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Educational Conferences, Panels, Presentations & Critiques:
2014 BEA¹ Conference:
Moderator and Panelist: “Trading Places: What happens when M.F.A.’s Publish?   When Ph.D.’s do Creative Activity?   What are the benefits and drawbacks?”
Moderator and Panelist: “Which is more vital to production classes: Teaching Content or Technology?”
2014 UFVA³ Not Attended
Panel Selection Committee: Member, graded and voted on choice of panels for 2014 conference
“Lord Jim,” Short Screenplay, 35 pages.   Chosen for Writing Division Juried Competition.
“Advised,” Short Comedy. 11 minutes.   Chosen for Production Division Juried Competition.
2013 UFVA³ Conference:
Attendant at Critique / Juried Script Reading for my own screenplay, “An Original,” 30 pages.
Session Respondent & Critique Writer for “Day Like Night,” a short story by Scott Swartz.
Session Respondent & Critique Writer for “Lonely Hunter,” a short story by Jeff Van Henken.
Session Respondent & Critique Writer for “Pay Dirt,” a TV miniseries treatment by Catherine Rios.
2013 BEA¹ Conference:
*Honors Paper Poster Presentation / “Scholar To Scholar Session: ‘Are Incentives From U.S. State Film Offices Worth The Money?’”
Moderator & Panelist: “Encouraging and Integrating Female Production Students Into Live Sports Production Broadcasts”
2012 UFVA³ Conference:
Moderator & Panelist: “Cinema Legal and Illegal Playing by Hollywood’s Rules” panel, “Are Incentives from U.S. State Film Offices to Media Productions worth the Money?”
Respondent & Critique Writer for “Grapefruit,” a documentary treatment by Kennedy Wheatley
Session Attendant at Critique / Juried Script Reading for my own script, “Multicultural,” 30 pages.
Winner, 1st Place, Writing Division Shorts Category
2012 BEA¹ Conference: Writing Division Chair (2010-2012)
As Writing Division Chair, ran the Division Business Meeting.
Moderator & Panelist: “Movie Monsters, TV Creatures, And Internet Geeks: How do we teach Storytelling to students from three different (Artistic/Technological) cultures, with different values?”
Moderator & Panelist: “(Screenwriting) Story pitching as the project”
Moderator & Panelist: “My Favorite Writing Assignment”
2011 UFVA³ Conference:
Attendant at Critique / Juried Script Reading for my own screenplay, “Second Look,” 30 pages.
Session Respondent & Critique Writer for “1912,” a feature film script by Heather Addison.
2011 BEA¹ Conference: Writing Division Chair (2010-2012)
*Writing Division: Faculty Screenwriting Competition, Winner, Award of Excellence, Short Story Category, Juried Competition, for “Second Look,” 35 pages.
As Writing Division Chair, ran the Division Business meeting.
Writing Division Moderator & Panelist: “Highly Dubious!: How should screenwriting teachers handle scripts that are controversial, provocative, or outrageous?”
Writing Division Moderator & Panelist: “Highly Deleterious?: In Intro.   Screenwriting classes, are Mandatory Page Requirements a Wise Strategy?”
Writing Division Moderator: “Highly Dynamic!: My Favorite Screen Writing Class Assignment”
2010 UFVA³ Conference: Panelist, “Online Film Festivals and Diversity: Are we there yet?”
2010 BEA¹ Conference: Writing Division, Chair and Judge of Faculty Screenwriting Competition, Presenter at Media Festival Awards ceremony
2009 BEA¹ Conference: Writing Division, Chair and Judge of Faculty Screenwriting Competition
2009 BEA¹ Conference: Writing Division, Moderator & Panelist, “Can Student Screenwriters Provide Valuable Criticism to their Peers?”
2008 UFVA³ Conference: Gender & Diversity Panelist, “Diversity in American Film Festivals”
2008 BEA¹ Conference: Panelist, “Corporate/Industrial Video: Teaching A Hybrid Genre”
2008 BEA¹ Conference: Winner, Award of Excellence, Writing Division Faculty Screenwriting Competition, “Violent Nature,” 114 p.
2007 BEA¹ Conference: PAC Division, Chair of Faculty Video Competition, Host of Winners’ Presentation (35 films, 30 judges, 6 categories), edited the “highlight reel” for Presentation ceremony
2006 IRTS+++ Conference: “Meet the News Media: WCBS-TV, CNBC-TV, WCBS-AM,” Interviews, Panels, & Presentations, October, New York City, Attendee
2006 BEA¹ Conference: PAC Division, Chair of Faculty Video Competition, Host of Winners’ Presentation (45 films, 14 hours of footage, 5 categories), edited the “highlight reel” for Presentation ceremony
2005 2004, 2001: NBSª Regional Conferences: School chapter Moderator and Attendee at weekend – long series of lectures, panels and workshops.
2005 BEA¹ Conference: Moderator and Panelist: “Do reality shows belong in today’s college writing curriculum?”
2004 BEA¹ Conference: Panelist: “What to do when you only have one news course?,” “Introduction to Video (Field) Production” as a solo news course for a small, or a developing curriculum
2004 NJCA* Panelist: “Whose Jazz Is it, Anyway?   Dealing with student projects which test community standards”
2003 BEA¹ Conference: Moderator and Panelist: “Walking the Tightrope – Managing Controversial Student Projects”
2002 BEA¹ Conference: “My Favorite Production Exercises” Panelist: “The Narrative Drama,” a 10-minute presentation of students’ preparation for my Advanced Video course, with student samples.
2001 BEA¹ Conference: “Viva Aristotle” Storytelling Writers’ Panelist: “Today’s TV Movies: Conflict, Characters, Goals, Resolution…Who needs ‘Em? We do.” (A 30-page historical research paper)
  ¹Broadcast Education Association, ²Production, Aesthetics, and Criticisms, ³University Film and Video Association, ªNational Broadcasting Society, *New Jersey Communication Association, International Radio & TV Society