Class Notes

After a long stretch with Golf Magazine and Sports Illustrated, during which he worked remotely from Boise, Idaho, Cameron Morfit (Jour) is writing for the PGA Tour. He lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Tom Brown (Advert) is the director of Facebook’s Creative Shop. Based in Menlo Park, California, the Creative Shop helps major brands and small businesses develop Facebook-specific content.

Kelley O’Gorman (Comm) worked in marketing at Levi’s and Nike, eventually returning to school to become a marriage and family therapist specializing in addiction. She has a private practice and is based in Oregon.

Meredith (Meskin) Martin (Jour) launched a company called StarBars, which offers salon-quality shampoo and conditioner bars without plastic packaging.

Shauna Emmons (Jour, Thtr) lives in West Hills, California, and is a vice president at CBS Studios, where she has worked since 2019.

Jenifer Karpan Marx (Comm’90; MJour) lives in Vail and works part time editing grants and writing for a nonprofit newsletter. She has served on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Safe Harbor Lab Rescue, and continues volunteering in the community. Before staying home to raise her three children, she worked in various marketing and communication roles at U.S. West, Starz Encore and The Integer Group. A longtime Buffs season-ticket holder, she attends football games with her husband and best friends from Sewall Hall, Beth (Carmain) Watson (Jour’90) and Vance Watson (Hist’91).

Todd Goldstein (Comm, MBA’09) is chief revenue officer for AEG. He and his wife Kim (Erwin) (Jour’95) live in Los Angeles with their three children. Their middle child, Ben, is a junior at CMCI, majoring in communication and media studies.

As vice president of marketing at Match Media Group, Vicki Shapiro (Comm) works with leading brands to bring their messaging to a portfolio of dating apps, including Tinder, OK Cupid and Match. With more than 15 years of experience developing marketing programs, Vicki oversees the creative and research teams to support the sales staff worldwide. She previously worked as vice president of digital for the sports division at Madison Square Garden. Vicki lives in New York City.

Bill Shander (MJour) has been in information design and data visualization for 25 years. In addition to working with clients through his company, Beehive Media, he teaches data storytelling and visualization workshops
for organizations around the world, including the U.S. government, Starbucks, the International Monetary Fund and others. All of his journalism skills are put “to good use in my work on a regular basis,” he says.

Fields Moseley (Jour) is communications director for Maricopa County in Arizona, where his team manages media relations, marketing and internal communications. During the COVID-19 pandemic he led the county’s Joint Information Center. Before joining the county in 2015, Fields spent two decades as a broadcast reporter and anchor across the country, including in the Phoenix and Salt Lake City markets. Fields and his family live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Angela Johnson (Jour) is the senior vice president of national publicity at Fox Searchlight Pictures, where she has overseen publicity and awards campaigns for Academy Award Best Picture winners Slumdog Millionaire, Birdman and The Shape of Water. Previously, she managed releases and campaigns for Lost in Translation, The Pianist and Traffic at Focus Features/USA Films, and for The Shawshank Redemption at Castle Rock Entertainment. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Katherine Wegher Haney (Comm) is the public affairs director for North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. When she is not spending time with her husband, two daughters and miniature dachshund, she volunteers for a nonprofit working to prevent congenital diaphragmatic hernias.

Megan Garcia (Jour) has worked for Chevron in San Francisco for more than a decade. She is a communications advisor for the company’s digital transformation program. 

Doug Claussen (MJour) is the founder, publisher and editor of the I-70 Scout & Eastern Colorado News. The publication, established in 1994, covers news on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, including the towns of Watkins, Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Deer Trail and Agate. In October 2019, Doug celebrated his 25th anniversary with the publication. 

Lori (Ludvig) Call (Jour, MBA) is the associate vice chancellor for local government and community engagement at CU Boulder. She and her husband, Michael (Bus), met as students in Cheyenne Arapaho Hall and just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

Ali Bay (Comm) lives in Sacramento, California, and is the director of communications for the California Department of Public Health. In her 15 years with the state government, she has also served as deputy press secretary for then-Gov. Jerry Brown.

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.

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.

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.

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.