Class: 2003; Journalism and Mass Communication Then: Sketch (editor); Iowa State Daily (editor-in-chief); academic resource coordinator in Maple Hall; Honors Program; Asian Pacific American Awareness Coalition Now: Partner, Social Engagement Chair, Spong PR In his own words: I started my career as a copy editor and designer at The Des Moines Register and was soon … Continue reading Cavan Reagan Reichmann ’03
Class: 1998, Journalism & Mass Communication Then: Iowa State Daily (news editor and staff writer); National Honor Society (executive board member) Now: Shareholder, McGrath North law firm In her own words: For more than 12 years, I have helped intellectual property owners protect their brands across the globe. I have practiced with an Omaha-based law … Continue reading Tracy Deutmeyer ’98
Aimee Malone’s pet peeve has always been when people use the wrong words and punctuation—a sign that she was destined to be a copy editor even as a high school student. “I was one of those people in high school who’d mark up everyone else’s papers in English class and get dirty looks for it,” … Continue reading Aimee Malone ’13
Two worlds have collided for a recent Greenlee School alumna. Tian Zhu, who received her master’s degree at Iowa State in 2012, began working as an anchor for SinoVision Inc., a Chinese TV network that airs in America, in June 2013. For Zhu, who did her undergraduate work in her home country at the Communication … Continue reading Tian Zhu ’12
Amid the clamor of his favorite cafe in Vienna (where the Internet and views are grand), Kaleb Warnock shared the story of what brought him there in the first place. Warnock initially visited Europe in 2011 as a percussionist with Iowa State’s wind ensemble. One bicycle ride through a city park was all it took … Continue reading Kaleb Warnock ’12
“I’m such a dreamer…” That’s how 2012 Greenlee graduate Katie Tomlinson describes herself now as she works with advertising clients of Marie Claire magazine, doing everything from helping the social and digital team to gathering research to running the Marie Claire Career Network LinkedIn page. Tomlinson, marketing coordinator for Marie Claire, started college unsure of … Continue reading Katie Tomlinson ‘12
Brandon Blue may not have a background in agriculture, but this born-and-raised Des Moines man thrives as an agricultural journalist and farm broadcaster. In his time at Iowa State, Blue wrote for the VEISHEA beat and Opinion section at the Iowa State Daily and became the first news director for ISUtv. After graduating with a … Continue reading Brandon Blue ‘12
Tiffany Daniels knows what it’s like to get knocked down and fight to get back on her feet. That experience enables her to connect with the clients of Workforce Solutions Capital Area Workforce Board—the unemployment office for Travis County, Texas—where Daniels was hired in 2012. Daniels double majored in political science and journalism with a … Continue reading Tiffany Daniels ‘06
As you enter the Kansas City Star’s newsroom, take a right past the Octagon of Knowledge, (employees call it the “Ook,”) and through a maze of cubicles to find Rick Montgomery among 3-foot piles of notes and letters. Montgomery, a Star feature writer, is a traditional journalist. There are a couple coffee-stained reporter’s notebooks all … Continue reading Rick Montgomery ‘82
“What would it take to feed every hungry child in Kansas City?” That’s the question Carol Hallquist and her team posed to Harvesters, a charitable organization that had requested funding from Hallmark Corporation for their then-small program. Harvesters’ program filled the backpacks of low-income children with food before they headed home from school for the … Continue reading Carol Corning Hallquist ‘78