Alumni Updates

Robin Ferruggia ('03) is a general reporter for the Estes Park (Colo.) Trail Gazette. She writes, "I get to do a lot of environmental stories and I love my job. Despite all the grumbling I did while I was in the program, I think it prepared me extremely well for a career in environmental journalism. I thank you all."

Nicole Gordon ('02) is still working as a writer/editor at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research). "Basically, I write about atmospheric science for the general public, other UCAR/NCAR employees and the atmospheric science community," she says.

Kathleen O'Neil ('03) is working as the energy and environment reporter at the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She writes, "I spend a lot of time covering the DOE's national research lab right outside of town, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). It's also a major nuclear cleanup site, because it's where most of the waste from Rocky Flats was sent."

Robin Truesdale ('03) writes that she's been editing a documentary film called "Conviction," about three nuns who were arrested in 2002 for their protest at a nuclear missile silo in northeast Colorado. The nuns were convicted of sabotage of national defense, and are now serving time in federal prison. Robin writes, "Not sure when the final cut will come out, but since the sisters will be released from prison at different times during 2005, the project may be held up to include that aspect." In the meantime, they're screening a rough cut of the film around northern Colorado and working on finding a studio to back it for theaterical release.