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Leading Communication scholar, author of books, book chapters and scholarly articles on culture and communication, cross-cultural communication, and language and communication. He has been a leader in linking culture to communication and in demonstrating that communication is the vehicle by which meanings are conveyed, identify is composed and reinforced and feelings are expressed. Educator and mentor; distinguished faculty member in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
A recently retired KIRO TV reporter and anchor who has been involved with professional organizations (including the Seattle Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists), community organizations (including Achievement Rewards for College Scientists as member and public relations chair, AIDS Housing of Washington as a board member and chair of fund-raising committee, Junior League of Seattle as a Sustaining Member), and the University (as co-chair of the UW Graduate Diversity Fellows Dinner in 2004-5). She has mentored many aspiring young journalists.
Journalist, editor, educator. Patricia Foote has worked as a reporter, arts and entertainment editor, newsfeature editor and is currently the Assistant Managing Editor/Administration in The Seattle Times newsroom. She oversees staff development and recruiting, policies, compensation, and other human-resource issues in the newsroom. She taught journalism at the University of Washington 1986-90, and has remained active in supporting the journalism program and its students. She serves on the UW Department of Communication Visiting Committee, is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and a winner of the Times' Publisher's Circle Award in 1998.
Award-winning journalist and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times), city council member. She has been active in many community organizations, including League of Women Voters, Multiple Sclerosis Society, United Way Council of Planning Affiliates, Lake City Community Council, Lake City Elementary School Parent-Teachers Association, 46th District Democrats, King County Women's Political Caucus and the Uppity Ladies Book Club & Literary Circle.
Reporter and editor (Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Star, The Seattle Times, and the Los Angeles Times). He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for National Reporting while at The Seattle Times for his series on the clearing of Communist charges against Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school. He served as press secretary for Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Reporter (Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 (with Abigail Goldman, Nancy Cleeland and Tyler Marshall) for a seven-part investigative series on Wal-Mart.
Retired editor of the Columbian (Vancouver) and an active volunteer in a wide variety of community endeavors (e.g., the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges as member and chair; Vancouver's Celebrate Freedom Committee, the Conservation Land Trust Advisory Board, the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust Board and Long Range Committee, the Clark College Alumni Association Board of Directors, the "Festival 150" Planning Committee, and the Lewis and Clark Commemorative Committee.) He has long been a member of the department's visiting committee.
Advertising executive, consultant and community activist. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, chairman of the AAAA Western Region and of its Puget Sound Council, international chairman of the Affiliated Advertising Agencies International and as a board member of the Advertising Association of the West and the Seattle Advertising Federation. His achievements include: President of the Rotary Club of Seattle, President of the University of Washington Alumni Association (receiving its Distinguished Service Award); Chairman of the UW Tyee Board of Advisors and of the UW Development Fund Board; Prime Minister of the Seattle Seafair; The fiftieth King Neptune in 1999; Campaign chair of United Way of King County in 1994.
Prominent public relations practitioner, mentor to students. He specializes in crisis management, crisis communication, labor communications, litigation support and media training. Marriott is a 30-year public relations professional, nationally accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, and a member of its Counselors Academy. His career spans broadcast journalism, politics, corporate and agency public relations. He currently serves as a member and past president of the Centrum Foundation board, a member and past chair of the Seattle Center Advisory Commission and a member and marketing committee Chair of the Seattle Repertory Theatre board of trustees. He has also held board positions with Earshot Jazz Society, University of Washington School of Music Visiting Committee and the Seattle King County chapter of the American Red Cross.
Award-winning journalist and anchor (KING 5 News, KONG TV). Matsukawa's professional awards include ARBY Awards in 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2000, given by the Academy of Religious Broadcasting; a Society of Professional Journalists award for Economic Reporting in 1989 and the "American Scene Award," from the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1986. Matsukawa co-chairs a committee seeking to build a Japanese cultural and community center in Seattle. She also served on the Association Board of the YMCA of Greater Seattle. In 1999, she organized the Student Broadcast Project for UNITY, a multi-cultural journalism convention held in Seattle. She was chosen as an Asian-American Living Pioneer by the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation in 1996. In 1993, she was given the Community Volunteer Award from the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, where she served as a board member and board president. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Matsukawa is a founding member of AAJA's Seattle Chapter.
Journalist, editor, gubernatorial aide, prominent business executive, consultant, board leader. His career in newspapers led to 30 individual national and state awards for journalistic excellence. Directly after graduating from the UW, Mr. McReynolds went to work for the Bellevue American newspaper (now the King County Journal) and was there 11 years, the last seven years as Editor of the paper. During his last 5 years as Editor, the paper led the state in the number of awards won. Because of his journalistic accomplishments and civic service, he was selected in 1965 as one of the three honorees by a program called the Three Outstanding Young Men in the State of Washington. In 1967, Governor Dan Evans recruited him to be Press Secretary, a position he held for six years (longer than anyone in Washington state's history, before or since). He has been Chair of the Board or President of many of the major organizations in the Seattle-King County area over the years -- organizations like the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Bellevue Community College, Seattle-King County Economic Development Council, and Downtown Seattle Rotary Club, to name a few. In the electric utility industry, he was president or chairman of the several Pacific Northwest and national organizations. In December 2003, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Public Relations Society of America, only the second time the it was awarded in Washington state.
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