Holly Edgell is a Regional Editor for Patch in St. Louis.

She comes to the roster of SPJ Committee leaders with experience in journalism and academia. She worked as a newscast producer in Youngstown, Ohio, at WFMJ-TV and in Pittsburgh at WTAE-TV. Edgell's career later took her to Cleveland, where she worked as medical news producer at duopoly WOIO-TV and WUAB-TV, and to Detroit's WDIV-TV, where she worked as consumer news producer. Edgell spent more than four years as an assistant professor in Florida A&M University's journalism school.

Before joining Patch in 2010, Edgell was an assistant professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the Emmy-award winning executive producer at KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, MO. She also served as the adviser for the Missouri School of Journalism student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

At age 21, Edgell was the first news director for Great Belize Television in Belize, where she was born. She helped launch “News 5,” the first independent (non-government) television news program to air in that country. Edgell earned a master's degree in journalism with a concentration in media management at Kent State University in Ohio. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University. In addition to memberships in SPJ and NABJ, Edgell is a member of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). She has traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe and speaks Spanish.

In her spare time, Edgell coordinates training for journalists and aspiring journalists in Belize, in conjunction with the University of the West Indies, Open Campus.

She also writes fiction and had her short story, “The Means and the End,” published in Picayune Lit Review. Her story, “Heaven and the Deep Blue Sea” appears in two journals: Pisgah Lit Review and Dialogo.

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Bio (click to expand) Tara Puckey owns tara puckey freelance, (tarapuckeyfreelance.com), a media company focused on military media, marketing and social media consulting. She is a graduate of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and served two years on the SPJ national board as a student representative. Puckey is also involved in the Woman's Press Club of Indiana and is a recipient of the Kate Milner Rabb Award and the Julie Galvan Outstanding Graduate in Journalism Award. She lives with her husband, Bryan, and two daughters, Alexa and Brooklyn, in Pendleton, Ind.