Board of Directors

Meet our Board of Directors for the 2008-2010 term.

Adam Kenner

Secretary/Vice-President for the ACME Mid-Atlantic region

Adam Kenner has been a technology and media educator, consultant and speaker for over 20 years. He has taught courses, seminars and workshops and addressed city, state and national conferences.

Adam has been teaching technology at Horace Mann School in New York since 1986. He served as chairman of the Computer Department from 1988 to 1997, when he became Horace Mann’s first Director of Technology. Adam is a founding member and former chairperson of the New York Consortium of Independent School Technologists (NYCIST) and a member of the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Technology Committee.

Adam Kenner and Sheryl Rivera developed an acclaimed, comprehensive and highly adaptable Media Analysis curriculum for Middle and High School courses in 2004. They have helped raise other schools’ awareness of this exciting, engaging and critically important component of today’s curricula. Their insightful and entertaining media literacy presentations showcase the culture-creating effects of mass media and inspire participants to be educated and savvy media analysts and consumers.

Henry Kroll

Vice President for the ACME Rocky Mountain region

Henry Kroll has been involved in public service broadcasting both in television production and public policy advocacy for nearly 40 years.

He was a member of the acclaimed KQED TV "Newsroom" program in San Francisco which pioneered comprehensive, public interest coverage of from local news to global events following a citywide newspaper strike in 1968.

Kroll was the Executive Director of the Cultural Environment Movement, a pioneering group of policy reformers, media makers, attorneys and academic professionals lead by America's preeminent scholar of communications, George Gerbner, Dean Emeritus of the Annenberg School of Communication.

Kroll is representing ACME at the Rocky Mountain Center for Health Education in considering the public benefits of bringing media literacy values of the Catalyst Institute to interest educators and students within the Denver Metro Area later this year, 2009 and beyond.

Bob McCannon

ACME Co-President

A founder and the Executive Director of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project for 12 years, I developed their ground-breaking media skills, analysis, and prevention curricula as well as building the organization to eight employees. I presented and did workshops in every NM school district, almost all of the 50 states and many countries. When I retired from NMMLP in 2005, I left it with eight employees and $800,000 in cash assets. Seeing the need for an action-oriented media education organization that was free of Big Media, I co-founded ACME in 2002 and am very active as Vice-President. I do workshops and keynotes on a selective basis.

Sheryl Rivera

Vice-President for the ACME New England region

Sheryl Rivera has been a technology and media educator, consultant and speaker for over 20 years. She has taught courses, seminars and workshops and addressed city, state and national conferences.

has been providing computer consulting and support services to businesses and schools since 1992 when she co-founded RiveraTechnics, Inc., a computer and network consulting firm. She has been working in the Technology Department and at Horace Mann since 2002. Sheryl is the President of the New York City chapter of the Action Coalition for Media Education, an independent clearinghouse and consortium for media educators and organizations.

Amanda Shaffer

Vice-President for the ACME Pacific region

Amanda Shaffer is Communications Director at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. She also teaches community groups how to use Web 2.0 to get their message out, and advocates for media reform on the steering committee of the SoCal chapter of Common Cause’s Media and Democracy project.

Sara Voorhees, Secretary

Treasurer/Vice-President for the ACME Southwest region

Sara Voorhees was a nationally syndicated film critic for 22 years until her retirement from television in 2002. She is on the board of directors of the Broadcast Film Critics' Association, She continues to write film reviews, and appears on television on an emergency basis. She is the author of "The Lumiere Affair" which will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2007.

Rob Williams

ACME Co-President

Dr. Rob Williams (www.robwilliamsmedia.com) is a Vermont-based musician, historian, consultant, and media educator/maker who teaches F2F and online history and media studies courses at Champlain College and Sacred Heart University, runs a media education/video production organization called MemeFILMS (www.memefilms.org), and has served as board president of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME at www.acmecoalition.org) since 2002. When he is not playing with his two children, he roams the countryside with his guitar and laptop, singing and delivering multimedia keynotes and workshops on a wide variety of media-related topics.