment magazine based in Seattle and Portland.

After leaving the Seattle Sun, he was as an Art Director for Murray Publishing and then joined the staff of the Seattle Weekly, where he stayed for about three years.

Except for a brief “busman’s holiday” in the late ’80s on the photo staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (where Evelyn Iritani was also working at the time), he has been successfully freelancing since 1982.

He is a regular contributor to many publications including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Stern, Der Spiegel, LeMond, the Times of London and dozens of others. He also works for various institutional and non-profit clients (the UW among them).

Mr. Lamont has become very involved in photojournalism education, teaching a ten-week course for an accredited art school as well as designing and teaching in two workshop series. He is involved as an advisor in the Seattle Central Community College photography program and he frequently guest lectures for college and university classes (as he did for Department of Communication professors Tony Chan and Kathy Gill spring, 2004).

He is active in professional groups and currently serves as a Director of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). He is President of the ASMP Educational Foundation.

Elizabeth Landau: BA, 2005

US Airways: Employee Communication Specialist

Sally Sue Lander: BA, 1992

Sally Sue Lander graduated cum laude in 1992. While going to school, and for about 6 years after, she worked in Seattle as a film production assistant. (she did movies such as “Dog Fight”, “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Little Buddha.”) She eventually moved to L.A., continued to work in the film industry, and got married in 2002. She was the 1st assistant director for the TV show “Alias” (season 4) and the assistant director on David Fincher’s most recent film “Zodiac” (due out in October, 2006). She has also produced a few short films of her husband’s – he has recently sold a script to Warner Brothers for Leonardo DeCaprio to star in and is going to be directing his first feature film sometime in 2007.

Production credits at the IMDB…

Greg Lane: BA, 1988

Greg Lane is the president and chief executive officer of the statewide public affairs cable television network. He took over this position in April, 2008. Lane, a graduate of the University of Washington in Communications, has been deputy chief of staff for Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna since 2006. Before that he was the attorney general’s communications director, after also serving as a communications director in the Washington State Legislature from 1998 to 2005. Lane becomes TVW’s third president, following founding president Denny Heck and Cindy Zehnder, who was hired in October by Governor Chris Gregoire as her chief of staff.

TVW, often called the Washington state version of C-SPAN, provides unedited gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Washington State Legislature, Supreme Court, executive branch, state boards and commissions, elections, and public policy events of statewide significance.

Wanda Zackovich Larson: BA (Journalism), 1949

Ms. Larson lives, writes and publishes in Portland, OR. Her Blue Unicorn Press, Inc. recently published Cain’s Daughters, by Phyllis K. Collier (MFA, University of Washington). Ms. Larson’s own recent book is narrative poetry of Sacajawea’s journey, Blue Woman/Mojave.

Amy Laughter: BA, 2004

Amy Laughter is currently raising major gifts at United Way of King County. Her work rallies behind the mission that every child should be safe, healthy and ready to succeed when they enter kindergarten and that everyone should have a safe place to call home.

Carrie Lee: BA, 2001

Carrie Lee is a Project Manager of Customer Solutions at AziMyth LLC. Her company develops technologies for information delivery systems.

Renee Lee: BA, 2003

rhlseattle@gmail.com

After graduating from the UW, Renee Lee went onto active duty as an Air Force public affairs officer. Her first assignment was a one-year remote deployment to the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan Air Base, Korea. In 2004, she transferred to Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces based at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where she worked on staff in public affairs. She separated from active duty and joined the Air Force Reserve in 2006 and worked for the Office of the Governor, State of Hawaii, on the communications team. She is currently working back at Pacific Air Forces public affairs as a Reservist.

Lauren Leeds: BA, 2006

Leeds married Lucas Mack (a 2004 Communication grad) and is working in the sales department at KOMO TV in Seattle. She moved back to the area from San Antonio, Texas, where she was an Advertising Executive and co-host for lifestyle show “Great Day SA” at KENS 5 TV. Prior to her move to San Antonio in 2006, she was a television news reporter at KVEW Television, the ABC affiliate, in the Tri-Cities/Yakima market. She was proud to represent the Huskies in Cougar territory.

Sharon LeeMaster: BA, 1957

Sharon LeeMaster CFRE, became a third generation graduate of the University of Washington in 1957. Her grandmother was in the first class from the current campus, 1894. (Grandma Helen rode the street car from downtown Seattle where her family lived and boarded the barge to take her to the emerging campus. She was also the first woman to receive an advanced degree — Pharmacy!) Sharon’s husband, a UW graduate, wears Helen Anthony Carey’s class ring as his wedding ring.

Nancy Leson : BA, 1992

How does one become the Seattle Times restaurant critic? Try waiting tables for more than ten years across North America, followed by a late blooming education and you get class of 92’ alumni Nancy Leson.

Sharon Levin-Rigbi: BA, 2005

Account Coordinator: JLM Partners

Caroline Li: BA, 2005

Caroline Li is the Associate Editor at Washington CEO Magazine, her first fulltime job since graduation. She covers retail, advertising, international trade and education.

Lesa (Anderson) Linster: BA, 2000

Lesa Linster is currently serving as National Project Director for The Moyer Foundation. She is responsible for the Foundation’s growing national network of Camp Erin bereavement camps; managing both the programmatic and community relations sides of all existing locations and new development. Lesa works with each Camp Erin community across the country — building relationships, fundraising, collaborating with Major League Baseball, companies and individuals and spreading awareness through all possible opportunities. Her team analyzes and tracks existing bereavement standards, performance of each camp and national bereavement expectations. She has more than ten years of experience in development, operations, marketing and public relations. She gained this experience working for bedrock Seattle entities such as The Seattle Mariners, MSNBC and The Seattle Times. Lesa also ran Wild Radish, LLC, an award-winning company at the forefront of Seattle’s evolving, healthy construction and development sector.

Joanne Lisosky: PhD, 1997

Joanne Lisosky is an associate professor at Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Communication and Theatre. A former media professional, Lisosky now teaches a wide range of journalism and media courses, including: Journalism Writing, Media and the World, Human Rights-International Core, In-depth Investigative Reporting, Media Law, Children and Electronic Media, as well as Gender Communication. She also advises the award-winning student newspaper, The Mast.

Her research assesses the impact of media on children, media violence, and international children’s television policy. During the fall of 2002, Lisosky was an academic consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Nairobi, where she worked to secure grants for community multi-media centers in Brundi. In April 2003, Lisosky traveled to Uganda as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in communication and journalism at Makerere University, where she served as a teacher of journalism and academic consultant to students interested in media.

More information on Professor Lisosky’s work…

Susan Loomis : BA, 1977

Loomis www.onruetatin.com

Read any good books lately? How about the one about a journalist who goes to France to learn the language on the arts of cuisine? Try the life of UW alumni Susan Herrmann Loomis, who not only lives and works in France, but operates a cultural and culinary cooking school from her 15th century home in the city of Louviers across the street from Norte Dame.

Bill Lord: BA, 1970

Bill Lord became Station Manager at WJLA / NewsChannel 8 in September 2009. He oversees the complex, day-to-day operations of both the ABC affiliate and the 24-hour cable news operation in the Washington region. Lord’s responsibilities also include coordination of sales and marketing as well as news, promotions and technical operation of the two stations. Under his leadership since 2003 as Vice President of News at WJLA, the station has been one of the most honored news facilities in the country. WJLA has been recognized with the Associated Press Best Newscast for multiple consecutive years, the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, the Radio and Television News Directors Association Best Newscast Award, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and the DuPont-Columbia Award for Investigative Journalism. With close to 40 years in broadcast news operation and a Peabody Award winner himself, Lord began his career as a reporter and then network correspondent covering events from the civil war in Lebanon, Anwar Sadat’s visit to Israel, and the Watergate scandal. He gradated from the UW and received a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry with service in Berlin and Vietnam.

Janet Luhrs: B.A. 1976

Janet is the author of The Simple Living Guide, Simple Loving, and editor of the newsletter, Simple Living.

Ryan Madayag: BA, 2003

Ryan is a territory sales representative for Philip Morris. His territory is Seattle.

Scott MacFarlane: BA, 1979

Since graduating from the UW in 1979, Scott MacFarlane has transformed from a long-haired and free-spirited traveler to a slightly balding and successful writer and scholar.

Lucas Mack: BA, 2004

Working in the media gives Lucas eyes into the ever-changing world of advertising and public relations.

Starting out in public relations at the University of Washington, Lucas worked side by side with sports columnists and sports broadcasters from around the Northwest. From there he took a job at KOMO TV, as the Audience Coordinator for the live talk show Northwest Afternoon. While there, he entertained audiences and worked behind the scenes in sales and public relations. Lucas developing a knack for what people liked based on immediate crowd reaction and took this lesson into his broadcast journalism career.

He moved to eastern Washington as a reporter for the NBC affiliate, where he fell in love with storytelling. His next stop brought him to the Lone Star State reporting for the FOX affiliate in San Antonio as their Feature Reporter, hosting his own live segment.

Lucas thrived at telling unique stories that connected with the audience. He was able to translate his skill of entertaining a live audience into his stories. His broadcast journalism career launched him home, back to Seattle, where he reported for KOMO TV.

In 2008, Lucas co-founded 4th Avenue Media to give clients the unique opportunity to tell their story by a broadcast journalist. Spending years in a newsroom, Lucas knows what it takes to get mass media coverage. His stories are both informational and entertaining, and he wants to tell yours.

Kathy Mahdoubi: BA, 2006

Kathy Mahdoubi is writing and coordinating for DOTmed Business News (DMBN).

Eunice Malley: BA, 1972

eunicezrm@sbcglobal.net

Eunice Malley has been working as a technical writer for over 15 years for the last two years as an independent contractor. She is currently on contract with a State of California division. She has also taught communications courses for extended education programs, and has a resume writing service business specializing in career transition.

Don Manuszewski: BA, 1998

Don Manuszewski works on portions of the military’s contingency planning for the National Capital Region, to include continuity of government and continuity of operations. He is also working on the Department of Defense’s State Funeral Plan.

He has lived in Arizona, South Dakota, Turkey and Maryland and is retired from the Air Force and is now an Air Force civil service employee. In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports that his interests inside the business are crisis communication and contingency planning and outside the business: “My children; cooking; golf.” In his spare time he is a driver for two ten year olds and a three year old.

David Marriott, B.A. 1967

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

David Marriot is a prominent public relations practitioner and mentor to students. He specializes in crisis management, crisis communication, labor communications, litigation support and media training. Marriott is 30-year public relations professional, nationally accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, and a member of its Counselors Academy. His career spans broadcast journalism, politics, corporate and agency public relations. He currently serves as a member and past president of the Centrum Foundation board, a member and past chair of the Seattle Center Advisory Commission and a member and marketing committee chair of the Seattle Repertory Theatre board of trustees. He has also held board positions with Earshot Jazz Society, University of Washington School of Music Visiting Committee and the Seattle King County chapter of the American Red Cross.

Jefferson Marshall: BA, 1995 (Speech Communication)

Jefferson Marshall is a vice president of sales for McKesson Pharmaceutical , Southwest Region. He has been with McKesson Pharmaceutical since 2002. Before McKesson, he worked for Bestfoods and Phillip Morris. He is the winner of the Presidents Club Award for McKesson Pharmaceutical in 2005 and the Northwest Region Award of Excellence for McKesson Pharmaceutical in 2004.

Temple Mathews: BA, 1976

templemathews@yahoo.com

Temple Mathews is a successful writer and screenwriter living in Southern California. He welcomes alumni, Husky fans, and other screenwriters to contact him. A producer at the American Film Institute, Mathews has written dozens of half-hour animation TV episodes, and several animated and live action features and direct-to-DVD and video films. Mathews has sold scripts and/or worked for hire at every major studio in Hollywood. His credits include the Walt Disney animated feature films Return to Never Land, The Little Mermaid II, and the MGM feature film Picture This.

Mathews was story editor on 35 half-hour episodes of The Judge, a daytime courtroom drama and story editor on two seasons of Inside Out, an anthology series produced by Propaganda Films. Additionally, he was writer and producer of the feature film Off the Mark.

Lori Lei Matsukawa, M.A. 1996

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Lori Matsukawa is an award-winning journalist and anchor (KING 5 News, KONG TV). Her professional awards include ARBY Awards in 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2000, given by the Academy of Religious Broadcasting; a Society of Professional Journalists award for Economic Reporting in 1989 and the “American Scene Award,” from the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1986. In 2005, Matsukawa was given the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Asian American Journalists Association for mentoring aspiring journalists. Matsukawa co-chairs a committee seeking to build a Japanese cultural and community center in Seattle. She also served on the Association Board of the YMCA of Greater Seattle. In 1999, she organized the Student Broadcast Project for UNITY, a multicultural journalism convention held in Seattle. She was chosen as an Asian-American Living Pioneer by the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation in 1996. In 1993, she was given the Community Volunteer Award from the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, where she served as a board member and board president. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Matsukawa is a founding member of AAJA’s Seattle Chapter.

Hillary J. Maynard: BA, 2004

Staff Writer: The Port Orchard Independent

Steve Maynard: BA, 1976

Steve Maynard is the South King County and religion reporter at The News Tribune in Tacoma. Maynard has written about religion for daily newspapers for 26 years. Prior to joining The News Tribune in 1987 as religion/higher education reporter, Maynard worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in communications (editorial journalism) at the University of Washington and also has a master of arts degree in theology. Maynard served for six years as a board member for the Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was Region 10 (Pacific Northwest) director for SPJ for two years. He is secretary-treasurer for the Religion Newswriters Association.

David Mazzeo: BA, 2004

David "Wiz" Mazzeo live in concert David Mazzeo has been a hip-hop artist for the past 12 years under the stage name Wizdom. Wiz has performed all over Seattle and the state of Washington. He has two professional studio albums, “The Book of Wizdom” and “Music: Soul of the Man” (with Washington, D.C. producer Epidemmik), both available on iTunes, Amazon.com, and in local record stores. He was named by Seattle Weekly as a “standout act of 2008″ and has been on radio stations KUBE 93, KEXP 90.3 and Sports Radio 950 KJR. Wiz performed at the Seattle Weekly Reverbfest 2008, a show at Neumos to support the return of the Seattle Sonics, and opened for acts such as NYC’s Large Professor, a Seattle favorite Macklemore and super-group Dyme Def. Wiz has also been written about in URB Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, Sound Magazine, and okayplayer.com. Wiz just released a free seven-song EP available for download on his web site: www.wizdomsound.com.

Jocelyn McCabe: BA, 1993

Jocelyn McCabe is vice president of communications for the Association of Washington Business, the state’s chamber of commerce located in Olympia. She joined AWB in July after serving as director of communications for the Association of Washington School Principals. In October 2008 she earned the designation Accredited in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America. APR is a mark of accreditation for public relations professionals who demonstrate their commitment to the profession and to its ethical practice. The designation is earned based on broad knowledge, strategic perspective and sound professional judgment. Nationwide, approximately 6,000 public relations professionals have achieved accreditation since the program began in 1964.

Robert W. McChesney: MA, 1986; PhD, 1989

2010 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Robert McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research (ICR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Executive Director of the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research, and Director of Graduate Studies at the ICR.

McChesney is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. He also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio. From 1988 to 1998 he was on the Journalism and Mass Communication faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Megan McDevitt: BA, 2004

Marketing and Event Manager: Georgia Institute of Technology

Dan McDonough: BA, 1948

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize (Local General or Spot News Reporting) with fellow alumni Linda Wilson (BA, 1979) and Laurie Smith (Attended, 1994 and 1995) for their coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story for the Longview (Washington) Daily News.

Jerilyn McIntyre: PhD, 1973 Communications

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Jerilyn McIntyre is one of five recipients who have been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Utah, the university’s highest honor. McIntyre became the 13th president of Central Washington University (CWU) in 2000. She was the first woman to serve as the president of CWU. The Ellensburg campus music building and the Student Union and Recreation Center, funded and constructed during her tenure, have been recognized with national architectural awards. Under her leadership, the university also completed extensive renovation and restoration of the historic Kamola and Sue Lombard residence halls. She initiated The Performing Arts and Presidential Speaker Series, bringing nationally recognized speakers and artists to Ellensburg. Under her leadership, the university began its first comprehensive fund-raising campaign, which reached its $21-million goal in June 2008. In addition, funding associated with grants and research has tripled since 2001 to $9.6 million. In September 2007, she won support from the board of trustees for the creation of the CWU Research Foundation, enabling the university to manage the significant increase in research. She has served as a member of the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board Advisory Council; the Central Southeastern Washington Advisory Board, U.S. Bank; the Economic Development Group of Kittitas County; the Washington Campus Compact board; and, the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention (Presidential Leadership Group). Prior to assuming responsibilities as CWU’s president, Dr. McIntyre served for 23 years at the University of Utah in several capacities including interim president twice and vice president for academic affairs for seven years. She was the first woman to serve in these positions. Before joining the University of Utah faculty in the Department of Communication, Dr. McIntyre taught at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and at Chico State College in California.

Neil McReynolds: BA, 1956

2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Directly after graduating from the UW, Neil McReynolds went to work for the Bellevue American newspaper (now the King County Journal) and was there 11 years, the last seven years as editor of the paper. During his last five years as editor, the paper led the state in the number of awards won. Because of his journalistic accomplishments and civic service, he was selected in 1965 as one of the three honorees by a program called the Three Outstanding Young Men in the State of Washington. In 1967, Gov. Dan Evans recruited him to be press secretary, a position he held for six years. He has been chair of the board or president of many major organizations in the Seattle-King County area over the years, including Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Bellevue Community College, Seattle-King County Economic Development Council, and Downtown Seattle Rotary Club. In the electric utility industry, he was president or chairman of the several Pacific Northwest and national organizations. In December 2003, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Public Relations Society of America.

Sean Means: BA, 1986

In the summer of 2004, Sean Means marks 11 years as movie critic of the Salt Lake Tribune. In addition to reviewing about 250 films a year, Means also covers Utah’s film industry and the annual madness of the Sundance Film Festival. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Leslie, and their two sons.

Todd Meyers: BA, 1986

Todd Meyers is manager of external communications for Allegheny Power, based in Pittsburgh. To get a glimpse of projects Meyers works on see: www.aptrailinfo.com and www.pathtransmission.com.

Gerianne (Johnson) Merrigan: PhD, 1992

Geri Merrigan Dr. Merrigan is a Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, where she has been the Department Chair for eight years. The textbook she wrote with Carole Huston, another UW Speech Communication graduate, Communication Research Methods, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

Robert Merry: BA, 1968

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Robert Merry is the publisher of STRATFOR, the world’s leading publisher of global intelligence serving more than one million licensed individual and enterprise users in corporations, academic institutions and government agencies. Merry was president and editor-in-chief of Congressional Quarterly for 12 years. Under Merry, CQ became a pioneer in Internet publishing and more than tripled its revenue before the company was sold to Sage Publications and Roll Call, a Washington-based subsidiary of the Economist Group of London. Merry is an author of several critically-acclaimed books, including the recently released “A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent.” Merry was also a Washington correspondent for The Wall Street Journal for ten years and served in U.S. Army Intelligence.

Drew Mikkelsen: BA, 1993

Drew Mikkelsen reached his career goal when he returned to work in Seattle for KING-5 News last December. He’s the South Sound Bureau Chief.

After graduation Drew worked in television news in Yakima (for free) beforemoving to Las Vegas and then Portland. He enjoys being closer to family since he has a wife and child now too. If you hear of any “hot” news stories e-mail Drew at dmikkelsen@king5.com.

Daniel Miller: BA, 2004

Assistant Vice President/Premier Client Manager: Bank of America

Kathleen F. Miller: BA, 1987

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Freelance writer and owner of Blue Emu Communications, Kathleen Miller writes for several local publications and web sites including Seattle Citysearch and Puget Sound Business Journal. She is active in the Society for Professional Journalists and Association for Women in Communications and stages an annual career workshop for UW Communication students. Miller is also past president of the Communication Alumni Club.

Ken Miller: MA, 1987

Ken Miller is the Public Information Officer and Web Manager for the city of Lansing, Kansas. He oversees the city’s web site, www.lansing.ks.us as well as Lansing’s government access television channel.

Ken married Anne Dennehy in June 2006. Anne is an RN and works for Kansas City Hospice. They live together with Ken’s daughter in Lawrence, Kansas. Grace Miller is 13 years old and participates in the gifted program, an elite volleyball team and a local softball team. Ken can be reached by e-mail at oscarfactor@yahoo.com.

(Photo is Ken and Anne Miller in Colorado, summer 2008.)

Marcie Miller: BA, 2002

Marcie brought a rich background in journalism to her studies at the University of Washington. She was a reporter and columnist for Arusha Times in Arusha, Tanzania, Africa–her “Women’s Voices” column highlighted women’s issues in Tanzania. She also spent eight years at the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles, WA.

Marcie graduated Cum Laude from the journalism track of the Department of Communication with a minor in International Studies. She did her internship at The Herald, filing over 60 stories in 14 weeks on topics ranging from police beat news and transportation issues to diversity and elections.

As a reporter for the Whidbey News-Times she covers education and Navy news. She has reported on a major $45 million school bond, the memorial service for astronaut Willie McCool, Governor Gary Locke’s visits to the Navy base, and the Iraqi war from a local angle.

Ruth Gahnberg Miller: BA, 1938

Ruth Miller is a former reporter for the Yakima Daily Republic and The Seattle Times. She is proud to report that she is now 88 and still writing.

Ken Mochizuki: BA, 1976

Today, Mochizuki is a journalist and a renowned author of children’s literature. An alumnus of the Department of Communication, he made his first trek back to campus in three decades to visit with aspiring journalists on November 30.

Bryan Monroe: BA, 1987

2007 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Bryan Monroe has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com. In this role, Monroe will lead the editorial planning and content strategy for CNN’s online and mobile political coverage from the network’s D.C. bureau.

Most recently, Monroe was a visiting professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and is a former president of NABJ, the National Association of Black Journalists. Also, while at Knight-Ridder in 2005, he helped lead the team in Biloxi, Miss., that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to his professorship at Northwestern, Monroe served as Vice President and Editorial Director at Ebony and Jet magazines in Chicago. At the magazines, he led the coverage of the 2008 presidential elections and conducted the first interview with then President-elect Barack Obama following his November victory; and also had the last major interview with pop star Michael Jackson before his death in 2007.

Kristin C. Moran: MA and PhD, 1997 and 2000

Kristin C. Moran is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at the University of San Diego. She received her B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of San Diego and then attended the University of Washington School of Communications. Her dissertation titled “Mexican Telenovelas and Latina Teenagers’ Understanding of Romantic Relationships: A Reception Analysis” examined the text/audience interaction through focus group and interview data. Her research interests include international communication with a focus on Spanish-language media in Spain, Mexico and the United States. Dr. Moran is a recipient of a TransBorder Institute Research Grant to study the impact of Spanish-language news in San Diego. Dr. Moran also researches the potential impacts of television on children and adolescents and includes her international focus by studying the expansion of children’s television programming in a global context. Dr. Moran is USD’s representative to BINACOM, Binational Association of Schools of Communication where she works to facilitate international communication research with an emphasis upon Mexico. Her work has been published in Global Media Journal, Journal of San Diego History and presented at the annual conferences of the International Communication Association, Global Fusion and the National Communication Association.

Clarence Moriwaki: BA, 1978

Clarence Moriwaki is the CEO of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington. Moriwaki was most recently the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Committee and vice president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community.

Eric Nalder: BA, 1968

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Eric Nalder is a senior enterprise reporter for Hearst Newspapers and has served for chief investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nalder was awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for an investigative series that exposed the weak regulation of oil tankers following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 1997, he received a second Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for a series of stories about corruption and waste in the federal government’s Native American housing program. For a 1993 investigation of U.S. Sen. Brock Adams, Nalder shared an Investigative Reporters and Editors award, the Associated Press Managing Editors Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Headliner Award. Nalder’s other awards include a 1996 Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Investigative Reporting Award and the 2001 Clarion Award Investigative Reporting. Nalder and the P-I investigative team won the 2008 John Jay Award for Criminal Justice Reporting. In 1994, he received the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for his book, Tankers Full of Trouble. He has taught interviewing and investigative reporting workshops in five countries and has been a reporter for 36 years. He has lived in Norway, France, Lebanon and Afghanistan and has also worked for The Seattle Times and The San Jose Mercury News.

Dane Narbaitz: BA, 1991

Dane Narbaitz, formerly Northwest area sales supervisor for Robert Mondavi Corp., has joined Long Shadows Vintners as Vice President, Sales and Marketing effective immediately. Long Shadows, led by former Chateau Ste. Michelle CEO Allen Shoup, is a consortium of ultra-premium wineries established in 2003. It brings a renowned group of celebrated international vintners to Washington State.

Joan Neils: BA, 2004

Communications and Marketing Director: for J. Neils Enterprises, Inc.

Debbie (Pettitt) Németh: BA, 2005

Debbie Németh is a Training Compliance Auditor for US Airways.

Neil Neroutsos: BA, 1986 (Broadcast Journalism)

Neil Neroutsos went on to earn a masters in corporate public relations from Northwestern University (1991). Since then, he has worked in numerous marketing and communications positions. He is currently the media and public relations liaison for Snohomish County Public Utility District. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Shoreline.

Assunta Ng: MA, 1979 Speech Communication

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

2005 Department of Communication Distinguished Alumna

Assunta Ng is the founder and publisher of the Seattle Chinese Post and its English-language sister newspaper, the Northwest Asian Weekly. She began college in Oregon. But her heart was set on the UW. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Asian History in three years, but she did not want to graduate. So, during her senior year, she took journalism classes. Before she knew it, she was writing for The Daily. Ng earned her teaching certificate in 1976 and taught for some years. She came back to the UW for a master’s degree in Speech Communication. She founded the Seattle Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly in 1982 and 1983 respectively.

My Tam H. Nguyen: BA, 2006

My Tam Nguyen works in community relations at the City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development on long-range urban planning projects including the Central Waterfront. She has studied architecture in Rome, social political and economic change in Vietnam, and traveled with the Washington Council on International Trade on a social entrepreneurship sustainable community development mission to Brazil studying social change and nonprofit models, implementing a global citizenship and diplomacy program for low-income youth here in the Puget Sound. Her current community service includes the Seattle Art Museum Young Advisory Board, mentoring for City Year and Ashoka Foundation’s Youth Venture, and the Municipal League of King County’s Candidate Evaluation Steering Committee. An alumna of Leadership Tomorrow and the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation’s Community Leadership Program, she is a recipient of the 2010 Verizon Wireless Asian Pacific American Heritage Award.

Kris Nichols: BA, 2005

Project Manager: T-Mobile

Chris S. Nishiwaki: BA, 1995

Chris Nishiwaki graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in Journalism and Sociology. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He is a Mercer Island-based freelance writer with over 13 years of experience in journalism. he started his journalism career as the tennis beat writer for the Bellevue Journal American (now the King County Journal). He has gone on to cover the state legislature and professional and local sports for the Lewiston News Tribune in Idaho and The Kansas City Star. He has also written for the Northwest Asian Weekly, The Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Northwest Nikkei, The Northshore Citizen and several other publications.

Jody Deering Nyquist: BA, 1960; MA, 1967 Speech Communication

2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame

Jody Deering Nyquist is Associate Dean Emerita of the UW Graduate School and an emeritas member of the graduate faculty of the UW Department of Communication. She was the University’s director of the Center for Instructional Development and Research from 1984–2000. Both her undergraduate and graduate work was completed at the University where she has been a faculty member since 1969. In the Department of Communication, Nyquist taught undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal and instructional communication, interviewing, small group facilitation, public speaking, and media. Most recently she was PI for two major grants, from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Spencer. In addition to over 70 articles and book chapters, she has edited six books and co-authored “Working Effectively with Graduate Assistants and Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: What Concerns Do We Have?” Nyquist has received numerous awards for her work in her discipline and in higher education from the UW and from national and international organizations. She was president of the Western States Communication Association in 1984 and later received its highest award, the Distinguished Service Award. In 1992, she served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in New Zealand. In 1996, she was awarded the prestigious Robert J. Kibler Award and in 2002, the Samuel L. Becker Award, the highest award given for scholarship, teaching, and service by the National Communication Association. Nyquist has served on boards for over 50 universities, organizations, independent schools, and nonprofit agencies. She has served on the editorial boards of nine journals and as an outside reviewer for ten universities. She has lectured at over 20 universities in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia. She was visiting professor at Nagoya University from September 5 to December 5, 2008.