Terry Tazioli is a principal in Little Man Productions, a professional story-telling service specializing in video, audio, print and online. He is also the host of Author’s Hour on TVW in Washington state. The program features author interviews, lectures and readings and is devoted to non-fiction covering politics, public affairs, government, history and the Pacific Northwest. For 14 years, he was editor of Scene, The Seattle Times’ nationally recognized lifestyle section. Prior to that, he was a TV news assignment editor and then the producer of Top Story for KING-TV in Seattle. He worked at the East Side Journal in Kirkland, the Journal American in Bellevue, and he has taught news writing at the UW and Bellevue Community College. He continues to conduct occasional writing workshops. Extensively involved in the past two years in mentoring Communication journalism students, Tazioli helped the Department revise and teach (as a volunteer) the advanced design course. One of his most important experiences in journalism came in 1999 when he was editor of The Seattle Times features section. Tazioli reprinted a long essay by Washington Post writer Lonnae O’Neal Parker. Parker is black. Her essay, titled “White Girl,” described living with her mixed-race cousin, who identifies herself as white. The piece had run in The Post with limited response. Tazioli reprinted it with a call for readers to write back. Readers responded and the dialogue grew to such an extent that ABC’s Nightline did a story on it. Tazioli and Parker were invited to town-hall-style meetings around the country to talk about the issues raised by the piece. He has served on the Communication Alumni Board since 2006. He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.