University of New Mexico
Department of Communication & Journalism
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Part-Time Instructors and Appointments
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Lorenda Belone
Gwyneth Doland
Kathy Isaacson

Randall Lantz
Diane Pressel
Ari Savedra

Toby Smith
Robert Spiegel


Lorenda Belone
Part-Time Instructor

ljoe@salud.unm.edu

Lorenda Belone has 11 years of community based participatory research experience with working in both Native American Pueblo and Navajo communities, first as a graduate research assistant and now as a UNM Health Sciences Associate Scientist and Lecturer with the Center for Participatory Research and the Master of Public Health Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She currently works on the "Family Listening Project," a translational NIH funded research project adapting an intergenerational family intervention trial and brings inquiry into culturally specific communication concepts in the model. Lorenda's research area of interest focuses on the role of health communication strategies for translational research that involves the community as participants in a two way mutual learning situation to improve community health, particularly tribal communities of the Southwest. Lorenda is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy Postdoctoral fellow.


Gwyneth Doland
Part-Time Instructor

Gwyneth Doland is a reporter and editor who works in print, online, television and radio. She teaches multimedia journalism classes in the department. Gwyneth is currently a correspondent for New Mexico in Focus on KNME-TV and KUNM News, covering government, politics and public affairs. As the former editor of The New Mexico Independent, she led an online-only site focused on politics and policy. In 2010, The Independent was honored with the ACLU of New Mexico's First Amendment Award. Before joining The Independent when it launched in 2008, she was a columnist and editor at the Santa Fe Reporter and Weekly Alibi. Gwyneth serves on the board of the Society of Professional Journalists Rio Grande Chapter and is a member of the Journalism and Women Symposium.


Kathy Isaacson
Adjunct Instructor

Kathy Isaacson is currently on President Obama’s Advisory Board for the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities. She owns a consulting business, Strategic Engagement LLC, and is also a partner in the newly formed Implement Change Partners (an international consulting group). As a mediator, facilitator, and trainer, she founded the Mediation Clinic at the University of New Mexico. Kathy helped establish gaming methodology in organizational development, where she designed, directed, and facilitated high-level strategy and leadership events for clients such as Eastman Kodak, The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, and the Kellogg Foundation. She is the author of Communication, Conflict, and the Management of Difference; Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice; and Engaging Communication in Conflict: Systemic Practice; and Mediation: Empowerment in Conflict Resolution. With 15 years of academic work in conflict and communication, and 20 years experience in mediation, strategic planning, leadership development and public issue management, Kathy concentrates on leadership excellence and innovative methods of conflict management, planning, decision-making. She has an M.A. in communication from UNM.


Randall Lantz
Part-Time Instructor

Randy Lantz is a graduate of Colorado State University with a B.A. in journalism (broadcast news/documentary film), 10 years experience as a news photographer, editor and reporter, and 20 years at KNME-TV shooting documentaries and working in the studio. He is currently KNME's TV director and studio supervisor.


Diane Pressel
Part-Time Instructor

Dr. Diane Pressel has taught public speaking, persuasion and speech for teachers at the University of New Mexico. She has been on the staff since 2003. Prior to that she taught at Joliet College in Illinois.


Ari Savedra
Part-Time Instructor

Ari Savedra is a marketing professional with expertise in development and implementation of promotional strategy, website development and management, design and production coordination, event planning and execution. Currently, she is the marketing manager for Rio Grande Credit Union in Albuquerque. She has served as executive director of the New Mexico Advertising Federation; marketing project coordinator for Forest City Enterprises; and a a public affairs specialist at the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland Air Force Base. She has a B.A. in advertising and marketing from UNM.


Blandford T. "Toby" Smith
Part-Time Instructor

tobysmith68@gmail.com

Toby Smith has published nine books of nonfiction. One, "Kid Blackie," about legendary prizefighter Jack Dempsey's early days in Colorado, has remained in print more than 20 years after publication. "Kid Blackie" was used extensively in an ESPN Classic documentary about Dempsey.
    "Ten Turtles to Tucumcari" (University of New Mexico Press) tells the story of the Railway Express Agency, once an American institution for shipping packages by train. "Ten Turtles," which also remains in print, is now available in paperback. "Little Gray Men" (UNM Press) details the Roswell UFO incident and became the basis of a documentary that shows up regularly on the National Geographic Channel. "Coal Town" (Ancient City Press), a social history of Dawson, New Mexico, was reviewed widely and honored by a regional library association.
    Toby is a journalist who has written for and edited newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. His freelance work, which focuses chiefly on sports, has appeared in Sports Illustrated, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Sport, the International Herald Tribune, Outside, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Headliner Award, which named Smith the best sportswriter in the country.
    Aside from teaching at UNM, Toby has also taught at Ohio State, Wesleyan University and the University of Bucharest (Romania), where he was twice a Fulbright scholar.


Robert Spiegel
Part-Time Instructor



Robert Spiegel has worked in the magazine industry for 35 years. For 10 years, he owned Chile Pepper, a food magazine he launched and built into a national magazine. He has held senior editor positions with Electronic News and Ecommerce Business. He presently works as a contributing editor with Automation World, Design News and Electronic Design News. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New Mexico Magazine and True Confessions among dozens of other magazines. His poetry and fiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines. He has presented programs on publishing at major magazine publishing conferences.

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