We are excited to announce that three distinguished speakers will be visiting UNL in the coming months! From Feb. 27 to March 10, Jennifer Urich join CoJMC as the Worick Visiting Professor in Market Research and will be available to be a guest speaker in your classes. Jane Olson will be at UNL from March 21 to 24 as the 2023 CoJMC Alumni Master, and Diane Brayton will be available on April 4 or April 6 as the Hearst Visiting Professional in Journalism. This is a unique opportunity for faculty to enhance their classes with expert insights and perspectives from these thought leaders. Don't miss the chance to bring a new level of engagement and inspiration to your students by having one of these experts share their expertise in your classroom.
Jen Urich
Worick Visiting Professor in Market Research
February 27 to March 10
Jen Urich is the CEO and co-founder of Sparrow Strategy. Her 35-year career spans industries, countries, and cultures, from Bain + Company to US Peace Corps/Philippines, and from Cummins Engine to J. Walter Thompson/Mexico. She has helped grow Fortune 100 companies, nurtured micro-enterprises in the developing world, and revolutionized social marketing, winning awards and admiration along the way. Urich has a bachelor’s degree and MBA from Yale University.
Jane Olson
2023 CoJMC Alumni Master
March 21 to 24
Jane Olson is a 1964 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Olson has worked for many decades as a volunteer promoting international peace and justice and humanitarian work. She chaired the International Board of Trustees of Human Rights Watch, the largest US-based international human rights organization, from 2004 to 2010, having worked on behalf of HRW since 1988. She also chaired the board of Survivor Corps for 12 years since its founding as Landmine Survivors Network. LSN and HRW were among the five organizations to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for the International Landmine Ban Treaty.
Diane Brayton
Hearst Visiting Professional
April 3 to 5
Diane Brayton is the executive vice president and general counsel for the New York Times. Prior to working at the Times Company, Ms. Brayton was vice president and counsel in the legal department of Credit Suisse First Boston from 2002 to 2004 and an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, Moscow and London from 1997 to 2002. From 1996 to 1997, she was a clerk for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals, for the Fifth Circuit. Brayton received a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1996, where she graduated with honors.
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Jenna Johnson
Seline Lecturer
April 10 to 12
Jenna Johnson is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post who writes about the 2020 presidential election with a heavy focus on voters and political movements. She has also covered the White House and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, interviewing thousands of Trump supporters across the country. Jenna started at the Post in 2007 as a summer intern and has since written about crime, county government and local elections, higher education and the Maryland statehouse.
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