Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP), which promotes media literacy in the St. Louis region, has elected three new members to its board of directors, each to a three-year term.
“Each of these individuals will bring a unique and interesting perspective to GMLP,” said Jessica Brown, founder and president of GMLP. “All have previously been energetically involved in GMLP’s efforts to enhance vital media literacy skills throughout our region.”
Elected were:
Eric Meyer, assistant professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec and head of the school’s Honors College of English, has been involved with GMLP since the organization’s inception in 2004. Meyer created Meramec’s highly-regarded Media Education Week, which recently merged with GMLP’s Media Literacy Week. He is serving as 2010 co-chair of GMLP’s Media Literacy Week October 3-10.
Cindy Pulley is the project development specialist for Youth Empowerment in Action at the University of Missouri-St.-Louis. Pulley is a former high school communication arts and journalism teacher and a former Maryville faculty member. She was recently elected to the executive board of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE).
Gloria S. Ross, principal of Okara Communications/AfterWords and a contributing obituary writer for the St. Louis Beacon, is president-elect of the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis. Ross has been a Press Club liaison to GMLP for the past year, coordinating the Media Literacy Week forum “Emerging Business Models in the Media Industry” in 2009.
For more information, contact Jessica Brown at (314) 567-0265 or jessicazbrown@gmlpstl.org.
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