SPEAK UP TAMPA BAY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Editor - in - Chief, Tampa Bay Business Journal
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- Community Producer
- Programming Coordinator
A graduate of USF with a B.A. in Philosophy, McCutcheon joined the access center as a community producer in late 1997. She was hired as a Trainer/Liaison in February 1998, when the cable operator managed the facility. After working as a Master Control Operator and Receptionist, she was promoted to Programming Coordinator in 2002. McCutcheon handles our website and produces "Community Forum." While in college, she served on the Student Broadcasting Association board and co-produced "Bullvision," the first USF student-run program.
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- Publisher, the Networked Planet
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- Professor, Hillsborough Community College
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- Attorney in Private Practice
Brian joined TBCN in the Fall 2000 as a Master Control Operator, later becoming Assistant Programming Coordinator and then-part time technician under the tutelage of engineer Larry Nadler. In October 2006, he was promoted to full-time technician. He is responsible for the maintenance, repair, modification and installation of video production and computer equipment. Brian provides staff with computer training, manages our equipment inventory database, prepares technical bid specifications for the acquisition of video, audio and computer equipment and operates test equipment. He also serves as a back-up driver and technical director for our Remote Production Vehicle. Brian also helped produce "Community Forum."
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- Senior Vice President, Skyway Capitol
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- Hillsborough County School Board Member
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- Vice President, Progress Telecom
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- President, Avalon Marketing Group
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- Community Producer and Author
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- President, Executive Management Associates
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- Professor, University of Tampa Communications Department
Dora has been employed with TBCN since June 2004. A graduate of Florida State University, she holds a B.A. in Humanities with an emphasis in Art History. As a Programming Assistant, her responsibilities include program scheduling, quality control monitoring, archiving, external program inventory, website monitoring/content management and overnight bulletin board messages. She has co-produced TBCN's Community Forum and many of TBCN's public service announcements. She worked formerly as a gallery director at Michael Murphy Gallery and is a member of Greenpeace International.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Technical Operations Chief, 88.5 WMNF
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- Professor, University of Tampa
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- President, Arista Industries
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- Author and Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, USF - Tampa
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- Professor, Hillsborough Community College
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- Professor, USF School of Architecture
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- Community Resource Deputy, Hillsborough County Sheriff 's Office
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- Author and Adjunct Instructor, USF School of Physical Education
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Owner, Quality Innovative Strategic Solutions, LLC
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- Agent / Principal Ken Anthony Insurance, Inc
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- Professor, Hillsborough Community College
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- Executive Director
- CEO, Thompson & Associates Marketing & Public Relations
TBCN's executive director since May 2003, Louise Thompson is responsible for the recruitment and retention of staff and volunteers, maintaining an operational budget, a 5,000-square-feet facility at the University Mall with a main studio and edit suite, the maintenance and upgrading of a million-dollar inventory of video production equipment, revenue generation activities, community outreach efforts and contract compliance with local government. Since July 2002, Thompson has also hosted a live, hour-long, call-in TBCN series called "Speak Up Presents," where she interviews panels of three or more guests who are generally related through their work, charitable activities, community leadership or special interests. They convey information of interest to viewers.
The recipient of many awards, she was chosen "2006 Executive Woman of the Year" by the Network of Executive Women and a finalist for Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2005 "Business Woman of the Year in Media." In 2003, the national Alliance for Community Media presented her with its Director's Choice Award for defense of public access and the First Amendment. Tampa's Italian Club Auxiliary named her 2002 Italian-American Woman in Business. She was previously named "Woman of the Year" by a chapter of Business & Professional Women, "One of the Bay Area's 50 Most Influential Women" by Tampa Bay Life Magazine and was listed in Who's Who in Editors, Writers & Poets. Creative Loafing Newspaper named her "Best of the Bay" four times: in 2000, for her efforts on behalf of public access television; in 1996 for women's issues; in 1994, for community issues and in 1993, for leadership and ethics.
A former employee of General Foods, IBM, Boise Cascade and CNA Financial corporations, Thompson was CEO of an award-winning advertising, marketing and public relations firm for two decades, a freelance writer, author and speaker. Thompson is a USF honors graduate with a B.A. in Mass Communications.
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- Director of Public Relations, Tampa Marine Institutes, Inc
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- Academic Director, University of South Florida
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- Professor University of South Florida
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- Certified Public Accountant, Private Practice
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- Director of the Business Administration Program - USF Muma College of Business
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- Attorney, Older & Lundy LLC
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- Professor Emerita, USF College of Visual and Performing Arts
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- Campus Director, Art Institute of Tampa
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- MAOL, Owner Dynamic Training and Growth Services Director, Digital Leadership Training
Board Meetings are held at noon every last Friday of February, April, June, August and October. Most meetings are virtual but on occasion we have them in-studio. If you wish to attend, please call first to make sure the meeting has not been canceled or rescheduled.
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- Author and Adjunct Instructor, USF Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education
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- Director / Chair, Department of Journalism & Media Studies, USF - St. Petersburg
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- Attorney in Private Practice
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder / Executive Producer, Time in a Bottle Video Productions
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO / Founder SS, 3D Design & Production Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Film Commissioner of Hillsborough County