Professional service and organizational leadership/membership.

• Editor, Journal of Film and Video, Special  Issue on Media Writing 2012
• Associate Editor, Journal of Film and Video,2001-present.
• Script Caucus chair, University Film and Video Association, 2009-2012.
• Advisory Board, Piedmont Community College.
• Judge, BEA Student Script Competition, 2011
• Board Member, ENO River Productions.
• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, member.
• External Evaluator for promotion and tenure dossiers, multiple institutions 2003-2011
• Juror, applications for North Carolina Arts Grants, 2009.
• Judge, University Film and Video Paper Awards, 2008.
• International Documentary Association, member 2003-present.
• University Film and Video Association, member 1993-present.
• Broadcast Education Association, member 1989-present.
• North Carolina Writer’s Association, 1996, 2008.
• International Radio and Television Society Foundation, member 2007-2008.
• Judge, George Lindsey Film Festival, March 2007.
• Reviewer, Allyn and Bacon, Wadsworth, 2005.
• Chair, Juried Screenings, University Film and Video Association, 2004.
• Evaluator, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, proposal evaluation, 2003.
• Greensboro Center for North Carolina Art, exhibiting member
• Greensboro Writer’s League, member
• International Documentary Association, member
• ITVA International Television Association, member
• North Carolina Writers' Network, member 2005-present.
• Southern Sociological Association, member, 1989-91.
• Executive Board Member, University Film and Video Association, 2001-03.
• Judge, UFVA Script, Writer’s Caucus 2000 (review of full-length screenplays for professional reader presentation).
• Text book review, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999.
• Judge, with Lee Kinard, Film/Video applications for North Carolina Emerging Artists Grants, 1999.
• Associate Editor, Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1997-1998.
• International Visual Sociology Association, 1992.
• Consultant, UNC Center for Public Television, documentary on Civil Rights Movement, 1992.
• Judge, Broadcast Education Association faculty productions, January 1991.
• Executive Committee, Carolina Speech Communication Association, 1990.
• Southern Sociological Association 1990-96.
• International Communications Association, 1990.
• Consultant for a documentary short about Dead Head subculture for German Television, Gerald Giesecke producer,         September 13, 1990.
• Associate Editor, Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1988-89.
• Southern Speech Communication Association, 1988-90.
• National Advisory Board, Birmingham International Educational Film Festival, 1987-97.
• Board Member, Birmingham International Educational Film Festival, 1985-87.
• Advisor, Student Publications Board, U. of Alabama at Birmingham, 1983-87.
• Tenure and Promotion Committee, School of Humanities, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1986-87.
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1983-90, member.
• Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi