THE CELEBRATION 2020 Dear Alumni and Friends,
“As Spartans, you On behalf of our alumni board, students, faculty and staff, we welcome you to The Celebration. Thank you for celebrating with us as we honor the achievements, commitment and passion of our College of embody success, Communication Arts and Sciences alumni. and your presence makes a profound Together, we are a community driven by the common goal of unleashing the full potential of each impact on those individual to cross the Red Cedar. Our land-grant mission and Spartan ideals are built on the pillars of individual strength, collective power and extraordinary impact. around you.” To achieve these goals, we depend on our alumni to be advocates, ambassadors and supporters of the -Dean Prabu David college. Your diversity in skills, experiences and insights is a remarkable benefit to students and faculty today. Many of you provide support for scholarships, create opportunities for internships, host field experience classes or offer valuable mentorship to students. With more than 55,000 alumni and 3,500 students, we have room for many more of you to get involved!
Our alumni make MSU a better place. As Spartans, you embody success, and your presence makes a profound impact on those around you. Leading by example, you illuminate the path to the future for those who will make an impact in the dynamic world of communication arts and sciences. We will work together to ensure students, faculty and staff have access to opportunities for individual success and collective understanding.
Your time, your support and your generosity make a difference. Now, we celebrate what all of us are and aspire to be as proud MSU Spartans. This program is for you. Celebrate and embrace your role in the greatness that is ComArtSci.
Go Green,
PRABU DAVID JEFF GENTHNER Dean, College of Communication Arts & President, Alumni Advisory Board Sciences 2019-2020 ALUMNI BOARD
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2020
PRESIDENT CHAIR - DEVELOPMENT Jeff Genthner R. Matt Davis THANK YOU B.A. Telecommunication ’80 B.A. Journalism ‘86 TO OUR SPONSORS VICE PRESIDENT CHAIR - ALUMNI/STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Brian O’Connor Karen Twigg May B.A. Telecommunication ’91 B.A. Journalism ’93
CHAIR - MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS SPARTAN SPONSOR Anne Marie Schiller B.A. Advertising ’84
JARRETT BELL JASON HILLMAN B.A. Communication ’81 B.A. Journalism ’94 RED CEDAR SPONSOR TRACI CARPENTER ERICA HUGHES B.A. Journalism ’05 B.A. Communication/PR ’08 M.L. ELRICK CHRIS KUECHENMEISTER B.A. Journalism ’90 B.A. Advertising ’95 AIMAN FAROOQ BRIAN T. MURRAY B.A. Media & Information ’13 B.A. TISM ’06 SUSAN GOLDBERG BARB PETEE GREEN SPONSORS B.A. Journalism ’84 B.A. Journalism ’84 MARY GREALY STEVE ROBBINS B.A. Audiology & Speech Sciences ’71 M.A. & Ph.D. Communication ’96 WANDA HERNDON LIZ ROSS B.A. Journalism ’74; M.A. ’79 B.A. Advertising ’94 JEFF WHITE B.A. Telecommunication ’86
ALUMNI BOARD STAFF IMPACT
WELCOME TO THE CELEBRATION Kim Kersten Williams
Kim Kersten Williams works in the Dean’s Office Williams goes above and beyond in her work, We recognize honorees with the following awards: as an accounting specialist at MSU’s College of volunteering her time and energy to support Communication Arts and Sciences. As part of initiatives that build community among STAFF IMPACT the Accounting and Research Team (ART), she ComArtSci’s faculty and staff. Known for her humor handles travel reimbursements, purchase orders, and friendly smile, she also adds pizazz to special Recognizes a consistently outstanding ComArtSci support staff employee. operational statements and requisitions, fulfilling occasions. She has been instrumental in planning OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP her role with a high degree of professionalism and activities like Take Your Child to Work Day, and she positivity. has stepped up to lead the event in the spring. Recognizes an individual who embodies exceptional leadership in the College through community, culture, stewardship, accountability, and a vision of Williams works closely with the MSU School of institutional excellence. Journalism and the Department of Media and Information, processing the largest volume of HONORARY ALUMNI financial transactions of anyone in the ART office. She joined ComArtSci in 2000, and she possesses Presented to individuals for their continued support and volunteer service to the a wealth of institutional knowledge. She serves college and the university. as a mentor to new faculty and staff, making complicated procedures easy for her colleagues. RISING STAR She finds this mentorship gratifying, and she has Honors alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years and have shown a offered to develop a Staff Mentoring Policy to strong record of accomplishment and service to the college and community. provide more support. She has served as a member of the MSU Travel Committee, and she attends OUTSTANDING ALUMNI training programs to enhance her skills. For 10 years, she also worked as the secretary to the chair Recognizes alumni who have obtained the highest level of professional or of the Department of Telecommunication (now academic achievement and demonstrated service to the college and community. Media and Information.)
Accounting Specialist OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP HONORARY ALUMNI
Julie Hagopian Richard E. Wiley
Julie Hagopian provides student-centered advising transition to life in a new culture. Among her many In 1983, Richard E. Wiley co-founded Wiley Rein, Magazine’s “100 Men of the Century.” to empower, challenge and assist students in achievements, she demonstrates a commitment to L.L.P., a Washington, D.C. law firm with the largest discovering and attaining their educational and help all students succeed by making the most of communications practice in the United States. He is a Wiley graduated with distinction from career goals. She strives to prioritize inclusivity and their college experience. former chairman, commissioner and general counsel Northwestern University with B.S. and J.D. degrees. empathy, and she works to find new ways to help for the Federal Communications Commission. He holds a master of law (LL.M.) from Georgetown students feel supported at ComArtSci. Hagopian is an alumna of Michigan State University. University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in “Dick” Wiley has been profiled in The New York Hagopian has held several roles in advising Marketing in 2007, and a Master of Arts in Student Times as “Telecommunications’ Ubiquitous Man of at MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Affairs Administration in 2012. Influence”, the Los Angeles Times as the “The Sixth Sciences, where she now works as an academic Commissioner”, The International Herald Tribune advisor and new student orientation coordinator. as the “Most Influential Media Lawyer in U.S.”, She has served on many committees, including stints as the chair of the ComArtSci Internship Toronto’s Globe and Mail as the “Father of HDTV”, Award Committee and the student outreach chair and The American Lawyer for the “Brand Name of of the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance, a chapter of Communications Law.” the American Advertising Federation. Wiley was awarded an Emmy for leading the Her roles have included coordinating the development of digital television. His multitude ComArtSci Student Weekly, a newsletter sent to of industry recognitions include the National undergraduate students with academic, career, Association of Broadcaster’s Distinguished internship and student organization information. Service Award, the North American Broadcasters She has worked as an assistant teaching courses Association’s International Achievement Award, on job search strategies for communication fields, the Library of American Broadcasting’s “Giants freshmen seminars and the Los Angeles Field in Broadcasting,” the Broadcasters Foundation of Experience, where she coordinated 15 company America’s Excellence in Broadcasting Award, the and studio visits for students. In 2012, she Consumer Electronics Association’s Gold Medal developed the first MSU freshmen seminar focused and Hall of Fame, and Broadcasting & Cable on international students to help these students
Academic Advisor Chairman Emeritus, Wiley Rein L.L.P. RISING STAR OUTSTANDING ALUMNI
Jazmin Bailey Kerry J. Byrnes
Known to most as an Emmy Award-winning news Some of those lessons inspired Bailey’s first book, Kerry Byrnes worked 40 years as an applied He received several awards from USAID, including anchor for WESH 2 News Sunrise, Jazmin Bailey is The Woman With The Oil. The book sets the scene social scientist supporting agricultural and rural Meritorious Group Honor Awards, the Superior Group also a best-selling author and dynamic speaker. of her abusive marriage and catapults readers into development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and Award, and the Administrator’s Outstanding Career the Caribbean. Achievement Award upon retirement. jaw-dropping, emotional moments. The Woman Each morning, Bailey greets Central Florida viewers With The Oil was the top-selling title in Amazon’s His employers/clients included development Byrnes also has a doctoral degree in sociology on WESH 2 News Sunrise with her bright smile divorce category during its release weekend in organizations such as Michigan State University, from Iowa State University. He was honored with and the day’s top headlines. She has covered some 2018. International Fertilizer Development Center, the World the Okemos Education Foundation’s Distinguished of the area’s biggest stories including: The Pulse Bank, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Agency for Alumni Award in 2018. He lives in Reston, Virginia with Nightclub shooting, a deadly gator attack at Walt International Development, and various consulting his wife, Sonia Byrnes. They have one son and one firms. Byrnes has conducted hundreds of short-term grandson. Disney World and several destructive hurricanes. assignments in developing countries and provided As a student at MSU, Bailey was a member of the project design, evaluation, and oversight for research Delta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and training initiatives in fertilizer use/marketing; Inc., and co-founder of Successful Black Women: agricultural research, extension, and education; An organization that provides resources for African organizational management for sustainability; trade American women on campus. capacity building; and food security and food safety.
Byrnes has authored hundreds of technical reports After nearly a decade in television, Bailey remains and publications, including Sistemas de Información y passionate about supporting women. She now Comunicación de Mercadeo en la Zona de Influencia takes her storytelling outside of the newsroom and de Cali; Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations in inspires young adults and girls with her personal Fertilizer-Related Agricultural Production Technology life lessons. in Developing Countries; Water Users Associations in World Bank-Assisted Irrigation Projects in Pakistan; Farmer Organizations: Tapping Their Potential as Catalysts for Change in Small-Farmer Agricultural Systems; and “The Spirit Lives On: Communication Seminars as a Surprisingly Hardy, Valuable, and Promising Heritage of NPAC.”
B.A. Journalism ‘11 | Morning Anchor, WESH 2 News M.A. Communication ’68; B. Sociology ’67 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI OUTSTANDING ALUMNI
Kenzie A. Cameron, Ph.D., MPH, FACH Peter Collman
Kenzie Cameron arrived at MSU in 1994 on a her passion for mentoring, and believes it is her A senior technical writer for Broadcom Inc, Peter Today, Collman oversees podcasts on history and University Distinguished Fellowship, after spending responsibility to pay it forward. Collman works in the Czech Republic, producing culture through Podcastnik, LLC Productions— a 18 months working in Moscow, Russia. While technical documentation for mainframe global company he co-owns. In six years, he has secured working through culture shock, she valued being Cameron is a native of State College, Pennsylvania, services and rich media content for customer and 2.8 million downloads, with content released in three surrounded by faculty, staff, and students, who and earned both a Bachelor of Science and a corporate needs. languages. As the producer and host of his YouTube mentored, motivated, challenged, and supported Master of Public Health degree from Northwestern channel Past Access, Collman travels the world her throughout her graduate studies and beyond. University. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Collman also has an undergraduate degree from in search of historic insight into battles, culture, Steve Dickerson, and their two cats, Cassie and Marshall University. He received several West Virginia and human achievement while providing tips for Associated Press awards in the mid-1990s for small wheelchair disabled travelers. After five years on the faculty at the University of Raven. and large market radio news documentaries while Georgia, Cameron joined the Division of General working as the WDBM-FM station manager. He also Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of won the 1998 Michigan Broadcasters Association Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg award for Best Newscast with his production of a School of Medicine in 2003. Cameron is a research program called Independent Today. professor in the Department of Medicine, with secondary appointments in the Departments From 1999 through 2011, Collman served as the of Medical Education, Preventive Medicine, and community relations manager and injury prevention Medical Social Sciences. She has authored over specialist for Shepherd Center Hospital in Atlanta, 100 peer-reviewed publications with colleagues Georgia. He reached over 60,000 Atlanta youths from communication, internal medicine, emergency with his message of avoiding spinal cord and brain medicine, medical education, hospital medicine, trauma through safer behavior. medical social sciences, obstetrics and gynecology, preventive medicine, and transplant, among others. Collman was a member of the U.S. Wheelchair Fencing team from 1999 until 2006. He was on both In 2016, she was honored with the Feinberg U.S.A. World Championship squads in 2004 and School of Medicine Mentor of the Year Award. 2006, and was named first alternate to the 2000 Cameron seeks to honor her own mentors through Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Ph.D. Communication ’98; M.A. Communication ’96 B.A. Telecommunication ’98 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI OUTSTANDING ALUMNI
Coleen M. King Roger L. Martin, APR
Coleen King is the president and founder of King afloat. While she was recently honored globally Roger Martin is president and partner at Martin five times in the past dozen years in the Central Media, a full-service marketing, advertising, public as the PR News Boutique Firm of the Year, she Waymire, a full-service public relations and digital Michigan PRSA Pace Awards contest. He was also relations and digital media agency. For more than remains rooted in her commitment to work that communications consulting firm in Lansing. named “Pacemaker of the Year” by CMPRSA in 21 years, she has helped clients move the needle makes a positive difference throughout Michigan. 2001. with research-based strategies, and has won 26 Through nearly four decades as a journalist national and international awards for her work. King lives in East Lansing with her husband, Chris and public relations executive, Martin has Roger and his wife, Lynne, live in Mason, where King ’73 and their adorable-yet-naughty pug, been recognized as one of Michigan’s best they raised three daughters. One is an alumna King started her career with Avery Knodel, a Lucky. communicators. of the Eli Broad College of Business, and their prestigious national firm in Chicago, where she youngest is a junior at MSU. negotiated with the nation’s largest ad agencies After earning his bachelor’s degree he taught MSU on behalf of American Dairy, Kellogg, Sears, undergraduate and graduate writing and reporting Unilever and Procter & Gamble. Next, she blazed classes for about a decade. While a reporter and an impressive trail as the first female sales political bureau chief at The Detroit News, he won representative at WLNS, Lansing’s CBS affiliate. many awards for journalism excellence, including She quickly became the top-performing regional being named Michigan’s Best Reporter, and being sales manager within the then male-dominated nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize. field. Martin started a new career in public relations She founded King Media in 1999, and her agency after leaving The News in 1991, and has won now has offices in East Lansing, Grand Rapids numerous local, regional, and national awards and St. Joseph. During the Great Recession, which for PR excellence. Martin Waymire staffers have shuttered so many small companies, King’s tireless won four Silver Anvils—the nation’s top public work ethic and business acumen kept King Media relations award—including a 2019 Silver Anvil for a successful statewide ballot campaign to end partisan gerrymandering in Michigan. His campaigns have won “Best of Show” at least
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Chris Hansen Mary Klein Buller Services Group. He also serves as a board member for WQED Stephen R. Lacy Andrew P. MacMillan Mark Hollis Michael Irvine Thomas A. Muth, Sr., Ph.D. Brian T. Murray Jan S. Lewin Public Television in Pittsburgh. Linda C. Stone, MD Amol S. Pavangadkar Nedra Pickler David A. Weitzner Before being named to his current position in Gary A. Reid Sri W. Sukotjo 2015 January 2016, he served as senior vice president 2008 Sandi Walker Smith, Ph.D Fahad K. Sultan Nicholas D. Becharas Jim Dunbar of Integrated Line of Business Marketing for five Derek N. Wallbank, Jr. Geoff Johns Molly Fletcher Angela R. Massenberg years. In this role, he led marketing efforts for all Lynn Henning Diane Neal PNC businesses with an emphasis on customer Honorary Richard Liblong Dale Petroskey acquisition and cross-sell strategies. Thuma joined Rhoda Weiss Bobbie N. Arnold 2014 PNC in 2011. Richard C. 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