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Logan Aimone
Logan Aimone is executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association, the nation's oldest and largest association of student media organizations. Since 1921, NSPA has provided training, evaluation and recognition to print and electronic student media at the middle school/junior high, high school and college levels. NSPA also encompasses the Minnesota High School Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. From 1997 to 2007, Aimone taught journalism at Wenatchee (Wash.) High School and advised the newspaper and yearbook, both of which earned top national honors. He is a past Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser and Washington state journalism adviser of the year. He is co-author of the 2009 edition of the textbook "High School Journalism," and the forthcoming revision of "Junior High Journalism." He earned a bachelor of arts and teacher certification from Central Washington University and a master of education from the University of Missouri–Columbia.
Megan Berkowitz
Megan Berkowitz is a junior at Communications High School in Wall, New Jersey. She is the news editor of The Inkblot, the student newspaper of Communications. Megan is looking forward to a career in print or online journalism in the future, especially with a focus on scientific advances.
John Bowen
Current Position: Adjunct professor in news sequence and assisting in development of online journalism educators’ Master's program at Kent State; teaching online legal problems classes in online master’s program in journalism education; chair, Journalism Education Association (JEA) Scholastic Press Rights Commission; member Student Press Law Center (SPLC) Advisory Council; Webmaster for Center for Scholastic Journalism, Ohio Scholastic Media Association (OSMA) and JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission.
National Honors: Dow Jones Newspaper Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year; JEA’s Carl Towley Award, their highest; National Scholastic Press Association's Pioneer Award; Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Key Award, CSPA's Charles R. O’Malley for Excellence in Teaching award and the Ohio Educational Language and Media Association's Intellectual Freedom Award.
Teaching: Taught high school journalism and social studies for 33 years and part-time at Kent State University since 1984; summer workshops around the country for journalism students and educators, including online Boot Camp for The Poynter Institute’s NewsU and the ASNE High School Journalism Institute.
Publications: Co-author of law column in Dow Jones Newspaper Fund “Adviser Update”; contributing author of “Principal's Guide to High School Journalism”; developing online workbook to accompany third edition of Law of the Student Press; author of numerous magazine and journal articles on scholastic journalism.
B.S. in education and M.A. in journalism from Kent State University.
Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Professor of Law
Director Quinnipiac Center on Dispute Resolution
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Senior Research Scholar and Director of Dispute Resolution Workshop
Yale Law School
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; J.D., University of Illinois College of Law. Jennifer teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Procedure, Negotiation, and Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility; her scholarship focuses on these areas as well as gender and sexual orientation in the law. She is co-author of STRAIGHTFORWARD: HOW TO MOBILIZE HETEROSEXUAL SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS (Princeton University Press, 2005) (with Ian Ayres). Other recent publications include: Reform at the Micro Level: Planning for a Life in the Law, 43 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 645 (2008), What Does Lawrence v. Texas Mean for the Future of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’? 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1211 (2007) (panel remarks); .Apology in Negotiation, in THE NEGOTIATOR’S FIELD BOOK (Honeyman & Schneider, ed.s) (2006) (with Jennifer Robbennolt); Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing ENDA with a Certification Mark, 104 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1639 (2006) (with Ian Ayres); The Inclusive Command: Voluntary Integration of Sexual Minorities into the United States Military, 103 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 101 (2004)(with Ian Ayres); Hope and Misgiving about Lawyers, Consensus-Building, and Social Problem-Solving, 5 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 370 (2004/2005); Debate and Decision-Making About Marriage Rights in Connecticut: Envisioning A Third Way, 23 QUINNIPIAC LAW REVIEW 597 (2004). Professor Brown serves on the Steering Committee of Freedom to Marry, and the President’s Advisory Council for Bryn Mawr College. She is currently at work on an article that explores the possibilities of using mediation to resolve disputes that pit claims for religious liberty against claims for LGBT equality.
T. Barton Carter
Professor of Communication and Law
Chairman of the Department of Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations
Boston University
T. Barton Carter is Professor of Communication and Law and the Chairman of the Department of Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations at Boston University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 1971, his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974 and his M.S. in Mass Communication from the Boston University School of Public Communication in 1978.A practicing lawyer, Professor Carter has been a faculty member at Boston University since 1977. His areas of expertise include the First Amendment, communication law, electronic mass media regulation, Internet law, telecommunication regulation and new communication technologies. He is the coauthor of The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate, The First Amendment and the Fifth Estate, and Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell. He has published articles and given lectures on defamation, privacy, new technology's effect on the marketplace of ideas, prior restraint, safe harbor protection for Web sites and the Patriot Act. In 2003, Professor Carter served as Acting Dean of the Boston University College of Communication. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the JD/MS in Mass Communication Dual-degree Program at Boston University. He is a former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, as well as the Law and Policy Division of the Broadcast Education Association.
Stefanie Dazio
Stefanie Dazio is currently the Editor in Chief of the internationally award winning student newspaper The Inkbot. She is a senior at Communications High School in Wall, New Jersey. She is also a professional reporter for Amend Publishing, and has covered the possibility of civilians moving onto a New Jersey naval base. She interned at The Coast Star for the past eight weeks, and published 17 stories, one of which detailed a rash of teen suicides in the Jersey Shore area. She will be attending college next year to major in print journalism. She is interested in both investigative and tragedy reporting.
Paul Folkemer
In my role as vice president for education at Channel One News, I work with the NBC news team on story selection and script development for a news show that reaches approximately 7 million secondary school students and 350,000 teachers across the country.
One of Channel One’s educational priorities is to ensure that our students understand the First Amendment. In cooperation with the Knight Foundation, Channel One has aired over fifty news stories related to First Amendment freedoms. In addition to the stories, Channel One provides lesson plans and resource materials for the teachers who use our programming.
Before working at Channel One, I served as a teacher, principal and assistant superintendent in New Jersey and New York. I taught English at Spring Valley High School in Spring Valley, New York from 1964 to 1970. I was an administrator at Suffern High School from 1970 to 1978 and then became principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. I worked in Ridgewood for 20 years. In 1998, I accepted a position as Executive Vice President for Channel One and was responsible for the news programming. I left Channel One in 2001 for a position as assistant superintendent for instruction in Scarsdale, New York. I retired from that position in December, 2008 to return to Channel One.
In addition to my work with Channel One, I also serve as chairman of the national board of directors for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
James Gleason
James Gleason graduated from The College of New Jersey in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology Education and a Master of Arts from Kean University in Educational Administration in 1997. He joined the Monmouth County Vocational School District (MCVSD) in 1991. Prior to becoming a principal he taught at the High Technology High School and the Academy of Allied Health and Science. Throughout his career as an educator he strongly subscribes to the belief that all students learn best by doing. He has six wonderful children with his wife Sue. In 2000 he became the founding principal of the Communications High School (CHS) the fourth established career academy at the MCVSD. In the ninth year of operation CHS has established itself as one of the top performing high schools in New Jersey. He was recently recognized in 2007 as a Milken Educator Award Recipient.
Victoria Grand
Victoria Grand is the head of policy at YouTube, where she oversees the development and enforcement of policies on a wide range of content and abuse issues. Previously, Victoria was a member of Google's corporate communications team, where she managed communications strategy and media relations for issues such as privacy, child safety, and controversial content. Victoria also served as a Teach for America corps member and as an educational consultant for Education Partners. She holds a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a J.D. from Boalt Hall.
Andi Mulshine
Andi Mulshine teaches journalism and news photography at Communications High School in Wall Township, New Jersey. She entered the teaching profession in 2002 after 20 years in the news business. She had worked at daily and weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, covering beats ranging from night police to investigative reporting. Mulshine proudly serves as adviser to “The Inkblot,” the student newspaper of CHS. She also serves as an officer of the Garden State Scholastic Press Association and is a new member of the advisory council steering committee of the Student Press Law Center. She attends graduate school at Rutgers University, majoring in communication and keenly interested in media literacy.
Jennifer Pascal
I was previously employed by Prince William County Public Schools in Virginia. I taught elementary English as a Second Language for seven years. During my time teaching, I witnessed a shift in the way our school handled the issue of bullying. When I first started teaching, our school did not have a bullying prevention program because this issue was not viewed as a real problem and consequently, we treated each referral on a case-by-case basis. In addition, administrators, teachers, students, and parents were not on the same page with regard to this issue. It was not until my last year of teaching that our school adopted the Olweus Bullying Prevention program, which resulted in a tremendous reduction in the amount of referrals, a positive change in the social climate and an improvement in peer relations. Due to the rigorous and comprehensive approach of the program, including establishing school wide rules, holding classroom meetings, and regular meetings with parents, we were able to significantly reduce bullying of all kinds at our school. Currently, as a project manager at The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), we believe first and foremost that schools need to be safe and secure. Principals and personnel must be vigilant in their efforts to develop and implement policies and procedures that foster a safe environment to include implementation of bullying prevention programs.
Due to the rapid increase of technology and the lack of laws on the topic of cyber-bullying, schools must draft policies addressing this issue. It is imperative that there are specific consequences for students who engage in this behavior, in addition to procedures for reporting and investigating incidents of bullying. Communities have to be united in their position against bullying and there should be increased awareness amongst the parents on this issue. Parents should be provided specific strategies and resources to recognize and address this problem. We need to equip students with the skills and resources to treat each other respectfully so they can use technology in positive ways.
Michael Simpson
Assistant General Counsel
National Education Association
Mike Simpson is a graduate of Davidson College (1972) and the University of Georgia Law School (1975). A native of Georgia, Mike worked as a legal aid attorney in rural Georgia from 1975 to 1977. He came to Washington in 1978 on a Robert F. Kennedy Fellowship. As an RFK Fellow, he served as the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center from 1978 to 1980 and authored the first edition of the SPLC publication, the Law of the Student Press.
Mike joined the National Education Association’s Office of General Counsel in 1980 and was named NEA Assistant General Counsel in 1996. In that capacity, Mike has briefed and argued cases in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, representing NEA members in matters relating to the constitutional rights of school employees, primarily freedom of speech. He also has co-authored several NEA amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mike acts as a resource for NEA-affiliated attorneys nation-wide on issues involving constitutional law and employment discrimination, oversees NEA’s federal appellate program, oversees NEA’s amicus brief program, plans and coordinates the annual meeting of NEA attorneys, represents NEA members in federal court appeals, and writes a monthly column on legal issues for NEA Today, NEA's all-member publication.
Wendy W. Wallace
Wendy W. Wallace is director of the High School Journalism Program at The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists and media leaders in St. Petersburg. Poynter is one of the best-known names in journalism training, where journalists from around the world turn for coaching in craft and values. Wendy leads workshops in writing, reporting and storytelling for high school students at Poynter, in classrooms around Tampa Bay and at scholastic journalism conventions. She also works in Poynter’s development office, preparing grant proposals to fund Poynter’s training.
Wendy came to Poynter from the St. Petersburg Times, the largest newspaper in Florida and one of the best in the country, where she worked as a reporter, copy editor and marketing manager over a 15-year career.
Wendy is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University with an MBA in marketing and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and business. She was editor of the Indiana Daily Student, an intern at The Milwaukee Journal and a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing intern at The Washington Post. In high school, she was editor of the school’s award-winning biweekly newspaper, the Kirkwood (Mo.) Call.
Wendy has two boys and lives in St. Petersburg.
Jerry Wishnow
As founder and president of the Wishnow Group inc. in 1974 he pioneered a new form activist public affairs projects. They are desiged to isolate a sunstantive social issue (e.g. infant mortality, prejudice reduction, property crime) and attemmpt to create a measurable intervention which is delivered to the public through a unique mobilization of money, media and manpower.
The projects such as "A World of Difference", "H.O.T. Car", "Beautiful Babies: Right From the Start", the naming and launching of "Americorps" have been credited with saving lives, reducing property crime, installing a currucla on diversity in schools thruought the country and increasing voluntarism.
He is the Author of "The Activist: How to Creat Measurable Public Affars Projects" and his campaigns have won over 70 national and regional awards includung a Peabody, three national Emmy's and four Presidential commendations.
He resides in Marblehead Mass. with his wife Pei Pei Wu, Phd.
