Faculty Profiles

Our faculty combines practical, real world experience with formal academic training to ensure you earn the best education. Collectively, they have dozens of years of professional experience in public relations and mass communications.

Bryan Agran
 

Bryan Agran, who teaches Video Communication, began his career as a producer for the local NBC affiliate before moving to New York to work in marketing and sales for a production company. He returned to Burlington to take on the role of creative services director at FOX 44. He is currently associated with WCAX the local CBS affiliate in sales and marketing. Along the way, Bryan has produced commercials and television shows, tackled cross platform graphics and guided clients, co-workers and employers though a maze of multimedia options.

 
Greg Bemis

 
A graduate of Emerson College, Greg Bemis spent over three years in San Francisco working in the video industry at Tech TV. He was a line producer for a show called Internet Tonight where he supervised a daily half-hour television program about culture and entertainment on the Internet. He was also the coordinating producer for Extended Play a weekly half-hour television program about the videogame industry. In that capacity Greg directed all editorial content and managed all freelance production. Today Greg is back in Vermont teaching Writing and Video Communication at Champlain and working as a freelance writer.

 
Cinse Bonino

 
Cinse Bonino teaches courses in Mass Media, Writing and Creativity. She is consulting editor for Girl Zone (www.girlzone.com) and served as their editor-in-chief for many years. Cinse has created online promotional content for several major young-adult book publishers, has worked as a copywriter for the New England Journal of Medicine, written radio commercials for local business, and does concept development and name and tagline creation for both small and large businesses. Cinse also teaches creativity for game development for the Governors' Institute of Vermont and conducts naming workshops for the Women's Small Business Program in Burlington.

 
Fred Johnstone

 
Fred Johnstone comes to Champlain College with 25 years in writing and electronic communications experience which took him from coast to coast and back again. First as a director at WCAX-TV in Burlington, he worked alongside the news department directing daily and evening newscasts and later, as a commercial producer creating award-winning commercials. He then moved to Sacramento, California as senior creative director at KCRA-TV where he wrote and produced commercials and non-broadcast sales and vendor presentations for nearly 10 years. Returning to Burlington, Fred became the VP for creative services at the Genesis Group, a full-service advertising agency. As creative director and copywriter for all print and electronic creative, his clients included McDonald’s, GMC, Vermont State Colleges and Champlain Oil Co. Fred has won national and regional awards for his radio and television copywriting and producing.

 
Nancy Kerr

 
Nancy Kerr is the program director for Public Relations and Media Communication at Champlain College. Prior to coming to Champlain, she spent 13 years as the division chair for Communication and the Arts at Dean College and seven years as a member of the Communications department faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh. She spent seven years in radio working as an on-air personality and news director, which led to work at several local television stations, directing and producing shows for local and national release. Several of her documentaries have aired on PBS and cable. After graduate school at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, she began her career in media production at Nova Graphics, an advertising agency, and worked in public relations for the Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce and the I Love New York Campaign.

 
Gary Lambert

 
Gary Lambert has over 15 years of experience working as a Producer/Director and Videographer for the Instructional Television Department at the University of Vermont. In his role as an instructional designer, Gary takes a video project from an idea and turns it into a professional program. Gary teaches Video Communication courses.

 
Keith Silva

 
Keith Silva is the on-location producer and senior vidoegrapher for the University of Vermont Extension program called Across the Fence, a show which airs daily on WCAX. In addition to all videography and on-location work, Keith completes all post-production work for the on-location segments. He has won several awards for his broadcast news stories, including the 2001 Communicator Award of Excellence in Broadcast/Cable Programs/News/Promos. Keith teaches courses in Video Production.