April 16, 2011
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Truman State University Student Union Building - Alumni Room
6 - 7 p.m. Alumni Panel
Speaker Biographies:
Jackie Gonzalez, graduate student, Tufts University
Jackie Gonzalez (‘09) is a first-year graduate student at Tufts University, pursuing a MA in Child Development. Her research interests include media programming, educational technology, and media literacy for kids.
During her time at Truman, Jackie was involved with many activities on campus and off, including Phi Sigma Pi, KTRM, the Index, the Women’s Resource Center, and the Curtain Call Theatre Company, among others. In the year between Truman and Tufts, Jackie served as the Administrative Intern at the City of Kirksville, and the co-chair of the 2010 Census committee of Adair County.
While residing in Boston, Jackie has been able to get involved with several projects relating to children and media. Most recently, she has been serving as a research lead for a project with the producers of the popular children’s television show Arthur. In addition to her research,Jackie assists with curriculum design for a computer program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and works as an Academic Technology Fellow at Tufts.
During her time at Truman, Jackie was involved with many activities on campus and off, including Phi Sigma Pi, KTRM, the Index, the Women’s Resource Center, and the Curtain Call Theatre Company, among others. In the year between Truman and Tufts, Jackie served as the Administrative Intern at the City of Kirksville, and the co-chair of the 2010 Census committee of Adair County.
While residing in Boston, Jackie has been able to get involved with several projects relating to children and media. Most recently, she has been serving as a research lead for a project with the producers of the popular children’s television show Arthur. In addition to her research,Jackie assists with curriculum design for a computer program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and works as an Academic Technology Fellow at Tufts.
Kyle Hill, radio journalist, KURM
Kyle Hill is currently the announcer during weekday afternoons and Sunday nights at news/talk/forum station KURM in Rogers, Arkansas. When he's not fielding phone calls during the station's signature "Dial-A-trade" program, he's behind the scenes multitasking as only a Truman grad could do: scheduling advertisements, answering phone calls, making phone calls to news sources in three states, producing advertisements, writing copy, and dealing with computer issues as they arise, since he's the only there that has ever Tweeted from city council meetings in Seligman. For all we know, he might have been the first person to ever send a Tweet from Seligman.
Kyle also spent some time in the United Kingdom observing the media climate, blogging about his experiences and current events as The Missouri Expatriate. In December 2009, he introduced Missives from Missouri, the blog that republishes the weekly capitol reports and news releases from legislators in Jeff City. Over 30 lawmakers have their reports regularly published and Missives have been cited in articles published in the Columbia Missourian, Riverfront Times and various partisan blogs.
Diane Poelker, Account Executive, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.
Diane Poelker is an account executive at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., practicing in the corporate issues and financial communications group. Since joining FH in June 2010, she has worked with a variety of clients including, UPS, Enterprise Holdings and AT&T, focusing on media relations, public relations strategy and executive communications.
Before joining the firm, Poelker led the online communications team at Casey Communications, Inc., a boutique public relations firm in St. Louis. There, she worked with clients such as Guarantee Electrical Company, Argent Capital Management and St. Louis Composting to develop and implement marketing communication plans that blend the strengths of online tools and traditional public relations practices. Previously, she was an intern at KETC Channel 9, St. Louis’ PBS affiliate, where she promoted Ken Burns’ 2007 documentary, The War.
As a student journalist at Truman State University, Poelker held positions at The Index and KTRM-FM. She covered the 2008 presidential primaries from Iowa and St. Louis and helped to establish the Truman Media Network. Poelker graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in communication, emphasis in journalism, in 2008.
*This time will be split up among class work, student media, and student organization. Time slots are 5 minutes each and this part of the evening will function as an open house.
7:05-7:10 Class - Increasing Literacy in the Rural Kirksville Community, Persuasion
Theory (Teresa Bradley, Molly Skyles, Brooke Perry, Brittany Keeling, Caitlin
Corrigan and Zach Brune)
7:10-7:15 Media - News36 - Attracting Online Viewership/Video Resume
7:15-7:20 Class - COMM 349
7:20-7:25 Org - Forensics - Video
7:25-7:30 Class - Truman Gets an iPhone App, News36 (Meghann Henry)
7:30-7:35 Media - Index - Coverage from February Blizzard
7:35-7:40 Class - Blog Genre Abstract, Media Criticism (Alex Carlson)
7:40-7:45 Org - NBS - Convention Learnings in Los Angeles, California
7:45-7:50 Class - COMM 349
7:50-8:05 Break
8:05 - 8:10 Media - Detours- Photo Contest
8:10 - 8:15 Class - Jazz Funeral Social Movement Demonstration, Social Movements
(Richard Crispell, Megan Elmore, Samantha Jones, Cole Poyner, Chris
Schneider, Michael Schrik, and Xander Winkel)
8:15 - 8:20 Org - Ad&PR Student Senate Project (Hannah Rickman and Karen Chau)
8:20 - 8:25 Class - COMM 349
8:25 - 8:30 Media - KTRM - Show from idea to song-list
8:30 - 8:35 Class - Downtown Grocery Store Campaign, Persuasion Theory (Amy
Lehnhoff,Dana Bruxvoort, Claire Haroche, Krisha Shrestha, Riley Taylor and
Nathan Vickers)
8:30- 9:00 p.m. Awards
Lambda Pi Eta will present the Communication Professor of the Year and Dr. Barry Poyner will present the Communication Foundation Scholarships
There will also be light refreshments served in the HUB during the event. Refreshments are provided by the Communication Club and Social Movements class.
