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Steinar Skipsnes, '05 BA Communication Studies, made a New Year's resolution for 2016 to meet one new person every day for one year. He documented the year on an Instagram account called "Daily Hello."  Actor Ashton Kutcher even posted about it on his Facebook page. Skipsnes lives in Seattle.      

JC Sibley, '07 BS Kinesiology, and Sara Costanza Sibley, '06 BA Journalism & Media Studies, were married Sept. 24 in Los Cabos, Mexico, with their closest family and friends present. He was a member of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ baseball team in 2005. She was a member of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ cheerleading squad from 2002-06. They met while attending 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in 2005. She works for Southern Hills Hospital in the physician relations department. He is the wellness director at Tim Soder Physical Therapy. They live in Las Vegas.

John Santana, '95 BA Communication Studies, is a reference and circulation librarian at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, New York. He will be teaching History of Rock Music during the 2017-18 academic year. He live in Albany.

Jackie Hwang, '04 BA Communication Studies, is Jucee Liu on HOT 97.5 KVEG. Southern Nevadans can listen to her on the air from 3 to 7 p.m. She has been with the radio station since 2003. She says her 2-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter keep her busy. Photography and dance are her hobbies.

Timothy Rainey, '04 BA Communication Studies, moved back to the West Coast last year to become program director for Entercom Communications' Top 40 station KDND-FM "107.9 The End" and hot adult contemporary station KUDL-FM "Star 106.5". As a teenager living in Reno, he regularly listened to KDND on frequent trips to the Bay Area. Before moving to California, he spent four years as program director of CBS Radio's Top 40 station WDZH-FM "98.7 AMP Radio" in Detroit. Recently he got back into snowboarding and can be caught at Lake Tahoe riding fresh powder. He lives in Sacramento.

Dianna Ballash, '04 BA Communication Studies, works for a local government agency in the Portland, Oregon, area supporting communications and policy initiatives. Previously, she worked for the Las Vegas Valley Water District and Southern Nevada Water Authority for nearly a decade. She wrote and produced a water-conservation themed television program and supported a variety of water-related projects. She is married to Joseph McLaughlin, '04 BS Business Administration, who works for an investment company. He previously worked for Greenspun Media and for several national financial services firms. The couple celebrates their 10-year wedding anniversary this year. They have twin sons and a daughter. The family lives in Beaverton.