ALUMNI NEWS

DYLAN ANDERSON (B.A. ’20) left his job as a reporter at Steamboat Pilot & Today newspaper to start his own nonprofit news source for the communities of Routt County, Co., called The Yampa Valley Bugle.

DAVID BERKUS (B.A. ’64) got a master’s in marketing and spent many successful years with advertising agencies and major corporations in marketing and now is a grant writer for nonprofits.

CHRISTIAN BETANCOURT (B.A. ’06) is chief marketing officer for Franchise Playbook.

KELLI BRADY (M.A. ’14) is director, Client Solutions, at OptiMine Software, Inc.

JULIAN BOGDANOV (B.A. ’23) is a digital marketing & measurement analyst for Ovative Group.

DYMANH CHHOUN (B.A. ’11) is a visual journalist at Sahan Journal.

JOEL CHIODI (B.A. ’93) developed, sold and executive produced two documentaries, including “The Secrets of Hillsong” on FX.

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JOHN CRONIN (B.A. ’21) released the feature film “Undergrads” on Prime Video and Apple TV. Cronin produced this film with college friends during his time at the Hubbard School.

ROBERT DARRAGH (B.A. ’20, M.A. ’22) is a digital marketing specialist for the Florida Panthers.

CHRISTY DESMITH (B.A. ’98) is a writer/editor for Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University.

FERNANDO SEVERINO DIAZ (Ph.D. ’20) and Associate Professor Christopher

Terry’s manuscript, “Spanish-Language Radio and Issue Advertising: Targeting Latinos during the 2018 Elections” was named as the top article published in the 2022 issues of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media.

EMILY DIODATI (B.A. ’22) is a social media marketing and communication assistant at the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation.

RYAN DIRCKS (B.A. ’23) is an account management intern at Dentsu Creative.

MEREDITH DWYER (M.A. ’21) transitioned from event planning into a communications manager role with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota.

CHRISTINE FRUECHTE (BIS ’89) is the chair of the board of directors for the Star Tribune.

AMY (LOHMANN) HAHN (M.A. ’19) is senior art director at Beehive Strategic Communication.

DEB HOPP (B.A. ’75) received the University of Minnesota Regents Award.

ANGELINA HUYNH (B.A. ’22) is an assistant account executive at Crystal Clear Communications Hawaii.

MAIA IRVIN (B.A. ’23) is a Dow Jones News Fund, Inc. intern in the Data Journalism Program for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

TAYLOR KAYE (B.A. ’23) is a brand strategy and social media intern at Cambria.

MATTHEW KENNEDY (B.A. ’23) is a sports intern at KSTP.

EMILY KAISER (B.A. ’07) is a senior digital communications officer for the International Rescue Committee and

Alums

received a silver Anthem Award in February 2023 for her work on the Settle In project for refugees in the United States.

LAURA KLINGELHUTZ (B.A. ’23) is a marketing generalist for Blue Rose Capital Advisors and HedgeStar.

BERNIE LAUR (B.A. ’87) is director of digital for Hubbard Radio and Hubbard Interactive in the Twin Cities. Most recently, he has added duties of overseeing the sales efforts of the Hubbard Radio-Twin Cities podcasts, specifically Garage Logic with Joe Soucheray, the SKOR North network of podcasts, and the Tom Barnard Morning Show.

MEREDITH LEE (B.A. ’05) is a producer/writer in the Creative Advertising Department at FOX Entertainment.

JOSEPH LINDBERG (B.A. ’10) is the senior digital editor at Land O’Lakes, Inc.

KIRSTI (MEYER) MAROHN (B.A. ’95) was promoted to correspondent at MPR News, where she has worked since 2017. She covers regional news, energy and the environment.

NICK MARSHALL (B.A. ’23) was awarded a 2023 International Radio and Television Society Summer Fellowship. He accepted an account management position at Anomaly in New York City for his summer fellowship.

MARISSA MAZZETTA (B.A. ’23) is a newscast producer at WCCO.

TIM NELSON (B.A. ’09, M.A. ’19) leads strategic communication for the enterprise team at TomTom.

ADVA PRISO (B.A. ’07) is chief strategy officer at Moore Digital, leading online fundraising, engagement and activation for nonprofit clients such

ADFED’S 32 UNDER 32

Seven Hubbard School alumni were named to the 2023 AdFed list of 32 under 32: CLAIRE DOTY (B.A. ’21), senior analyst, SEO at Ovative; ANNA GORDON (B.A. ’21), assistant account executive at Carmichael Lynch; ERIN MACKAMAN (B.A. ’20), copywriter and content strategist at Superhuman; JAMEY (BOERJAN) MOETREL as Wounded Warrior Project, Alzheimer’s Association and the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

(B.A. ’16), media project manager at KC Truth; GRACE O’NEILL (B.A. ’20), junior account executive at Allied Global Marketing; BAILEY PHILLIPS (B.A. ’21), content marketing manager at Bold Orange; and ALIKI VROHIDIS (B.A. ’16), PR manager at Andersen Windows Corporation.

CARISSA RIEMERS (B.A. ’19) is a marketing manager at Title21 Health Solutions.

TAGE SINGH (B.A. ’23) is associate account executive for Skyya PR.

LETICIA (GONZALES) SNOW (B.A. ’01) authored her second children’s book The Untold Story of Sylvia Mendez: School Desegregation Pioneer (First But Forgotten), with Capstone Publishing in January 2023.

JAKE STEINBERG (B.A. ’19) is an intern on the graphics desk of the Wall Street Journal, where he focuses on cartography and interactive data visualization.

ANDY STEINKE (B.A. ’08) is a project specialist for Corewell Health. He works on communications for the Quality, Safety and Experience department.

NATALIE TRUPKE (B.A. ’22) is an account representative at Cargill.

BEN VILLNOW (B.A. ’23) joined The Social Lights as a social media manager.

JOHN WHELAN (M.A. ’72) retired after 23 years as a news writer and producer at WBBM-TV in Chicago.

EVA WIDDER (M.A. ’08) is senior giving officer at the Minnesota Historical Society.

MARIE (PRAMANN) ZHUIKOV (B.A. ’86, M.A. ’05) was promoted to senior science communicator with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Program and also served as chair of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Communicators in 2022. Nodin Press published her fourth book, a blog-memoir, Meander North

In Memoriam

MARY PATRICIA “PAT” (MCGAW) EDWARDS

Pat Edwards died on April 11, 2023. She graduated with a journalism degree in 1952, married fellow Gopher Reid Edwards in 1953, and went on to work first in advertising, and then in writing for her own one-woman shows. She was also a captain for the Women’s Golf Association at the Contra Costa Country Club.

JUDITH FAWCETT LARSON (B.A. ’58) died on Feb. 3, 2023. She began her journalism career in Bismarck, N.D., then on to Racine, Wisc., and back to Minneapolis. She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Norman Waler Larson (B.A. ’56, M.A. ’67), and son, Eric, and his family.

ANDY TROWBRIDGE (B.A. ’10) died January 29, 2023 after a brief illness. He started as an intern in the KARE-11 sports department nearly 15 years ago, going on to produce weekend and weeknight sportscasts and the “Vikings Extra” show; he also helped produce “Prep Sports Extra” during the high school football season.