Adjunct Faculty
KRAIG BAKER, Digital Media Attorney
Kraig L. Marini Baker is the instructor for the MCDM law an policy classes. Kraig has been part of the MCDM faculty since the founding of the MCDM program. Kraig particularly enjoys trying to demystify the legal worlds of free speech, intellectual property, and privacy. Kraig is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, a large downtown law firm, where he serves as the chair of the firm's Technology, eBusiness, and Digital Media department. Kraig negotiates licenses and provides advice to clients in all aspects of digital media, including software and software and technology licensing, music, film, photography and other content licensing, and aspects of privacy, security, digital rights management, and advertising. Kraig's clients include large and small companies and include Microsoft, Nintendo, The Seattle Times, T-Mobile USA, E! Entertainment, TMZ.com, Getty Images, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Kraig blogs when he can at dwtdigitalmedialawblog.com."
ANITA VERNA CROFTS
Anita Verna Crofts is the Director of Communication and Outreach for the Global Health Leadership Program and Clinical Instructor at the University of Washington's Department of Global Health. In this capacity she designs and delivers curriculum on professional communication strategies, storytelling as a leadership and evidence tool, digital media adoption in resource-poor environments, and cross-cultural communication techniques for an international development setting. In addition to her work at the University of Washington, Anita is an award-winning food journalist who writes about the intersection of culture, food, and identity. She is a regular contributor to Saveur Magazine's "Daily Fare" blog and she hosts the blog Sneeze! on her site www.pepperforthebeast.com. Her writing on food and Sudan will appear in Gastronomica’s 10th anniversary edition in January 2010.
HEIDI DAHMEN, Television Producer
For the majority of her career, Heidi has produced for nonscripted, network prime time and cable television programs airing on ABC, CBS, FOX and USA, as well as UPN, E! Entertainment, TLC and TV Land. She's also produced for major television syndication companies including Disney's Buena Vista Productions, NBC Universal and Paramount Domestic Television. In addition to working in reality, talk, magazine, clip and documentary formats, she acquired and sold a life rights story which was made into an ABC television movie. Heidi started her career producing live talk shows and special programming for the ABC affiliate in Seattle, before being hired by Buena Vista Productions and moving to Los Angeles. She’s won a NATAS Emmy Award, and received a Women in Radio & Television Commendation Award, as well as a Washington Press Association Challenge of Excellence Award. Heidi graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Communications and an emphasis on Broadcast Journalism, and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, West.
LORI DUGDALE, Marketing Specialist
Lori Dugdale has been an instructor for MCDM since 2003. She has applied her MBA in marketing within the technology industry for over 20 years, specializing in international channel sales and digital marketing. Her responsibilities included setting up distribution networks in Latin America and Asia, and marketing both hardware and software products by developing consultative marketing programs and practices for partners that spanned the globe. She has worked for a variety of domestic and international companies including Oracle, Acer, Bay Networks, Wall Data, WatchGuard and NetMotion Wireless. Lori now focuses her energies on the education sector and is currently the Marketing Director for Antioch University Seattle.
DREW KELLER, Television Producer
Drew Keller is an award-winning television producer, editor and educator with experience in documentaries, network prime time specials, special events, national advertising, multimedia and children's programming. Mr. Keller is currently in production writing and editing for the PBS Series "BizKid$" and is a staff editor, researcher and production supervisor for Microsoft Studios. Recent independent projects for broadcast include editing for the PBS documentary series "The Meaning of Food" (2006), editing the cable series "Inter|Face" (2006) and the cable series "The Coderoom" (2006.) Other recent projects include concert videos for David Byrne, Alanis Morissette and Janet Jackson. Recent Projects created for non-profit and educational organizations include short-form documentaries for The Seattle Art Museum, Islandwood, University Childhood Development School and The Annie Wright School.
Mr. Keller has 14 years experience teaching media theory and production. He is currently teaching in the Graduate School in the UW School of Communication, and at the University of Washington Extension.
CAROLINA MELLO-e-SOUZA, Interactive Designer
Carolina is an interaction designer. She has worked for Adobe, and helped design the Zune.net website for Microsoft Zune. She also designed user interfaces for Microsoft Research and is currently designing at Akona Systems. Prior to arriving in Seattle, Carolina lived in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, where she co-founded the Cacumbu Design firm and was graphic designer for Tátil Design. In 2002 her projects at Tatil earned several Brazilian design prizes and her stop-motion animation "From Garbage to Garden" earned a prize in the New Designers of Rio de Janeiro State Competition - Multimedia Category.
She holds an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the University of Washington, where she also studied Digital Experimental Video Arts. She earned her BA from ESDI-UERJ, a top design school according to Time magazine and participated in a highly selective course with the Abril publishing company. Carolina is an active member of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) and is co-chairing Seattle Green Salon, a forum for discussion around sustainable design issues.
KELLY MCIVOR, Mobile Strategist
Kelly i s a veteran of wireless communications, with more than 15 years of experience focusing on the development of new products, services and businesses. Early in his career, Kelly worked at McCaw Cellular (now AT&T Mobility) where he nurtured his entrepreneurial spirit, launching the country's first voice-activated dialing service, VoiceTouch. In 1999, he founded WireCutter Technologies, one of the nation's first SMS application providers, and whose product was used by radio stations across the country to exchange text messages with their listeners. Then as the Director of Global Content for Vidiator Technology, he helped develop the mobile content and marketing strategies of many leading companies including Warner Music, Universal Music, Gameloft, Hallmark and Disney.
Kelly is currently the Chief Product Strategist for SMS Media Group Inc., and also heads the Content Services group for Amdocs Interactive, a global leader in mobile billing solutions. Kelly holds a BA in Business from the University of Washington.
ADRIANA G. MINER , Dir. Digital Media & Entertainment
(From her website http://digitalecologist.com) There's something magical that happens when you integrate technology, content, visual design and business strategy that got Adriana Gil Miner hooked from the start of her career. She worked at American Express for five years and at Digitas for three. In these two companies she had built up experience in many aspects of marketing like project management, user-interface design, web analytics, direct response, media strategy, ROIs and P&Ls, vendor management, affiliate programs, etc. She now works at Weber Shandwick as Director of Digital Media and Entertainment in Seattle. Before entering the American corporate world she spent six years involved in the leadership of AIESEC, the world's largest student organization for cultural exchange. That took her to many places around the world. She earned her MC in Digital Media at the University of Washington (where she now serves on the board) and received her BA in Mass Communication from Universidad del Zulia in her native Venezuela.
KENNETH RUFO
Kenneth Rufo holds a PhD in speech-communication from the University of Georgia. His work focuses on the intersection of media, rhetoric, and politics, with a special emphasis on the subject of "media ecology," a term that describes the ways in which the media environment shapes who we are as individuals, how our societies operate, and what means of persuasion are available. He has published work in a variety of academic journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication,Argumentation & Advocacy, Explorations in Media Ecology, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs. He has worked as a freelance writer and social media consultant, as well as a full-time father.
MARK SHEA, Evangelist for Community Development
Mark Shea has worked in the Information Technology industry for the past fifteen years. He has worked at Microsoft for the past nine years as a Premier Support Engineer for Microsoft Office Project Server, as a Technical Writer for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, and, for the past two years, as an Evangelist for Community Development in Microsoft Learning. He worked at Attachmate for 3 years and at Washington State Department of Corrections for 15 years. In his last three years at the Department of Corrections, he was the lead Project Manager for an IT effort to provide reporting kiosks for adult offenders on probation and parole that used biometric authentication, multilingual presentation, and real time alerts to Parole Officers in the field. He earned his MC in Digital Media at the University of Washington and received his BA in English from College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also holds certification from the University of Washington Extension in Data Communication.
