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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.

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

John Branch (MJour’96) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times. He is renowned for covering offbeat stories in the sporting world, from alligator hunting to wingsuit flying. He is the bestselling author of two books that have been featured multiple times in Best American Sports Writing and his most recent book will be released on June 1, 2021. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leslie Oliver (Jour) is director of media and external communications at Comcast NBCUniversal. Previously, she was the communications and policy director for U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter. After following her brother, David Oliver (Jour’91), to CU Boulder, Leslie lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a political consultant and with trade and nonprofit organizations. She is a CU football season ticket holder and recovering attorney, and has lived in Denver since 2000.

Brent Schrotenboer (Jour), an enterprise and investigative reporter for USA Today, won his 11th national top 10 writing award since 2014 from the Associated Press Sports Editors, including those he won in 2021 with colleagues in explanatory reporting, projects reporting and event coverage. He has been with USA Today since 2012 and lives in San Diego, California. He has won 20 APSE national top 10 awards since 2001.

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.

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

Lee Hood (MJour; PhDComm’01) is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago where she won the national Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education in 2018. She taught broadcast journalism at CU Boulder from 2000 to 2009 after an 18-year career in TV news.

Anthony Martini (Hist, Jour) is director of content strategy and design with AT&T, where he leads a team that develops guidance for 150,000+ frontline representatives and call center agents across the company. He, his wife and two daughters love exploring Colorado and supporting local charities like Bags of Fun and the American Heart Association.

Since 2003, Norm Shearer (Advert) has been chief creative officer at Cactus, one of Colorado’s top creative advertising agencies. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in California, Norm lives in Denver with his wife, Dawn.Ìý

Don Heider (PhDComm) served as dean of the Loyola University Chicago School of Communication from 2008 to 2018 and received the Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year Award in August 2018. Shortly after, he accepted a position with Santa Clara University, where he is the chief executive of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

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Kelly Graziadei (Advert)Ìýrecently became the entrepreneur in residence at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. She has over 20 years of leadership experience in technology and consumer internet.

Laura (Schneider) Moetz (MJour)Ìýjoined Accenture PLC in September 2016 as a marketing and communications manager based in New York City. Previously, Laura was a manager of internal and employee communications for Willis Towers Watson.Ìý

Curtis Snyder (Jour) was named associate director for athletic communications at CU Boulder last year. He also was recognized as CU Staff Member of the Year for Athletics, which was voted on by student-athletes.

Andrea Palten (Jour) has worked in a variety of fields, including real estate and nonprofit, and is currently vice president of marketing at Boulder-based Techstars, which supports entrepreneurs as they grow their businesses. She also is chief marketing officer at a consultancy she created.

Holly (Shrewsbury) Jones (Jour) is a strategic communications advisor at Denver-based PR and management consulting firm GBSM. She previously spent 25 years in communication strategy roles for state and federal officials.

Heather (Nelson) Krueger (Comm) continued her studies by earning a master’s degree from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. After working in marketing and public relations, she focused on raising three children, and her oldest is carrying on the tradition as a sophomore at CU Boulder.

Kate Whiteley (Jour) started her career as a television reporter and anchor before moving to public relations. Since 2018, she has worked for Caesars Entertainment, where she is vice president of corporate communications and production. She lives in Las Vegas.Ìý

Craig Berkley (MJour) is a media technology consultant with more than 20 years of experience negotiating and managing partnerships in advanced media, video advertising, data and analytics. Previously, he was head of revenue for LiveRamp TV. There, he led the sales and development efforts of LiveRamp’s identity products and services across the video advertising industry. Prior to LiveRamp, he held senior executive positions at MasterCard, Charter Spectrum and Comcast.