Center for Community Media

史蒂文Addair

史蒂文Addair is an Emmy nominated and award-winning filmmaker, Steven has spent 20 years as a director, 生产商, DP, 作家, 和编辑. His knowledge and expertise in digital cinema, 视效, 动画, 3D and film has served numerous 生产s, ranging from studio feature films to large scale advertising campaigns. He is an alumnus of GSU Media Communication M.A. (‘98).

努哈Abdessalam

努哈Abdessalam is a Media Studies student in her senior year. She is currently a staff 作家 for the Phoenix and previously served as a 生产 intern with the Southland Health and Wellness Hour podcast.

史蒂夫•爱德华兹

史蒂夫•爱德华兹 is an award winning former reporter, interviewer and program host whose work has appeared on the BBC, 彭博新闻, 美国公共电视台, WBEZ and numerous public media outlets nationwide. He has served as Chief Content Officer of WBEZ Chicago Public Media, Executive Director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and as a Board member of the Chicago-based human-rights reporting organization, 看不见的研究所.

夏日田野海达

夏日田野海达, Senior Account Executive, Commercial at Movable Ink. She previously served as the Engagement Manager and Growth Lead at Hearken. Summer has roots in the Southland, having grown up in Richton Park (her grandfather, 鲁迪Banovich, served as the mayor in the 90s) and attended Marian Catholic H.S. 在获得B之前.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Her professional background spans sales, revenue leadership/ enablement, and client success in SaaS/startups. In her capacity as an Advisory Board member, Summer served as a facilitator at the Red Summer: Beyond Conversation community discussion on March 26, 2022.

朱利安格林

朱利安格林 is the Senior Vice President of Communications and Community Affairs at Chicago Cubs responsible for directing the Chicago Cubs corporate and non-baseball communications efforts, while helping to bolster the team’s community relations efforts across the city.

Dr. 黛博拉·詹姆斯

Dr. 黛博拉·詹姆斯, Interim Chair, Division of Arts and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences at GSU. Dr. 詹姆斯拥有博士学位.D. in Communication with a focus on emerging cross-platform documentary, the intersection between public memory and trans国家 lived experience, and women's 生产 practices. She is the founder of the Center for Community Media and the immediate past director. James is a 2019 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Faculty Fellow. She is a Part 107 certified FAA Small Unmanned Aircraft Remote Pilot and holds Open Water SCUBA certification with PADI.

小查尔斯·杰斐逊.

小查尔斯·杰斐逊. is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the National Setting of the United Church of Christ (UCC) in Cleveland, 俄亥俄州. He served as a staff advisor to the Columbia College Chronicle and has advised a high school newspaper and worked in the youth advocacy space. He occasionally writes freelance articles for the Gateway Journalism Review. In his capacity as an Advisory Board member he serves on the Program Committee and advises the new GSUTV: The place for news, 体育, 文化有线电视节目, which started broadcasting on 首页wood Public Access TV Comcast channel 19 on May 3, 2022.

朱莉凯克

朱莉凯克 is a filmmaker and communications consultant. She is a Consulting Producer for the Storytelling initiatives of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit supporting Indigenous land guardianship, and a co-founder of Breaking Light Studio (formerly OTV Studio), an incubator for intersectional artists seeking sustainable careers in the film/tv industry. She has produced over 20 web series and two features, and is the co-author of Social Media Charm School, a guide to film marketing for creative entrepreneurs, 与杰斯·金. She studied psychology at Knox College and earned her Sustainable Innovation MBA from the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business.

娜塔莉·鲍尔·卢斯

娜塔莉·鲍尔·卢斯 is Executive Vice President & Partner of the Chicago-based public affairs firm Culloton + Bauer Luce. Her experience in communications and public affairs includes extensive work at the intersection of government, 法律, 政治, 和业务, including serving as chief communications strategist for former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. She began her career as a journalist covering government and 政治 for dailies including the Chicago Tribune and Daily Herald, and as a researcher for CBS-affiliate WBBM’s award-winning investigations team. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a Poynter Institute Fellow.

弥迦书Materre

弥迦书Materre is an Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of the WGN Evening News at Five and Six and the WGN News at Nine and Ten. Prior to being appointed anchor of the WGN News at Nine in 2009, she was co-anchor of WGN Midday News from January 2003 to October 2009.

Dr. 诺维雅Pagone

Dr. 诺维雅Pagone was appointed Interim Director of the CCM in May 2022. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Chicago with a focus on cultural studies, feminist media theories/practices, and democracy in Spain and Latin America. Dr. Pagone serves as the principal investigator for the Department of Education Undergraduate Inter国家 Studies and Foreign Language grant “Making Spanish and Global Studies Accessible to All.“在加入GSU之前, she served as an Associate Dean of Students, academic and career advisor, and worked in Illinois government and 政治.

Mago托雷斯

Mago托雷斯 is an investigative journalist, with specialty in research and data. She is program director of the Data-Driven Reporting Project (DDRP) at Northwestern University and data editor with the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP). She has worked for the Inter国家 Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) as a data researcher on the investigations Pandora Papers, FinCEN文件, Luanda Leaks and the Pulitzer winner Panama Papers. She also co-led the investigation “El país de las dos mil fosas” and was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford. She holds a PhD in Humanistic Studies and was a professor of journalism and communication at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City before becoming a full-time journalist.