Student Media Board
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As a standing University committee, the Student Media Board serves "as the institutional publisher" for Student Media.
The SMB is primarily responsible for selecting student leaders, approving annual budgets and hearing any grievances that cannot be otherwise resolved. The SMB does not dictate or determine editorial content. Responsibility for day-to-day editorial operations belongs to the selected student leaders. The Director of Student Media is responsible for day-to-day business operations and long-term strategy for Student Media.
The board consists of students, staff and faculty from across the university, as well as media professionals outside of KSU.
Check out the guidelines, members and meeting documents below.
Student Media Board Guidelines
Voting Members
Melina Collins
Undergraduate Student Representative
Rick Danals
Assistant Dean of Student Engagement
Jeff Fruit
Interim Director School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Mark Goodman
JMC Faculty Representative
Karl Idsvoog
Faculty Senate Representative
Emma Keating
JMC Undergraduate Student Representative
Nicole Perrone
Graduate Student Representative
Autumn Reitzel
JMC Undergraduate Student Representative
Carol Robinson
Faculty Senate Representative
Kayla Shine
Undergraduate student representative
Mark Turner
Media Professional
Thor Wasbotten
JMC Faculty Representative
Non-Voting Members
- Ella Abbott, Fusion Editor
- Megan Ayscue, Burr Editor
- Christian Caudill, Student Sales & Marketing Manager
- Shannon Christen-Syed, Uhuru Adviser
- Tami Cindea Bongiorni, Assistant Director, Student Media Client Relations
- Kevin Dilley, Director of Student Media
- Brooke Forrest , Black Squirrel Radio General Manager
- Cameron Gorman, Luna Negra Editor
- Anna Katsas, KSUIF President
- Jacquie Marino, A Magazine & The Burr Adviser
- Caty Payette, TV2 General Manager
- Amanda Rabinowitz, Black Squirrel Radio Adviser
- Brianna Robinson, Uhuru Editor
- Becky Rolnick, KSUIF Adviser
- Valerie Royzman, The Kent Stater Editor
- Mikayla Wawrousek, A Magazine Editor
- Kim Winebrenner, Luna Negra Adviser
- Bruce Zake, Fusion Adviser
- Sue Zake, Student Media Newsroom Adviser (Kent Stater, TV2)
