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Katrina M. Overby, PhD'19, is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Isaac L. Jordan, Sr. Faculty Pluralism Award at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The award honors faculty who have made significant contributions to enhancing diversity, pluralism, and inclusion on campus and in the surrounding community. Overby, an assistant professor at RIT since 2021, focuses on Black feminist community-building, academic sisterhoods, and digital culture.
Sia Nyorkor, BAJ'00, has returned to Cleveland to work as an anchor and reporter at WKYC-TV, having previously worked as an anchor and multimedia reporter for Cleveland 19, and the Sunrise Reporter at WTHR-TV in her hometown of Indianapolis, IN. (May 2025)
Colin Kulpa, BA'22, is a public relations coordinator at Chip Ganassi Racing, working with the team's drivers and media covering the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. He was part of the team's 2024 championship, its 16th INDYCAR title. (May 2025)
Aaron Waltke, BA'06, has been named as showrunner, executive producer, and co-writer of Amazon Prime Video's animated series "Wings of Fire." He previously wrote for the "Wizards" and "Trollhunters" portions of Guillermo de Toro’s Tales of Arcadia universe. He has also written for the show "Unikitty!" (May 2025)
James M. Keelor passed away on March 13, 2025, at the age of 82.
Keelor built a distinguished career in broadcasting. After graduating from IU, he served as an officer in the U.S. Signal Corps in Vietnam before launching his broadcasting career in 1966. His dedication to local journalism grew as he honed his skills as a producer, news manager, NBC bureau manager, and future executive.
In the mid-1970s, Keelor managed station operations for Liberty Corporation, serving as general manager at WAVE-TV in Louisville, KY, and WDSU-TV in New Orleans, and as vice president of corporate operations. Under his leadership, stations won prestigious awards, including Emmys and a Peabody Award. He oversaw Liberty's expansion to include 15 network-affiliated television stations, a cable advertising sales company, a video production facility, and an equipment distribution company. Keelor held top leadership positions with the National Association of Broadcasters, the Association for Maximum Service Television, the Television Bureau of Advertising, and the Television Operator's Caucus.
Keelor was inducted into the South Carolina Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He also received the first Chuck Sherman Leadership in Television Award from the National Association of Broadcasting and the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation's First Amendment Leadership Award.
Mark Brochin was recognized with a Virgil Sweet Award from the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association in 2025. Brochin is a retired sportscaster from southwest Indiana, working in the field from 1971 to 2021. He moved to Washington, Indiana, in 1982, covering games and doing local sports updates for 39 years. He worked mainly for The Original Company, where he produced and delivered 10 sportscasts each day on three Original Company stations.
Throughout his career Brochin was a play-by-play announcer for more than 2,000 contests, including boys' basketball, girls' basketball, football, baseball, softball, wrestling and swimming. He also provided color commentary for an additional 500 contests and was a part of boys' basketball and girls' basketball State Finals broadcasts in 26 different years. He also did spot reporting for golf, cross country, volleyball and tennis and wrote a weekly sports column for the Tri County News for several years.
Brochin was a recipient of the IHSAA Distinguished Media Service Award in 2011-12. He counts that as one of the greatest professional honors he has received. (April 2025)
Laurabree Monday became Rock Hill School District's public information officer in South Carolina. She has over two decades of experience in media, communications, and community engagement to the district, and she was a local journalist, working for Comporium as the CN2 news director and anchor for 16 years. Monday was also director of communications for the United Way of York County. She is on the board and a past president of the Radio, Television, Digital News Association of the Carolinas and serves as an advisory board member for York Technical College's Teleproduction Technology Department. (April 2025)
Connor Glass is an associate attorney at Church Church Hittle and Antrim, focusing on NCAA compliance and infractions, Title IX gender equity reviews, and navigating the evolving NIL landscape in college athletics. Before earning his law degree from IU McKinney School of Law, Glass worked in sports and entertainment in Los Angeles, including a role with Ice Cube's professional basketball league, the BIG3. He has written multiple articles for the Journal of NCAA Compliance and Sports Litigation Alert. (April 2025)
Carter DeJong is an education reporter for the Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer. He was previously a reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska, where covered a wide range of topics including funding challenges, curriculum development, research projects, and education policies for both public schools and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. (April 2025)
Zach Schalk was recognized as one of 12 Hoosier Resilience Heroes by IU's Environmental Resilience Institute for his contribution to Indiana's sustainability and resilience. He is the Indiana program director for Solar United Neighbors, whose work has helped hundreds of Indiana homeowners, businesses, and nonprofits install solar panels. (April 2025)
