Notes from the Class of 1994

Award-winning producer and voice actor David Vincent (Jour) is known for voicing hundreds of characters in animation and video games such as Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter. David is co-founder and CEO of iOS app Unlocked—the pop culture streaming network, putting fans and celebrities together. David lives in Los Angeles and travels the world greeting fans at comic and Japanese animation conventions. He returned to Denver for Colorado Anime Fest in spring 2018.

Benilda Samuels (MJour) has been promoted to chief operating officer of Nurse-Family Partnership, a national program that serves first-time mothers and their children. 

Jennifer Alsever (Jour) has spent two decades building a career in journalism. She's worked for The Denver Post and worked as a freelance writer for Fortune magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, Wired and Fast Company. In 2017, she also plunged into fiction, releasing the first two novels in a young adult trilogy called The Trinity Forest Series. Jennifer lives in the mountains just outside of Vail and enjoys reading, writing mountain biking skiing and yoga. 

Jennifer (Pollice) Darrow (Jour) works for Denver- based production company Citizen Pictures. She is an executive producer on Food Network’s hit series Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and has received four Emmy nominations since working on the show.

Jill Painter Lopez (Jour) was recognized as the 2019 Southern California Sports Broadcasters (SCSB) reporter of the year for her reporting on the Los Angeles Angels and Anaheim Ducks for Fox Sports West. She shared the award with Alanna Rizzo (IntBus’97; MJour’03), who covers the Dodgers for SportsNet LA.

Michael Davies (Jour’94) spoke with CMCI students before a Buffs game to share his experiences as a senior vice president with FOX Sports. His team was setting up for the Big Noon Kickoff broadcast. 

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.

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.

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.

Nancy Benfield Connery (Comm) splits her time between California and Colorado. Connery works with CU Athletics and, through her startup OpenComp, she and her team seek to break the cycle of workplace inequities relating to gender and pay. When not working, Connery can be found hiking, skiing or traveling with her husband, two young adult daughters and their golden retrievers.