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Region 7 Director
Holly Edgell
University of Missouri
5550 Hwy 63 South
Columbia, MO 65201
573/884-6397x208
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Bio (click to expand) Holly Edgell is 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 serves as the adviser for the Missouri School of Journalism student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

She comes to the SPJ Board with experience in television news 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. Before joining the University of Missouri, Edgell spent more than four years as an assistant professor in Florida A&M University's journalism school.

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 writes fiction and recently had her short story, “The Means and the End,” published in Picayune Lit Review. Her story, “A Woman Just Can’t Win,” will be part of “Penelope,” an upcoming anthology of Central American women writers. Her story “Running for Spite,” appears in “The Learning Tree,” an English textbook published for Belize by Macmillan Caribbean.

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Iowa

Pro Chapters

Iowa Pro Chapter
President: Jared Strong
Des Moines Register
(515) 953-8247
E-mail
Web site
Dues: $10

Student Chapters

Drake University
Adviser: Janet Keefer
School of Journalism
118 Meredith Hall
Des Moines, IA 50311
515/ 271-3194
E-mail
Dues: $10

Iowa State University
Adviser: David Bulla
Greenlee School of Journalism and Comm.
116 Hamilton Hall
Ames, IA 50011
515/294- 0658
E-mail

University of Iowa
Adviser: Dr. Richard Johns
116 Communications Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246
Work telephone: 319/335-5795
Fax: 319/335-5210
E-mail

Kansas

Pro Chapters

Kansas Pro Chapter
President: Molly M. McMillin
Wichita Eagle
825 E. Douglas
Wichita, KS 67202
316/269-6708
Web site
Dues: $0

Student Chapters

Baker University
Adviser: Gwyn Mellinger
Assistant Professor of Journalism
P.O. Box 65
Baldwin City, KS 66006
785/594-4554
Fax: 785/594-4564
E-mail

Emporia State University
Adviser: Max McCoy
1200 Commercial, Box 19
Emporia, KS 66801
Work telephone: 620/341-5544
E-mail

Kansas State University
Adviser: Bonnie Bressers
105 Kedzie Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785/ 532-3956
E-mail

University of Kansas
Adviser: Richard Nelson
2001 A Dole Center
1000 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045
785/ 864-0601
E-mail

Wichita State University
Adviser: Leslie Anderson
Box 31 Elliott Hall, WSU
Wichita, KS 67260-0031
316/978-6065

Missouri

Pro Chapters

Kansas City Press Club Pro Chapter
Steve Kaut
Managing Editor
KSHB-TV
Kansas City, MO
816-932-4141 E-mail
Dues: $15

Southwest Missouri Pro Chapter
President: David Burton
Southwest Regional News Service
E-mail
Web site
Dues: $10

St. Louis Pro Chapter
President: Kelsey Volkmann
St. Louis Business Journal
815 Olive Street
St. Louis, MO 63101
314/421-8309
E-mail
Web site
Dues: $15

Student Chapters

Central Missouri State University
Adviser: Charles Fair
Warrensburg, MO 64093
E-mail

Northwest Missouri State University
Jody Strauch
231 Wells Hall, NMSU
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468
816/562-1823
Web site
E-mail

Southeast Missouri State University
Cindie Yanow
Dept. of Mass Media
Southeast Missouri State University
One University Plaza, MS 2775
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
ofc. 573-651-2485
fax: 573-651-5967
E-mail
Dues $4

Truman State University
Adviser: Marilyn Yaquinto
1205 Barnett Hall
Kirksville, MO 63501
660/785-4493
E-mail

University of Missouri
Adviser: Charles Davis
School of Journalism
179 Gannett Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
573/882-5736
www.spj.org/muspj
E-mail
Dues: $10

Nebraska

Pro Chapters
Currently, there are no pro chapters in this area. Click here for complete details on how you can help establish one.

Student Chapters

University of Nebraska–Omaha
Adviser: Sherrie Wilson
10829 Ellison Avenue
Omaha, NE 68164
402/554-3677
E-mail