2017 spring Cronkite convocation program

Spring 2017 Convocation Program

Processional Welcome Special Video Keynote Speaker

Presentation of Degrees

Candidates for Degrees

Doctoral Candidates, Masters Candidates, Bachelor’s Candidates

Dean Christopher Callahan

“Walter Cronkite: Legend and Legacy”

Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, executive editor and vice president, Miami Herald

Ph.D Degree Candidates

Doctoral Director Craig M. Allen, assisted by Associate Professor Fran Matera and Associate Professor Dennis E. Russell Master’s Degree Candidates

Dean Callahan, assisted by Senior Associate Dean Marianne Barrett Bachelor’s Degree Candidates

Dean Callahan, assisted by Assistant Dean Mark Lodato

Special Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student

This award is given to a graduate who is nominated by faculty for academic excellence and professional experiences.

Outstanding Undergraduate Students

This award goes to undergraduatess nominated by faculty for excellence in academics, internships, professional experiences and extracurricular activities.

Highest Grade Point Average The top graduates of the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication program and the Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies program who have the highest cumulative GPA in their respective programs.

Top Innovator Award Cronkite students who champion engaging and cutting-edge ways to do great journalism.

Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society

This national college honor society recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism. Only the top 10 percent of the graduating journalism class is inducted at convocation each semester.

Moeur Award

This award is named for Dr. B.B. Moeur, who was a physician and businessman in Tempe in the early 1900s. The ASU Alumni Association presents the award at the university commencement ceremony to undergraduates with a cumulative grade point average of 4.0 achieved during eight consecutive fall and spring semesters.

Student Speaker

This privilege is bestowed upon a student who represents the very best of the Cronkite School — a well-rounded individual who exhibits both academic and professional excellence.

Student Speaker

Outstanding Graduate Student

Lily Altavena ASU Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Katherine Bieri Outstanding Undergraduate Students

Fabian Ardaya Caitlin Bohrer Charles Clark

Alexa D’Angelo Agnel Philip Rebecca Smouse

Highest Grade Point Average in Journalism Jessica Swarner

Highest Grade Point Average in Media Studies Victoria Ziarnik

Top Innovator Award Taylor Seely Cronkite Spirit Award Weldon Grover Nicole Praga Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society Melanie Abramoff Madison Alder Adriana Becerra

Charity Bidegain Isabella Castillo

Tynin Fries

Savannah Harrelson Shelby Hyde Mija Maslar Danielle McNally Kasey McNerney Bailey Netsch

Moeur Award

Maya Patrose Samantha Pell Agnel Philip Nicole Praga Tyler Prime Miranda Reddy Anya Rogers Taylor Seely Rebecca Smouse Alisa Stone

Jessica Swarner Kristina Vicario

Savannah Harrelson Bailey Netsch Samantha Pell Miranda Reddy Jessica Swarner Adriana De Alba

Tynin Fries

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier professional journalism programs. Rooted in the timehonored values — accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity — that characterize its namesake, the school fosters journalistic excellence and ethics among students as they master the practical professional skills they need to succeed in the digital journalism world of today and tomorrow.

The Cronkite School’s 1,700 students consistently lead the country in national competitions. Over the past decade, Cronkite has been No. 1 in the nation in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence competition and the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts awards, and has finished in the top 10 in the Hearst Journalism Awards each year. Cronkite students annually win more than 100 journalism and public relations awards.

Students are guided by a faculty that is made up of both award-winning professional journalists and world-class media scholars. Cronkite professors include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, digital media thought leaders, top TV producers and correspondents, major metropolitan newspaper editors and strategic communications experts. They are master teachers, writers and scholars who

often speak around the globe on the most important topics facing journalism today.

The Cronkite School is a leader in journalism education with its innovative use of the “teaching hospital” method, providing both unparalleled learning opportunities for students and important news content to the community, state, region and nation. Arizona PBS, one of the nation’s largest public television stations, is the largest media outlet operated by a journalism school in the world. Arizona PBS serves as a hub for the Cronkite School’s full-immersion professional programs and a testing ground for new approaches in journalism.

Cronkite students participate in 13 professional immersion programs, applying what they have learned in the classroom in real-world learning environments. Students cover the most important issues of the day from public affairs news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington. For Arizona PBS, they produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households as well as a robust multimedia news website featuring in-depth regional stories. Students also report on sports from bureaus in Los Angeles and Phoenix. Recently, the school launched Cronkite Noticias, a new digital Spanishlanguage platform for reporting on issues critical to Arizonans.

Students in the Public Relations Lab develop campaigns for client companies, while CarnegieKnight News21 multimedia journalists conduct national data-driven investigations into issues critical to Americans. In the Public Insight Network Bureau, students work with professional news organizations to deepen their connections to audiences, and in the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, they use digital technologies to forge the future of journalism.

More than 100 students in many of these professional immersion programs recently collaborated to create a statewide TV special on the deadly problem of prescription painkillers. “Hooked Rx: From Prescription to Addiction” was broadcast on all 32 major television stations in Arizona and 100 radio stations in English and Spanish. The documentary followed up on issues raised in the 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award-winning “Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona.”

Elsewhere at the school, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism provides education and training to professional journalists, and Cronkite Global Initiatives brings international journalists to the school for study and training.

All of these initiatives take place in a state-ofthe-art building that is unparalleled in journalism education. ASU’s investment in the school has generated national and international attention from educators and media professionals who place the school in the top tier of all U.S. journalism schools. The Times of London, The New York Times and USA Today have pointed to the Cronkite School as a leading example of changes taking place at journalism schools across the country. These prestigious publications called the Cronkite School a pioneer, kindling a notion of new media that will shape how news is delivered and how people will stay informed in the future.

About Our Graduates

The Cronkite School has more than 10,000 alumni throughout the Valley, across the country and around the world. Many are leaders in digital media, magazines, newspapers, public relations, radio and television.

In 1993, the school inducted its first class into the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. The charter inductees were Al Michaels (’66), the iconic American sports broadcaster, and ABC News foreign correspondent Bill Redeker (’71). Other notable inductees include CNN International anchor Becky Anderson (’94); Arizona Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall (’91); Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Julie Cart (’80); CNN Worldwide Senior Latin American Affairs Editor Rafael Romo (’95); FOX 11 News anchor Christine Devine (’87); public relations executive Ray Artigue (’76); and Arizona Republic Editor Nicole Carroll (’91).

Stay connected to fellow #CronkiteNation alumni on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter or call 602.496.5555.

Keynote Speaker

Aminda (Mindy) Marqués Gonzalez is the executive editor and vice president for news at The Miami Herald. She is only the second woman to hold the post in the newspaper’s 110plus year history.

Marqués, who was named executive editor in 2010, is a veteran of the Herald’s newsroom, serving as a metro reporter, assistant city editor and deputy metro editor as well as directing the newspaper’s local, state and community news operations.

Under her leadership, The Miami Herald was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, along with the McClatchy Washington Bureau and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, for the Panama Papers, a cross-continental

collaboration that exposed the secret world of offshore companies. The Herald also won the 2017 Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning.

In 2002, she was named Miami bureau chief for People magazine, overseeing coverage for the southeast U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. She returned to the Miami Herald five years later as a multimedia editor for a new entertainment website. She served as the Sunday/ features editor before being named managing editor at the newspaper.

Marqués is a 1986 graduate of the University of Florida, where she was honored in 2012 as an Alumni of Distinction by the College of Journalism and Communications. She was

Student Speaker

Trever Migliorino is graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from the Cronkite School. Migliorino has extensive broadcast production experience, having held internships and jobs with CBS Radio, Crew West, NBA Entertainment, Fox Sports, the PAC-12 and ESPN.

During his four years at the Cronkite School, Migliorino became a well-known presence in Cronkite News, Arizona PBS and the Cronkite equipment lab. He also served as a residential college student leader.

Migliorino also was a standout in the Cronkite News studio, developing skills in broadcast production and information technology to enhance visual storytelling.

He spent three semesters as a director and technical director for the Cronkite News

the 2016 recipient of the Presidential Award of Impact from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

She serves on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, is president of the Florida Society of News Editors and is an advisory board member for the Journalism and Women Symposium and the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for Women in Communication at Florida International University.

broadcast, producing 90 newscasts that aired on Arizona PBS, including extensive election coverage in November. He was a trusted resource for many peers and staff members, and he was always willing to lend a helping hand. He was often seen with a camera in hand or wearing headset during key events, such as the Cronkite Award Luncheon.

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

ASU’s journalism program was named in honor of former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 1984.

The relationship started when Tom Chauncey, longtime owner of the CBS affiliate in Phoenix and a leading supporter of journalism education at ASU, contacted his old friend in an effort to advance the program. An endowment on behalf of the program was soon established, and the school was named after “the most trusted man in America.”

Over the next quarter of a century, Cronkite lent much more than his name to the school. He was closely involved — advising leadership, guiding students and faculty, and traveling to Arizona each year to personally give the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to one of the nation’s top journalists. The most special relationship, though, was with “our students,” as Cronkite would always call them. Young women and men, some with parents barely old enough to remember Cronkite behind the anchor desk, lit up when he walked into a classroom. They hung on his every word as he thoughtfully answered their questions about the profession he so loved. They lined up just to shake his hand, and he loved every minute of it.

In what turned out to be Cronkite’s last visit to ASU in 2007 before declining health prevented him from traveling, a group of 100 students gathered with just a few minutes of notice that Cronkite was in the building. He held them spellbound as he spoke about covering World War II, Vietnam, Apollo, Watergate and presidents from Truman to Reagan — and of how important “our school” was to him. Although Cronkite died on July 17, 2009, before he was able to visit the new building, he remains an everpresent part of the school’s heartbeat and

direction.

In November, the Cronkite School, CBS News and the Newseum celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Cronkite with a large-scale celebration, featuring Cronkite alumni and some of the nation’s top journalists, including Scott Pelley, Bob Schieffer, Lesley Stahl and the late Gwen Ifill.

Cronkite’s legacy lives on in the spirit and passion with which the school teaches both the skills to do journalism in today’s media environment and the time-honored ethics and news values necessary to do it in the manner that would make him proud.

The Cronkite School has established a special memorial fund in Cronkite’s name. For more information on the fund and to learn more about Cronkite’s legacy and career, visit cronkite.asu.edu/ rememberingcronkite.

Cronkite School Graduates

Doctor of Philosophy in Journalism and Mass Communication

1

“Weathercasters in Local Television News: A Qualitative Case Study of Culture and Technology in a Large U.S. Broadcasting Market During the Monsoon”

Master of Journalism and Mass Communication 1 2 3

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication and Master of Mass Communication

Stacia Affelt *** ^ Amanda Ames ** ^ Travis Arbon *** ^ Alejandra Armstrong ** ^ Molly Bilker *** ^ Benjamin Brown ** ^ Mauricio Casillas ** ^ Jayson Chesler ** ^ Lauren Clark * ^ Alexandria Coleman *** ^ Clarissa Cooper ** ^ Kerry Crowley *** ^ Justin Emerson * ^ Danielle Eurich ** ^ Nicole Fox *** ^ Jacob Garcia *** ^ Taylor Holmes *** ^ Connor Johnson ** ^

Teresa Joseph *** ^ Tamara Kraus *** ^ Meghan Kuebler ** ^ Pallavi Kunthara *** ^ Erica Lang *** ^ Alexandra Long * ^ Chandler Longbons ** ^ Alexis Macklin * ^ Emily Mahoney *** ^ Benjamin Margiott *** ^ Carolina Marquez ** ^ Kassidy Mcdonald * Cammeron Neely * ^ Taylor Nelson ** ^ Chloe Nordquist *** ^ Miguel Otárola *** ^ Asia Poole ^ Mallory Price ^

Stevi Rex ** ^ Lindsay Robinson ** ^ Andrew Romanov ** ^ Alexa Salari *** ^ Alexandra Scoville *** ^ Katryna Seki * ^ Anne Shearer * ^ Katherine Sitter *** ^ Windsor Smith *** ^ Alex Sorrell * ^ Brooke Stobbe *** ^ Lauren Thompson *** ^ Emma Totten *** ^ Miranda VanHorn * ^ Kristina Vicario *** ^ Audrey Weil *** ^ Danika Worthington *** ^

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication

Gabrielle Abbott ** Emily Achondo ** Chelsey Adams Karla Aguilar ** Mykaela Aguilar Amy Aguirre * Kaitlyn Ahrbeck Salyssa Alers Lauren Allen Elise Anaya ** James Anderson ** Sarah Anderson *** ^

Rachel Andrews Cassandra Anfinson Emily Antuna ** Aubrey Badger * Rashinda Bankhead Courtney Bannon * Adriana Barajas Gabriela Barge Kendall Bartley Junelle Bautista Jordan Baxter * Kathryn Beeso

Jahaziel Bernal Matthew Berner Samantha Bero Coleton Berry Ashley Bigley ** Anselm Bischoff Sydney Bowen Marcus Bowers ** Kayla Bratton Rebecca Brisley * Megan Brown Paige Brown ***

Kevin Brozek

Laura Burnett ***

Demetrius Burns

Joshua Burton ** ^

Catherine Calderon

Antonio Cannavaro * Rumer Cantrell ** Nina Cardona

Kristen Carver

Carla Violeta Celaya ** Lea Cena ^

Haley Christopher Alicia Clark * Skylar Clark *** Dakota Cleland Victoria Cohen Taylor Cole Devin Conley Kelci Cooper ** Carolyn Corcoran *** Gilbert Cordova Jacqueline Cotton ** Matthew Covert * Cori Crenshaw * Erica Cron ***

Jagger Czajka *** ^ Andrea Daly * Elenee Dao ** Laura Davis ** ^ Ryan Davis

Joshua Delauder Kaitlin Dickson-Powell ** Brittany Dierken **

Alexis Dominguez

Michaela Donlan Grecia Drabos

Torrence Dunham Kaia Evans *** Ethan Fichtner * Langston Fields ** Cody Fincher Lauren Flesch Nicholas Folkman

Jordyn Frary * James Gadon

Jordan Garberding Stephanie Garcia

Alexandra Gaspar Samantha Gauvain

Kristen Gioscia *** Sydney Glenn ** Jacob Goldstein Tommi Goodman ** Tyler Griffin Matthew Harden Elissa Harrison *** Marianna Hauglie Thomas Hawthorne ** Cydney Henderson * Brandi Henry Madalyn Higgins Jesse Hines * McCall Hoerz ** Jason Hommes

Brittany Hughes Mariah Hurst * Ashley Incardone Samantha Incorvaia *** Kyley Jameison Eboni Johnson Amber Kahwaji ** Megan Kavy Aidan Khalilova Meehee Kim

Kimberly Koerth *** ^ Hunter Kossodo Nicholas Krueger ** Christina Kucera Amanda Kukkola * Kaelli-Mckenna Kutsop * Hector Lagunas Nicholas LaTona * Miranda Leo ** Austin Lewis * Lily Lieberman Emily Lierle *** Julian Lopez Soyenixe Lopez Karen Loschiavo Zuriel Loving ** Cattarina Lovins *** Shea Mahoney Riannon Maki Cuyler Meade

Ashton Meisner ***

Elena Mendoza * Marley Molitor Matthew Mona Erin Mondt * Zakiya Moore

Jessica Morrison Tanya Nguyen Adrien Nichols

Emily Nicholson *** Tyler Otremba

Jacqueline Padilla ** Amy Pantea ** Sidney Pearce Nicholas Pope Justin Price Mitchell Quesada ** Carissa Ramirez Morgan Rath *** ^ Alexa Renfroe ** Micaela Ricca Lucas Robbins Shay Roddy Ivan Rodriguez ^ Madison Romine * Shari Rose * Evelin Ruelas Johnathan Rugg * Celeste Ruiz Jasmine Safaie Chris Safran * Hector Salas Almeida

Kylee Sam ** Michelle Sarantos Brittany Schmus * Tyler Scholes

Jessica Schultz *** Angela Schuster *** Sydnee Scofield * Hanna Searl

Kristen Sebestyen Jessica Seeger Katie Self Kimberly Simpson Lillian Simpson Shelby Slade *** William Slane

Jennifer Soules **

Justin Stabley ^

Jacob Stanek

Justin Steckman

Joseph Steen

Kiegan Stewart

Trenesha Striggles

America Tapiz *

Julia Thatcher

Kaitlyn Thompson Joshua Thrall Anokina Touman

Gianna Tracey James Ulrich Madeline Valencia Maria Vasquez Nicole Vitale Kristopher Vossmer Yini Wang

Kaylen Waters * Chase Watts Adam Weisman Barrett Westberg James White Jacob Withee * Sarah Yong *

Honors designations

Academic recognition is granted to undergraduate candidates only:

* Cum Laude GPA of 3.40 to 3.59

** Magna Cum Laude GPA of 3.60 to 3.79

*** Summa Cum Laude GPA of 3.80 and above

^ Graduate of Barrett Honors College

Bachelor of Arts in Sports Journalism

Cameron Bullock

Brian Carroll Meghan McNamara

Jonathan Soto Jessica Watts Elaine Wilson **

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies

John Adams *

Karyn Alexander *** Brooke Allen Jon Arias ***

Jessica Banks Jessica Bermudez *** Trevor Bloom

Andres Calderon

Michelle Carter Thomas Catagnus Amber Coleman

Stephanie Conley * Kendall Custer Joseph Dahlke Sean Daly Amanda Duda Matthew Elletson *** Tammy Fedrick-Sager Cecillia Fisher

Anne Furlow

David Godley Lauren Gonzales Karissa Haberkamp Myung Jin Hahn

Tatum Hathaway Patrick Hedden ** Shawn Hengst Lindsay Herrel Lindsay Hess *** Ricklyn Hukriede Blake Katsnelson

Julia Keech

Briauna-Shaunte King Megan Klembith * Stephanie Langlitz Lauren Lee

Lacey Levins Adriana Lopez ** Alexandria Lopez Danielle MacIsaac Anna Nebelsick *** David Niebla *** Janiessa Norice Nicole Peterson Donnell Probst Shawn Putnam Nicholas Richie Stephanie Richter * Khory Riley Lanette Rivera Cameron Roper Matthew Saffian Jonathan Sagnep Jackson Sanders

Mario Sevilla *** Cassandra Stubbings Alicea Thomas Anthony Vallesteros * Rachel Widenhouse Jourdyn Wigg Marie Yellow Boy

Honors determined by cumulative GPA from fall semester. Congratulations Class of 2016!

Cronkite School Faculty

Craig M. Allen Ph.D., Ohio University

Melanie Asp Alvarez M.L.S., Arizona State University

Douglas A. Anderson Ph.D., Southern Illinois University

Marianne Barrett Ph.D., Michigan State University

Rebecca Blatt M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paola Boivin B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sharon Bramlett-Solomon Ph.D., Indiana University

Peter Byck B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Christopher Callahan M.P.A., Harvard University

Michael Casavantes Ph.D., Arizona State University

Monica Chadha Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Alfredo Corchado B.A., University of Texas at El Paso

John E. Craft Ph.D., Ohio University

Steve Crane M.B.A., University of Maryland

Kevin Dale B.S., Kansas State University

Steve Doig B.A., Dartmouth College

Leonard Downie Jr. M.A., The Ohio State University

Heather Lovett Dunn B.A., University of Mississippi

Tom Feuer B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Kristin Gilger M.A., University of Nebraska

Dan Gillmor B.A., University of Vermont

Dawn Gilpin Ph.D., Temple University

Mark Hass B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Venita Hawthorne James B.A., Lincoln University

Retha Hill M.A., Arizona State University

Jim Jacoby M.A.S., Arizona State University

Angela Kocherga B.J., University of Texas at Austin

Brett Kurland M.B.A., Northwestern University

K. Hazel Kwon Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Andrew Leckey M.A., University of Missouri

Christina Leonard B.A., University of Oklahoma

Susan Lisovicz B.A., William Paterson University

Mark Lodato M.Ed., Arizona State University

Andrés Martinez J.D., Columbia University

Fran R. Matera Ph.D., University of Miami

John Misner B.L.S., Arizona State University

Eric Newton M.A., University of Birmingham

Jacquee Petchel B.A., Arizona State University

Theresa Poulson M.M.C., Arizona State University

Jessica Pucci M.A., University of Missouri

Sada J. Reed Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Virgil Renzulli B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Walter V. Robinson B.A., Northeastern University

Rick Rodriguez B.A., Stanford University

Dennis E. Russell Ph.D., University of Utah

Joseph Russomanno Ph.D., University of Colorado

Boulder

B. William Silcock Ph.D., University of Missouri

Leslie-Jean Thornton Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Julia Wallace B.S., Northwestern University

Xu Wu Ph.D., University of Florida

Affiliated Faculty

Lindsey Collom B.A., Arizona State University

Jason Manning M.A., George Mason University

Terry Greene Sterling M.F.A., Goucher College

Faculty Emeriti

Troy F. Crowder M.A., University of Iowa

Robert Ellis M.A., Case Western Reserve University

Mary-Lou Galician Ed.D., Memphis State University

Donald G. Godfrey Ph.D., University of Washington

Roy K. Halverson Ph.D., University of Illinois

Frederic “Fritz” Leigh Ed.D., Arizona State University

Tim McGuire J.D., William Mitchell College of Law

George Watson Ph.D., Duke University

In Memoriam

Joe W. Milner Professor Emeritus (1937-2016)

Cronkite School Faculty Associates

Jose Romero, Freelance journalists

Allysa Adams, Arizona Horizon

Glen Anderson, FOX 10, KSAZ-TV

Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic

Eduardo Ayala, CBS 5, KPHO-TV

Tom Blodgett, The Arizona Republic

Greg Boeck, Formerly with USA Today

Sonia Bovio, Cronkite Ph.D. program

Jamie Bowen, Cronkite Ph.D. program

Patrick Breen, The Arizona Republic

Dave Cornelius, C4 Accel

Jayson Chesler, Terrainial VR

Roy Dabner, European Pressphoto Agency

John D’Anna, The Arizona Republic

Deanna Dent, ASU Now

Nancie Dodge, Media consultant

Becca Dyer, The Arizona Republic

Heather Eaton, Tolleson Union High School District

Larry Edsall, Classic Car News

Gregg Elder, State of Arizona

Charles Emmert, Know99 Television

Tom Fergus, FOX 10, KSAZ-TV

Valeria Fernández, Independent multimedia jour nalist and producer

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, shades Magazine

Joe Fortunato, ASU School of Film, Dance and Theatre

Josh Frigerio, ABC15, KNXV-TV

Katherine Fritcke, KJZZ Radio

Joseph Garcia, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy

Christia L. Gibbons, Communications consultant

Denise Hawken-Collins, FOX Sports Arizona

Ceasar Hernandez, CBS 5, KPHO-TV

Andrew Heyward, Heyward Advisory LLC

Shanna Hogan, St. Martin’s Press

Sean Holstege, Freelance journalist

Amber Hutchins, Ph.D., PR consultant

Courtland Jeffrey, ABC 15, KNXV-TV

Nicole Koester, TV news professional

John Leach, Digital Strategies LLC

Carl Lemon, Lemon Video

Maddie Liseblad, Cronkite Ph.D. program

Morgan Loew, CBS 5, KPHO-TV

Ilana Lowery, Phoenix Business Journal

Albert Macias, KJZZ Radio

Peter Madrid, Communications specialist

Robert McJannet, CBS 5, KPHO-TV

Greg Moore, ASU Now

Holliday Moore, KTAR News, and CBS 5, KPHOTV

Karla Navarrete, Freelance journalist

Kirstin Pellizzaro, Cronkite Ph.D. program

Patricia Piburn, Cronkite Ph.D. program

Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic

Mark Reda, Broadcast production professional

Gail Rhodes, Freelance journalist

Kelly Roach, Communications consultant

Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic

Fernanda Santos, The New York Times

Mark Scarp, Heard Museum

Jeff Schneider, 12 News, KPNX-TV

Celeste Sepessy, Casual Astronaut marketing Maren Showkeir, Writer, editor and consultant

Glen Stephens, City of Mesa

Jason Stone, Clear Channel Radio

Mike Sunnucks, Phoenix Business Journal

Steven Totten, Phoenix Business Journal

Brian Turner, Agua Fria High School

Betty M. van Iersel, George Washington University

Kelly Vaughn, Arizona Highways

Maureen West, Communications consultant

Evan Wyloge, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Bob Young, Formerly with The Arizona Republic

Gilbert Zermeño, CBS 5, KPHO-TV

Jill Adair, Mesa News Today