Awards Community Service Award, College of Saint Rose, 2016 Thomas A. Manion Distinguished Faculty Award, Alumni Association, College of Saint Rose 2015 Excellence in Communications Award. American Red Cross of Northeastern New York, 2014 Communicator of the Year, American Red Cross of Northeastern New York 2011 Anne Frank Education Outreach Award: Holocaust Survivors and Friends 1996 and 1993 John Peter Zenger Media Award: New York State Bar Association 1996 Creative Works-Video: Executive Producer “HOLD” Student video production 2009 Writer/Producer/Director Public Service Announcements for Recruitment and Retention Task Force, Albany County Fire and EMS Advisory Board, 2001-2006 “Remembering Anton Segore” 8 minute documentary for Holocaust Survivors and Friends Kristallnacht commemoration 2003 “Training the Rookie Police Officer,” UHAI Publishing 8-part video textbook supplement, 1999 Producer/Director “New York and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Celebration, “20 minute documentary, produced for the Hudson/Mohawk Institute, 1988 Producer/Director “Edythe Meserand: A Life” 18 minute documentary on female broadcast pioneer, American Women in Radio and Television, 1990 Producer/Director Live to tape production of ceremony at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, “From Fear to Friendship,” commemorating Catholic-Jewish- Protestant interfaith alliance 2000
Producer Video insert for College of Saint Rose recruiting tape-in Japanese, for Japanese audiences, 1991 Producer “Never Forget” Witness to History Video project. 35 in-studio interviews with concentration camp survivors, soldiers, partisans, Christian rescuers, medical personnel, 1993-1994 Co-producer/Consultant “A World of Difference”, 3 minute video for D.W. Elliott Photography and Side Street Productions, 1989 Coordinating Producer/ “It’s Working,” 8 minute educational video for “Cable in Script Writer the Classroom,” 1995-96 On Location Producer/ “Never Forget” Video segments for Witness to History Production Assistant video project On -location at Dachau, Germany, Mauthausen, Austria, and Budapest, Hungary, May 1995 Assistant Producer “Talk to the Governor”-Television call-in show with Governor George Pataki at Time-Warner 1996 Assistant Producer “1995 NORI Awards,” Live Production, 1996 Production Assistant/ “1996 NORI Awards,” Live Production, 1997 Technical Director Production Assistant/ Table of the Lord,” Mass for shut-ins, Albany Roman Camera Operator Catholic Diocese, 1995-97 Production Assistant Live to Tape Production-NYS Center for Philosophy and Communication, Seminar on “Cynicism in the Media,” 1995 Production Assistant Yom Ha’Shoah Commemoration, Congregation Ohav Shalom, Albany NY 1995 Script Consultant/ “Shelly,” 8 minute biographical documentary on Shelly Voice Talent Shapiro, founder of Holocaust Survivors and Friends, 1994 Script Writer College of Saint Rose recruitment video, 1990
Division Paper competition, 1997, 1996 New York State Bar Association John Peter Zenger Media Awards, 1994, 1993 Workshop/Panel Presentations: Creator/Coordinator Blogging in America, panel in cooperation with Uzbeki journalists, International Center of the Capital Region, July 2015 Speed Mentoring: Career Workshop with Alliance for Women in Media, 2015-2010 An Evening with Diana Henriques, New York Times Reporter, October 2012 Presenter/Panelist Films of the 1980s workshop, Reunion Week, College of Saint Rose, June 2013 Careers in Communication Chatham Middle School 2013, 2012 Careers in Communications, Columbia-Greene Community College 2013, 2012, 2011 (for high school students) The King’s Speech: Hollywood and History, Ameriprise Financial Services Client lecture, 2011 The Springboks: Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, and Albany’s anti-apartheid stance, Ameriprise Financial Services Client lecture, 2010 Social Networking: The Good and the Evil, Interfaith Community of Schenectady and the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation, 2010 “Blogging and Ethics,” Women’s Press Club, 2008 Candidate for Honorary Degrees; Commencement 2000, Tim Russert; 1992, Ernie Tetrault “Au Revoir Les Enfants,” and “Weapons of the Spirit,” Film lectures and analysis, “Hidden Children” exhibit, Jewish Catholic Dialogue Committee of the Ecumenical