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John Sharify is honored to begin serving in his 4th year as President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, NATAS. John is currently the General Manager of Seattle Community Colleges Television, SCCTV. The former Komo 4 News reporter oversees SCCTV, and its IRIS Education and Rainier Radio entities. The SCCTV group creates and distributes education and community focused programming on two cable channels and streams education content to tens of thousands of colleges and schools across the country through the Internet. John has won numerous EMMY® and 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.
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Jamie is the alternate Trustee for the Northwest NATAS Chapter, and the Secretary of the National Board of Trustees for the Academy. Jamie spent nearly two decades as a producer in 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 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 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 recently completed a term as Director of Entertainment for the Kitsap County Fair and Stampede, in Bremerton, Washington. She 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. |
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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. It was John Sharify and Connie Thompson at KOMO who gave Steve his first chance in broadcast (thanks guys). Steve stared out interning for them, then moved his way up though Fisher Communications. As much as he loved news journalism, the siren call of marketing finally pulled Steve into his current position. |
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Jennifer is KIRO-TV's retail services producer/writer. Following in her father's footsteps at KIRO-TV, Jennifer has worked as a freelancer for KIRO since 1999. She has held a variety of positions: grip, runner, stage manager, production assistant, assistant producer and assistant director. As a student at the University of Washington's School of Communications, Jennifer completed two internships for Cox Broadcasting with KIRO's Interactive Media Department and Promotions Department. After graduation, Jennifer worked as a News Assistant at KIRO. She was an associate producer for KIRO's Star Search Seattle in 2004 and in 2005 for Seattle's Stars. Jennifer has received local recognition by NATAS Northwest for her work as part of KIRO-TV's Seafair Technical Team and by KIRO for being a part of their News Team, earning the Edward R. Murrow's Overall Excellence Award in 2003. As KIRO's new retail services producer/writer, Jennifer is fulfilling her dream of working alongside her father and friends. Outside of work, Jennifer loves being active whether it is hanging out with her family and friends, volunteering at local charity events, rowing, sailing, rock-climbing, swimming, or running.
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National Trustee
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News Operations Manager KIRO-TV, Seattle. Scott started his career in Duluth Minnesota in 1972 as a Newsfilm photographer/editor. After working at several TV stations in the Midwest he moved to Seattle in 1980 as an editor for KING-TV. He became Chief Editor in 1981 and then Operations Manager at KING in 1984. He received two EMMY® Awards for his editing in the early 80's. As Operations Manager he also produced several News Specials and traveled to Russia, Hong Kong and China for the news department. He also produced the '88 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and the '94 Games in Atlanta, GA for KING-TV. For ten years 1988 to 1998 Scott was the Northwest producer for NBC News. He produced numberous stories for the Today Show and Nightly News including the Live remote broadcast of the 10 Year Anniversary of Mt. St. Helens Eruption with Tom Brokaw. In 1999 he moved to KIRO-TV as News Operations Manager just in time for the Millennium. At KIRO he oversees the photography, editing and news engineering staff as well as the various newsroom computer systems. Scott is the current National Trustee of the NATAS Northwest Chapter, after serving two years as President and four years as Vice President and Awards Chair.
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Chapter Administrator
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President of Association Services, Inc., providing support services to professional non-profit associations, including event planning, database management, desktop publishing and specialty mailings and more.
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Brook Stanford is a native of Michigan, and discovered the Pacific Northwest while travelling with the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club to Seattle in 1962. After working radio for several years, Brook went to KGW-TV, Portland in 1968, and moved to KOMO-TV in 1970. While at KOMO, Brook was Sunday Anchor for 9 years, Health/Science Editor 9 years, and 13 years as the People Helper, during which time he raised more than $9 million from viewers to help other viewers in need. People Helper won the EMMY® for Specialty Reporting in 1989. Brook retired from KOMO in 2001. In 2004 he was honored by being inducted into the Silver Circle of NATAS. Brook is a 22 year member of the Seattle Men's Chorus.
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Lisa Yeakel has worked in television for over 25 years, and is currently the Account Executive for Streaming Media, Video and Television Technologies at the University of Washington. Lisa's media career began in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she began as a film projectionist at KWTV, eventually working in news. She made Seattle her home when she drove about as far as she could possibly get from OKC in the early 80's. Lisa enjoyed working for over a decade as a news producer for both KING and KOMO. She then joined Seattle's freelance family, producing educational media for several years. She eventually took the reins of a small production studio for Seattle Public Schools. There she recruited some of Seattle's finest broadcast refugees, who were willing to produce many nationally distributed, award-winning products for very little money, because they were members of Seattle's freelance family. Lisa particularly enjoyed helping Seattle high school students win the NW Regional EMMY® Award for student productions in 2002.
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In 2004 Michael graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with two separate degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Sociology. Since graduating, Michael has spent his time doing free-lance video work here in the Northwest. From producing a promotional piece for Children’s Home Society of Washington, to freelance camera work for different production companies, the common thread has been finding places where stories have needed to be told. In the fall of 2006, Michael was hired by KIRO in Seattle to fill a new position as the Internet Videographer.
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Ten-time EMMY® Award-winning producer, filmmaker and on-air science/wildlife specialist Michael Harris has used his unique affiliations and interests to help create some of the most imaginative television coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Over the last 20 years, Michael has held staff positions at a number Seattle-Tacoma television stations, but he's truly made his mark in the world of freelance network production and independent filmmaking. He is currently a regular contributor of HDTV “Weekend Windows” for ABC’s Good Morning America, and produced material for New Line Cinema, CBS News, ABC News, Major League Baseball, ESPN's SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight, MTV News, VH-1 and the E! Television network.
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Phil Kane has been with KBTC Public Television since 2006. He currently is serving as Interim General Manager/Program Director. Phil also worked at KKMO Radio Sol 1360 AM as Account Manager, and before that he served as Director of Programming and Promotion at KSTW TV. Prior to moving to Seattle, Phil was Promotion Manager for KTVD TV (UPN) and KDVR TV (FOX) in Denver. There he served as chairman of the UPN Affiliates Promotion Advisory Committees, and on the Board of Governors for the NATAS Heartland Chapter. He's a four time EMMY® nominee, a three time EMMY® recipient, and Promax Gold Medallion winner.
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