Class Notes

Daniela Martinez Carpizo (Comm) worked at Major League Baseball, helping coordinate the 2021 MLB All-Star Game in Denver. Following MLB All-Star week, she joined the Colorado Rockies for the 2021 season before later joining the Denver Broncos community development team. She now works at the Leeds School of Business as a program coordinator for recent alumni and student engagement.

Kim Fuller (Jour) is a co-founder of Jaunt Media Collective, a collection of print and digital lifestyle publications based in Colorado. In 2021, Fuller, who lives in Vail, launched Covered Bridge, a print magazine for the Vail Valley.

Brooke Diamond (Advert) has worked in advertising and marketing since graduating from CU Boulder, leading brands such as American Red Cross, Gillette, Campbell Soup Company and Johnson & Johnson. Diamond is the marketing director at Morgan Stanley. She met her husband while living in New York City. They welcomed their first child into the world in November 2020 and live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lauren Glendenning (Jour) is the communication manager for Amazon Web Services on the Global Employer Brand team. Glendenning previously held the roles of sponsored content director at Swift Communications, editor-in-chief at The Aspen Times, editorial projects director at Colorado Mountain News Media, and reporter and senior editor at the Vail Daily.

Heather Mundt (Jour) is a freelance writer. She wrote Colorado’s only comprehensive guide to family travel, Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure, which was published in May 2022 by the University of New Mexico Press. The Colorado native and mom of two teen boys lives in Longmont with her husband and two rescue huskies. She writes about family, adventure and outdoor travel.

Drew Krejci (Advert) is vice president of corporate communications at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Krejci’s time in Boulder launched a career in communications that has taken him to New York City, Washington, D.C., and now Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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

Patrick Everson (Jour) and his wife, Annette (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. “It’s been a long journey from the Campus Press basement offices at Mackey, spending countless hours with the best peers from 1989–91. And CU continues to set me up for success,” Patrick Everson says.

​​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 CU Boulder's Campus Press and worked for the Longmont Daily-Times Call and Rocky Mountain News. He enjoys traveling, skiing and attending European soccer games, and he lives outside of Prague with his wife.

Martin Streim (Comm’76; MComm) retired in 2017 after a 35-year career in corporate human resources where he focused on organizational and leadership development. Before retiring, he spent several years as the director of ethics and business conduct in his employer’s office of legal counsel. He and his wife, Christie, live in Boulder.

Jad Davenport (MJour), a National Geographic represented freelance photographer and writer, captured a flock of Iceland gulls outside of Ilulissat, Greenland, which sits at the mouth of the Ilulissat Kangerlua glacier (Jakobshavn Icefjord). The glacier produces 20 million tons of ice a day. See "Never-Ending Story" from the fall 2021 issue of CMCI Now for more of Davenport’s photos and an essay on visual storytelling. His memoir, Blue Horizons: In Search of the Last Wild Islands, will be out in early 2022.

Morgan Walton (StratComm) began working in October 2021 as a junior designer at Union, an independent creative and performance marketing agency in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Megan Nyvold (Jour) moved to Miami following graduation. She works as a brandmaster and oversees social media operations at Biscayne Bay Brewing Co. Before that, her broad background and excellent communication skills allowed her to gain experience working for an advertising agency, as well as both private and Fortune 500 companies. She has extensive experience with video-sharing social networking, content creation and online communications.

Hannah Metzger (Jour) is working as a breaking news reporter for The Denver Gazette.

Rhodes Scholar Serene Singh (Jour, PolSci) was crowned the 2020–21 National All-American Miss, winning the world’s largest pageant.

Austin Braun (Advert) is the digital media strategist at CU Boulder’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, using social and digital media to advance research, elevate reputation and build community in the college. During his free time, when he isn’t distance running or climbing 14ers, he’s working to create a better future with next-generation drone software engineering as chief strategist and creative at Ascend Engineering.

Following graduation, Brock Anderson (Jour) began a series of postgraduate internships with NFL teams, serving as a media relations intern with the Denver Broncos in 2015, the Green Bay Packers in 2016 and the San Francisco 49ers for part of 2017. He then took a position with the newly relocated Los Angeles Chargers, where he serves as a football communications manager.

Kylie Bearse (Jour) has been a meteorologist since 2011 and recently joined FOX31 as the weekday morning meteorologist. She loves the challenge of forecasting every season in Colorado and is an avid hiker. Bearse is a certified meteorologist after going back to school at Mississippi State University.

Paris Bradley (Jour) is senior vice president of strategy and communications at Teneo—a global CEO advisory firm—where she oversees media relations for the world’s leading companies. Prior to Teneo, Bradley was a vice president at Edelman where she built and scaled global, integrated media campaigns. Before Edelman, she led product communications and served as company spokesperson at DISH. In 2017, she was awarded at CES for her work championing diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology industry.

Mitchell Byars (Jour) has been reporting for the Daily Camera since 2011. Originally from Kona, Hawaii, over the past decade, Byars has become one of the most trusted sources for breaking news, police and court reporting in Boulder County and beyond. During the 2013 Colorado floods, he stayed up for two nights in the newsroom to post updates on the Camera’s website and social media. He was also a leader in the coverage of this year’s shooting at a Boulder King Soopers. He is respected and well known in the Boulder community for his witty “scanner for the win” tweets, his vocal advocacy of local and ethical journalism, and his support of CMCI students through career fairs and internship opportunities.