BEA2026

Teresa (Terry) Filipowicz has been a Teamwork and Leadership in Small Groups Online Course Subject Matter Expert, Computer Information Systems Artificial Intelligence Course Development Team Member, Artificial Intelligence Governance Council Member and part of the Business and Industry Subgroup. Plus, she serves on the Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee, the Eight Week Course Steering Committee, and the Seal of Excelencia/ Excelencia in Education Core Team.

She has also been Chair for the Chancellor's initiative to improve faculty and institutional communication; Instructional Faculty; Journalism and Media Discipline Coordinator; Communication, Journalism, and Media Online Master Course Lead and Subject Matter Expert; and Student Media Advisor at Pima Community College.

She's especially involved and interested in community, industry, and business partnerships. In July 2024, she joined the board of American Advertising Federation's Tucson chapter and has served as chair of the Education and Internship Committee. Most of her career is in television news as an executive producer, supervising producer, producer, and writer in Arizona and California. Before accepting a fulltime College position, Terry was Acting President for a book publisher with a niche in gifted education and psychology. With her LLC Sip and Go Media, she has provided communication and writing services to those involved in education and media plus creates her own multimedia creative content.

She and a coworker won a Broadcast Education Association 2024 Two-Year College/Scholastic Interest Division Teaching Award for the Personal Portfolio Website assignment in a mass communication course. During grad school, she won a Debut Paper Award at BEA 2004 for her research on television newsroom producers and writers. A career highlight so far is winning the Tucson Executive Excellence award for Chief Operating Officer of 2018 because of her book publisher role. In May 2023, Terry graduated from Greater Tucson Leadership Lead Tucson program.

BEA has become her favorite academic organization because it is a blend of theory and practice with creative, clever broadcast educators and industry members but she has also been involved with and presented at National Communication Association, Western States Communication Association, World Communication Association, Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted, Tucson Festival of Books, plus numerous other organizations. Her BA is in journalism and criminal justice and her MA is in communication studies with a focus in media and in public and political (rhetoric). Talk to Terry, too, about trail running, travel, languages, genealogy, boogie boarding, scuba diving, kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, reading, writing, spirituality and philosophy, fashion and design, and dance including Irish, Polish, Folklorico, and tap. But, really, Terry will talk about pretty much anything.