Class Notes

Tucker Gilmore (Comm) is a vice president with CPA Global, a leading IP management, technology and services company. He lives in San Diego with his wife and 2-year-old son. They carve out time to watch the Buffs on TV as much as possible.

Rachael (Shapiro) Lipton (MJour'04) is the copy chief of features and entertainment at the New York Post, where she has worked since 2004. Rachael edits famous gossip columnist Cindy Adams and contributes celebrity items to “Page Six.” She's hired a staff of copy editors and reports directly to the managing editors.

In March 2018, Chrissy Wolfram Taylor (MJour)  joined the Chicago Tribune as managing editor of audience. Previously, she spend eight years at the Hartford Courrant. Chrissy and her husband, Jonathan (Film'04), have two children. 

Sarah Bruckner (Comm) moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2017 and works as a global communications manager for BASF. She also volunteers for her local Make-A-Wish chapter. 

Beth McDowell Cleveland (Jour) is a partner at the creative communications firm Praytell, a two-time winner of PRWeek’s Agency of the Year and the only agency to ever win Best Place to Work every year in business. She helped start Praytell in 2014 and has grown the company to six offices across the U.S. and London. She lives in the San Francisco area.

Robert Barba (Jour) is deputy spot news editor for The Wall Street Journal. He focuses on real-time coverage, including stories on mergers and acquisitions, executive changes, and quarterly results. Before his appointment at WSJ, he held financial reporting positions at Bankrate, American Banker and Tresaure Coast Newspapers. 

After more than 11 years in various roles with Alliance Wake Magazine—the last three years as Editor-in-Chief—Garrett Cortese (Jour) has moved on to a new opportunity and adventure. At the start of 2017 Cortese began his new job as the Editorial Director of Watersports for the Bonnier Corporation in Winter Park, FL. His biggest duties will be to oversee the creation and production of Wakeboarding Magazine and WaterSki Magazine, both of which he read as a child growing up in California. Aside from the magazines Cortese will also help produce digital content, special issues, and brand extensions for each.

Peter Booth (MediaSt) is an attorney and shareholder at Polsinelli PC. Booth lives in Boulder with his wife, Lisa Schneider (Eng'96), and their children, Sidney and Sebastian.

Lauren Glendenning (Jour) is the global communications 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.

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.

Joshua Hernandez (Jour) is the co-founder of Impossible Possibilities, a volunteer-based education nonprofit that supports students in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and abroad through college scholarships and literacy programs. He is an avid traveler, photographer and nature enthusiast, and he’s writing his first novel, Maven the Raven and the Search for the Last Imperial, which uses birds as main characters. Hernandez married Celine Gallais in August.

Aly Jamison (Comm) won a Stevie American Business Award for her work in the communications field. Jamison works for the global sales training company RAIN Group as a public relations manager. She’s also a San Diego Blood Bank gallon donor.

Aly Jamison (Comm) won a Stevie American Business Award for her work in the communications field. Aly currently works for the sales training company RAIN Group in San Diego as public relations director. She is also a San Diego Blood Bank “Gallon Donor.”

Erich Schubert (Jour; MA’08) has been promoted to senior director of communications and content for the Denver Broncos. In his thirteenth season with the Broncos, Schubert’s role now involves overseeing both the day-to-day functions of the public relations department as well as managing the club’s digital and social teams. While working on his master’s at CU, Eric worked as a graduate assistant under associate athletic director and sports information director David Plati (Jour’82).

Pat Allen (Comm) founded UNI/FORM, a menswear company committed to creating high-quality basics made in the USA. UNI/FORM sells a shirt in memory of Ben Weible (Phil’06), with a portion of the proceeds supporting the Harmony Project, which gives instruments and music lessons to underprivileged children. When he’s not working on his company, Pat can be found behind the turntables as DJ Boo Bear. He is based in Los Angeles.

Jesse Wallace (Comm) has been vice president for affiliate distribution for the NFL since August, 2018. He lives in New York City with his wife, Hayley, and his 2-year-old daughter. 

Peter Booth (Jour) is a shareholder in the Denver office of Polsinelli, a national law firm. Booth lives in Boulder with his wife, Lisa Schneider (Engl'96), who is an adjunct instructor at Front Range Community College, and their children, Sidney and Sebastian. 

Spencer Trierweiler (Advert) is the senior vice president of creative for the advertising agency Motive, leading brands like Mtn Dew and Pepsi. Happily married to a (gulp) Nebraska graduate, Trierweiler enjoys his time skiing, hiking and biking the trails with his dogs. He is excitedly expecting his first child.

After serving as the station’s news director since 2013, Cara Pallone (Jour) became executive director of KOTO Community Radio in Telluride in September 2019.