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then become president of SWECJMC for the 2024 Conference. Judy Oskam presented an interactive session entitled, “Create Your Own Leadership Playbook,” for the Institute for Diverse Leadership Fellows at their workshop in Charlotte, North Carolina on Feb. 15, 2023. The Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Communication is dedicated to increasing the number of people of color and women who serve as chairs, deans, directors, and endowed chairs in journalism and communication education. The IDL is jointly sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. Oskam is professor and director of the School of Journalism an Mass Communication and is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Cindy Royal had the article "Design Implications for a Burgeoning Product Ecosystem: Roles, Culture and Engagement" published in the Digital Journalism academic journal. She provides an introductory commentary for the special issue on Design + Journalism, adding a media product context to the discussion. The article published in Digital Journalism. STUDENT ACCOLADES Bruce Levinson earned an Award of Excellence in the Broadcast Educator's Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Graduate Student Film and Video Competition for his documentary, Petrified . Levinson's documentary recounts the 2015 Memorial Day floods in Wimberley that killed a dozen people, destroyed 350 homes, and uprooted or destroyed thousands of trees, and shows how one man, Phillip Sell, a local woodworker and custom furniture maker, reclaimed many of the downed trees and gave them second life as art pieces or furniture in the rebuilt homes of flood victims. Levinson created Petrified as the final project for MC5328 (Digital Storytelling) taught by Dan Seed during the fall 2022 semester. Levinson is the third of Seed's students in the last three years to earn an award of excellence from the BEA for a documentary created for a class project. [2] ALUMNI ACCOLADES Carrington Tatum is in a new role as a senior operations analyst for Mather Economics. [3] Dan Seed specializes and teaches in the Electronic Media sequence at Texas State, following a nine- year career in television news. Seed has an M.A. in Mass Communication from Texas State and a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University. A native of Massachusetts, Dan worked as a news writer, news reporter and anchor, sports director, and sports anchor and reporter during a career that began at WHDH-TV in Boston and continued at stations in Oklahoma and Texas. He is three-time winner of the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Outstanding Achievement in Broadcasting Award for best sportscast (non-metro category) and a winner of the OAB’s Outstanding Achievement in Broadcasting Awards for Spot News and General News. #FACULTYSPOTLIGHT College of Fine Arts and Communication | 15