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Dr. James Rosser
President,
California State University,
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Dr. James M. Rosser has been president of CalState LA since 1979. In addition to his position as president, Dr. Rosser holds an academic appointment as Professor of Health Care Management at the University. Dr. Rosser also served for five years as Vice Chancellor of the State of New Jersey Department of Higher Education and was appointed Acting Chancellor in 1977. He is heavily involved in the community amongst his many activities, he also serves on the boards of directors for The Los Angeles Urban League, Music Center Performing Arts Council, Southern California Edison Crop, Sanwa Bank of California, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, the California Chamber of Commerce, and KCET. Dr. Rosser has written or edited a wide variety of works in the field of higher education administration as well as works on health, health values, and the health profession.
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Al Jerome
President & CEO,
KCET
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Mr. Jerome was named president and chief executive officer of KCET in 1996, after more than 30 years of commercial television station and station group management experience. Mr. Jerome has worked to make KCET the gateway into the PBS national schedule for Southern California's treasury of important producers, writers, directors, and actors. One example is the development of a new series of original American dramatic productions, PBS Hollywood Presents, which premiered in 2001.
In addition, Mr. Jerome led KCET's efforts, in collaboration with KQED/San Francisco, KVIE/Sacramento, and KPBS/San Diego, to develop California Connected, a weekly one-hour primetime newsmagazine and Internet site about the major issues facing the state in the next quarter-century. The program, which premiered in 2002 and is now in its second season, is broadcast simultaneously throughout the state creating a virtual state network.
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Richard J. Riordan,
Mayor, 1993-2001,
City of Los Angeles
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Mayor Richard Riordan, had a highly successful career as both a lawyer and investor (venture capital and leveraged buy-outs) before being elected to the first of his two terms as Mayor of Los Angeles. In 1981, he and his wife Nancy Daly Riordan founded the Riordan Foundation, dedicated to improving early childhood literacy and youth leadership development. Some examples of programs supported by the Riordan foundation include: the IBM-Riordan Young Explorers Program (to provide computer based learning activities for pre-schoolers on kid friendly benches developed by Little Tikes and enclosing IBM computers), and Recreational Reading Mini Grants (provides funds to help teachers develop classroom lending libraries). To date, the foundation has distributed over $33 million through various programs to improve education, delivering over 21,000 computers to 2000 schools in 40 states, and donated 120,000 books to classroom libraries.
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Mare Mazur,
Executive Vice President, Programming & Production,
KCET
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Ms. Mazur is responsible for the station's program schedule, which includes its own local, national and regional productions, as well as the national primetime schedule from PBS, and its highly rated daytime children's block. She joined KCET in 1997 as director, national dramatic programming. Ms. Mazur is the executive in charge of production of PBS Hollywood Presents, which has brought PBS audiences such acclaimed dramas as The Old Settler, Collected Stories, Copenhagen and The Gin Game. Under her helm, KCET has also co-produced, with El Norte Productions, American Family, the first Latino drama series ever to air on broadcast television.
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Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.,
Professor of Psychology,
Department of Psychology and Child Study Center
Co-director,
Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center
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Dr. Singer is a specialist in research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. He has authored more than 200 technical articles on thought processes, imagery, personality, and psychotherapy as well as on children's play and the effects of television. He has also written or edited 15 books, including Television, Imagination and Aggression; A Study of Preschoolers; Children's Play and the Developing Imagination, The Parents' Guide: Use TV to Your Child's Advantage; and Handbook of Children and the Media.
Dr. Singer is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. He currently edits Imagination, Cognition and Personality and is the newly elected President of the Division of Psychology and the Arts of the American Psychological Association. |
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Dorothy G. Singer. Ed. D.
Senior Research Scientist,
Department of Psychology and Child Study Center,
Yale University
Co-director,
Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center
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Dr. Singer is a developmental psychologist with expertise in early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training. She is currently involved in a Parent Training Project to teach parents to play with their preschoolers as a means of enhancing cognitive and social skill. In addition, she consults with parent groups, television industry executives, and government agencies concerning television and education.
Another facet of Dr. Singer's work deals with media literacy. A video-based training program for caregivers called Learning Through Play for School Readiness that she and her husband, Dr. Jerome Singer, developed has been shown to enhance school-readiness skills in children, particularly those from low-income families. She has authored over 150 publications, and written or edited 17 books among which are A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks; The Parents' Guide: Use TV to Your Child's Advantage; and Handbook of Children and the Media.
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Dr. Faith Rogow
Founder,
Insighter's Educational Consulting,
President,
Alliance for a Media Literate America
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In more than twenty years as a media educator, Dr. Rogow has trained thousands of teachers, students, childcare professionals, and parents to understand and harness the power of media. Dr. Rogow specializes in bridging the gaps between academe and the broader community, bringing to her work the valuable grassroots experience of having served as the Director of Education and Outreach at WSKG Public Broadcasting.
Dr. Rogow is founding national President of the nation's largest professional organization for media literacy educators, the Alliance for a Media Literate America. Renowned for her work with children's programming, she authored extensive Caregiver and Trainer Manuals for “The Puzzle Place,” “Teletubbies,” “Theodore Tugboat,” and “Sesame Street.” She has served as a consultant to PBS' Ready to Learn Service, Sesame Workshop, CPB's “Don't Buy It” website for 9-11 year olds, the Television Race Initiative, and a variety of instructional and children's television productions.
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Dr. Gloria Rodriguez
Founder, President & CEO,
Avance Inc.
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Serving 7000 parents and children each year, AVANCE is a nationally recognized model and pioneer of parent education, family support and fatherhood education programs. Dr. Rodriguez was a delegate to the White House Conference on Families, and, by presidential appointment, served as part of the United States Delegation to the United Nations International Commission on the Status of Women, and currently is a member of Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Dr. Rodriguez has served as a consultant to the federal government, Parent's Magazine, Whittle Communication's La Familia De Hoy Magazine, Mr. Rogers Corporation, the Work Family Institute, the Harvard Family Research Project, Georgetown University and the Yale Bush Center. She served as an Advisory Member to the GEMS Television Board and co-chaired the San Antonio 2000 Ready to Learn Task Force.
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Paul Orfalea
Orfalea Family Foundation
Founder and Chairperson Emeritus,
Kinko's, Inc. |
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Founded in 1970, Kinko's now has over 1100 outlets and is the world's leading business services chain. Mr. Orfalea's leadership and unique philosophy led Kinko's to be selected as one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work with in America" for three years in a row. Forbes also ranked Kinko's 84th on its year 2000 "Forbes 500 Biggest Private Companies". In 2000, People Magazine profiled Mr. Orfalea as one of the prominent leaders who overcame challenges with dyslexia. Other recent awards include the 1998 Entrepreneur of the Year award from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business; the 2000 Philanthropist of the Year by the Network of California Community Colleges; and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Through his foundation, Mr. Orfalea continues to support quality early care and education; intergenerational programs; promotion of individual learning styles; and work-life family friendly policies. |
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Ann Graham Ehringer, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
Boardmember,
KCET Board of Directors
Facilitator,
KCET Convening
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Dr. Ehringer coaches CEOs in decision-making, strategic thinking and entrepreneurial leadership. She has worked extensively with CEOs of small and mid-sized companies on personal development and leadership effectiveness, developing individualized programs for personal and business strategic management, executive team development and succession planning and management. She has been an active professional director for over 20 years, serving on the boards of directors of public and privately-held companies, including KCET’s Board of Directors. She is the former director of USC’s Family Business Program. |
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