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Michelle
A. Wolf, Ph.D. Board President
Dr. Michelle A. Wolf is a Professor of Broadcast and Electronic
Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. Her primary
research interests center on the range and diversity of mediated
images of groups without power in the United States. Some of the
topics she has written about include media and sexual identity (including
representations of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual persons
and persons with physical disabilities), the mediated construction
of body image, children and television, media uses and gratifications,
mass media and social cognition and naturalistic inquiry. Dr. Wolf
is currently completing a long-term research project on mass media,
sexual identity and body image.
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Neil Cook,
Treasurer
Neil Cook is
a former journalist and currently an attorney specializing in personal
injury. He practices throughout the San Francisco / Bay Area and
is an advocate on behalf of First Amendment issues.
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Suzanne
C. Levine, Secretary, Founder and Executive Director
Ms. Levine has been a freelance photographer since 1993 and is published
in numerous books and magazines. She also taught basic video production
at a rural self-help rehabilitation center in Western Mexico.
In 1998 the
idea for the National Center on Disability and Journalism started
based on a gap between what she experienced in photographing within
the disability communities and what she saw being represented in
the mainstream news.
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Advisory Council
Lisa A. Goldstein, Freelance Journalist
Ms. Goldstein received her master's in journalism in 2000 from the
University of California at Berkeley. At graduation, she was awarded
the McClatchy Prize for In-Depth Reporting based on her Master's
thesis. She subsequently worked as a reporter and associate editor
for CanDo.com, a former Web site for people with disabilities. She
also wrote for HiP Magazine -- a non-profit publication for deaf
and hard of hearing kids -- until it disbanded. Profoundly deaf
since birth, Lisa lipreads and speaks. She specializes in writing
op-eds as well as about people with disabilities. Her monthly column
appears in the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. Lisa's work has appeared
in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune and Wired, among
others. She has yet to be laid off by herself from her freelance
gig.
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Marty Gonzalez, Weekend Anchor of "KRON 4 News Daybreak"
and Associate Professor of Broadcast and Electronic
Communication Arts at San Francisco State University
Marty Gonzalez is the weekend anchor of San Francisco's “KRON
4 News Daybreak.” In addition to his work at KRON 4, Gonzalez
is an associate professor in the Broadcast and Electronic Communications
Arts department at San Francisco State University. Professor Gonzalez
teaches courses in Broadcast Journalism ranging from news writing
and reporting to ethics.
As a reporter, Gonzalez has traveled all over the world. His work
has taken him to Central America to explore the impact of the Peace
Corps; to Vatican City in Rome to profile Pope John Paul II, Texas
and Florida to report on NASA, Baja California to profile the migration
of gray whales, Mexico City to cover the 1985 earthquake, Los Angeles
to report on the Northridge earthquake and Rodney King riots, and
Alaska to profile its 25th anniversary of statehood. Recently, he
has completed award winning special reports and documentaries from
China and Cuba.
Gonzalez’s reporting from the Oakland Cypress Structure during
the ‘89 Loma Prieta earthquake contributed to KGO-TV's Peabody
Award for coverage of the quake. He has also received awards from
the Society of Professional Journalists
Beth
Haller, Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University
Professor Haller has conducted research on the topic of news media
images of people with disabilities and disability issues since 1990.
Her research has been published in numerous academic publications.
She is webmaster for the Disability Caucus - National Communication
Association; secretary and webmaster of Media & Disability Interest
Group, AEJMC, and has served as board member for the Society for
Disability Studies. She was a journalist for newspapers in Texas,
New Mexico, and Illinois in the 1980s and received an American Society
of Newspaper Editors fellowship in summer 1997, where she worked
at the San Jose Mercury-News.
John
Hewitt, Professor of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts,
SFSU specializing in Broadcast Journalism, Documentary, and International
Broadcast
Dr. Hewitt has been teaching broadcast journalism at Stanford's
Mass Media Institute for 13 years and at San Francisco State for
over 20 years and has lectured on journalism in Jamaica, Malaysia,
Thailand, and Jordan. He has a doctorate from the University of
San Francisco and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.
He's authored two textbooks Air Words: Writing for Broadcast
News and Sequences.
Professor Hewitt's
professional experience includes several years as a newspaper reporter
and editor and 13 years as a broadcast news producer, executive
producer, television reporter. For the last 20 years, he has been
a documentary program producer, with credits on local affiliate
stations and PBS national with Landmines of the Heart, and
Jarvis Gann: Will it pay off? His documentaries have appeared
in film festivals in Chicago, Texas, and California, and have won
an Emmy for local documentary work.
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Sally
Lehrman , Reporter
Sally Lehrman is an independent journalist covering health
policy, health care and medical technology for national consumer
magazines, newsletters and on-line media. In particular, she specializes
in topics related to genetics, sexuality and HIV. Before starting
her own business, she was a columnist and reporter at the San Francisco
Examiner. During her 13 years there she covered AIDS, biotechnology,
health policy, medical technology and business. She also occasionally
teaches courses at Stanford University on medical reporting and
news writing, and works with youth organizations on their writing.
Austin
Long-Scott, Associate Professor of Journalism, San Francisco State
University
Professor Long-Scott has been teaching at San Francisco State
University since 1990. For two years he was acting department chair.
As a journalist he worked on-air at KRON-TV in San Francisco, was
a metro editor and editorial writer at the Oakland Tribune, a Los
Angeles Times reporter, a Washington Post White House Correspondent,
a Pulitzer Prize juror, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a Knight Fellow
at Stanford and an Associated Press reporter. He taught in the Summer
Program for Minority Journalists at Columbia and UC Berkeley. He
has four children, six grandchildren and lives in Oakland in an
extended family that includes a sister-in-law who is legally blind
and a niece determined to live as independently as she can with
severe cerebral palsy.
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Jack
A. Nelson, Retired Journalism Professor, Brigham Young University
Dr. Jack A. Nelson has taught journalism for the past 30 years,
mostly at Brigham Young University. He also taught at California
State University/Humbolt and the University of Utah. He has been
active in the disability movement, and was a founding member of
the Disability Group in the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication. He has authored numerous articles dealing
with disability portrayals in the media, along with the book The
Disabled, The Media and The Information Age (Greenwood Press:
Westport, Conn. 1994). He worked as a city desk reporter for the
Provo, Utah Daily Herald, the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, and
as Utah editor for Western Outdoors Magazine. He has freelanced
for outdoor magazines and currently writes an outdoor column for
a Utah weekly. Now retired, he has published four novels.
Anna
Romero, Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism at University
of Missouri in Columbia, MO
Professor Romero is also director of the Missouri Interscholastic
Press Assoc. and Minority Journalism Workshop/AHANA (African, Hispanic,
Asian and Native-American). She teaches a required, Cross-Cultural
Journalism, course to undergraduates and devotes readings, lectures
and panels to coverage of people with disabilities.
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Anita
Silvers, Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Dr. Anita Silvers writes on disability studies and applied ethics,
including journalism ethics and bioethics.
Karen
Solomon, Freelance Writer
Karen Soloman, based in San Francisco, writes on a number of topics,
including food, culture, and technology, but she is a passionate
advocate and publicist for disability issues, particularly those
surrounding accessible technology and employment. Her work on assistive
technologies has appeared in a series on TechSoup.org, and in the
pages of Wired News, The Industry Standard, and San Francisco Downtown.
For more information on Karen's feature stories, marketing and corporate
communications, and copywriting experience, visit
www.ksolomon.com.
John
Williams, Writer
John Williams has been a professional writer for 30 years. He has
been writing about disability issues since 1978. He wrote an award-winning
assistive technology column for Business Week Online Magazine. He
currently writes for National Organization on Disability at nod.org.
Penny
Williams, Freelance Editor
Penny Williams worked in media for over 20 years primarily
in ethnic minority communities and in education. She has taught
university-level journalism for 10 years. Her academic research
focuses on effects of media on marginalized communities.
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