Officers
The following is a list of the officers, board of governors and standing committee chairs for the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Member | Bio
John Sharify
President
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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.
Jamie Jensen
Vice President, Alt. Trustee, National Secretary
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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.

Steve Allwine
Treasurer
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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.
Jennifer Bennett
Secretary
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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.
Scott LaPlante
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.
Diane Bevins
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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