Joelle Keene MJE was faculty adviser to The Boiling Point and shalhevetboilingpoint.com from 2003 to 2024, during which time she also founded the Jewish Scholastic Press Association (JSPA), which she now leads as Executive Director and President.  During her time at Shalhevet, the paper and its staff won scores of national awards, including NSPA Pacemaker, Quill and Scroll Sweepstakes and Blue & Gold awards, and 11 CSPA Crown Awards, nine of them gold, along with recognition from the American Jewish Press Association including first place awards in the annual Simon Rockower Awards for professional publications.

Ms. Keene has been recognized as a Master Journalism Educator (MJE) by the national Journalism Education Association since 2014 and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Earlier she worked for the Tacoma News-Tribune, Seattle Times and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and her work has appeared in many religious and secular publications. She is also founding director of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association, which held third first national conference in Los Angeles last month.