ASU Communications Alumni 2000

Information for this list is collected from alumni surveys and other communications with alumni and is updated periodically. If you are a graduate of Communications and wish to be included in the list, let us know. If information needs to be corrected, let us know. (comm@astate.edu, 870-972-2468) or College of Communications, P.O. Box 540, State University, AR 72467). (Updated Jan. 24, 2008)

Jon Adams (RTV '03) is general sales manager for Northwest Business Journal, Gray Matters Publishing Inc.

Susan Altrui (SCOM '01) is director of marketing and development for the Little Rock Zoo.

Libby Anderson (RTV ’03) works as freelance production coordinator for television commercials, Webi-sodes and music videos. Based in Los Angeles, she is working on her first feature film as the production coordinator. Principal leads are Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn.

Pamela Bailey (MSMC '06) is an academic advisor at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.

Sarah Bing (MA '05) is an account manager for Fed Ex Freight. She is also teaching an oral communication course for North Arkansas College in Harrison.

Lindsey Birmingham (Jour '04) has accepted a job with Medical Services of America as a medical marketing representative.

Eric Blackwell (Jour ’00) is working with the Hillary Clinton campaign for the presidency.

Cale Block (Jour '04) writes that he has had a paper on the FCC's regulation of indecency accepted for publication by the Adelphi Law Journal. He is in law school at UALR.

Ashley (Trousdale) Boothe (Jour '00) is the catalog and Internet copy editor for Cabela's at its corporate headquarters in Sidney, Neb. Boothe reports that Cabela's is the world's foremost outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear. She and husband Jon live in Sidney, Neb. Jon is an ASU graduate in management information systems.

Delma (Dee) Mills Murray Brister (RTV '01) is working for independent Film and Video Production Group in Tallahassee, Fla. She is the videographer/editor. She and her husband, Paul Brister, are planning to move to North Carolina after he receives his Ph.D. from Florida State University.

Julia Morrisett Bristow (Jour '04) has taken a sales position with Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals.

Serena Burchett (Jour '05) is an account executive position, selling Arkansas Business, arkansasbusiness.com, ArkansasNext: Career Edition and arkansasjobs.net.

Dana Callaway (MSMC '02) has become media coordinator for the University Museum and Cultural Center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She had been coordinator of media relations for Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan.

Brandon Carter (RTV '03) is in film school in North Carolina and worked on a movie called "Come Away Home."

Jeff Chastain (Jour '00) is internal communications specialist for E.C. Barton & Company in Jonesboro. The company has 126 stores in 13 states and as an Employee Stock Ownership Program company has more than 1,200 partners.

Brandi (Craig) Childress (RTV ’04) is working with Stone Ward in Little Rock as a media planner/buyer.

Anthony Clayton (RTV '05) is selling advertising for Clear Channel Radio in Little Rock. He wrote to RTV Prof. Mary Jackson Pitts: "My sales manager likes to talk about how I came in with so much more knowledge of the industry than 'college kids' usually do. I tell her its because of Dr. Pitts, the Radio-TV faculty and staff, and my three years working at ASU-TV."

Carrie Coble (RTV '00) works as a producer for WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tenn., and as a school liaison for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Madison County.

Jared Cowell (RTV '00) works as a broadcast media buyer for EURO retail in Plano, Texas.

Brandi Childress (RTV ’04) is working with Stone Ward in Little Rock as a media planner/buyer.

Brandy Craig (JOUR '02) is marketing communications manager for MAKO SURGICAL CORP, a privately held medical device company developing new technologies for the orthopedic market. MAKO is in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Lindsey Cooper Crawford (Jour '00) is yearbook adviser and journalism teacher at a private school in Ruston, La. She and her husband Brent live in Ruston.

Troy Diggs (RTV '00) is a producer for KAKE in Wichita and was nominated for a regional emmy for Good Morning Kansas.

Rachel Earls (Jour '06) has joined the Little Rock office of Sells/Clark, a full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency in Little Rock and Fayetteville. She will work as an account coordinator.

Stephanie Easterly (RTV '04) is working for Wal-Mart in the production department under Duane McElroy (RTV '93). She formerly was at KNWA-TV in Northwest Arkansas.

Gary Elsken (RTV '02) has moved from Fort Smith to the Fayetteville side of KFSM-TV working as a producer/reporter in sports.

Amy Eoff (Jour '04) is in the marketing department with Liberty Bank in Jonesboro.

Kayla Eubanks (Jour '06) is account coordinator with Wunderkind Public Relations in Atlanta. She served on the National PRSA Student Internship Task Force, which developed internship guidelines that were presented to the PRSA board in October and approved as best practices for all PRSA chapters.

Brooksie Felty (Jour '03) has become the Jonesboro territory pharmaceutical sales representative for Eli Lilly & Co. with products for diabetes and osteoporosis.

Chelsea King Folts (RTV '06) is a weekend producer for KARK-TV in Little Rock.

Liz Fiala Kerns (Jour '03) is director of local chamber relations and president of the Illinois Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. She lives in Springfield, Ill. She is assisting ASU alumni association in establishing an Illinois chapter. In addition she works with the Czech North American Chamber of Commerce and has been appointed to the board of directors for the Public Relations Society of America Central Illinois chapter. She volunteers with a variety of local organization and is a graduate student in Communication at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Krissie Files (Jour '04) After working as chief designer of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway for eight months, Krissie became news editor at The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs. She is former editor of The Herald.

Kara Ford (Jour '00) is working for St. Vincent Rehabilitation Center in Sherwood.

Amber Freeman (RTV '05) is working for the video production team in the athletic department team at Texas A&M.

Trent Foreman (RTV '02) is production director for U.S. Stations' radio cluster in Hot Springs.

Sara Garland (Jour '03) is a district executive with Little Rock's Quapaw Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Rebecca Gatz (MSMC '06) is an instructor of mass communication at East Central University in Ada, Okla. She is teaching mass communication, writing for the mass media, advertising and public relations.

Judy (Griffin) Girtman (RTV '01) is working at WREG Channel 3 in Memphis. She is "Live at 9" stage manager/production assistant. She lives in Marion.

Blair Golleher (RTV '02) who studied broadcast news at ASU before graduating from Arkansas Tech is working as assignment editor for Univision in Little Rock. Blair wrote RTV Prof. Mary Jackson-Pitts, "If I have not told you before now, thank you for all of your help. The radio/TV program at ASU is truly the best, and thoroughly prepared me for my future in journalism."

Raven Goodrich (Jour '03) is director of communications/programs with the Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Erica (Marshall) Goodwin (Jour '00) and husband Jonathan announce the birth of Eliza Boyd Goodwin. They are living in Little Rock.

Ryan Gregory (RTV ’00) is working in the education department with AETN in Conway.

Emily Jones Griffin (Jour ’04) is head photographer for Arkansas Times in Little Rock.

Stacy Griffin (Prin '01) is the prepress manager at Russellville Printing Company.

LeCresha Hamilton Newton (RTV '00) has accepted the position of organizational advance director with the Girl Scouts of Ouachita Council. She lives in North Little Rock.

Alissa Harris (Jour '01) is doing advertising sales in Arkansas for LogoNation, a large screen printing/business promotional products company in Moorseville, N.C.

Raven Harris (RTV '06) is assistant director of a pre-school, New Society, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Jonathan Hays (RTV ’04) has joined KURM-FM in Rogers to work in sales, programming and production. He is looking forward to covering high school sports.

Amber Wolfe Henderson (Jour '00) is a senior manager of internal communications in corporate affairs at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville. She has one son, Tyler, 4.

Kate Hingtgen (MA SCom, '03) is beginning her second year of law school at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She was selected to be a member of the "Jessup Moot Court Team" and has been selected to serve on the Law Review.

Brandi Hodges (RTV '02), who had been working as a news producer at KAIT8 in Jonesboro, is now a reporter/photographer.

Takesha Holt-McMiller (MSMC '00) is a teacher in the Little Rock school district.

Matt Hubbard (RTV '07) has been promoted to production assistant with PGA TOUR Productions in Jacksonville, Fla.

Beth Hunt (RTV '01) is a reporter for KATV in Little Rock after working for KPOM/KFAA, the NBC affiliate in Fayetteville/Fort Smith.

Dee Ingram (SCom B.A. '02, M.A. '04) is teaching speech communication and American literature at Florida Metropolitan University in Orlando .

Kayti Isacksen (Jour '03) is living in Uzbekistan (north of Afghanistan) and working for Peace Corps.

Dae-Jin Jeon (Print '01, MSMC '05) is working for ORC Korea, which is a branch of an American company, Opinion Research Corporation. He has been admitted to a doctoral program.

Jajuan Johnson (RTV '02) is a promotions coordinator in the Web site department of the Tulsa (Okla.) World.

Keia Johnson (RTV '03) is an account executive with the Citadel Memphis Radio Group.

Brandi Jones (Univ College DMD '05) has accepted a position as an interactive designer with 4site Interactive Studios in Washington, D.C. She recently designed and created most of the content for a Greenpeace site.

LaGanzie Shamon Kale (RTV '05) is teaching radio/television at Central High School in West Helena.

Grant Keller (RTV ’03) operates his own video business, Frameworks Videography, in Jonesboro. His first full-length documentary, "Valley View Football: The First Varsity Season” debuted in April.

Kendall Kessee (JOUR '06) has been appointed director of public relations for the Girl Scouts in Little Rock.

Landon Kramer (Jour '04) is working for the North Little Rock Times as a photojournalist.

Mara Kuhn (Jour ’05), photographer at the The Sentinel-Record of Hot Springs, reports, “I can now say that I have been published internationally! I don't know if you saw my picture from when the people got stuck upside down on a roller coaster at Magic Springs for about 30 minutes this past week, but the AP picked it up and it literally went all over the world.” The picture was published in Sydney, Australia, South Africa and London and appeared on Fox News.com, AOL and David Letterman.

Kortney Penny Lacombe (RTV ’01) is morning news producer and news videographer at WLUC TV6 in Negaunee, Mich.

Andy Landrum (Prin '01) is working as an account manager for Quebecor World in Dyersburg, Tenn.

James Langston (Jour '02) is a general assignment reporter for the Wynne Progress.

Kris Layher (Jour ’05) is attending the art direction portfolio program at Miami Ad School in Miami Beach.

Jeremy Levenbach (RTV '05) is in New York City, working for a bar on the Lower East Side, producing a weekly comedy show called Cavalcade and interning for a music public relations company called Nasty Little Man.

Dale Maas (RTV ’07) was one of 30 applicants accepted into a media sales institute at the University of North Texas. The institute was organized by the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF).

Erika Madlock (MSMC ’06) has accepted a position as recruiter for Bethel College. She will be working for the Memphis branch of the McKenzie, Tenn., school.

Samantha Schuk Martin (Jour '03) is editor/general manager of the Tri-City Tribune in Marked Tree and the Trumann Democrat. Samantha and husband Josh live in Bay.

Susan Martin (Jour '03) is a police reporter for the McComb (Miss.) Press Enterprise.

Jason A. Marzewski (RTV '00) is associate director of public relations at Lyon College in Batesville.

Amanda McCall (RTV '04) is an advertising sales executive at WYCD - 99.5 FM -- the only country music station in the Detroit area. The station is owned by Viacom/Infinity.

Lesley McCrotty (Jour '04) is a graphic designer for Celebrate magazine in Jonesboro.

Heather McCutheon (Jour '02) has accepted a position with Stone & Ward in Little Rock as a public relations account coordinator.

Kyle McDaniel (Jour ‘04) has earned a master's degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri. He has accepted a photo editing position at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison.

Christy (Veara) McKeel (MSMC '02) is executive diretor of the Delta Syphony Orchestra, which is heaquartered in Jonesboro.

Kathryn McMorries (Jour '06) has joined the Nicholson Communication Agency in Little Rock as an account partner.

Joseph Midkiff (Jour ’03) is studying for a master’s degree at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His studies focus on professional media and media management. He is also extending his study in photojournalism and is serving as photo editor of the Daily Egyptian.

Sue Mills (Jour ’04) covers education and city government for the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle.

Caitlyn Mitchell (Jour '05) is a Web writer/editor for the Internet marketing group for Environment Systems Research in California.

Sherrie Mitchell (Jour ’00) is community program representative in Jonesboro for the American Cancer Society.

Andrea Smalec Morissey (Jour ’02) is president of the Arkansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Shay Nanke (RTV '02) has joined United Blood Services as a donor recruitment representative in Meridian, Miss. She formerly was 6 and 10 p.m. producer for Monday through Friday newscasts at WCBI television in Columbia, Miss.

Nick Nesler (Jour '04) has been promoted to news editor of the Paragould Daily Press. He had been a sports reporter for the newspaper since 2001.

Jonathan Nettles (RTV '01) is community affairs director for ClearChannel Television in Little Rock. He is working with two television stations, KLRT and KASN.

Bailey Newcomb (Jour '03) is working for the State Treasurer's Office in Little Rock.

Brian Newberry (Jour '00) is research assistant on the newest edition of the book, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. He is in law school at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Jessica Newburg (RTV '02) is teaching English in the North Little Rock school system.

Straley Snipes Owen (Jour '00) is a marketing coordinator with Nova Factor Inc. in Memphis. Nova Factor is a biotech pharmaceutical company that assists chronically ill patients with the specialized medications.

Davita Parks (RTV '05) has been named the head producer for the morning show at KAIT in Jonesboro. She has been working as associate producer.

Blair Perry (RTV '04) has moved to California and is taking acting lessons. She lives in Marina del Rey.

Keith Peterson (M.A. in SCOM '01) has become public school program advisor at the Arkansas Department of Workforce Education in Little Rock. He had been working as head speech writer for Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Bianca Phillips (Jour '02) is working at the Memphis Flyer, which is an alternative news weekly. The Flyer also publishes Memphis magazine.

Anjuli Porter (RTV ‘02) has accepted an anchor/reporter position in Hartford, Conn., after two years at KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas, Nev.

Joe Price (Jour ’05) is working as a copyeditor for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va.

John Proctor (RTV '05) is manager of information systems for Halcyon Yarn in Bath, Maine. He is responsible for development and maintenance of the company's web site, support of a mixed Macintosh and Windows network, ongoing analysis, development and maintenance of a Filemaker database, budgeting, planning and procurement of IT and training of personnel.

Brook Pruitt (MSMC '01) is working at KARK Channel 4 in Little Rock and has been accepted into an MFA program at the University of Central Arkansas.

Shane Puckett (SCom MA '03) is on the faculty at Truman State University in Missouri.

Matt Ramsey (SCom ’04) will be a visiting professor at ASU-Jonesboro in 2007-2008 after completing a doctorate in speech communication at Southern Mississippi.

Brenda Randle (MA ’06) is an instructor in Communications Studies at ASU and is studying for a doctorate in education leadership.

Kelly Rigler (RTV '01) is attending graduate school at the University of North Texas in Denton.

Courtney Rowe (Jour '05) has joined Sen. Blanche Lincoln's office in Washington, D.C.

Donna Wilson Shaull (Jour ‘01) recently accepted a position in the foundation office at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis after working five years as information coordinator at the West Memphis Chamber of Commerce. She and her husband, Danny, and one-year-old daughter, Kayla, live in Turrell.

Kevin Shain (RTV '00) is director of technology at Cape Henry Collegiate School in Virginia Beach. He continues to serve the school as teacher, webmaster and network administrator.

April Shye (RTV '05) is a marketing specialist with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. She works with the fund-raising arms for the hospital, developing and maintaining content for the field operations intranet.

Mack Skelton (SCom '02) is teaching English and coaching football and basketball at Caruthersville (Mo.) High School.

Allison Slinkard (SCom ’04) is assistant to the director for the Arkansas appointment boards and commissions in Little Rock.

Kevin Spangler (RTV ’05) has moved from TV news at KARK in Little Rock to a sales position with Yellow Book.

Darryl Spinks (RTV ;03) was graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law on May 20. He is planning on practicing law in Texas.

Brandi (Baird) Stafford (Jour '00, MSMC '02) is a communications specialist for Alltel at the company's headquarters in Little Rock. She handles both internal and external communications.

Alicia (Smith) Stogner (Jour '01) teaches German at Little Rock Central High School. She is married to Jeremy Stogner (an ASU graduate of nursing), and they reside in North Little Rock.

Ali King Sugg (RTV '04) is working for Organon Pharmaceuticals as a territory sales manager. She was formerly employed by Clear Channel Communications in Jonesboro as a morning show cohost at KIYS-FM. She is married to Joe Sugg. She reports that Ashley king Marsh (RTV '99) has opened a dance studio in Seymour, Tenn. She was formerly employed by the Journal Broadcast Group in Knoxville as a mid-day personality. She is married to former ASU basketball player and College of Business graduate Micah Marsh. They have two daughters, Madison and Avery.

Katrina Surprenant (Jour '03) is working in Memphis for Co-operative Retirement Services of America as an advertising consultant. She lives in Cordova, Tenn.

Robert Tabern (RTV '01) is the senior morning news producer at WDJT, the CBS television affiliate in Milwaukee, Wis. During the summer months, he also works as a tour guide for Amtrak on trains that run between Chicago and Minnesota.

Beverly (Jones) Tanner (RTV ’02) is morning anchor at WXVT in Greenville, Miss.

Edith Taylor (RTV '05) is working as a production assistant at Fox13 WHBQ in Memphis.

Adonis Thompson (RTV '03) won the "Ultimate Fuse Gig" and worked as a video jockey for Fuse, a cable music network, before returning to Memphis.

Brian Thompson (Jour ’03) is managing editor of the Wynne Progress and East Arkansas News Leader.

Croix Thompson (RTV '03), who formerly worked for KMBC in Kansas City, is serving in the Peace Corps in Niger.

Tyler Thornton (MA SCOM '04) has been accepted into the doctoral program in communication at the University of Oklahoma. He continues as director of debate at Cameron University.

Carrie Turner (Jour '00) co-owns a college marketing company, Your Mom's Dog Marketing in Orlando, Fla. She focuses on publicity and special events for clients.

Jonathon Vansandt (Jour '01) is director of marketing for Pearson-Vail LLC in Jonesboro. The company is the parent company of Furniture and Appliances Now Rent to Own, Integrated Telecommunication Services, F & G Properties and FAN Auto Rental.

Sirpa Vartiainen (RTV '00) reports he is "back in media business, still working for Nokia." He is a producer for new growth business for Nokia, working on interaction of cell phones with the Web and television.

Brooke Vermillion (Jour '04) is a general assignment reporter for the Russellville Courier. She wrote Department of Journalism Chair Joel Gambill, "Russellville was my first choice ... I'm really starting to settle in here (in my second week), and I really feel like this is where I need to be right now. Scott Perkins (the editor) has been good to me, and we talk about how wonderful the ASU journalism program is -- how much we both learned from all of you."

Blake Vickers (University College DMD ’07) is a CBT specialist with Lockheed Martin doing Vector drawings and 3-d with Lightwave. He interned with Lockheed and now is working for the company doing models for the C-130 aircraft associated with Little Rock Air Force Base.

D. J. Welte (RTV ’05) is video and technology coordinator in athletics at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Daniel Westerhold (RTV '02) is a reporter for Bright House Cable Networks, Bay News 9, in Tampa, Fla.

Miranda Wheeler-Bland (Jour '07) is working in advertising sales for the Jonesboro Sun.

Rhindi White (RTV '07) is a production assistant at KARK4 in Little Rock and is marketing coordinator for "The Genius Club," a Christian-based film.

Mathew Woods (Printing ’02) is a graphic designer for the Searcy Daily Citizen. He lives in Russell.