Justice for Migrant Women hired Argelia Martinez as the Chief Communications Officer to join the leadership team in advancing the organization’s vision of building a world where all migrant and rural women have equity, dignity, and safety. She will develop and lead the Communications practice, support J4MW’s narrative change campaigns, and increase public awareness of the experiences and priorities of migrant and rural women. Argelia will report to Monica Ramirez, the Founder and President.
Kalyn Kahler reported and hosted an investigative podcast series called “Spiraled” which tells the story of Packers legend Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila and several other ex-NFL players, like Colts star Robert Mathis, who joined an extreme religious group and left their wives and children behind to follow the group’s charismatic leader. Gbaja-Biamila was a local hero in Green Bay until a very strange and public incident turned him from a Packer to a pariah. As she figured out what happened to Kabeer, Kahler dug into the controversial history of the group, and uncovered more ex-NFL players who had a similar spiral. The podcast is an extension of Kahler’s three-part investigative series for Sports Illustrated, which was named an honorable selection in Best American Sports Writing, and won the Pro Football Writers Association’s annual enterprise award.
You can find “Spiraled” wherever you listen to podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiraled/id1763809519?i=1000666769306
Bill Healy (MSJ ’09), Dana Brozost-Kelleher (MSJ ’19) and Alison Flowers (MSJ ’09) were all part of a team Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting and a Peabody Award win last week for the podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” by the Invisible Institute and USG Audio. The podcast also won the International Documentary Award for Best Audio Documentary, an Ellie Award, Lisagor Awards, among other honors.
Sean Collins Walsh was part of a team of reporters at The Philadelphia Inquirer who won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Local Political Reporting for coverage of the 2023 mayoral election in Philadelphia.
More info: https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/centers/robin-toner-program-in-political-reporting/toner-prizes/
Sandcastles, an independently produced podcast by Adriana Cargill won 4 Signal awards.
Limited Series- Gold for Best Documentary podcast
Limited Series- Silver Best Indie Podcast
Limited Series- Bronze for Best Sustainability & Environment Podcast
Craft- Gold Best Trailer
Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it. The first season is The Point Dume Bombers, about a group of childhood friends who came together to protect their home from the Woolsey Fire. When emergency first responders were overwhelmed by LA county’s most destructive fire, these surfers stepped up to defend their home turf in Point Dume, Malibu. Their devotion to home drove them to show up for their community in ways no one expected- not even them. In the days and years that followed what this unlikely band of surfers pioneered could have global consequences.
Emily Levin was named partner at Brunswick Group, a critical issues advisory firm. Based in Washington, D.C., Emily has extensive experience in building effective communications strategies and integrated campaigns to help organizations navigate business challenges and significant milestones.
After graduating from Medill, Jamie went to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she met her husband! They just graduated from Northwestern Law and got married in NYC a week after taking the bar. They are now both working at big law firms in the city.
Marissa Mitchell won the regional Emmy for “Best Host” from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Mitchell is an anchor/host for FOX 5 Morning and “Good Day DC.” This Fall, Mitchell was also selected to launch and serve as the lead host of the station’s new daytime talk and lifestyle show, “LION Lunch Hour.”
After leading marketing functions in several global consumer electronics companies for the past few years, Danny co-founded Nisplay, a portable tennis ball machine, aiming to lower the barrier for people to learn how to play tennis.
Seth Bernstein (BSJ 13, MS IMC 20) is a two-time Northwestern and Medill alum with marketing and communications experience across a variety of industries, including financial services, health care, academia and Major League Baseball. He recently began a new role as a Second Vice President and Client Communications Manager at Northern Trust after managing corporate and executive social media channels for 14 months at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Outside of work, Seth runs his own growing social media brand, @EatWithSeth, creating content that showcases local restaurants – and those he visits while traveling – on both Instagram and TikTok.