Contact Us
The following media relations officers work on a beat system, with each person specializing in the interests, issues and research of a college, school or university division. Feel free to contact the appropriate media relations or news services representative with any inquiries, questions or concerns you might have.
Central Media Relations
Jason Maderer
Senior Director, News and Media Relations
Jason is a university spokesperson who leads the media relations team and serves as a general point of contact for the media.
maderer@cmu.edu, 412-268-1151 (office), 404-276-1643 (cell)
Julie Mattera
National Media Relations Representative
Julie is a university spokesperson who helps tell CMU's stories through news and feature articles and serves as a general point of contact for the media.
jmattera@cmu.edu, 412-268-2902 (office), 248-798-4423 (cell)
Schools & Colleges
College of Engineering
Sherry Stokes
Senior Marketing and Communications Manager
stokes@cmu.edu, 412-268-5976 (office)
College of Fine Arts
Pam Wigley
Director of Public/Media Relations
Pam promotes the events, projects and news within the college's five schools: architecture, art, design, drama and music.
pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1047 (office), 412-889-6238 (cell)
Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Abby Simmons
Assistant Dean of Communications
Abby covers the Dietrich College’s latest research and creative projects, including the areas of behavioral economics, decision sciences, history, English, modern languages, philosophy, politics and strategy, psychology, and statistics and data science.
abbysimmons@cmu.edu, (412) 956-9425
Mellon College of Science
Jocelyn Duffy
Associate Dean for Marketing and Communications
Jocelyn covers the latest research and findings in biological sciences, chemistry, mathematical sciences and physics. Specialty areas include computational biology, neuroscience and imaging, tissue engineering, biosensors, computational finance and green chemistry.
jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-9982 (office), 412-600-0029 (cell)
School of Computer Science
Byron Spice
Director of Media Relations
Byron promotes the latest developments and research coming out of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. Areas of expertise include computer science, robotics and information technology.
bspice@cs.cmu.edu, 412-268-9068 (office), 412-559-8501 (cell)
Tepper School of Business
Mara Falk
Director, Communications and Media Relations
Mara covers the lastest research and developments from the Tepper School of Business.
mmfalk@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-3486 (office), 917-239-9453 (cell)
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Caitlin Kizielewicz
Media Relations
Caitlin promotes the latest research and developments from the Heinz College.
ckiz@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-554-0074
Internal Communications/News Services
Bruce Gerson
Director
Bruce oversees the Internal Communications effort to keep the university community informed through a weekly newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, online event calendars and the Piper website.
bg02@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1613 (office)
Kelly Saavedra
Assistant Director
Kelly assists the director of Internal Communications with preparing the weekly newsletter to faculty and staff, maintaining CMU's internal and external news sites, and social media.
ksaavedra@cmu.edu, 412-268-5395 (office)