Chryss Cada ('90) wrote "A Choice, but First a Promise," about her choice to become a single mother, and it was recently published in the book "A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers." Cada writes for Parents, Ladies Home Journal and several Colorado trade magazines. She teaches news writing at CSU.

Monty Miranda ('90) has joined a new production company, BeachHouse Films, in Santa Monica, Calif. His independent caper film "Skills Like This" is scheduled to be released nationwide this spring.

Stacey Baca ('91) is the Sunday morning anchor and weekday reporter at ABC-TV7 in Chicago.

Yasmine Marino ('91) is a freelance TV producer and writer in Denver doing business as Prototype Productions Inc. Her clients have included American Woman TV, Aurora 8, KATV, the town of Parker and KWGN-Channel 2. Marino also worked for 13 years as a news producer and writer at KWGN and KCNC-Channel 4 in Denver.

Amy Hume ('92) is a communications consultant at the University of Colorado at Denver. She joins CU after 15 years in the advertising business on the agency side.
Amy.hume@ucdenver.edu

Mark Lehnerz ('92) is the fluid-power advertising manager at Gates Corp. in Denver. He started at Gates more than 14 years ago as a copywriter.
mlehnerz@gates.com

Jerrilynn Lilyblade ('93) is working as a freelance desktop-publishing localization specialist in Broomfield. Localization involves taking a product and making it linguistically and culturally appropriate to the target locale where it will be used and sold. Lilyblade and her husband welcomed their first baby in April.
jerrilynn@lilyblade.com

Freelance writer Steve Graham ('97) and his wife, Christine, partake of refreshments at School homecoming activities Oct. 4. (Photo by William Drumm)

Fields Moseley ('93) is a general assignment reporter and back-up anchor on KUTV 2News in Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City and from there anchors a prime-time evening news show for the company's station in West Palm Beach, Fla. Moseley has been nominated for two Emmy awards.
fmoseley@kutv2.com

Cory Sher ('93) lives in Los Angeles, where he is the director of distribution and marketing for Scripps Networks, which comprises the lifestyle television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY and Fine Living, and country music video channel GAC.

Michael Davies ('94) is the director of technical operations for Fox Sports in Los Angeles. He has been working in sports broadcast production management for the last 13 years with events such as Live Boxing on HBO and Fox's broadcasts of NFL Football, Major League Baseball, NASCAR and others.
michael.davies@fox.com

Linda Lee Ozuna (MA '94) is the senior vice president of branding and client resources for The Broadcast Image Group.
lindalee@broadcastimage.com

Dan Pacheco ('94), senior manager of digital products for The Bakersfield Californian, won a $837,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge last spring. His "Printcasting" project will launch this spring. www.printcasting.com
dpacheco@bakersfield.com, dan@futureforecast.com

Jason Gewirtz ('95) is now the managing editor at SportsTravel magazine, a trade magazine based in Los Angeles that covers the sports event industry. Gewirtz previously was at the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, Calif.
jgewiz@aol.com

Joe Lindsey ('95) has been a professional freelance journalist for eight years and is published in Outside, Men's Journal, 5280 and Bicycling, among other magazines. He lives in Boulder.

Serena Schonbrun Connelly ('95) is a copy director in New York City at R/GA, an interactive agency that delivers creative global strategies and complex software development. www.rga.com
Serena.connelly@rga.com

Amy Dionne ('96) is the chief concept officer at Communications Plus in Houston.
Amy@communications-plus.net

Jodi Rave ('96) was awarded first place in the Pacific Northwest Society of Professional Journalist's "General Column" category for her columns on Native issues. Rave is a national correspondent for Lee Enterprises and covers Native issues for the Missoulian and other newspapers.

Zak Spector ('95) is a producer at CBS 2 in Chicago.

Lori Batcheller (MA '97) just wrote her first children's book, "Rosa Blooms," about a wild shrub living in the mountains near Boulder. Batcheller is also a freelance writer specializing in health, disabilities, yoga and spirituality. Batcheller is a yoga instructor who also teaches journal writing workshops through Boulder Valley Adult Learning and Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.
ljbatcheller@earthlink.net

Jennifer Flynn ('97) is the marketing manager for First Northern Credit Union in Chicago.
jflynn@fncu.org

Steve Graham ('97) is a freelance writer for several Colorado magazines and Web services. He recently moved to Fort Collins after 10 months of volunteer service rebuilding houses outside New Orleans. He was also involved in campaigning for Barack Obama and Mark Udall.
Steveg1975@yahoo.com

Christopher Hawley ('97) lives in Venice, Calif., but is most at home on the road touring with the band, Christopher Hawley Rollers. The band is releasing a new batch of songs following the success of the first record, "Red Lights Green." Songs from the band's first album were featured in a recent documentary about competitive skiing.

Donald Heider (Ph.D. '97) has been appointed as the first dean of the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago.

Julia Jargon ('97) is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She covers the food industry from the Chicago bureau.
Julie.jargon@wsj.com

Anthony Martini ('97) has moved to a new job where he is in charge of employee communications for DIRECTV satellite television. Martini and his wife, Jill, welcomed their first child, Isabella, last summer.

Greg Benchwick ('98) spent much of his life after graduation on the road working as the managing editor for the Bolivian Times and writing travel books and articles for the Lonely Planet, National Geographic Traveler, the San Jose Mercury News, The Miami Herald, and Fodor's Guide. He also worked for several years as an editor for Bay Area newspapers including The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Examiner, and the Sonoma Sun. Benchwick now lives in Denver and owns and operates a new-media consultancy firm, MonJo Media.
Gbenchwick@gmail.com

Sarah Miller ('98) is a producer at Towers Production documentary company in Chicago.

Dave Briggs ('99) fills in as co-host of "Fox & Friends" Weekend on Fox News Channel in New York City. In his four years doing sports in Boston, Briggs covered two Superbowls, two World Series titles and one NBA title. He and his wife live in Westport, Conn.
briggssports@hotmail.com

Nicky DeFord ('99) has returned to Vail Resorts to lead its new Vail Resorts 360 charitable contributions program.
ndeford@vailresorts.com

Julie McCoy (MA '99) is an associate editor at SI Review, a magazine published by Staffing Industry Analysts in Los Altos, Calif.
jmccoy@staffingindustry.com

Rachel Shindelman (MA '99) works in Chicago at Ogilvy & Mather doing copywriting and content strategy. She is also working on the Chicago 2016 campaign to bring the Olympics to the United States.
Rachel.shindelman@ogilvy.com

Mag Strittmatter (MA '99) is the executive director of the Jeffco Action Center, a nonprofit organization in Jefferson County that serves low-income and homeless people. The center's work was featured in a segment of "Bill Moyers Journal" in August. www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08222008/watch.html

Katrina A. Yeager ('99) has left Yankee Magazine to freelance and teach composition at a local private college. She is also a master's student at Middlebury College Bread Loaf College of English, Vt. She was married in August 2007 to Seth Farmer, also a teacher and journalist.