Celebrating CMCI's December 2020 Graduates

It is our honor to award 121 CMCI students with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Congratulations, December 2020 graduates, you are now, officially, Forever Buffs!

In a semester that presented unique challenges, we applaud your commitment and perseverance. We're thrilled to celebrate your success and will be formally recognizing all December graduates in the May 2021 ceremony. Until then, tag @cubouldercmci in your graduation-themed posts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook so that we can share your accomplishments with our CMCI community.

Once again, congratulations, Buffs. Hats off to you!

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Graduate Degree Recipients

Graduates

  • Shiva M Darian

Graduates

  • Rey-Lynn Dawn Little
  • Alejandra Hart-Taylor Wilcox

Graduates

Nathan Henry Bedsole

Dissertation: "A Rhetorical Object Voice"

Advisor: Pete Simonson

Dana Harrington Marshall  

Dissertation: "Patchwork Regulations: The Communicative Constitution of Compliance Across the Financial Industry"

Advisor: Tim Kuhn    

 

Graduates

Himan Abdollahpouri

Dissertation: "Popularity Bias in Recommendation: A Multi-stakeholder Perspective"

Advisor: Robin Burke

Xiaolei Huang

Dissertation: "Metadata Matters: Adaptation Methods for Robust Document Classification"

Advisor: Robin Burke

Jialun Jiang

Dissertation: "Toward a Multi-Stakeholder Perspective for Improving Online Content Moderation"

Advisor: Casey Fiesler

Wendy Ann Norris

Dissertation: "Sociotemporal Disorder in Globally Distributed Digital Humanitarian Work"

Advisor: Steve Voida

Graduates

Rachel Van Der Merwe

Dissertation: "We Are Not South African: Decolonizing National Identity in a Post-Apartheid State"

Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi    

 

Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Degrees

^ Graduating with Distinction

Graduates

  • Julian Ulrich Becker
  • Amanda Claire Bolger ^
  • Anthony Loyd Cauble
  • Niall Durst
  • Bradley Edholm
  • Gavin Ferguson
  • Kristin Nicole Gatchis
  • Megan Elyse Grote
  • Jay Jammal
  • Kylee Ann Kiser
  • Isaiah Atamai O'Alii Lewis
  • Robert Paek
  • McKenzie Perdue
  • Rebecca Elizabeth Rando ^
  • Hannah Michele Sharts ^
  • Hannah Smith
  • Kasina Stearns Wootten

Graduates

  • Ryan Conor Clune
  • Jihoon Jang
  • Jason Bliss-Harvest Kibozi-Yocka
  • John Sandberg ^
  • Joy Dale Weinberg

Graduates

  • Chase Douglas Bouck
  • Alyssa Michelle Branch ^
  • Megan Elise Durbin
  • Jordan Kotler
  • Roberto Carlos Monkus
  • Jacob Huxley Schmieder
  • Noelle Melisa Videon ^
  • Kiely Elizabeth Westhoff ^
  • Michelle Cathryn Yuma

Graduates

  • Mandy Adkins
  • Rhonda Crutcher

Graduates

  • Carter Adams
  • Shane Aaron Cohen
  • Benjamin Feaver
  • James Michael Hartwig
  • Matthew Alexander Jacobs
  • Kai Adam Klauber
  • Sean William McGowan
  • George H Mugnani
  • Alaynah Penalosa ^
  • Jonathan Scott Reed
  • Maryfher Villarreal

Graduates

  • Holly Katherine Mandziak ^
  • Charlotte Bonnie Monke ^
  • Jack Ryan Octigan

Graduates

  • Jacob Oliver Almeleh
  • Joseph Barnes
  • Madeleine Alexis Bendalin ^
  • Elise Teresina Bergmann
  • Lily E Binswanger
  • Nora Isabella Birch
  • Blair Frances Bohuny
  • Rachel Kathryn Boyce
  • Ava Marie Brenneke
  • Tyler Scott Caldwell
  • Abbie E Cheney
  • J'Lee Roberta WuDan Christy
  • Liam Eoin Comaskey
  • Josephine Riley Curless
  • Mikayla Hannah Dudek ^
  • Ariana Camille Falco
  • Kristin Nicole Gatchis
  • Caleigh Rae Gearheart
  • Kelly Marie Gray
  • Erik Greenlee
  • Amanda Pearl Heath
  • Edson Hernandez
  • Katie Hogan
  • Kendall Elizabeth Jackson
  • Alexis Knutson ^
  • Colin Lanphear
  • Luke Lawler
  • Thomas William Lewis
  • Austin Gary Mann
  • Patrick David May
  • Aidan Patrick McCay
  • Natalie Marie McGhee
  • Sophia Jeran McWhorter ^
  • Christopher David Caleb Miller-Slaughter
  • Anna Marie Morahan
  • Brennan Alexander Myers
  • John Richard Nitchen
  • KaDarrian Nixon
  • Griffin Michael Patrican
  • Derrion Terrell Rakestraw
  • Hunter Anthony Rief
  • Phoebe Blair Roberts
  • Michael Nicolas Robinson
  • Quinton Patrick Roby
  • Carly Annette Vianney Rodgers
  • Sydney Marie Tetje Roghair
  • Jacob Romero
  • Jack Sechler
  • Morgan Anthony Seely
  • Laura Shelton ^
  • Cheyenne Elise Smith
  • Abigail Katherine Smudsky
  • Alex Stowell
  • Dillon Keefer Svitak
  • Veda Cecchi Tappin
  • Sanford Webb Thompson
  • Leanica Faye Tiongson
  • Avery Thomas Troop
  • Solymar Valdez
  • Noah David Warshaw
  • Kyle Seabury Webber
  • Allison Rose Weissenbach
  • Emily Suzanne Zerr
  • Julia Ayn Zykan

Meet Graduates from the Class of 2020

Outstanding Graduate: Madeleine Bendalin (StratComm)
Cheyenne Smith (StratComm)
Joy Weinberg (InfoSci)

From Your Fellow ForeverBuffs

  • Kelly Graziadei (Advert’97)Founding Partner, F7 Ventures
  • Rick Reilly (Jour'81)Sportswriter and Author
  • Wisdom Amouzou (Comm'13)Executive Director, Empower Community High School
  • Savannah Sellers (Jour'13)Correspondent, NBC News and MSNBC
  • Kim Christiansen (Jour'84)Anchor, 9News KUSA
  • Abby Chin (Jour'03)Courtside Reporter, NBC Sports
  • Heidi Wagner (Jour'86)SVP, Global Blood Therapeutics 
  • Ariana Freeman (Jour'18)Journalist, CBS News
  • Christopher Bell (PhDMediaSt'09)Director of Graduate Studies, UCCS
  • Tom Costello (Jour'87)Correspondent, NBC News
  • Genesis Samayoa (Jour, Span'11)Journalist and Producer, NBC Universal
  • Baker Machado (MJour'11)Anchor, Cheddar
  • Chris Fowler (Jour'85)Anchor and Sportscaster, ESPN
  • Tom Garfinkel (Comm'91)CEO, Miami Dolphins
  • Rich Khleif (MJour '99; PhDMediaSt'07) Senior Director, Oracle 
  • Andrew Woodruff (Advert'09)VP, TBWA\WORLDHEALTH
  • Norm Shearer (Advert'97)Partner and CCO, Cactus 
  • Audrey Rodriguez (Jour'18)Social Media Specialist, LA Lakers
  • Laurie Cantillo (Jour'80)Deputy Director of Communications, NASA JPL
  • Kevin Corke (Jour'88; MJour'02)White House Correspondent, FOX News
  • Jim Gray (Advert’81)Sportscaster at Showtime, FOX and Westwood One Radio