ALUMNI NEWS
ALUMNI NEWS
ABBY AMUNDSON (B.A. ’21) joined Epsilon as an associate account manager. HEATHER ARNTSON (B.A. ’05, M.A.
’09) is now director of digital marketing at OMG, Inc.
LUKE BEHRENDS (B.A. ’04) and his
team at Words From the Woods, his ad agency in Maine, won 12 awards at the Maine Ad & Design Show across eight different categories.
JESSIE BEKKER (B.A. ’17) is now a
second-year student at Saint Louis University pursuing dual degrees in law and health care administration. She returned to school after two years as the health reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where, speaking with the health industry leaders and patients suffering from the pitfalls of the healthcare industry in the U.S., she found a passion for innovation in health care.
EMMA CAREW GROVUM (B.A. ’09) joined News Product Alliance as program director. VICTORIA CLOUSE (B.A. ’21) is an account leadership intern at broadhead. LAURIE DENNIS (M.A. ’96) pub-
lished her first novel in 2020. The Lacquered Talisman is a work of historical fiction set in 14th-century China. This is the first in an intended series on the founding of the Ming Dynasty, published by Earnshaw Books in Hong Kong/Shanghai. In her years at Murphy Hall, Laurie was a reporter for The Minnesota Daily and worked with her advisor, Chin-Chuan Lee at the China
Times Center for Media and Social Research from 1989-92.
MCKENNA EWEN (B.A. ’09) was named Video Editor of the Year for the second consecutive year by the White House News Photographers Association. Ewen works at CNN. PRECIOUS FONDREN (B.A. ’20) is a 2021-22 New York Times fellow. JULIAN GREEN (B.A. ’21) is an intern
with Minnesota Public Radio.
JIM HAMMERAND (B.A. ’07) is the editor of Journey, the travel magazine published by AAA Washington for its 1.2 million members in the Pacific Northwest. He was previously managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal—a top-performing market for the American City Business Journals chain—where his team’s analysis of the Seattle region’s homelessness crisis won a national SPJ Delta Sigma Chi award for public service journalism. Hammerand previously worked for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, the Faribault Daily News, ABC News and the Minnesota Daily. AMY HASLERUD (B.A. ’21) is a media intern at True Media. CONNOR HUSSEIN (M.A. ’21) joined Colle McVoy as an assistant media planner. EMILY JAMES (B.A. ’21) joined Monogram as a product designer. BRETT JOHNSON (Ph.D. ’15) received the University of Missouri’s President’s Award for Excellence:
Early Career, Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences for his efforts to advance the understanding of the role of journalism in democracy. In May, Johnson was also promoted to associate professor with tenure.
AUDREY KENNEDY (B.A. ’20) joined Axios Twin Cities as a lifestyle reporter. LYNETTE LAMB (M.A. ’84) published Strokeland, A Memoir: My Husband’s Midlife Brainstorm and Its Ambivalent Aftermath.
JOCELYN LANDWEHR (B.A. ’21) joined
Fast Horse as part of its Integrate Program.
ANDY MANNIX (B.A. ’09), along
with other Star Tribune colleagues, won the Investigative Reporters & Editors “Investigations Triggered by Breaking News” award at the group’s annual data journalism conference in May for their coverage of Minneapolis police after the death of George Floyd. Mannix and colleagues also took home the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for their coverage of the death of George Floyd.
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