So What? A Podcast

So What? A Podcast – OMG! featuring David Balzer

Posted in Audio  |  Monday, September 1, 2025 @ 12:00 PM

Host Jonas Cornelsen (CMU '16) catches up with David Balzer, Associate Professor of Communications and Media, on his multi-year "OMG!" documentary project exploring the everyday use of this phrase.

Listen to the OMG audio doc at omgthedoc.com.

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Jess Klassen (CMU ’04) graduated with a major in International Development Studies. Now Manitoba Research Alliance Coordinator at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a textile artist under the name Stories of Textiles, she continues to weave together curiosity, community, and creativity—threads that began at CMU.

Research, art, and advocacy: Threads that began at CMU

Posted in Alumni Profiles  |  Monday, September 1, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

This September, Jess Klassen co-created an art installation at Nuit Blanche, a night of art, music, and festivities that lights up Winnipeg's downtown. Along with fellow CMU alumna Chantel Mierau ('05), Klassen hosted a communal art project to dream up an alternative municipal budget in response to the one put forward by the City of Winnipeg. Up on the roof of a parkade at the Forks, participants could select a strip of cloth in a colour that corresponded with a budget category—housing, library services, and public transit were just a few—and weave it into a tapestry.

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Zachary Peters (CMU ’10) completed a BA in Political Studies after beginning his CMU journey with the Outtatown Discipleship School. His time at CMU nurtured curiosity, community, and critical reflection—values that continue to shape his work in marketing and communications.

From student council to corporate communications: A CMU alum’s journey of curiosity, community, and connection

Posted in Alumni Profiles  |  Monday, September 1, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Zachary Peters came to CMU for adventure.

In 2005, Peters joined CMU's Outtatown Discipleship School, a program that enabled students to experience travel through a mission trip while still keeping up with their studies.

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Andrew Klassen Brown (CMU '16, '21): "[CMU] enabled me to explore my faith, deconstruct and blow up whatever preconceived ideas that I had. CMU encouraged me to think about things intellectually, theologically..."

From basketball star to keeper of stories: CMU alum brings Mennonite history to life

Posted in Alumni Profiles  |  Thursday, August 28, 2025 @ 8:06 AM

Andrew Klassen Brown makes working in archives sound as exciting as an experimental jet test pilot.

The 32-year-old CMU alum works as the Archivist and Records Manager with Mennonite Central Committee Canada, serves as the vice-president of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, and spends his free time visiting secluded attractions important to Mennonite history, such as the Mennonite Memorial Landing Site on the Banks of the Red River near Ste. Agathe, MB.

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Kyle Devine (CMU '06), Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Winnipeg, says he distinctly remember how exciting it was to be surrounded by faculty who encouraged students to seek out different disciplines of learning.

CMU taught alum how to think "inside out and upside down"

Posted in Alumni Profiles  |  Tuesday, August 19, 2025 @ 4:05 PM

The current Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Winnipeg came to CMU from Providence University College, by way of the University of Manitoba, where he initially planned to become a dentist.

After a conversation with a friend attending CMU, who mentioned a course on the history of rock music, he quickly changed direction. That pivot eventually led him to CMU's Music Department in the early 2000s, where he graduated in 2006.

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