Karen Hinds Vadnais is a native Marylander who received her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and her Master of Arts in Mass Communications from Towson University. Starting out as a part-time production assistant at HCC-TV, she rose in the ranks and is now a full-time Senior Producer/Director. She directs a half-hour show for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society called, The Writing Life, and recently completed a documentary on local history called The History of Spurrier’s Tavern. Karen also teaches Video Production 2 at Howard Community College.

Elizabeth Homan is pleased to be working once again for HCC-TV, the place where she got her start in television almost a decade ago. After working behind-the-scenes, she moved in front of the camera at Prestige Vision 3, a cable station in Carroll County, Md. Elizabeth got experience as a reporter and anchor before heading to News 21, a cable station in Montgomery County, Md. She started on the assignment desk, but was quickly promoted to producer. From there, she took jobs as anchor and reporter. In December 2000, Elizabeth moved across the country to Boise, Idaho, to work as a general assignment reporter for KTVB, the area’s NBC affiliate station. For two years, she covered everything from plane crashes, road construction, music festivals, and murders to ski resorts, local politics, crime, and court cases. Currently, Elizabeth is the media relations director at Montgomery College, a community college in Montgomery County, Md.

Rebecca Jessop is a transplanted mid-westerner and a graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She landed in Baltimore as part of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps and worked as a community organizer for the Southeast Community Organization. She worked in social services for a number of years with time taken out to live and work in Germany organizing a peace conference. Rebecca worked for the historic Senator Theatre for 13 years as the Director of Special Projects. She is currently the Media Marketing Specialist for the Mayor’s Office of Cable & Communications. She joined HCC-TV in 1996 as a reporter for the cultural and entertainment news segment, Backstage News. She is presently co-producer and host of CineMaryland. Rebecca has been involved in Baltimore’s thriving community theatre and sits on the board of the Maryland Film Festival.

Rhonda Pence returns to the television industry after traveling on the East and West coasts working to start up a multi-media edutainment company. Rhonda’s twelve-year television career was anchored in the Washington, D.C. metro area and Maryland. She created a Capitol Hill News Bureau for Dispatch Broadcast Group, a midwest media company, turning an empty office in the National Press Building into a successful news bureau. In addition to managing the bureau, she was a Capitol Hill and White House Correspondent. Rhonda also created and hosted a Capitol Hill talk show, which aired in Ohio. Prior to her position with Dispatch Broadcast Group, Rhonda was a news reporter and anchor for NewsChannel 8, a local 24-hour cable news station. She began her TV career at Prince George’s Community Television where she helped create the news station for Prince George’s County. Rhonda has a Masters Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University in Washington D.C. She majored in Communications and Psychology at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. She is a graduate of the Paul Miller Fellowship Program for Capitol Hill Reporters.