Staff

Clare M. Gorman, Executive Director

Clare Gorman joined CEM as Executive Director in May 2008, bringing over 25 years’ experience in the nonprofit industry. She was both the Executive Director and Development Director at The Baltimore Station, a residential therapeutic recovery program for men. She has also acted in a consulting capacity providing fundraising and marketing services to numerous nonprofit organizations and was the Marketing Director for Enterprise Community Investment, a national leader in affordable housing and community development.

Clare received her bachelor’s degree cum laude from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and is a graduate of the 2005 class of the Weinberg Fellows Program.

She resides in Baltimore City where she serves on the Boards of Live Baltimore Home Center and the Woman’s Industrial Exchange.

Email: clare@centerforemergingmedia.org

Jessica Phillips, Producer

Jessica Phillips joined the Center for Emerging Media as a producer in February of 2008. From 2005 to 2008, she was a producer of the Marc Steiner Show at WYPR in Baltimore, Maryland. She has also been a production assistant at the Soundprint Media Center and an office manager at Livingston Associates, a public radio consultation and search firm.

In 2007, Jessica Phillips produced a documentary features series called Just Words. This weekly four minute feature explored the lives of the working poor and other marginalized groups. The program aired each Thursday during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on WYPR. Just Words was a production of the Center for Emerging Media and it was awarded a 2007 George Foster Peabody Award.

She is a graduate of Kenyon College in Ohio and is from Ocean City, Maryland.

Email: jessica@centerforemergingmedia.org.

Justin Levy, Producer

Justin Levy is a producer at the Center for Emerging Media. He also comes to CEM from WYPR, where he worked as a producer for The Marc Steiner Show from November 2006 to February 2008. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in Film and Media Studies. He moved to Baltimore from New Jersey nearly 10 years ago and currently lives in Waverly.

Email: justin@centerforemergingmedia.org.

Andrew Eppig

Andrew Eppig, a graduate of Full Sail, is Senior Production Engineer at Clean Cuts Music and Sound Design in Baltimore, MD. With a background in music and production, his work spans across all forms of media content.

Steve Elliot

Steve Elliot has been a producer / assistant director of television commercials since the early 1980s, working primarily for EUE/ScreenGems. Prior to that Steve was an assistant film editor and folk musician and lived and worked around New York City. Since 1994, Steve has also worked as an adjunct professor at NYU, teaching film editing and then digital editing. He has known Marc Steiner since they went to boarding school together. In the spring of 1965, Marc, Steve and two other classmates, Steve Gilmer and Michael Duarte, formed American Youth for Vietnam Youth [AYVY] to collect clothing and any other helpful material for victims of the war that had just started. In 2005 Steiner asked Elliot to join his trip to Vietnam and videotape the making of the radio documentary Shared Weight. Later in the year he was asked to assume the producer role in finishing the series, which, as a longtime public radio junkie and someone open to trying just about anything, he accepted. Shared Weight is his first radio production.

For general program information, email: programs@centerforemergingmedia.org.

Interns

Judith Lloyd is a writer who studied at the University of Iowa. Her current focuses include experimental fiction and spoken word. After several years of regular visitation, she moved from Chicago to Baltimore in late 2007. She helps out at the Center for Emerging Media by transcribing interviews.

Stavros Halkias is a student and native of Baltimore. He is currently a Sondheim Public Affairs Scholar at UMBC studying history, political science and writing. He volunteers at the College Gardens after school youth program and assists the Center for Emerging Media with transcription.

Christina Arrison is an intern with CEM. Before moving to Baltimore, she worked in the labor movement in Washington, DC, serving as Political Program Assistant for Change to Win, a six million member labor federation.

Amy Hecht-Zizes lived in New York all her life, until attending Goucher College in the Fall of 2006. As a rising Junior, she is majoring in International Relations and English with a concentration in Creative Writing. At Goucher, she is an active member of the Student Government, a writer for her newspaper, and president and founder of Goucher Debate Team. She has been politically active and a news junkie since she was seven.