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Olympic Marauders

A person wearing a blue jacket with a Beijing 2022 emblem stands outdoors in front of a large Olympic rings sculpture near a glass building.
Jean Casimir stands in front of an Olympic rings sculpture, sporting a Beijing 2022 Olympic jacket.

Hear from two Millersville University alumni who were stationed stateside and on the ground in Italy with NBC to cover 2026 Winter Olympics.

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Alums Kickstart Overhaul of Studio 1

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Jason ’98 and Therese ‘01 Wicht with Dr. Judith Wubah and President Wubah.

To acknowledge the transformative impact of their donation, the broadcasting instruction lab has been renamed “Wicht Studio.”  

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Dr. Irwin: President of BEA

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Dr. Stacey Irwin

Dr. Stacey Irwin, professor in Communication & Theatre, will become the president of the Broadcast Education Association in April.

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As a junior in high school in the School District of Lancaster, a young Jassinya Alvarado-Padilla ’14 met an associate professor in Millersville University’s Educational Foundations department at a cafeteria tabling event. Dr. Miriam Witmer was there recruiting mentees for the Color of Teaching, an organization she leads that supports high school and college students of color considering careers in education through mentorship.<br /> <br /> “In my schooling journey, I had limited teachers who looked and sounded like me,” shares Jassinya. “Dr. Witmer offered to be my mentor.” For Jassinya and many others, school was what she described as a “safe haven. I loved school. It was a consistent place, a place where I could be free,” she explains. “Life wasn’t always easy at home. I had great parents that worked a lot. Sometimes when I came home from school, the electricity and water weren’t on, and we always figured it out, but it was unpredictable. But when I got to school, I forgot about the ‘adult’ worries I had.”<br /> <br /> With support from that mentorship program and a scholarship, Jassinya went on to attend MU, and majored in early childhood ed. Her first full-time gig was teaching high school English at a charter school in Reading, Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> Fast-forward to today, Alvarado-Padilla is now back at Millersville as a student in the University’s Doctor of Education in educational leadership, a joint program with Shippensburg University, and on the precipice of becoming a two-time graduate of Millersville. “As a first-generation student, I never imagined I would get my doctorate,” explains Jassinya. “The first doctoral graduation I attended was Dr. Witmer’s, and it was impactful to me. I saw that she did it her own way, and I knew I could, too. In many ways, the experiences I was exposed to, as a result to saying yes to mentorship, saved my life and changed the trajectory of my life.”<br /> <br /> In a full-circle moment, Witmer is now serving as a member of Jassinya’s doctoral committee. The investment that Witmer made in Jassinya’s personal and professional life has translated into her work as an educator. Read more at the link in our bio!
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