Date/Time
Date(s) - October 30, 2025
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Location
LSC 324, Lory Student Center
Categories
Join us for an one of our upcoming alumni panels this fall!
On Thursday, October 30, join us for two insightful alumni panels with esteemed communication studies graduates who will speak about their careers and professional experience since graduating from CSU. Sessions include:
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., LSC Room 324
- 2:00 – 3:15 p.m., LSC Room 324
All communication studies students and those interested in the major are welcome to attend! This is your chance to learn from those who have been where you are—hear their stories, ask questions, and walk away better prepared to launch a fulfilling career doing what you love.
About the Panelists
Olivia Birg (’23)
Originally from Southern California, Olivia graduated Summa Cum Laude from Colorado State University in Spring 2023 with a degree in Communication Studies. She now works in event production, planning high-end festivals and community events such as the Park City Wine Festival, Boulder Creek Festival, and Vail Craft Beer Classic. In Summer 2023, Olivia joined Team Player Productions as an Events Intern and has since grown into her current role as a full-time Event Coordinator. She now plays a key role in managing brewery relations, sponsorship fulfillment, and coordinating paired ancillary events at various wine festivals.
Savannah Svoboda (’12)
Savannah Svoboda is the Owner, Founder, and Artistic Director of Full Expression! A Dance Collective where she and her team work to create more safe and equitable experiences for artists through movement, education, and community investment. Graduating from CSU in 2012, Savannah has enjoyed growing her business in the Fort Collins community, building her chosen-family, and advocating for LGBTQIIA+ rights.
Follow along at:
@fullexpressiondance
www.fullexpression.net
Annika Borvansky (’02)
Annika Borvansky, MA, CHCP is founder of Twelve:01 Consulting, a firm dedicated to advancing accredited continuing medical education (CME/CE). With 20 years in accredited CME/CE compliance, she specializes in program strategy, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement. Annika’s focus is guiding strategy and infrastructure for new and evolving CME/CE programs; she is skilled at cultivating stakeholder collaboration and helping organizations achieve target outcomes. Annika brings a strong commitment to ensuring accredited CME/CE not only advances clinician professional development but also directly supports safer, more patient-centered care.
Morning session only.
Susie Wargin (’92)
Susie Wargin began her communications career in Fort Collins as an intern in radio, while attending Colorado State University. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from CSU, she pushed buttons at Fort Collins AM radio station and on Christmas Day 1992, she took a shift no one wanted at Channel 93.3 (KTCL-FM) and started her DJ career on the FM dial.
In November of 1995, Susie became the midday DJ at KBPI in Denver, where she “Rocked the Rockies” for almost 9 years. While Susie loves music, she also has a passion for sports. In February of 1998 she began doing sports updates during “The Zoo” on Newsradio KOA and eventually became the first full-time female sports reporter for KOA. Susie joined 9News in September of 2001 as the high school prep sports anchor. Three years later, after hosting the “Prep Rally”, the Sonny Lubick Show and filling in for the guys, Susie was hired to be the morning weekday sports anchor which she did for 10 years. In 2013, Susie got her residential real estate license and is a full time Realtor with RE/MAX Alliance. She also returned to her radio roots in 2014 where she was a sports talk show host for a few years and since January of 2017 has been the midday DJ on 103.5 The Fox. In 2019, she became the Denver Broncos Sideline Reporter for the KOA Broncos Radio Network. In 2022, she started a podcast called Cut Traded Fired Retired.
Afternoon session only.