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Shannon Luthy Lukens (Jour) is the news director for seven radio stations in Northwest Colorado and was recently voted Best Radio Personality in Steamboat Springs. Her photos and news stories frequently end up on the Denver networks. As president of Lukens Mountain Media, she is hired to announce events, sports and any shows in the area that need an emcee, including many of the activities at Steamboat Resort. Lukens was the longtime announcer of CU men’s lacrosse games in Boulder.Ìý

David Plati (Jour) will reach his 40th year working full time at CU on Jan. 9, 2023, all spent in the sports information department. He will be semi-retiring in 2023 to transition into the role of athletic historian for the university.

John Shepphird (Comm) is the senior creative director at FanDuel Group and lives in Hermosa Beach, California. His communication degree led him to a Columbia University master’s degree in screenwriting and directing. Shepphird has directed multiple TV shows and movies, and has written award-winning crime fiction.

Look for Scott Takeda (Jour) on your TV this fall. He is a recurring guest star on a new comedy called Panhandle and recently shot with Catherine Zeta Jones in the new Disney+ series National Treasure. He still appears on General Hospital.

​​Pete Baumgartner (Jour) is the managing editor for Central Asia and the Middle East at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, Czech Republic. Baumgartner served as a senior correspondent for RFE/RL in Munich, Germany, and Washington before moving to Prague. Before moving to Europe, he was the sports editor of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Campus Press and worked for the Longmont Daily-Times Call and the Rocky Mountain News. He enjoys traveling, skiing and attending European soccer games. He lives outside of Prague with his wife.

Kevin Gammon (Advert) started his career in Chicago at FCB advertising agency as a young creative working on the Coors and Gatorade accounts. He then moved to San Francisco to continue working for FCB as a creative director before working for McCann’s Microsoft team. He started his own agency in 2009. Thirteen years and two college-graduated kids later, he is still running Teak, his small creative agency, in San Francisco.

Patrick Everson (Jour) and his wife, Annette Stanford Everson (Bus'92), live in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked at the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 22 years before moving to Covers.com in 2016 as a national reporter covering the sports betting industry. In July 2021, he moved into his current role as the vice president of content for Props.com.

Carolyn Maas Hinkley (Jour) is the acting communications director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Arctic Energy Office, based in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is also the proud mother of Christine Hinkley (StratComm'22).

Moyra Knight (Jour) is vice president of communications at Astellas and manages the company’s on-market products across all regions worldwide. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, a graduate of the Arthur Page Future Leaders Program and a member of PageUp. Knight has more than 25 years of experience in communications and corporate foundations. She is married with two children and lives in Glenview, Illinois.

While at CU, Amy Jones (Comm) was the feature twirler for the national champion football team and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She had a career in sales, holding key roles in various industries and primarily focused on graphic design and large format printing. Later she began volunteering, working with local schools, women’s scholarships and educational foundations. While at CU, Jones met her husband, Clark Jones (Acct’91). The couple created the Garman/Jones endowments to fund scholarships for CMCI and Leeds students, and they also donate to the CU Athletic Department. They live in Southern California with their daughter and spend as much time in Boulder as possible.

Jennifer Alsever (Jour), a business journalist and author based in Eagle, Colorado, released her latest young adult novel, Burying Eva Flores, a paranormal mystery set in Paonia. This is the fifth novel published by Alsever since 2016. When the Coloradan magazine published news about her first trilogy, the Trinity Forest Series, several years ago, L.A.-based film producer Matthew Moore (Engl’93) reached out and they began collaborating on adapting her stories for the big screen. Alsever credits her son, Jacob Beauprez (ExMediaSt’24), with pushing her to write fiction.

Kris Hudson (Jour) is a director of communications in Dallas for the commercial real estate services company CBRE. She joined CBRE in 2015 after a 20-year journalism career that included 10 years at The Wall Street Journal and five years at The Denver Post.

Dan Pacheco (Jour) is beginning his 11th year as the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is working on his first book, Experimenting With Emerging Media Platforms: Field Testing the Future, for publication by Routledge in 2023.

Sam Flickinger (Jour) is approaching 14 years at ExpertVoice in Salt Lake City, a software as a service company focused on brand advocacy, retail training, generating helpful product reviews and more. After spending more than a decade in print media, today he is a digital storyteller and editor who chronicles the adventures of the organization’s members and connects them with their 500+ brand partners in a verified community of experts online.

Jeff Tahler (Comm) is the managing director at Madica Productions. Madica's hit Netflix series Ginny and Georgia is in production for its second season. The company’s YouTube series Brave Mission amassed more than 4.5 million views in the first month of its release.

Tracey Marx Bernstein (Jour) is an executive producer at Yahoo. She creates content in the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B) space, celebrating different cultures, identities and backgrounds.

Brent Schrotenboer (Jour), an enterprise and investigative reporter for USA Today, recently won three national top 10 writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors for work he did in 2021. Schrotenboer has received 11 national top 10 awards since 2014. He has been with USA Today since 2012 and covers legal, business and social issues related to sports. He lives in San Diego, California.

Sabine Kortals Stein (Bus, Mus’91; MJour) works closely with the dean of the College of Music and the assistant dean for concerts and communications. Additionally, she serves as editor of the college's annual magazine, and edits and contributes to other print and digital publications. She also serves on the College of Music’s diversity committee. Stein’s career comprises music journalism and for-profit and nonprofit communications.

This year, Kelly Graziadei (Advert) and her co-founder, Joanna Lee Shevelenko, announced and closed their first institutional venture capital fund, f7 Ventures. The venture capital fund was one of the largest first-time funds launched by female operators. This is particularly notable with only 4% of VC firms in the U.S. led by women. The $50 million fund includes a respected and diverse set of limited partners, and 70% of their investments have been to underrepresented founders.