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MICHAEL ACHTERLING (B.A. ’20) is a reporter and digital media supervisor for the Detroit Lakes Tribune.
editorial cartoons, now draws cartoons for his Asheville, N.C., community’s bimonthly newsletter.
HEIDI ANDERSON (B.A. ’92) is
LAURA FITZPATRICK (B.A. ’12) is now strategy and culture manager at Hulu.
now president and chief growth officer at Nox Health, where she will be responsible for leading all commercial efforts to promote, sell and manage relationships with employer clients, health plans and partnerships.
JAY BOLLER (B.A. ’10), along with
three former City Pages editors, launched Racket, a new digital news, arts and culture newsroom in the Twin Cities.
PHAVANNA NINA BOUPHASAVANH
(B.A. ’03) is a journalist with CCX News in Brooklyn Park, Minn., while continuing to run her business, I Heart Storytelling.
KELLI BRADY (M.A. ’14) is now director, strategy, at Roundpeg Consulting. KEVIN COSS (B.A. ’11, M.A. ’20) joined the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a communications specialist. PATRICK FILE (M.A. ’09, Ph.D. ’13)
was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno. He was awarded a one-year sabbatical for academic year 2021-2022 to work on a book on the early legal history of photojournalism.
TERRY FISHER (B.A. ’60), who
earned his way through his senior year by drawing Minnesota Daily
KATY FRIESZ (B.A. ’02) was pro-
moted to vice president, corporate responsibility, at Winnebago Industries and continues to serve as executive director for the Winnebago Industries Foundation In December, she was elected as chair of the Minnesota Council on Foundations board of directors.
SARA KEHAULANI GOO (B.A. ’98) is now editor-in-chief at Axios. She was also the news publication honoree at last year’s Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner, held in November. SOFIA HAAN (B.A. ’21) is now a research assistant with MSPC, a content marketing agency in Minneapolis.
MIRIAM HERNANDEZ (M.A. ’78)
accepted an Emmy for the Crime/ Social Issues News Story award for her work at ABC7 in Los Angeles and Southern California.
MUKHTAR IBRAHIM (B.A. ’11) won
the Emerging Leader of the Year award from The Institute for Nonprofit News.
BRETT JOHNSON (Ph.D. ’15), associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, was named a 2021-2022 Presidential Engagement Fellow. The systemwide program recognizes outstanding
faculty who excel at communicating their research to the public and charges them with representing the UM System at several outreach events throughout the state each year.
NANCY KEATING (M.A. ’84) was named the winner of the 2020 Antivenom Prize by Elixir Press, which has published her second volume of poetry, White Chick. KEVIN KEEN (B.A. ’09) joined
UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, as a communications officer.
ANTHONY KIEKOW (B.A. ’09) received the Community Development Leadership Award at the annual North County, Inc., breakfast for his work on the Help Hazelwood Get Healthy strategic communications campaign. Through the campaign, Hazelwood School District promoted life-saving COVID-19 mitigation strategies and helped vaccinate approximately 850 people. Kiekow is the director of communications and public relations for Hazelwood School District, which is located in suburban St. Louis, Mo. AMY NELSON (M.A. ’02) is now editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine.
TINA NGUYEN (B.A. ’21) is now associate editor at Twin Cities Business. JOHN S. NICHOLS (B.A. ’67, M.A. ’74, Ph.D. ’79), professor emeritus of communications and international affairs in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications,
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