Joelle Keene, Faculty Advisor
Joelle Keene, MJE, has been the faculty advisor of the Boiling Point since 2003, and is also the founding director of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association, which works to promote journalism in Jewish high schools nationally while bringing a Jewish ethical perspective to students at any school. She obtained her master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and went on to work for various newspapers including the Tacoma News-Tribune, Seattle Times, and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where she won national, state and local awards for education coverage and investigative reporting. Mrs. Keene enjoys choral music, gardening, championing the importance of the media, and midnight chats with editors. She and her husband have three grown children, including two former section editors of The Boiling Point.
However, Ms. Keene doesn't want this to be about her, because "It's all about the reader."
She also would like to remind you to just say said, never utilize utilize, always attribute, don't talk about talking, never raise a question in the mind of the reader that you don't answer, and that there are no dumb questions -- just dumb assumptions.