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TESHA TAYLOR (B.A.) is western regional marketing manager for ADESA Inc., managing a 20-state territory. She has traveled abroad for humanitarian operations and spent four weeks in Kenya in the summer of 2010 working at a home for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 2005_______________________________________
SARAH MUENCH (B.A.) is president of Launch Media Consulting, offering media strategy, public relations and editing services. She also builds websites for small businesses, translates copy into Spanish and edits books Sarah Muench and publications. She is the communication director for the House Democrats at the Arizona Legislature. She publishes Arizona Democrat magazine, an online publication catering to Democrats in Arizona. WILL PITTS (B.A.) is a multimedia journalist for 12 News, KPNX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Phoenix. KATE WELSH (B.A.) is a producer at CNBC, a division of NBC Universal. 2004_______________________________________
NICOLE ALMOND (B.A) is the manager of alumni relations for the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. She leads the school’s alumni engagement efforts and oversees special events. She previously worked at the ASU Alumni Association, coordinating several of the association’s signature events and constituent communications. She received her Master of Nonprofit Studies degree with an emphasis in executive leadership and management from ASU’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation in 2009. JOSH DAVIS (B.A.) is an associate producer for ABC News in New York. TOM MURRAY (B.A.) anchors the weekend edition of “Live at Daybreak” and serves as general-assignment reporter for Today’s TMJ4, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee. He joined the network in 2007. His reports have aired on CNN, MSNBC and The Weather Channel. Previously he was a weekend anchor/reporter at KAAL-TV in Rochester, Minn. 104
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ANDREA PTACEK (B.A.) is the marketing director at Liquis Design, a Web and graphic design firm that she co-founded in 2008. Ptacek also serves Andrea Ptacek on the International Association of Business Communicators’ Phoenix board of directors and is the organization’s co-vice president of professional development over luncheons. 2002
MICHAEL MARRAN (B.A.) is an Avid editor working at the daytime talk show “The Talk” on CBS. MIKE NEEVES (B.A.) has been promoted to vice president of program scheduling at BBC America, overseeing all aspects of the program schedule for BBC America and its on-demand counterpart. Previously Neeves was a Cablevision executive. SARAT PRATAPCHANDRAN (M.M.C.) is a director of development at A.T. Still University’s Mesa campus. 2001_______________________________________
JENNIFER LAFORGE (B.A.) is an alumni relations and communications assistant for Mesa Community College. NATALIE SWABY (B.A.) is a reporter for KING-TV, the NBC affiliate in Seattle. 1999_______________________________________
LORI HALL (M.M.C.) is marketing director for Radio One Atlanta, where she handles promotions, marketing and public relations for three radio stations. LIDIA KELLY (B.A.) is a reporter for Thomson Reuters in Moscow, covering Russia’s macroeconomic and fiscal policy. She started at Reuters in 2009 after two years as a Moscow-based correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires. Raised in Poland, Kelly came to the U.S. in 1994 and enrolled in the Cronkite School. After graduation she worked as a business reporter for The Arizona Republic, then completed her master of international affairs degree at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York, specializing in Eastern Europe and international media. Before moving to Moscow in 2007, Kelly was a freelance reporter based in Tampa, Fla.
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TIMOTHY TAIT (B.A.) is the community relations director for the Arizona Department of Transportation, overseeing statewide media relations, message development and communications affairs. He also serves as a member of the Research Council for the Arizona Transportation Research Center. Previously, he worked in public affairs for public school systems and as a reporter for The Timothy Tait Arizona Republic and Dow Jones Local Media Group. He also has worked as a senior writer and producer for Internet registrar GoDaddy.com. JUAN VILLA (B.A.) is the news director at KTVW 33, Univision Arizona. Previously, he was executive producer for Telemundo in Arizona Juan Villa and worked as a general assignment reporter covering government, politics and immigration issues and as chief of information for La Voz Spanish newspapers. 1995_______________________________________
KEVIN LAHR (B.A.) completed a doctorate program in pharmacy after graduating from ASU. He is now a clinical pharmacist at CVS Caremark and a self-described “Sun Devil for life.” 1993
DARCY TANNEBAUM (B.A.) is a senior executive producer at WSVN-7, the Fox affiliate in Miami. 1991
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CALEB CLARK (B.A.) is the director of the educational technology program at Marlboro College Graduate School in Vermont. He also teaches Web media production and instructional design courses. Clark has been producing Web media since 1993 and blogging since 2000. He has been published in Wired, Salon, academic journals and newspapers. He also is the author of “The Production Assistant’s Caleb Clark Pocket Handbook.”