Throughout her career, Helen Soulé, Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Media, has focused on providing leadership at the intersection of media, technology and learning. She has broad experience leading public and non-profit organizations, most recently as the Executive Director of Cable in the Classroom, the cable telecommunication industry’s education foundation.
Previously Soulé served as chief of staff to the assistant secretary for the Office of Post Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education and for eight years, was director of the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Technology, with responsibilities including the statewide internet backbone, teacher professional development, state and local technology planning, E-rate, and textbooks. As former teacher and district technology coordinator, she worked with teachers and administrators at every level to use technology and media to transform and enhance teaching and learning.
Soulé is one of the founders and past chairman of the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), has been a member of the George Lucas Educational Foundation Advisory Board and has served on the board of the Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education. She is the recipient of Converge magazine's 30 "Shapers of the Future" award for 2001, a recipient of the 2001 E-School News "Impact 30 Award for Excellence", the 2004 SETDA Pioneer Award and a recipient of CableWorld’s 2007“Women with Clout” award.
Soulé holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Mississippi State University, M.A. in Educational Administration from Mississippi State University and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Denise Woodson is Director of Membership Services for the Alliance for Community Media.
Denise has been with the Alliance since November 2005. She has a broad range of responsibilities that assist the Alliance in its efforts to provide its members with the critical support services that ensure that community media centers and PEG channels remain in operation. She interacts regularly and directly with Alliance members on questions or i
ssues ranging from membership renewals and services, conference registrations and information and publication order requests. Denise is also heavily involved with planning the Alliance’s yearly conference in July. She also serves in the capacity of bookkeeper with duties that include processing the accounts receivables and payables.
Denise holds a B.A. in Administration of Justice with a Minor is Sociology from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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