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1990's

Cori (Finkelstein) Abraham ('94) is now the Director of development and programming at Bravo in LA after working in Television Development at Comedy Central, VH1, and FX.

Ben Anton ('99) is a Local Account Manager with Madison's Progressive Radio 105.5 Triple M.

Joe Beres ('99) is now the projectionist at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Leah Cunningham ('97) has been working in the field of Communications for the NYC Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence since 2002, preparing speeches about domestic violence for both the Commissioner of the office and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. She also leads a community outreach strategy that brings a message of prevention to immigrant and independent media, youth, and business and faith leaders in diverse languages. she says, "Special thanks to Domestic Abuse Intervention Services in Madison and Prof. Steve Lucas for helping to prepare me for this great job!"

Dora Mak ('96) has been working for The Associated Press as a Producer at AP GraphicsBank since 1997.

Erik Farmer ('93) is the senior account executive of Logan Productions, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The animation director of the Spider-Man movies worked at Logan Productions in 2004 on post-production for his forthcoming independent movie, Lonesome Matador.

Joey Garfield ('92) is the director of Breath Control: The History of the Human Beatbox. His film has been shown at festivals around the world including The Los Angeles Film Festival, the Wisconsin Film Festival, the CineVegas Film Festival, and many others.

Jason Gewirtz ('93) is a producer for CNBC. He is in charge of "Closing Bell" with Maria Bartiromo and Tyler Mathisen.

Julia Gray is currently teaching Assistant Editor classes at Columbia College and has taught Editing the Narrative there as well. She plans on going back to school to study new media journalism.

Robert A. Kraig (PhD '99)
I am currently Wisconsin State Political Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Kate Sawall ('98) is the Director of Content Management at MTVN International.

Trinity Sullivan ('98) has been working as a freelance photographer specializing in travel.

Carly (Winer) Ubersox ('96) has, after nearly 10 years working in entertainment public/media relations, including several years working for Harpo Productions and Oprah Winfrey, launched into a new realm - working for herself as an independent communications specialist (consulting, PR, brand imaging, events).

Kris Warren ('97) started in the mailroom at the Writers and Artists Agency a few weeks after moving from Madison to Los Angeles and quickly moved up the ladder, working in talent representation for 3 years. Kris then decided to move into television development and worked for Joel Silver at Silver Pictures (The Matrix, Die Hards, and Lethal Weapons to name a few films) for 2 years before moving to the Fox network. Kris now develops television shows at the director, McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision which has produced the two Charlie's Angels films, The O.C., The Mountain, and Fastlane, and have new shows in development at ABC, FOX, and The WB.

Wendi Weger ('98) is a programmer for the New York Underground Film Festival.