Elizabeth Latt
Assistant Vice Chancellor, News and Communications
Director, News Service
elizabeth.p.latt@vanderbilt.edu
Liz Latt oversees the Vanderbilt News Service, serves as the primary communications liaison with the administration, and plans and implements Vanderbilt's relationship with local and national news media. A graduate of and subsequent instructor at the University of South Carolina College of Journalism, Latt served as chief state government reporter at the Columbia bureau of The Associated Press and city editor at The Columbia Record prior to moving to Nashville in 1982. She worked briefly for the Tennessee Municipal League, served as a writer and editor for the Nashville bureau of the Associated Press and later served as publications manager for Saint Thomas Hospital before coming to Vanderbilt in 1990.
Melanie Moran
Associate Director
melanie.moran@vanderbilt.edu
Melanie Moran serves as the News Service director's deputy, oversees the Vanderbilt homepage, plans and implements public relations efforts for Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development and manages the News Service Web site. She also works closely with the Learning Sciences Institute, the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science and the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Prior to joining the News Service, Moran worked for seven years for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, where she was responsible for managing media relations, events, speech writing, graphic arts and the Web site. While with the state, Moran also served as assistant to Governor Don Sundquist for communications. Moran holds a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Penn State.
Emily Pearce
Associate Director for Video
emily.pearce@vanderbilt.edu
Emily Pearce oversees video projects, coordinates live television interviews from VUStar, our campus broadcast facility, and assists with the daily operation of the Vanderbilt News Service. A 15-year veteran of television news, Pearce spent six years at ABC-TV owned stations in San Francisco and New York. She has won numerous broadcasting awards including a national Ohio State Merit Award and multiple regional Emmys. As a veteran special projects producer/executive producer, Pearce has planned and overseen live news coverage of events ranging from the Super Bowl to Presidential trips to elections. She spent five years at the University of California San Francisco, one of the top medical schools in the country, where she handled international, national and local media. She was a senior account executive at a public relations agency in Nashville before joining Vanderbilt in January 2000.
Ann Marie Deer Owens
Senior Public Affairs Officer, Executive Producer, Radio Projects
annmarie.owens@vanderbilt.edu
As the News Service's government and politics specialist, Ann Marie Owens works with the departments of Political Science, History, Community Relations, and the Center for the Americas. She also writes and produces radio spots. Before joining the university staff in 1992, Owens, a Vanderbilt graduate, worked in radio news as a reporter and news director for four Nashville stations. She also reported for WKRN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Nashville. In addition, she worked in financial development and special events management for two non-profit agencies. Owens was honored as Tennessee Broadcaster of the Year by The Associated Press and was a two-time recipient of the Golden Mike Award for public service programming by the Nashville chapter of the American Women in Radio and Television.
Princine Lewis
Senior Public Affairs Officer, Television Projects Producer
princine.l.lewis@vanderbilt.edu
Princine Lewis plans and implements media relations efforts for a variety of areas including the Office of the Dean of Students, the Commons and College Halls residential colleges program, Women's and Gender Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Prior to joining the university, Lewis was an account executive at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations, one of the largest independent public relations firms in the Southeast, where she managed media relations, community relations, special events and marketing communications efforts for a variety of corporate, government and not-for-profit clients. Lewis is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Jim Patterson
Senior Public Affairs Officer, Senior Writer
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu
Jim Patterson represents the Vanderbilt Divinity School, the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, and the arts and humanities departments of the College of Arts and Science. He also oversees myVU, Vanderbilt’s news and announcements Web site for faculty and staff. He worked for 14 years for The Associated Press in Nashville, covering all aspects of news in Tennessee with emphasis on the religion, arts and music business beats. He was given the Media Achievement Award by the Country Music Association in 2002.
Amy Wolf
Senior Public Affairs Officer
amy.wolf@vanderbilt.edu
Amy Wolf works primarily with the Vanderbilt Law School, the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Department of Economics. She also works closely with the offices of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid on communications issues and is writer and anchor of the weekly VUCast video news webcast. Wolf has 13 years of experience in television and radio news. Before coming to Vanderbilt, she served as senior producer for news and health at NBC affiliate WBAL-TV in Baltimore. She managed coverage of special events and produced the early evening newscasts, which were top-rated in the region for the six consecutive years she led them. In 2003 she was nominated for an Emmy as best newscast producer. Her other previous experience includes more than a decade of creating, writing and promoting newscasts in New Haven, Conn., and Cincinnati. She also spent two years as a producer and reporter for Cincinnati’s NPR affiliate. Wolf is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio, with concentrations in journalism, communications and political science.
Pat Slattery
Broadcast Technical and Production Manager
pat.slattery@vanderbilt.edu
Pat Slattery, a national award-winning videographer and longtime chief photographer at WSMV-TV, joined the News Service in August 2006 as broadcast technical and production manager. He serves the university and medical center as videographer for live shots at VUStar, Vanderbilt's campus broadcast facility, as well as facilitating audio production and shooting and editing stories for external media and VUCast, Vanderbilt's news Web site. Slattery was on staff at WSMV-TV for more than 24 years, serving as chief photographer for the past 11 years. He has won over 20 regional Emmy awards, including the prestigious Silver Circle award.
Melissa Pankake
Public Affairs Officer
melissa.r.pankake@vanderbilt.edu
Missy Pankake is editor of myVU, Vanderbilt’s news and announcements Web site for faculty and staff. She also provides media relations support for the university’s sustainability initiatives, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Blair School of Music, the Vanderbilt Theatre, Dyer Observatory and the Chancellor Lecture Series. Prior to joining the News Service, Pankake worked for Bright Horizons, an international child care management company, for eight years as the manager of employee communications where she was responsible for newsletters, intranet content, surveys and training. Pankake is a graduate of Maryville College.
Chris Skinker
Editorial Assistant
chris.skinker@vanderbilt.edu
Chris Skinker is the editor of RE:VU, the annual Vanderbilt facts brochure. She also writes news releases for the Music on the Mountain series of concerts at Dyer Observatory and assists the News Service director in a variety of projects.
Liz Entman
Editorial Assistant
liz.entman@vanderbilt.edu
Liz Entman is responsible for the compilation of the daily news clips summary, including e-mailing VUtoday and uploading clips to the VUCast. She also is editor of Vanderbilt In the News, a monthly compilation of media highlights.
David Salisbury
Associate Director, Science and Research Communications
david.f.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu
David Salisbury works closely with the News Service and is responsible for promoting the work of the science departments within the College of Arts and Science as well as the School of Engineering.
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