Alums Nominated for Emmy Awards

Please read the press release to see who are our Emmy-Nominated Alums are for 2011. Congratulations to them all!

Communications Alumni -- a sample

•Dilshad Abubakir, Public Relations, KRG Dept. of Information Technology, Iraq
•Bashir Ahmad, Journalist, Radio Free Europe
•Jennifer Birnbach-Kelley, Director/Producer, WHMT TV
• Lisa M. Black, New York City Director of Public Affairs for the New York State Senate Majority
•Shari Blanchard, Director, You News Now
•Michael Bunnell, Director of Programming and Creative services, CurrentTV.com
•Lisa Congelosi, Acquisitions, Random House Publishing
•Jennifer Conklin Manias, Editor, John Wylie & Sons Publishing
• Pat Cooney, VP Technical Operations, WAMC radio
•Susan Conroy, Public Relatons Coordinaor, The College of Saint Rose
Katelyn Corey, Promotions Producer, WNYT TV
•Mary Darcy – Co-owner, editor, All Over Albany.com
•Paul Denvir, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, UAlbany
•Anthony DeRico – J.D. Syracuse University; Principal; Think Communications LLC; Account Exec--Budget Travel Magazine
• Bill Devlin, Producer, NY 1 News, NYC
• Joe Donahue, Host/Producer WAMC radio
•John Dudley, Dudley Productions, Washington, DC
•William “Beau” Duffy, Media Advisor, NYS Congressman Paul Tonko
• Jimmy Fallon, Host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, NBC
• Steven Felano, Producer, WAMC radio
•Steven Ferrarro, Video Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Kurt Gardinier, History Producer, C-SPAN
•Deborah Genovesi, Producer, DWJ Television, VP West Coast
Kayla Germain, Social Media Coordinator, The College of Saint Rose
•Thom Gonyeau, President and co-owner, Mountain View Productions, Ltd.
•Bill Goodwin, TV Director, Globaltec Solutions/Wizetrade
• Michael Goudreau, Head Writer, VH-1, MTV Networks
•Kevin Graber, Assistant Dean, Phillips Andover Academy
• Kyle Griffin, Tape Producer, MSNBC
• Dr. Laura Gurak, Department Head, Professor of Communications, University of Minnesota
•Tiffany Halzdorf-Portzer, Senior Producer, WRGB TV
• Melanie Hartgraves, Director of New Media, NYS Governor David Patterson
•Mike Hedderman, Manager: Video, Photo, Animation and Advanced Media; Raytheon
• Juliana Hernandez. Communications and Legislative Deputy. Senator Jose Serano
•Randy Hernandez, Producer, Capital News 9 TV
•James Kennedy, Manager of New York State Police Forensic Video and Multimedia Services Unit
•Amy Kehoe Malcolm – AmyMusings.com – Blogger
•Martin LeGere, eBay Investigations Department/Counterfeit Investigations
•Christine Mahserjian Hagopian, Director of Programs, Printing Industries of New England
•Pamela McKean; NYS Dept. Motor Vehicles Communications, Owner PM Productions
•Michelle Nicoll-Duffy, Media Director, NYS Labor Department
•Annabel Polanco, Post Production Services, Sony Pictures, L.A.
• Mark Relyea, Supervising Sound Editor (Todd-AO), CSS Studios, L.A.
•Colleen Ryan, Communications Director, Preservation League of New York State
•Sean Smith, Technical Resource Attorney, New York Prosecutors Training Institute
• Melissa Welsh King, Marketing Mgr., US Oncology/Florida Institute of Research, Medicine and Surgery
• Eliza Whipple, PR Executive, Bullfrog and Baum, National PR Consultants, NYC