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60 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

CSUF Department of Communications Alumni Wall of Fame

2021 Inductees

Justine Houston-Brown, Apr '12

Houston-Brown has cultivated a career that thrives off of developing high-affect PR programs for a diversity of B2B, B2C, and nonprofit clients. She aims to farther multifariousness, equity, and inclusion in communications and is an outspoken DE&I abet and ally. Houston-Brown has worked with companies including Toshiba, Hope Technology, Dole Food Company, Boys & Girls Clubs, Cytek Biosciences, Nippon Kohden, and Orange County Customs Foundation.

Matt Prince '07

Prince currently leads Taco Bell's Public Relations and Brand Experience. He manages creative ideation and strategy for their largest campaigns, partnerships, and activations. Previously, Prince managed social media for the Walt Disney Co., was Sr. Managing director of Executive Communications, and pb speechwriter for Disney executives.

By Inductees

Rebecca A. Aguilar '95

Public Relations

Aguilar retired from The Boeing Company after almost xl years, where she served as the manager of protocol services, customer relations and field marketing, directing a professional staff in the arrangement, planning and implementation of external customer relations projects. Aguilar also served on the board of directors for many customer and customs organizations and as well published technical papers.

Tony Allevato '92

Radio-Boob tube-Film

Allevato produced award winning shows that aired locally on Pull a fast one on Sports, KCBS and KCAL ix. He became the first production rent for the cable group TVG Network and went on to the NFL Network, where he served as analogous producer of "NFL Total Access." He has produced shows in nine different countries and has overseen more than 70,000 hours of live sports programming.

Elliott Almond '75

Journalism

Almond has been an investigative sports journalist for three decades, working on the staffs of the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and San Jose Mercury News. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times and has been recognized by organizations such as Associated Printing Sports Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the writer of "Surfing: Mastering Waves from Bones to Intermediate."

Don Andersen '62

Journalism

Andersen was executive director of the Orange Canton Sports Clan, which is responsible for the Freedom Basin, Pigskin Classic, and the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame. He was full general manager and get-go director of public relations for the Seattle Seahawks; vice president for the World Football game League; and director of Athletic News Service at the University of Southern California.

Grant Anderson '92

Radio-Telly-Film

Anderson began his career at Lorimar Idiot box and WBTV, where he worked as an banana and later producer on several television receiver series including "Homefront," "ER," and "Tertiary Scout." He joined CBS Television Studios, where he served equally VP, overseeing a slate of hit series, including "CSI," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY," "NCIS," "NCIS Los Angeles," and "Criminal Minds." He is president of Shane Brennan Productions.

Paul Attner '69

Journalism

Attner worked as a staff writer in the sports department at The Washington Post. He was a national author for The Sporting News, the nation's second-largest sports weekly. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for characteristic writing; wrote four books; won numerous national writing awards; and covered five Olympics, xxx sequent Super Bowls, numerous Earth Series, NBA championships, Concluding Fours, Masters and Wimbledons.

Jo Etta Bandy '94

Public Relations

Swap'due south successful 33-year career in corporate communications has included executive positions at Covington Development Group, Fidelity National Financial, Market Pathways Financial Relations, Offset American Fiscal Corporation and Ingram Micro. She currently serves as director of career and manufacture at Chapman University.

Walter Baranger '86

Journalism

Baranger retired from The New York Times after 27 years, about recently every bit senior editor for news operations. He travelled to more than than lx countries and almost U.South. states in support of The Times' newsroom. His awards include The New York Times Publisher's Laurels for introducing satellite communications to the newsroom, and a Publisher'due south Honor for designing an on-line version of "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage."

David 1000. Barford '81

Radio-Television set-Flick

Barford is president and CEO of Agilis Systems, manag- ing director for The Gilead Group and co-founder of the Global Learning Exchange Initiative. He served as executive vice president and chief operating officeholder at Charter Communications. He has served as board member and president of the Southern California Cablevision & Telecommunications Association and of the Southern California Cable Television Marketing Quango.

Sheri Benninghoven '83

Public Relations

Benninghoven is main of SAE Communications and one of the nation's premier public policy communications counselors. She served equally Anaheim'southward PIO earlier becoming the first manager of communications for the League of California Cities. She served as senior vice president & global business relationship director for Ketchum Public Relations and on the adjunct kinesthesia of the USC'due south Annenberg School for Advice and Journalism.

Tricia Bigelow '82

Bigelow is the presiding justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight. She was a trial judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court, where she handled some of the county's almost high-profile & complex trials. She received the Bernard S. Jefferson Award for distinguished service to judicial education from the CA Judges Association & the CA Judicial Council Ronald M. George Award for Judicial Excellence.

Phil Blauer '80

Journalism

Blauer is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 35 years of experience. He has covered major national and international stories, has interviewed six U.Southward. Presidents, and has been a contributor for several national networks, including CBS News and CNN. He has worked in goggle box in Palm Springs, LA & San Diego. He has received numerous Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting.

Mark Boster '76

Photocommunications

Boster has worked for the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years; his pictures and videos were function of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizewinning staff entry of the San Bernardino terrorist shooting coverage. He's covered the 1984 Summer Olympics in LA; war and post-war in Kosovo; the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George H.Westward. Bush, George Westward. Bush; and state funerals for Presidents Richard Thousand. Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Chuck Brauer '73

Advertising

Brauer began his career as marketing specialist for Beckman Instruments, Inc. and went on to work at advertising agencies such as Reiser Williams DeYong Inc., NW Ayer, the Cochrane Hunt, Livingston & Co. and Saatchi & Saatchi earlier launching his own firm. He spent v years as partner and executive vice president at Roberts, Mealer & Company earlier joining Sony Electronics as marketing communications managing director.

Suzi Brown '88

Public Relations

Brown is managing director of media relations and external communications for Disneyland Resort, a position she has held since 2008. She serves as the resort's primary spokesperson and is charged with enhancing and protecting its reputation. Prior to joining Disney, Dark-brown'southward experience spanned two decades with primal communications roles at Anaheim City School District, CKE Restaurants, Inc. and the city of Anaheim.

Jerry Caraccioli '90

Public Relations

Caraccioli has been a member of the CBS Sports Communications Department since 1997 and currently serves every bit executive director of communications. He has worked on the biggest events in sports similar the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Japan and several Super Bowls. He co-authored "Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games" and "Hitting Silverish: The Untold Story of America's Forgotten Hockey Team."

Marci Carlin '83

Radio-Boob tube-Film

Carlin has been vice president of BRC Imagination Arts for more than 30 years. BRC Imagination Arts designs and produces content-based themed entertainment. Information technology provides services for aquariums, corporate visitor centers, museums, and theme parks. Clients include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, The Walt Disney Company, Ford, NASA, the Corking Wall World Cultural Heritage Park, and Volkswagen.

Barbara Chen '99

Radio-Boob tube-Film

Chen is senior director of communications for the Office of Academy Life at Columbia Academy. She began her career as public relations coordinator for DIRECTV and went on to work at ABC News in New York before her engagement by New York City Constabulary Commissioner Raymond Due west. Kelly equally special assistant. Chen was later promoted to director of media relations, a civilian position equivalent to a bureau chief.

Nick R. Chilton '68

Journalism

Chilton spent his career in consumer goods marketing and general management with companies such as Procter & Run a risk, The Clorox Company, Shaklee, John Labatt Foods, Johnson Outdoors and Wyandot Inc. His involvement in the private sector included leadership roles in the Male child Scouts of America, Chambers of Commerce in Eugene, Oregon and Marion, Ohio, The Snack Food Association, and other organizations.

Jackie Combs-Nelson '70

Journalism

Throughout her 38-year newspaper career, Combs-Nelson worked at the Downey Live Wire, Daily Pilot, Long Beach Press-Telegram and The Sacramento Union, culminating with 23 years at the Chicago Tribune. She worked on historic events such equally the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981; The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986; The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995; and ix/11.

Peggy Conlon '73

Public Relations

Conlon serves on the boards of directors of the Barbara Bush-league Foundation for Family Literacy and United Way Worldwide. For 15 years, Conlon served as president and CEO of the Advertising Council, and prior to that, as vice president of Reed Business organisation Information acting as publisher of "Broadcasting & Cable." She also served as a public affairs officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve for seven years, earning the rank of lieutenant.

Ian Crockett '81

Advertising

Crockett serves as president of ICE Advertising. Later traveling the country every bit a promoter for Circus Vargas, he joined what is now Orange Characterization Fine art + Advertisement as account manager; he eventually bought and remained with the agency as possessor & president until selling. He has published more than 100 articles on advertizement and marketing, written hundreds of radio and Television commercials, and bought media in over 200 markets.

Ken Daley '86

Journalism

Daley began as a sports author and editor at The Orangish County Register. In 1990, he began a 23-year career roofing Major League Baseball game for the Los Angeles Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, and contributed to MLB.com, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com and The New York Times. He currently works as the criminal courts reporter for The Times-Picayune, covering "the virtually unusual criminal courthouse in the state."

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels '87

Photocommunications

Daniels is co-managing partner with Henry Segerstrom in the billion-dollar company, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons that owns Due south Coast Plaza. In 2002, she created the Festival of Children Foundation, a network of nonprofit charities that actively work to amend the lives of children. She was named 2016 Woman of the Year past Anaheim Assemblyman Tom Daly. Her photography was part of an exhibit at CSUF in 2017.

Karen Devine '91

Journalism

Devine is the primary anchor for the evening newscasts at ABC/Trick affiliates KESQ/KDFX and is also a member of the elite investigative reporting unit of measurement known as the I-Team in the Palm Springs tv set market place. She is a multi-Emmy-honour winner and ii-time winner of the Edward R. Murrow regional award for her in-depth & investigative reporting. For 17 years, she was the primary female anchor at the NBC affiliate KMIR.

Henry DiCarlo '90

Radio-TV-Film

DiCarlo is an American Meteorological Club certified meteorologist and sportscaster for the KTLA 5 Morning News in Los Angeles. Prior to joining KTLA in 2010, DiCarlo spent eight years at KCBS/KCAL Los Angeles. He as well has worked in Seattle and Salt Lake Urban center, and began his career as a sportscaster in Palm Springs. DiCarlo and his married woman, Lisa, currently live in Yorba Linda with their two sons, Henry III and Jack.

Cathi Douglas '80

Journalism

Douglas began her career reporting and copy editing for The Orange County Register. Part of her career was spent as a senior executive at a full-service PR agency and later 19 years in higher education, showtime at Chapman University every bit public relations managing director and so in strategic communications at CSUF. She founded and runs Cathi Douglas Communications, a Santa Ana-based PR consulting, writing and editing business.

Kilmeny Duchardt '08

Journalism

Duchardt is a Washington, DC-based anchor of TRT Earth, a Turkey-based English language news network. She joined the international English language-linguistic communication news network in 2015 as a strange correspondent based in Istanbul. Before that, Duchardt worked at the Associated Press and Reuters every bit a field producer and worked for Al Jazeera America in New York and its sister channel in Doha, Qatar.

Chris Dufresne '81

Journalism

Dufresne is the co-founder of TMGcollegesports.com and recently retired from the Los Angeles Times later on 35 years in editorial covering a wide range of sports that included the NFL, boxing and Major League Baseball. He covered vii Olympic Games starting with the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. He was named California Sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Mark Eades '79

Eades started working at Disneyland in 1972 while attending CSUF. He transferred to Disney Studios, eventually working on the EPCOT and TDL projects as postal service-product supervisor for films. In 1982 he transferred to Walt Disney Imagineering. In 1997 he became a journalist, first at the OC News aqueduct and then as a staff multimedia reporter for OC Annals, covering theme parks. Mark is now a freelance writer, lensman/videographer, and spends much more than time with his married woman.

Elke Eastman '80

Public Relations

Eastman has worked in public relations for 21 years at Beckman Instruments, Inc., in Fullerton. As director for customs and employee services, she is responsible for the strategic direction of corporate contributions, customs relations, employee services, and the company museum. Eastman is a member of the board of directors of Project Tomorrow and the American Heart Clan'southward North Orangish County Division.

John Echeveste '73

Journalism

Echeveste is primary executive officer of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, the country'southward merely museum dedicated to the history, art and culture of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. He was a partner with VPE Public Relations in South Pasadena for more than than 25 years and serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Library Foundation, CSUF'south College of Communications Advisory Board and Los Angeles Music and Art Schoolhouse.

Geno Effler '77

Journalism

Effler heads corporate communications at J.D. Power, a global leader in consumer insights and advisory services. He held the top communications post for the National Hot Rod Association and Volvo Cars of Due north America. As manager of public relations for Kia Motors America, he oversaw the company'southward successful launch in the U.Southward. market; that led him to positions with Mercedes-Benz USA and Aston Martin Northward America.

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