Board of Governors Election

JoAnn Larsen began her broadcasting career as a radio and production engineer for WWWE/WWWM (now WTAM/WMJI) in 1977, and transitioned to television a few years later as an engineer at WUAB.

In her 42 years at WUAB she many hats. She began working overnight and running master control, but soon made the transition to production, first as an editor, then as Producer/Director. She stayed through the merger with WOIO (becoming one of the first duopolies in the country), continuing to write, produce and edit, and eventually managing Public Affair for the stations as well. Throughout much of that time she also freelanced with various Cleveland sports teams for local, national, and in-house feeds.

After retiring from WOIO.WUAB in 2020, JoAnn was co-founder of SLA Video Productions, producing digital content for the over-55 demographic. Then in 20201 she also joined the staff of Kent State University. She’s currently the TV2 Studio Coordinator overseeing the student-driven TV2 News & Entertainment show broadcasts. She loves the enthusiasm & professionalism of these future media stars.

Alan Glazen is a 50 year veteran of the advertising and television production industries. The co-founder of the Cleveland International Film Festival and multiple award-winning writer, producer and director of commercials and documentaries, Glazen was inducted in to the AAA Advertising Hall of Fame. He founded Glazen Creative Studios, a production company with offices in Cleveland, Toronto and NYC.

He has been an EMMY judge for many years, and is a lecturer/professor of entrepreneurship and commercial arts in Cleveland, New York City, Paris, Barcelona and in Iceland. He is on the board of IESE School of Business, Europe’s top graduate business school. His documentary programs, entitled “The Ethnic American Experience,” was produced for PBS as a prime time series, and was nominated for a NYC Emmy.

Now retired, Glazen created "Cleveland Chain Reaction", which offers urban entrepreneurs training, funding and promotional opportunities. That program followed CNBC’s “Cleveland Hustles,” where Glazen served as an on-air “shark” and funded The Cleveland Bagel Company. He and his wife donated property which will soon become the Rev. Albert Wagner Museum in Cleveland, celebrating Cleveland’s most collected outsider artist. Glazen has a B.A. in American literature and an MBA, focused on supply chain.

Dr. Phil Hoffman currently is Assistant Dean of Media and General Manager at Ball State Public Media (BSPM). BSPM includes Ball State PBS and Indiana Public Radio, a radio network serving NPR news in East Central Indiana and the Indianapolis suburbs.

A veteran public media leader, Phil has served in Ohio, Missouri, and Florida as a leader of public media stations. His media career began in Akron, Ohio at WKDD and WAKR. He also worked as a reporter and producer at WAKC TV in Akron and led 91.3 The Summit in Akron for nearly a decade.

Phil previously served on the Board of the Lower Great Lakes Chapter in the early 2000’s and earned the Board of Governors Award in 2014 for his service to the chapter. A three-time Emmy winning documentary maker, he believes in the mission of NATAS and serving media professionals. He loves to assist in judging for other chapters so he can grab great ideas.

Phil is a native of Akron, OH, with a doctorate in Educational Leadership from The University of Akron.

I am an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who works in feature films, short films, broadcast, and commercial production. I was nominated at the 67th Annual DGA (Director’s Guild of America) Awards for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement. My work has been recognized with multiple Silver Telly Awards, an Addy Gold Award from the American Advertising Federation for a National TV Campaign, and a CINE Golden Eagle. I have produced a number of PBS programs - one of which was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalist for “Best Social Justice Reporting.”

I began my career in film as the Promotions Manager (doing product placement on screen) for the John Sayle’s feature, “City of Hope,” before moving to NYC to work on more films. I moved to Cincinnati to work for Warner Cable TV and during that time produced, edited and distributed the feature film, “Suspicions,” which had showings in major cities such as San Francisco, New York City, Cincinnati, and Chicago before being released on DVD.

I have continued to produce and direct projects with an emphasis on commercial projects and documentaries. I have been an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University-Bloomington since 2011 and will begin teaching at Indiana University-Indianapolis in the fall of 2023. I have been involved in the creation and implementation of the new Film Tax Credit with the state of Indiana. My work takes me across the country, allowing me to work with a wide range of industry professionals.

Tiffany Tarpley is an award winning journalist who has been in television news for 20 years. She has worked at several stations throughout her career, including WKYC-TV in Cleveland, WUPW-TV in Toledo, WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and WLIO-TV in Lima. Currently, Tiffany is a morning anchor at WTOL-TV, the same station where she started her career working as a video editor for the noon newscast. Tiffany is a multi-skilled journalist, which means she can shoot, write and edit her own stories.

She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Advisory Board of the Media Arts Program at Lorain County Community College and NAMI Greater Toledo’s African American Leadership Initiative. She’s also volunteered in various ways with several organizations throughout her career.