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Francine Podenski provides leadership for Broadcast Electronic Media Arts instructional programs, supervises Broadcast Media Services and San Francisco's Educational Access Television, Cable Channel 27, and serves as faculty advisor for the Multimedia Studies Image and Sound Program. 

Ms. Podenski began teaching in 1978 and has taught critical television viewing, video production, audio production, radio station operations and management, broadcast writing, introduction to electronic media, college and industry internship, media literacy and analysis, and integrative communication at San Francisco State University, College of San Mateo, and City College of San Francisco. 

Degrees include Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University. Additional post-secondary studies: music, theater arts, and philosophy at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and political science, television production, and directing at University of Wisconsin. Ms. Podenski's graduate thesis, Changing Cultural Assumptions: A Framework for Media Analysis, examined media violence effects on audience perception of everyday reality. 

Ms. Podenski chairs the College Communications Committee and is a member of the following college shared governance committees: Program Review, Information Technology Policy, Teaching and Learning Technology, Faculty Reassignment, and Distance Learning Advisory. She has served on Academic Senate Executive Council and as Academic Senate Vice President.  Ms. Podenski currently serves on the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Board of Directors (Golden Gate Chapter). 

Sabbatical leave and special projects include an executive internship at Disney/ABC KGO-TV, a study of group conflict resolution from an indigenous tribal perspective, application of enneagram studies and NLP to teaching and learning, and extensive travel throughout Costa Rica's forests, preserves, and beaches.  Her personal interests are family, gardening, indigenous studies, martial arts, weight training, yoga, camping, hiking, and off-leash recreation with her German Shepherds.