Jennifer George-Palilonis, the journalism graphics sequence coordinator at Ball State University, has been appointed SND’s U.S. education director.
Jennifer joins our international education director Michael Stoll, Professor/Visual Design of Germany’s Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. The two directors make up our education team and serve on the SND Foundation board.
In addition to helping administer SNDF scholarships and travel grants, the education directors coordinate educator roundtables and student volunteer efforts at the annual Workshop. Both Jennifer and Michael have ambitious plans for developing an online resource center for educators.
“Jenn was one of our speakers at SNDVegas,” said Foundation President Bill Gaspard. “I’ve hired several talented Ball State students and I’d heard a lot of great things about her. In the lead up to the Workshop I saw first hand her energy, passion for students and her own considerable skills in the craft. We’re very grateful that she agreed to take on this role.”
At Ball State, Jennifer teaches upper-level courses in design, graphics reporting and multimedia storytelling.
She is the author of “A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting,” and conducts research on multimedia practices in newsrooms, teaching and learning with multimedia, and mobile media design and development. She is the Second Vice Head of the Visual Communications division of the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. She has worked on the redesigns of more than 30 newspapers across the country and speaks at academic conferences and news organizations on design and multimedia issues.
Before joining the faculty at Ball State in 2001, she was the deputy news design editor at the Chicago Sun-Times (1999-2001) and a news designer at the Detroit Free Press (1996-1999).
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