Class Notes

Kevin Gammon (Advert) started his career in Chicago at FCB advertising agency as a young creative working on the Coors and Gatorade accounts. He then moved to San Francisco to continue working for FCB as a creative director before working for McCann’s Microsoft team. He started his own agency in 2009. Thirteen years and two college-graduated kids later, he is still running Teak, his small creative agency, in San Francisco.

​​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.

Ken McConnellogue (Jour) recently retired after 15 years as vice president for communication in CU’s Office of the President. He is busy relaxing, plowing through mysteries and furiously checking off projects on the home improvement list. He has a new appreciation for the saying, “Man die. House done.”

Troy Rappold (Comm) released his first book, Learn to Walk, Try to Fly: A Faith that Guides for a Lifetime, last October with Credo House Publishers. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Michele Heller (Jour) recently joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as manager of communications and media relations. Previously, she was an Obama administration communications appointee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. A journalist by trade, Michele has worked as an editor and reporter in Washington, D.C., Beijing and Hong Kong, including at The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, American Banker newspaper and The Standard in Hong Kong. 

B.J. (Hoeptner) Evans (Jour) is in her 10th year as communications manager for USA Volleyball in Colorado Springs. She worked her fifth Olympic Games in Rio as the U.S. volleyball teams won three bronze medals.

Patrick Everson (Jour) and his wife, Annette Stanford Everson (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.

Carolyn Maas Hinkley (Jour) is the acting communications director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Arctic Energy Office, based in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is also the proud mother of Christine Hinkley (StratComm'22).

Moyra Knight (Jour) is vice president of communications at Astellas and manages the company’s on-market products across all regions worldwide. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, a graduate of the Arthur Page Future Leaders Program and a member of PageUp. Knight has more than 25 years of experience in communications and corporate foundations. She is married with two children and lives in Glenview, Illinois.

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.

Andrew Beadle (Jour) has worked in public affairs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the past 16 years and currently works in the National Press Office in Washington, D.C. Before joining the FBI, he was a print reporter for several outlets, including Congressional Quarterly. He lives with his wife and two children in Maryland.

David Oliver (Jour) is a senior vice president for member solutions at the Georgia Bankers Association, where he has worked since 2008. His responsibilities include media relations, member education programs, and products and services. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Rachel, and 12-year-old son, Jack. In addition to rooting for the Buffs deep in SEC country, they enjoy traveling, watching Atlanta Braves baseball and spending time with David’s sister and fellow Buff, Leslie Oliver (Jour’96).

Moyra Knight (Jour) is vice president for communications and corporate citizenship at Astellas, where she oversees internal, external and digital communications and corporate responsibility initiatives. She lives near Chicago with her husband—a former faculty member at CU’s School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program—and two children.

Eric Christensen (Jour) is the managing editor of sports at CBS4 in Denver. He and his wife, Megan Souther, live in Wheat Ridge. His son, Davis, is a freshman at CU Boulder. 

Kelly Callahan (Advert) has been president of Williams Whittle Advertising in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2017. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three sons. 

Sarah Dawson Rothenbuhler (Comm) is the owner, president and CEO of Birch Equipment Co. in Seattle. Her responsibilities include strategic positioning, employee development, financial marketing and customer outreach. Once upon a time, she worked as an intern for the Seattle Seahawks.

Joe Nahra (Jour) is a senior business affairs executive at CAA Sports, a subsidiary of Creative Artists Agency, in New York City. He also teaches Intellectual Property and Licensing to graduate students in the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University. Before joining CAA in 2010, he spent 10 years at the NFL Players Association and formerly worked at IMG. The Cleveland native lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Meredith, and twin daughters, Cate and Lizzie.

In 2018, Priscilla Slocum Lacy (Jour, PolSci) started a new business, Andy Lacy Art, with her artist husband. Priscilla serves as the business manager and uses her communication skills daily to launch products, develop the brand and close sales. The couple live in Louisville, Colorado, and their son, Jack, is a CMCI junior studying strategic communication. They also have two daughters, Katherine (IntlAf’09) and Megan, a 2018 Willamette University graduate. 

Emmy Award-winning journalist Tim Wieland (Jour) has been the news director at CBS4 in Denver since 2004. He serves as guest faculty at the Poynter Institute and on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. In 2010, the Denver Business Journal recognized him as a 40 under 40 winner for his work in the community.