Meet the
Reynolds Center Staff
At the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, our staff is instrumental in accomplishing our mission of providing journalists with training in order to improve the quality of media coverage on business and the economy. We seek out talented individuals with new and fresh perspectives and are always striving to be a better center and put out the best content for other journalists to learn from.
Jeffrey Timmermans
Director
Jeffrey Timmermans has more than two decades of experience as a financial journalist and journalism educator.
He has worked as a reporter in Tokyo for The Wall Street Journal and as a managing editor for Dow Jones Newswires in Hong Kong and Singapore. He also worked for Bain & Company, leading the global strategy consulting firm’s public-relations efforts in Asia.
Timmermans joined ASU Cronkite in 2021 from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he served for more than 10 years as the director of HKU’s undergraduate journalism program and was an elected member of HKU Senate. In that time, Timmermans developed a comprehensive postgraduate business-journalism curriculum widely considered the best in Asia and taught news reporting and economics to undergraduates. He also founded a successful media consulting firm with multinational clients including JPMorganChase, Credit Suisse, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx), CBRE, and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
He is married with one exceptionally precocious daughter and is proud to be a Sun Devil with Lion Rock spirit.
Julianne Culey
Assistant Director
As Assistant Director of The Reynolds Center, Julianne Culey is responsible for coordinating the daily operations of the center as well as managing projects with other Reynolds Center staff, students, and outside creative professionals. She works closely with the center’s director to strengthen relations with organizational partners and implement goals for furthering the center’s mission.
First coming to Arizona State University in 2020, Julianne worked with The Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology where she managed various communications and marketing efforts, such as a large-scale website migration, the development of a monthly newsletter, social media outreach, and the creation of weekly content. These efforts helped the center promote its research and programming initiatives throughout the state of Arizona.
Since joining The Reynolds Center in 2021, Julianne has lead the redesign of the Center’s branding, implemented a weekly newsletter, designed and produced the ebook Business Beats Basics, coordinated events, and collaborated with the center’s director to redevelop the James B. Steele Fellowship program.
Originally from Michigan, Julianne earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Marketing with a minor in Women’s Studies from Central Michigan University. She moved to Arizona for the sunshine after graduation, then went on to complete a Master’s of Arts in Sociology at Arizona State University, with an emphasis in feminist theory and studies. Julianne is currently studying to earn her Doctorate in Sociology and expects to graduate in 2026.
Julianne is passionate about women’s rights, inclusion, and representation, and she continuously looks for ways to contribute to the creation of a more inclusive environment for women in business and beyond. She credits her drive and determination to her mother, who always insisted she could do anything her brother could.
Aryn Kodet
Communications Specialist
Aryn Kodet is responsible for managing The Reynolds Center’s social-media strategy and outreach to the broader community of business journalism professionals.
Born and raised in Arizona, Aryn Kodet is a graduate of Arizona State University and Barrett, The Honors College, earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
During her time as an undergraduate student, Aryn completed her honors thesis on the interdisciplinary nature of identity, exploring the unique approaches different disciplines take when attempting to research and define it as a concept, each offering a piece of the larger picture.
This interest in the overall concept and application of identity has guided Aryn’s professional career, where she has worked as a Creative Specialist in an agency setting to create brand identities and content strategies for small- to mid-sized businesses across the United States, developing their online presence through social media and website development.
As a first-generation college graduate, Aryn is passionate about education as a whole, believing the opportunity and new perspectives it can provide are invaluable for both individual and societal growth. In her position with The Reynolds Center, she hopes to contribute to making information and opportunity more accessible for others, thereby helping make the world a more inclusive space one step at a time.
Lex Doig is pursuing a master’s degree in Investigative Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is interested in writing stories that shine a light on systems that people may not understand.
As an undergraduate, Lex worked on investigative projects with the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism that revealed the lack of transparency in railroad bridge safety inspections and an absence workplace protections for aircrew against occupational cosmic radiation exposure. She is looking forward to learning how to “follow the money” to add a business perspective to her reporting.
Meet the
Reynolds Center Creative Team
As the owner and lead designer of Bent Creative, Jon was instrumental in developing, re-designing, and implementing the current Reynolds Center website that was launched in May 2022. Over the past two years, Jon’s creative eye has helped to continuously elevate the front-end user experience and bring the Center’s vision to life.
Being born right on the cusp of the technological shift of humanity — from no internet to internet everywhere — placed me in a unique spot; by growing up with the new language of technology & learning the common language of business, I’ve made it my mission to bridge the gap for companies trying to make it online.
Aided by my studies of Industrial Design at Arizona State University, and my years as a product and brand designer for larger companies, I’ve learned what businesses need from their creatives, and I know what businesses need to deliver as an internet-raised consumer. And so I’ve built my business around exactly that.
While working as a team with Jon at Bent Creative, Micah was instrumental in the back-end development of the Reynolds Center website that was launched in May 2022. Micah’s continued work ensures a streamlined and functioning website with regular upgrades and necessary server maintanence.
Having an endless curiosity for all things tech and science lends to Micah’s genius as the Chief Technology Officer for Bent Creative. When it comes to designing the requirements for website/business functionality, Micah is always two steps ahead of the competition. He finds himself constantly iterating, improving, and seeking out the most streamlined and effective methods for design and development, and then takes his learnings and applies them to our clients’ websites. He’s the reason why our sites are architected with speed, stability, and future-proof forethought.
Isaac was introduced to the Center while working with the Cronkite School on various video projects. He has helped create promotional videos for our annual Barlett and Steele event and assisted with a series of business journalist interviews.
Isaac is an Emmy and Telly award winning content creator. He worked with MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas producing media seen on the marquees of the Vegas strip. He then spent two years as a content creator for the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury, and Arizona Rattlers before becoming an adjunct sports videography professor at Arizona State University. Since then, Issac has started his own production company working with a variety of companies including Phoneix Children’s Hospital, Special Olympics Arizona, and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
