Board of Directors
Meet the Board of Directors
CCMA Board Member Biographies
Toni Albertson
Toni Albertson is a professor of journalism and adviser student media at
Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA. Prior to being hired full-time at
Mt. SAC, she restarted the student newspaper at Los Angeles Trade Tech
College and taught mass media and journalism at Oxnard College, Los Angeles
City College and Los Angeles Pierce College. She founded “The Journalism
Project,” designed to restart or rescue vulnerable or defunct student
newspapers and conducted “The Future of California Community College
Journalism Programs and Student Newspapers” study. She is a former
editor-in-chief of Music Confidential, an internationally-distributed
entertainment magazine, a former daily feature writer for the Ventura
County Star newspaper, and a freelance journalist. She is also the vice
president of the Community College Journalism Association (CCJA).
Jennifer Aquino
president
Jennifer Aquino is a part-time lecturer in the communications department at Notre Dame de Namur University. She also works as a freelance writer and editor and recently helped launch a real estate magazine in the Bay Area.
Over the course of her career, Aquino worked as both a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and Web sites. She most recently served as the night city editor at the San Jose Mercury News.
Claudia Gonzalez
student board member
Claudia Gonzalez is a sophomore and journalism major at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif. She has been a staff writer and photographer with several publications including her high school’s newspaper, The Voice, as well as publications at Mt. SAC, The Mountaineer and Substance Magazine. Currently she is the College Life Editor of The Mountaineer and is a candidate for Managing Editor for the fall 2010 semester. Her goal is to transfer either to the University of Southern California or New York University and achieve her degree in journalism. She plans to start her own magazine for young adults that will primarily evoke thoughts on politics, cultures, music, and literature.
Her goal is to open the doors of communications between community college students and university students within the CCMA. And believes it is important for students to discuss issues that are affecting their publications and schools.
Tim Hendrick
Tim Hendrick’s marketing and communication expertise, both as a respected industry executive and as an assistant professor at San Jose State, includes marketing and product strategy, advertising, public relations, and Internet and new media. He is also the adviser to the Spartan Daily, San Jose State’s award-winning daily newspaper, and acts as a managing partner to Dwight, Bental & Hall Communications, the on-campus communications agency.
Hendrick has authored, managed and implemented corporate branding and positioning initiatives, marketing communication strategies, integrated media campaigns, promotions and co-marketing programs at the local, national and international levels.
Barbara Kingsley-Wilson
Barbara Kingsley-Wilson has been a journalist for 20 years, covering courts, crime, education and sports for the Orange County Register, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Rochester (N.Y) Times-Union. She also wrote sports for USA Today and worked as an intern with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel.
She graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s in journalism and later earned her masters and taught news writing as a fellow in the Kiplinger Mid-career Reporting Program at Ohio State University. She spent the summer of 1995 in Amman, Jordan, interviewing women and government officials as part of a grant to study women and sports. She taught journalism classes at USC before coming to Cal State Long Beach in fall 2004 and it now a full-time lecturer who advises the Daily 49er.
Melissa Lalum
VP Training
Melissa Lalum joined Cal State Northridge in August 2008 as the publisher and student media adviser to the Daily Sundial and is the vice president-elect of the Western Association of University Publication Managers.
Before joining the Sundial, Lalum served as managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily News and was also an editor and writer for Ventura County State, Tahoe World and Santa Barbara News-Press.
Recently, Lalum was honored with a 40 Under 40 award given to local leaders by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, and in May 2008, Cal State Northridge honored her for ongoing service to the college and her commitment to the journalism program.
Michael Longinow
Michael Longinow joined Biola University in 2005 and is the chair of the department of journalism and the adviser of The Chimes, Biola’s student newspaper.
Longinow is active in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and a frequent workshop presenter and panelist at national conventions of the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers. He has also served as a fellow with the American Press Institute and participated in workshops with The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
As a young reporter, Longinow freelanced for the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, as well as smaller weeklies in metro Chicago.
Kate Mather
Student board member
Kate Mather is a senior pursuing a degree in print journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Trojan, the university’s award-winning daily newspaper. Mather has interned for the Torrance-based Daily Breeze and will work at The Oregonian in Portland during the summer of 2010. Hailing from Lawrence, Kan., Mather has always had a passion for telling stories, and hopes to cover crime and courts throughout her career.
Robert Sage
VP Membership
Professor Robert Sage joined the faculty of Cal State Fullerton in fall 2000 and serves as faculty adviser and business manager for The Daily Titan, the university’s daily newspaper.
As a member of the College of Communications, Sage teaches advertising sales, media planning and a campaigns class. He draws from many years of experience as a senior advertising executive, magazine publisher and owner of an advertising sales firm.
Sage has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Yale University.
Dave Waddell
Past president
Dave Waddell, Ph.D., who advises The Orion at Chico State, is a founding CCMA board member and currently the association’s president.
Waddell worked nearly 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, most of that time at the Redding Record Searchlight, before joining Chico State’s journalism faculty as a professional-in-residence in 1996.
College Media Advisers Inc., a national association, presented Waddell with its Distinguished Four-Year Newspaper Adviser Award in 2006, and the California Journalism Education Coalition named him Journalism Educator of the Year for four-year universities in 2009. Waddell has also received university-wide recognition for his diversity work at Chico State.
Join the Board
California College Media Association is the only organization in California that promotes and supports media programs at four-year colleges and junior colleges. If you are faculty or professional staff involved with student media, consider taking a leadership position on CCMA’s executive board.
Our most recent activities included an editing and advertising boot camp in September at Cal State Fullerton and our annual California College Media Competition in February. In the past, this contest has attracted more than 1,200 entries from 28 schools.
The board meets at least twice a year. Board members attend these meetings, join telephone conference calls and assist with planned activities. Without a hardworking and dedicated board, CCMA’s activities and contest cannot be offered to students.
Joining the executive board is also a great way to meet others who are actively involved in student media and who support student media on a statewide level.
If you are interested in joining the board or have any questions about CCMA, its training sessions or its annual competition, please feel free to e-mail Dave Waddell at dwaddell@csuchico.edu.
We look forward to hearing from you.
