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Elizabeth Thoman
Treasurer
For over 30 years, Elizabeth Thoman has been a pioneering leader in the media education movement in the United States. In 1977 she founded Media&Values magazine to raise a critical voice on issues of media and society and published it until 1994. The issues now form a major part of the Reading Room section on the website: www.medialit.org.
As the founder of the Center for Media Literacy (1989) in Los Angeles, she created the first generation of curriculum resources for teaching about media in the US, developed a national distribution clearinghouse for teaching resources in the field (now part of the AMLA Marketplace) and organized the Felton Media Literacy Scholars Program, a leadership development and teacher training program in Southern California.
Most recently she coauthored and edited the CML MediaLit KitTM, a comprehensive framework for media literacy education based on the Five Core Concepts and the Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. An articulate writer about the media literacy field, she has written extensively, including a contribution to Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching, the 2006 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.
As the founder of the Center for Media Literacy (1989) in Los Angeles, she created the first generation of curriculum resources for teaching about media in the US, developed a national distribution clearinghouse for teaching resources in the field (now part of the AMLA Marketplace) and organized the Felton Media Literacy Scholars Program, a leadership development and teacher training program in Southern California.
Most recently she coauthored and edited the CML MediaLit KitTM, a comprehensive framework for media literacy education based on the Five Core Concepts and the Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. An articulate writer about the media literacy field, she has written extensively, including a contribution to Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching, the 2006 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.
In 1997, Liz was one of four co-founders of the Partnership for Media Education, the predecessor organization of the AMLA. As a founding board member of AMLA, she has served as Corporate Secretary from 2001 -2006 and is now Treasurer. She also serves on the Media Commission of the National Council for Teachers of English.
As a leading voice for media literacy in the US, Thoman has testified before Congress, attended White House conferences, keynoted numerous conventions and been interviewed extensively by the press. She was honored with the Daniel J. Kane Award for lifetime achievement in media and communications by the University of Dayton and in 2006, received the Leaders in Learning Award from Cable in the Classroom for a lifetime of innovation and leadership in the field of media literacy education.
A Roman Catholic sister for over 40 years, Thoman is a graduate of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California. She is also a gourmet cook, an avid gardener and a talented photographer with numerous awards for her creative work in public relations, photography and writing.