Forum Network

Britt Salvesen has been named director and chief curator for The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. Salvesen, who earned her doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago, has earned several distinctions in the field of photography. They include a scholarly residence with the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center and a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship. She joined the UA's center as curator in October 2004 after a stint as associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Art Institute of Chicago. In June 2007, after the departure of Doug Nickel, Salvesen was appointed interim director and curator for the UA's center and has since overseen the continued digitization of the print collection. Salvesen also reintroduced the centers scholarly journal, *The Archive*, and guided ambitious exhibition programs for the centers primary gallery and for its new Norton Photography Gallery at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Micki McElya received her B.A. in history from Bryn Mawr College in 1994 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 2003. Before joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut, she was an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama (2003-2008). Her book, *Clinging to Mammy,* won a 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. She was named a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network in 2008.

Stephany Fisher, an Emmy Award winner, co-anchors CBS Atlanta News. Stephany also reports and blogs weekly on stories that matter to your health. Before joining CBS Atlanta in 2003, she was an anchor/reporter for KNDO-TV Yakima, Washington (1992-1994), WYFF-TV Greenville, South Carolina (1994-2000), and KPTV-TV Portland, Oregon (2000-2003). Stephany was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in San Angelo, Texas and Spokane, Washington. She graduated from Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication in 1991. She lives in Alpharetta with her husband and daughter.

Mike Klein is Director of Georgia Public Broadcasting Client Productions and is serving his third term on the Atlanta Press Club Board of Directors. He also joined The Commerce Club Operating Board of Directors in January 2006. Mr. Klein moved to Atlanta from Chicago in 1984 and spent 14 years at CNN as executive producer of morning news, supervising producer of weekday news programs and vice president of CNN news production, with primary responsibility for CNN's worldwide breaking news production coverage. He joined GPB in February 2000 as Director of GPB Television Productions, a position he held for 6 years. In his current position, Mr. Klein oversees staff that creates content for state government and other public agencies that include the Commission for a New Georgia, many state government agencies, the Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta Regional Commission, the Georgia Governor's Office and the Georgia Department of Education. Most projects are education and/or economic development initiatives. Mr. Klein previously worked for the *Chicago Sun-Times* and *San Diego Union* newspapers, the ABC and CBS television stations in Chicago, and SportsVision of Chicago, a production company that produced major league baseball, basketball and hockey broadcasts distributed by cable. He has been a guest instructor at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University.