Ms. Vicki Mabrey has been selected to address the Class of 2008 on Saturday, May 17, at our Undergraduate Commencement exercise. Vicki Mabrey is an
Emmy Award-winning broadcast news reporter and correspondent for ABC News, Nightline. She is based in the network's New York bureau. Prior to joining
ABC News in November 2005, she was a correspondent for CBS News, 60 Minutes II, a position she had held since the program's debut in 1999.
Ms. Mabrey reported on a wide range of stories for 60 Minutes II including the fight against terrorism in Yemen, Afghan women who lived under the Taliban.s rule, and the New York City Fire Department in the days following 9/11. Prior to her role at the newsmagazine, she was a London-based correspondent for CBS News from 1995 to 1998. In that role she covered stories throughout Europe and the Middle East, including the United Nations arms inspection crisis in Iraq, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the continuing investigation of the death of Princess Diana.
Ms. Mabrey joined CBS News in 1992 as a correspondent based in Dallas, where she reported on the Branch Davidian stand-off near Waco, Texas, the great Midwest flood of 1993, and the uprising in Haiti, among many other major events. Prior to joining CBS News, she was a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV, the then-CBS affiliate in Baltimore, from 1984 to 1992. She began her journalism career in 1982 in the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reporter training program at WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Mabrey has received four Emmy Awards: two in 1997 for her reporting for CBS News on the death of Princess Diana, and two in 1996 for CBS News. coverage of the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Born in St. Louis, Mo., Ms. Mabrey graduated cum laude from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1977 with a B.A. in political science. She lives in New York.
Mr. Joseph Negler '70, has been selected to address the graduates of the School of Graduate and Continuing Education on Friday, May 16, 2008. Joe Negler began his career working for IBM in the 1960s and moved to Colorado in 1965 to establish an IBM office in Boulder. He held senior executive management positions within IBM, including manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, new product introduction, materials management, product engineering and program management.
After his career at IBM, Mr. Negler became involved in a number of startup companies including Xertex Technologies, which was a spinoff company from the University of Colorado, where Negler had studied physics. Xertex designed and developed mobile communication devices. Mr. Negler also served US West as Director of Advanced Technologies. He is a former chairman and CEO of mDiversity, Inc., a wireless solutions company located in Silicon Valley. Mr. Negler previously served as director of manufacturing, engineering, quality assurance and materials management at McData Corporation, which manufactured high-performance switching solutions for open system environments and IBM data centers. Mr. Negler has also held executive management positions at a number of other technology companies, including Strategic Alliances Holdings LLC, a global telecommunications investment partnership, Spectral Solutions, a manufacturer of hardware for the cellular industry, and Quantum International, a company that integrates business, computer and human resource activities.
