Jennifer Brinkman
Jennifer has operated Brinkman Photography since 1990. After graduating from Illinois State University Jennifer moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for various commercial photographers. In the last eight years, her love of people has been the focus of her work, with an emphasis on children and animals as subjects. She also teaches at PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and her diverse portfolio has inspired beginners to create the world in fresh ways through the photographers lens. Jennifer is actively involved in American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). She has participated in several events the group has coordinated. In 2001, Jennifer was responsible for organizing, curating, and promoting an ASMP event that showcased members works. Currently, she is serving as treasurer for the Oregon Chapter of ASMP. She teaches the core classes in Ditigal Photography option (DP151, DP152, DP250) and other collaborative Integrated Media courses including IM180: Digital Editing and Acquisition.
Jay Corneliuus
Jay is a producer, writer, editor, and director of photography for commercials, short films, feature length films, music videos, and documentaries on various channels such as National Geographic, PBS, History Channel, A&E, Discovery-Times Channel, and many others. Jay will teach TV150, TV151 and TV252 to the Video students this year. He specializes in commercial and television productions with conservative budgets and recently relocated to Oregon. He's got a Bachelor's degree from Carlton College in Minnesota. He's owner of both Honeybear Films and Green Street Pictures.
Brad Dolbeer
Brad is Assistant Program Director/Mid-Days at CBS Radio/K-Hits 1067. Before that, he was Music Director/DJ at KMTT and worked in a variety of roles for Entercomm for 15 years. He also served as Director of Rock Programming at The Research Group. Brad teaches the RB152: Broadcast Programming class to first year Broadcasting students.
Rosemary Reynolds Glutsch
Rosemary has worked in the broadcast industry for 32 years. She is a nationally recognized award-winning journalist. A Portland native, Rosemary grew up in the Ladds Addition area on the Southeast side of the city. She attended high school at St. Marys Academy majoring in Music and English. The next phase of life brought her to Portland Community College where she excelled in the Radio and Television Broadcasting Program. During her career she has worked for many of Portlands radio stations. After three decades she continues to do voice-over work and is the Executive Producer of Simply Gardening Radio and TV. Rosemary will oversee many of our students through their interships this year. She'll also teach IM260, IM181 and IM290 for Broadcasting students.
Tom Hassler
A professional photographer since the mid 1970s, and owner of Hassler Studio, Tom has over 32 years of industry experience. His career began in Phoenix, Arizona and progressed through several years in Los Angeles, most of the 1980s in New York City and finally moved to Portland, Oregon where he lives and works today. Tom has studied independently with a number of well-known photographers, including Jay Maisel and Sam Abell. He has received numerous awards, had several one-man shows and had images published internationally. In addition to commercial clients, he also exhibits his fine art work in galleries and conducts photography workshops in Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. Tom will teach the Digital Photography section of IM260: Professional Practice in Integrated Media and the second year core DP class, DP251: Digital Retouching and Output.
Jon Larson
Jon moved his design and photography business, LarsonImages to Portland from Santa Barbara, California four years ago. He's been a lecturer at Brooks Institute of Photography. Jon's expertise at LarsonImages includes over a decade of experience in graphics, advertising, photography, multimedia and web design. He holds a BS in Applied Art and Design from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. This year, Jon teaches both the Digital Photography and Graphic Design sections of the Integrated Media Practicum classes where he'll serve as Art Director for a wide variety of real projects and clients.
David Maier
David is the owner/principle of Third Door, an interactive web development company whose major client is Warner Brothers Records. Other clients include Capital Records, Nike, Nemo Design and Reprise Records. Over the past 15 years, David has taught 3D modeling and animation, Flash, Interactive Media Design and Web Design courses for MHCC. David earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Arizona and was an art director for Graphic Media and Eagle River Interactive and creative director for Waggoner Edstrom before starting his own company in 1996. He'll teach Flash in the second-year course, IM282: Integrated Media Focus: Motion which is offered as an elective in the fifth term. He also collaborates with JD Kiggins to teach IM181 and IM191 for Broadcasting and Video students.
Steve Pringle
Steve teaches a variety of Broadcasting classes including RB150 this Fall. Currently at KINK, Steve started at KUFO, moved to KGON and KNRK, skipped over to KUPL and did mornings and overnights for six years at KKJZ. He hosts a Blues show (since 1994) at KMHD (89.1 f.m.) called The Friday Freeway Blues and has taught for Mt. Hood Community Colleges Radio Program for four years.
Jennifer Thomas
Jen is a graduate of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. In 2000, she helped form the International Friendly, a collective of designers from CCA. Jen relocated to North Carolina in 2003 where her clients included the McCall Center for Visual Art, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, Tearose Skincare and others. A recent transplant to Portland, she also teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She specializes in publication design and selected projects that emphasize craft, concept and fine typography. Jennifer will teach the graphic design section of IM179, IM180, GD282, ART279 and GD290 this year. She operates Jen Thomas Design in Portland.
Janine Wolf
Janine is the News Director and Morning Show Co-host for KOOL 105.9. She spent 24 years in Los Angeles, but Portland has always been her home. After graduating from Portland State with degrees in Speech Communications, Secondary Education and Journalism in the late '70s, Janine started her radio career in Portland. She worked at Portland stations including KWJJ and the legendary 62KGW, where she was the first female disc jockey. In 1980 she moved to Los Angeles and had a successful 20 year radio and television career where she was nominated for a couple of Emmy's for hosting an environmental TV show. Along the way she also had a career as a landscape designer and won HGTV's "Landscaper's Challenge" in 2001. She returned to Portland in 2005. She team teaches IM291 for the Broadcasting students and will take on the Writing for Media class in winter term.
Doug Zanger
Doug Zanger didnt expect a career in radio and advertising when he graduated from the University of Denver with an International Studies degree. But the New Jersey boy, by way of Minneapolis, found himself manning weekends from midnight to 6am in Portland, Oregon. From that point on, his path was set. Doug went from on-air to morning show producer, to production director for Rose City Radio (where he was a 2003 Radio Mercury Award Winner) before heading to Entercom Portland in 2004, where he served as Creative Director. In 2000, Doug started his own radio/audio advertising and marketing/branding agency. What began as a voice-over tax haven, became what's known today as Xhang Creative. In 2007 Doug decided to pursue his dream of running the agency full-time, and Xhang Creative has since taken off, supporting clients from the Pacific Northwest, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami and Richmond, Virginia. As the founder and CEO of Xhang Creative, he spreads the gospel of good creative, content and strategy, including penning a blog for Advertising Age's Small Agency Diary. Just recently named radio jury president for the London International Advertising Awards, he is passionate about the auditory medium to create change. Doug teaches younger generations about the importance of radio, audio branding and advertising in ART279 and IM291 in the spring term. Check out his blog, RadioCreativeLand.