Dana Lauren Berry ('00) is a Centura Health spokeswoman in the PR department. In February, she spent two weeks in Peru on a mission trip, where she and 17 others from Centura performed surgeries, treated patients and went sightseeing. DanaBerry@Centura.org

Kelly Campbell ('00) was named to the Big 12 Conference 10th anniversary volleyball team. She lives in Oxford, England.

Richa Giri ('00) left Fox Sports Net in Los Angeles for PBS affiliate KLCS-TV, also in Los Angeles, to work as a television broadcast associate. Her main duties are to assist in production, write, edit and report on local happenings in the Los Angeles Unified School District and assist in programming for the station. richa.giri@lausd.net

Sasa Gorisek (MA'00) moved to New York City from Vienna, Austria, and works at the United Nations as a public information officer in the nongovernmental organization section.

Kirk Siegler ('00) left his post as legislative reporter for Montana Public Radio and started working for Aspen Public Radio.

Mandi Torrez ('00) of the Greeley Tribune won third place in sports event story writing in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Meredith Arndt ('01) accepted a position as senior public relations and communications manager at the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau in January. She lives in Boulder. mereditharndt@yahoo.com

Elizabeth Jacobs ('01) of the Holyoke Enterprise won first place in humorous column writing in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Dee Martinez (MA '01) was one of three writers at Denver Health Medical Center to receive the Bronze Quill award from the International Association of Business Communications for the 2003 Denver Health and Denver Health Community Health Services Annual Reports.

Brady McCombs ('01), formerly of the Greeley Tribune, won third place for sustained coverage in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February. The same month, he left the Greeley Tribune to work at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson as a border and immigration reporter. bmccombs@azstarnet.com

Ryan Morgan ('01) of the Boulder Daily Camera won second place with another writer in spot news story writing in the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters contest in February.

Joel Priest ('01) is a sports writer and photographer for the Pine River Times in Bayfield, a sports producer at KDGO-AM in Durango, a public address announcer for the Bayfield High School Wolverines and a contributor to Softball West Magazine.

Dana Wiggins ('01) left her job as producer on the morning shift at KMGH-Channel 7 in Denver for a job as a nightside assistant producer at KWGN-Channel 2. She is planning to marry in the fall and is also publishing a book called "Poetry of a Little Girl Lost … and Found." wigginsdana@hotmail.com

Brent Boyer ('02) of the Steamboat Pilot and Today won first place in deadline news reporting in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February. He also won second place in spot news story writing in the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters contest in February.

Christine Deorio ('02) is managing editor for Mountain Living magazine in Denver. cdeorio@mountainliving.com

Ryan Van Duzer ('02) bicycled back to Colorado and is living in Boulder after two years in Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer. His nearly 4,000-mile bike trek was documented in the Boulder Daily Camera.

Ben Hicks ('02) is a photographer for the Union-Democrat in Sonora, Calif.

Joni Jaje ('02) left local news in Michigan and returned to the network scene in Washington, D.C., where she worked previously. She is a producer for NHK Japan and covers the Defense and State departments and the White House.  

Jenn Ooton ('02) of the Longmont Daily Times-Call won second place in agricultural story writing and third place in news story writing in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Stephen VanDis ('02) lives in Venice Beach, Calif., where he is a producer for Mark Burnett. He has worked on the last six seasons of "Survivor" and on "Dancing with the Stars" and "The Contender." srv1979@hotmail.com

Rachel Carter ('03) of the Loveland Reporter-Herald won second place with three others in service to the first amendment and third place in business story writing in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Jennifer Coyne ('03) was in Turin, Italy, for the Winter Olympics as a freelance producer for NBC Universal after spending two years at KPIX-TV in the San Francisco Bay area. jenniferdcoyne@hotmail.com 

Daniel DeBelius ('03) of the Boulder Daily Camera won first place with three others in the online special package category in the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters contest in February and an award for outstanding use of multimedia from the Online News Association.

Christine Jones (MA'03) left her job as morning anchor in Amarillo, Texas, to join KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., as a reporter and anchor.

Tamera Manzanares (MA'03) of the Hayden Valley Press won first place in sports story writing and third place in business story writing and series in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Gray Newhouse ('03) works at a reinsurance brokerage firm in New Jersey called Guy Carpenter. Before that, he was at CNN on "NewsNight with Aaron Brown" as a free-lance production assistant in the graphics department. He lives in Hoboken.

Lindsey Noe ('03) is a club concierge for Hyatt Regency at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. linsdseyann118@hotmail.com

Hart W. Van Denburg (MA'03) was promoted to national news editor at Internet Broadcasting in Minneapolis. He edits and produces national and international news stories for NBC, Hearst, McGraw-Hill, Post-Newsweek, Cox and other partner sites across the country. hvandenburg@ibsys.com

Leslie Wilber ('03) of Erie Review won first-place awards in news story and sustained coverage in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Kabir Ananda ('04) is an assistant media planner at McClain Finlon Advertising in Denver, where he assists in planning and implementing media plans.

Brittany Anas ('04), along with another reporter from the Boulder Daily Camera, won first place in news story writing in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February.

Jason Berry ('04) produces the evening newscast at KOB-TV in Albuquerque, N.M. Previously, he was on the morning shift.

Corrine Blaisdell ('04) is a wedding and event planner for Euroevents & Travel in Lafayette.

Ann Depperschmidt ('04) of the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald won third place in feature story in the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters contest in February.

Carolyn Farr Harries ('04) is media manager at Washingtonian Magazine.

Anne Herbst (MA'04) won a National Press Photography Association award for features photography. She is a photojournalist at KUSA-Channel 9 in Denver.

Patrick Kelley ('04), a former photojournalist for The Aurora Sentinel and the Aurora Daily Sun, won first place in the photo essay, story picture combo and news photography categories in the Colorado Press Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest in February. He also won first and second place in general news photography, first place in picture story, second place in feature photography and second place in sports photography in the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters contest in February.

Dan Viens (MA'04) is a Web producer at KUSA-Channel 9 in Denver.

Kara Yi ('04) is an account executive at Schwartz Communications in San Francisco.

Kristen Allen ('05) will leave for Germany in the fall to conduct research and to intern at a German newspaper as a Fulbright Scholar. allen.kristen@googlemail.com

Alexandra Burton ('05) is employed by National Hockey League in New York City and on game nights works for the New York Rangers. burtonaa@hotmail.com

Kynton Chan ('05) became a page designer at the Orlando Sentinel in February. Kynton.Chan@gmail.com

Bart Glasser ('05) was accepted to a summer design program at the Poynter Institute in Florida on a full scholarship. bartong@montrosepress.com

Tressie Knowlton ('05), who was raised on a cattle ranch in the White Rock ranching community along Colorado 10 between Walsenburg and La Junta, was crowned Miss Rodeo America of 2006.

Laura Nigro ('05) is at Rubenstein Associates public relations in New York City. nigrolaura@hotmail.com

Jarod Norelius ('05) is a broadcaster for the University of Northern Iowa's women's basketball team.

Reagan Scott Pebley ('05) is head coach of the Utah State women's basketball team.

Josh Simeone ('05) left his TV reporting job in Maine to be a sports editor and writer with The Sports Network in Philadelphia.

Jojo Small ('05) moved from running a bureau in Williston, N.D., to the main station in Bismarck. She is part of the morning show and assists in anchoring, field reporting and producing, among other tasks. She said that most of her reporting is consumer related.

Dan Werner (MA '05) left his Web-producing job at KUSA-Channel 9 in Denver for a post at an online tech magazine.