TAA Council Bios
Executive Members
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Paul
Siegel, President - Bio |
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Don Collins, Vice President/President Elect - Bio "When I was a managing editor at a publishing firm, I wanted the authors that I selected to be treated fairly. TAA was the only organization that I knew of that would stand up for author's rights. I always asked these authors to join TAA. This paid off when one group of authors was caught up in a corporate take over and had their project cancelled right as their work was going into film. When they contacted TAA, they were given assistance and won an out of court settlement. When I left publishing and entered academia I joined TAA then became an author. I decided to run for TAA council because I am one of the few if not only person that has experience from both the publishing and authorship sides." |
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Ron
Pynn, Secretary - Bio |
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Paul
Rosenzweig, Treasurer Bio He then joined The Psychological Corporation, supervising the accounting and financial operations, as the company grew in its publishing and consulting activities. As Controller, he also directed the conversion to computerized accounting systems. In 1974 he was asked by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., to assume the title of Director of Subsidiary Accounting, charged with the responsibility for acquisitions and new business startups. In four years, the group included an audiovisual publisher, consumer magazine, newsletter publisher, a professional training and reference publisher, and a management consulting and outplacement counseling firm. The financial services of seven companies were consolidated instead of duplicating staff for a number of smaller entities. In 1978 he became Vice President and Treasurer of Academic Press, Inc., a multinational publisher and distributor of technical books and scholarly journals, with revenues of $100 million. He developed off-the-Balance-Sheet financing for US and UK companies, and introduced sophisticated cash management techniques, effectively reducing accounts receivable balances from domestic and third-world customers. For two years he conducted an independent management consulting practice for both market-and production-driven clients, all outside of the publishing industry. In 1986 he became affiliated with Moseley Associates, Inc., (management consultants to the publishing industry) conducting valuation, litigation support, acquisition and divestiture assignments. In 1993, he became President of Royalty Review Service, Inc., representing authors who wish to confirm the accuracy of their royalty statements. He is now a consultant to the successor firm, Royalty Review LLC. Rosenzweig was Chairman of the Publishing and Printing Accounting Committee of the New York State Society of CPAs from 1988 to 1990, and served on the Society's Litigation Support and Publishing and Printing committees. He is a member of The Authors Guild and serves on Council of the Text and Academic Authors Association. |
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John
Wakefield, Immediate Past President - Bio |
Council Members
Voting Members:
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Paul
Siegel, President - Bio |
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Don Collins, Vice President/President Elect - Bio "When I was a managing editor at a publishing firm, I wanted the authors that I selected to be treated fairly. TAA was the only organization that I knew of that would stand up for author's rights. I always asked these authors to join TAA. This paid off when one group of authors was caught up in a corporate take over and had their project cancelled right as their work was going into film. When they contacted TAA, they were given assistance and won an out of court settlement. When I left publishing and entered academia I joined TAA then became an author. I decided to run for TAA council because I am one of the few if not only person that has experience from both the publishing and authorship sides." |
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Ron
Pynn, Secretary - Bio |
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Paul
Rosenzweig, Treasurer Bio He then joined The Psychological Corporation, supervising the accounting and financial operations, as the company grew in its publishing and consulting activities. As Controller, he also directed the conversion to computerized accounting systems. In 1974 he was asked by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., to assume the title of Director of Subsidiary Accounting, charged with the responsibility for acquisitions and new business startups. In four years, the group included an audiovisual publisher, consumer magazine, newsletter publisher, a professional training and reference publisher, and a management consulting and outplacement counseling firm. The financial services of seven companies were consolidated instead of duplicating staff for a number of smaller entities. In 1978 he became Vice President and Treasurer of Academic Press, Inc., a multinational publisher and distributor of technical books and scholarly journals, with revenues of $100 million. He developed off-the-Balance-Sheet financing for US and UK companies, and introduced sophisticated cash management techniques, effectively reducing accounts receivable balances from domestic and third-world customers. For two years he conducted an independent management consulting practice for both market-and production-driven clients, all outside of the publishing industry. In 1986 he became affiliated with Moseley Associates, Inc., (management consultants to the publishing industry) conducting valuation, litigation support, acquisition and divestiture assignments. In 1993, he became President of Royalty Review Service, Inc., representing authors who wish to confirm the accuracy of their royalty statements. He is now a consultant to the successor firm, Royalty Review LLC. Rosenzweig was Chairman of the Publishing and Printing Accounting Committee of the New York State Society of CPAs from 1988 to 1990, and served on the Society's Litigation Support and Publishing and Printing committees. He is a member of The Authors Guild and serves on Council of the Text and Academic Authors Association. |
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Fred Kleiner, Elected Member - Bio |
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Barbara Waxer, Elected Member - Bio |
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Steve
Gillen, Elected Member - Bio |
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Tara
Gray, Elected Member - Bio Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, "Do prisons pay?" She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with six awards for teaching or service. Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 3,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, and Thailand. Workshop participants report that she is "spirited, entertaining, and informative-she's anything but gray!" |
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Nancy
Volkman, Elected Member - Bio |
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Mary
Kay Switzer, Elected Member - Bio She serves on many national boards in higher education - Currently she is on the Board of Directors for Text and Academic Authors, the Director of the Edith Wortman Endowment Fund for educational projects, the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Matrix Foundation and an Executive Producer for Televideo Educational Projects based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Switzer has served on the Academic Senate and the Academic Senate Steering Committee at her university. She even chaired the Instructional Support Services Standing Committee of the Academic Senate. In 1997, she received a Distinguished Service Award for her contributions and service on these committees. She has served as Chair of the Department Assessment Committee and the Department Budget Committee. Recently, she served as an elected member of the College Rentention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee for a three-year term. She is also a highly successful grant writer, curriculum developer and author and is involved in television and video production. She has been twice recognized by California State Polytechnic University Pomona with the "Golden Leaves Award," once for her work as a contributing author of a major scholarly reference work, Historical Dictionary of American Radio, published by Greenwood Press in 1998, and most recently for her book, China Diary. A commissioned author, she has written several articles for The Encyclopedia of Radio (Fitzroy Publishers in Chicago). Her degrees include a doctorate in speech communication, a master's degree in theatre/television and a bachelor's degree in theatre/speech communication. In addition, Dr. Switzer has a background as Director of Theatre Arts and Chair of Theatre Department for Wayland University. While in this position, she was able to develop an affiliation with the UK's National Theatre through a grant from the Texas Arts Commission as well as several private grants. Through this theatrical affiliation, she was able to set up a community-university outreach program to bring Shakeskpeare to rural areas in Texas. A professional actor, producer, and director, her folk opera, "Karolee Fairaday," has been produced at many regional and university theatres. Her broadcast experience includes News Anchor, Public Affairs Director, and News Director for several major television-radio affiliates. Her awards in this area include Freedom Foundation and Emmy Awards. Her successful tennis program, "Strokes and Strategies" --running for over seven years -- was a feature of ASPN (pay TV sports network). Some of her video clients include Cox Communications, Humana Hospitals, United Way, The President's Council on Physical Fitness, and American Express. Her stint as part of the production team for Olympic great Scott Hamilton resulted in the internationally known STARS ON ICE series. At Cal Poly Pomona, she spearheaded the joint community-university educational series together with her Visual Arts Production students to produce the acclaimed 'Let's Talk," with area middle schools. This student project ran for over seven years and earned many state awards for excellence and was featured on Fox News. Many of her former students have carried on the tradition of "Let's Talk" in their area middle schools. Moreover, her students also produced and directed the campus video magazine, "PolyScene Magazine," for over five years. Her Nonverbal Communication students have received top honors in the CLASS Division of the Annual Student Research Competition for the past six years. A magazine and feature-page Contributing Editor and columnist, Dr. Switzer also has several other published works -- including books and short stories. |
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Angela D. Jackson, Council Member At-Large - Bio Her educational history includes B.S. in Industrial Management; M.Ed. in Community Counseling; and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from Virginia Tech where she also specialized in Race & Social Policy. She has published academic articles and taught as an Assistant Professor in Counseling/Psychology programs teaching courses such as Abnormal Psychology, Practicum/Internship, and Multicultural Counseling. Jackson is a certified Study Circle on Race Facilitator charged with facilitating groups that help people work together for creative community change. She is a member of The American Counseling Association subscribed to the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. Jackson is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and loves dancing, traveling, bowling, and spending time with her niece and nephew. |
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Claudia Sanchez, Council Member At-Large - Bio |
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Mike
Sullivan, Council Member At-Large
- Bio Sullivan is a member of the Council of Fellows of TAA and has been awarded a Texty and a McGuffey award for two of his books. He is currently Treasurer of the TAA Foundation and the Immediate Past President of TAA. He has four children: Kathleen, who teaches college mathematics, Mike III, who teaches college mathematics and co-authors with his dad on two series, Dan, who is a sales representative for Prentice-Hall, and Colleen, who teaches middle-school mathematics. Eleven grandchildren round out the family. |
Ex-Officio, Non-voting Members:
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Richard Hull, Executive Director - richard.hull@taaonline.net Richard Hull was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to a former newspaper reporter and an executive assistant to the local Chamber of Commerce. His undergraduate degree in philosophy is from Austin College, Sherman, Texas, and his PhD in philosophy from Indiana University. After spending thirty years in the SUNY at Buffalo Department of Philosophy, he took early retirement in 1997 to take the position of Executive Director of the Texas Council for the Humanities in Austin, Texas. He spent portions of the next year as an independent book producer. In the years 2000-2004, he worked as a fundraiser for nonprofit organizations and spent a semester as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana’s Institute of Medicine and Humanities. A second edition of his reader-text Ethical Issues in the New Reproductive Technologies was published by Prometheus Books in 2007. His current research centers chiefly on the biographies and publications of the presidents of the American Philosophical Association from its inception in 1900 to the present day. To date, he has published six volumes, with a seventh volume in press and three more in initial proofreading stages, all now bought out by Prometheus. In addition, he edits three special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series: Werkmeister Studies, Lived Values and Valued Lives, and Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies, all for Editions Rodopi. He publishes several book chapters, articles, and reviews each year. Richard moved to Tallahassee, Florida, in 2004 where his wife is Professor in Florida State University’s department of psychology and its interdisciplinary neuroscience group. He was appointed Executive Director of Text and Academic Authors Association in July of 2005. |
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