Steve Allwine has been involved with the Northwest Chapter of NATAS since 2004. Upon the advice of Mr. Sharify, Steve wrangled a way to attend the 2004 Regional EMMY® Awards by serving cocktails at the pre-show mixer. What a difference a couple years makes. Steve now serves on the chapter's board as Treasurer.

Steve currently works as the Director of Marketing & Technology for Johnson Braund Design Group, Inc. The allure of the family profession called to him after what felt like a lifetime in broadcast.

An '04 graduate of Central Washington University, and Green River Community College (go Gators!), Steve has been in and out of Seattle's Fisher Communications and Sandusky Broadcasting, working everything from overnight board op at Smooth Jazz at KWJZ, overnight announcer at KOMO 1000 AM, news writer at KOMO 4 TV, to executive news producer at KIMA TV 29 in Yakima.

Michael Ballard is a Program Producer for KUSM-TV/MontanaPBS in Bozeman, Montana. Since December 2004, Ballard has been part of the production team at KUSM-TV, producing videos for contracted clients, as well as broadcast programs for Montana PBS.

In the television industry since 1994, Ballard is a graduate of Brigham Young University’s Broadcast Television Program. From 1994 – 2004, Ballard was primarily a full-time freelance camera operator, working all across the country for television networks such as ESPN, Turner Sports, CBS and many others.

Bringing this experience to Montana, Ballard now serves as co-director of the award winning Montana PBS music program 11th & Grant with Eric Funk. In 2010 his first documentary, Never Long Gone: The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story, received 7 awards including 2 Emmy’s, a CINE Golden Eagle and the Montana Broadcaster’s Non-Commercial Program of the Year.

Andrea Flatley is co-chair of the Awards Committee and is a previous Regional Chair. She is currently a freelance writer in Seattle working for KOMO-TV and the Vancouver Business Journal. Before moving to Seattle Andrea worked at KPTV in Portland and KXLY in Seattle. While producing at those stations she helped launch magazine style broadcasts, a mid-day newscast and field produced for a variety of special projects. Andrea received an Emmy Award in 2008 for her work on a Special Assignment Report, AWOL In Canada and a Community Service nomination for her work with the KXLY Extreme Team Girl Scouts Build. Andrea is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Broadcast Journalism. In her free time she writes for the wine, beer & spirit blog WestToast. She has served on the NATAS NW board since 2009.

Holly is the News Director for KOMO-TV, KOMO News Radio and KUNS-TV.
She is also the Vice President of News for KOMO’s parent company, Fisher Communications LLC..
Prior to joining Fisher, Holly was the Vice President/News Director for WTXF-TV in Philadelphia.
Holly has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
She has been a broadcast journalist for 28 years.
Holly started her career as a writer and researcher at KUSA in Denver and has since worked at 8 television stations from Denver to Washington DC.
She covered the bombing of the Murrah building while working in Oklahoma City and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 while working in Washington DC.
Holly Currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ABC News Affiliate Advisory Board. In addition to the Northwest Chapter, Holly has served on NATAS boards in Philadelphia and Washington DC.
Holly has won several Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards during her broadcast career.

After 15 years on the Board of the Northwest chapter, Jamie is coming around for her second round in the President's seat - serving as co-President with Dick Splitstone.  She is also the Trustee for the Northwest NATAS Chapter, serving as the chapter representative to the Board of Trustees of the National Academy.  Jamie just completed two terms as Secretary of the National Board of Trustees. Jamie spent nearly two decades as a producer in television news and programming.  Starting her broadcasting career on the air in radio in Wickenburg, Arizona, she moved into the producer chair at KYMA-TV in Yuma, Arizona.  She moved to Seattle in 1990 to write and produce for KIRO-TV.   After serving time as a producer of special projects at KIRO, KOMO and promotions at KING, Jamie launched her own production company working with various corporations and non-profits on their video and marketing projects.  She continued freelancing for NBC news and several Seattle TV stations, but turned her focus to fundraising and marketing for non-profits.  Most recently Jamie served as Vice President of Development and Marketing at The Hope Heart Institute.

You can currently find Jamie selling real estate with John L. Scott Real Estate in the Seattle area, but keeping her fingers in writing and production projects as often as possible. Community service is at the heart of everything Jamie does. She served as Director of Entertainment for the Kitsap County Fair and Stampede, in Bremerton, Washington, and has served on executive committees and as a board member for several Seattle non-profit organizations including: The Woodland Park Zoo Society - Wildkeepers and Rise n' Shine. Jamie joined the Board of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1995 as Membership Committee Chair. She then served four years as Chair of the EMMY® Awards Committee, before serving two years as Vice President and four years as President of the Northwest Chapter. Jamie lives in Kingston, Washington with her husband, 4 dogs, 2 cats and 3 steer (yes, cows.)

Daniel Kopec is a 6 time Emmy Award winning Writer, Producer, and Director. WIth more than 10 years in the industry his work has been seen on NBC, CNN, VH-1 and PBS.  He is currently the Executive Producer at KBTC Public Television. He writes and produces the documentary series Full Focus, the weekly local public affairs program Northwest Now, and special documentary projects. His work has received numerous national and regional awards.

Maria Lamarca Anderson joined KIRO 7 as community relations manager in May 2007. Her previous experience includes shopping center, social service, high-tech and arts marketing and corporate public relations, resulting in a diversity of experiences with a variety of media and awards for her campaigns. She is also a freelance writer and communications consultant. Throughout her career Maria has volunteered with an array of non-profit organizations, at present with Lifelong AIDS Alliance, the Mary M. Gates Guild of Children’s Hospital and Seattle Women’s Chorus. She joined the board of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as marketing chair in 2004. She is a past president of the Seattle Advertising Federation and served on its board for seven years.

John Sharify feels blessed to share inspiring stories about the Seattle community. He is currently a contributing correspondent for KING 5 News, and the General Manager of Seattle Community Colleges Television, SCCTV, and General Manager of Seattle's public access station, Seattle Community Media. John is honored to have served as President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences from 2006-2010.

In 2011, John was honored with 3 Emmys and a National Murrow award for his work at KING. He was also a finalist for NPPA's Photojournalism Award for Reporters.

John is a 40 time Emmy Award winner with 7 National Edward R. Murrow Awards including the 2008, 2007, and 2004 National Murrows for Writing, which honors the top broadcast news writer in the country.  John started his reporting career in New York City at WPIX TV nearly 30 years ago, and in 1989 headed west where he deliivered his signature stories for KOMO 4 News in Seattle for the next eighteen years.  He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from various organizations including the Academy of Religious Broadcasting, the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, and Seattle's Union Gospel Mission for his 'compassionate reporting of the homeless'. He is also the proud recipient of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence "Take Action" award for his work on raising awareness on the issue of domestic violence.

John just finished a documentary about the holocaust called "Boys of Terezin", which has already been shown in film festivals in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, and West Palm Beach and Miami, Florida.  In the spring of 2012,  the documentary will be screened inToronto, Canada, Providence, R.I., and New Jersey. John also does storytelling workshops nationally, and internationally for broadcast journalists, most recently in Norway and Denmark.

John is a proud graduate of Princeton University where he received his B.A. in Politics and Near Eastern Studies. He also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in film directing from Columbia University where he studied under acclaimed filmmaker Milos Forman.

Dick is a 37-year veteran of the news business. As an Executive Producer, he was a launch team member of Belo's Local News on Cable, a 24-hour regional news channel in Norfolk, VA, and has worked as a news producer at KIRO-TV in Seattle, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York and WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio. He also worked for a number of years as a radio reporter, anchor and News Director in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Cleveland, Ohio markets. He is currently Senior Executive Producer with NorthWest Cable News in Seattle.