Board Members
Executive Director
The College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida is the sponsoring institution for FSPA, housing the FSPA office and providing a portion of faculty member’s time to serve as executive director. Adjunct professor Wayne Garcia has served as the FSPA’s executive director since 2009, bringing more than 29 years of award-winning newspaper and education experience to the job.
Mr. Wayne Garcia wgarcia@jou.ufl.edu
Evaluation Services
We provide critical evaluations for yearbooks, literary magazines, online media, broadcast and newspapers through the year for an additional fee. The critiques can provide invaluable guidance for you and your staff and are conducted by nationally recognized scholastic journalism advisers and experts.
Mr. Joe Humphrey fspacontests@gmail.com
Officers
The membership vote on a president and vice president at the convention business meeting. These officers serve two-year terms. The past president then serves a two-year term on the board. Presidential and vice presidential elections are held in odd-numbered years, so the next election will be held at the 2013 convention.
President – Ms. Colleen Bennett
Oak Ridge High School
Vice President – Mr. Brit Taylor
Hagerty High School
Past President – Ms. Jill Maassen
DeSoto High School
District Directors
The seven district directors serve two-year terms, with elections on odd-numbered years for odd-numbered districts and even-numbered years for even-numbered districts. Elections are held during the advisers’ business meetings at the fall district workshops. Any FSPA-member adviser may serve as district director.
District 1 – Ms. Hilary Sintes
BrownH2@mail.okaloosa.k12.fl.us
Choctowatchee High School
Fort Walton Beach, FLDistrict 2 – Ms. Julie Mancini
julie.mancini@marion.k12.fl.us
Dunnellon High School
Dunnellon, FLDistrict 3 – Co-Directors Mr. Kevin Patterson and Ms. Jennifer Newton
Orlando, FLDistrict 4 – Ms. Ashley Clark
Ashley.Clark@sdhc.k12.fl.us
East Bay High School
Tampa, FLDistrict 5 – Vacant
District 6 – Co-Directors Elizabeth Cardenas and Kristina Garcia
Felix Varela Sr. High School
Miami, FLDistrict 7 – Ms. Melissa Falkowski
melissa.falkowski@browardschools.com
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Parkland, FL
2012-13 Student Leadership
Leadership is chosen from among the seven student representatives from the past convention to help run to upcoming one:
Chairwoman – Millie Rosasco, West Shore Jr/Sr High School (District 3)
Vice Chairman – James McAndrew, Choctawhatchee High School (District 1)
2012-2013 Student Representatives
The seven student representatives serve one-year terms, and are elected at the fall district workshops and hold office through the next fall’s workshop. To be eligible for candidacy, a student must be a junior and on an FSPA-member publication.
District 1 - Austin Angerman, Choctawhatchee High School
District 2 - Kayla McMann, Dunnellon High School
District 3 - Lexi Rossow, Hagerty High School
District 4 – Liz Tsourakis, Hillsborough High School
District 5 – vacant
District 6 - Clarissa Buch, Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School
District 7 - Melissa Bosem – American Heritage School – Plantation
