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Viewers Voice, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions received from individuals, foundations and corporations are tax-deductible. If you wish to support the work of Viewers Voice send donations to: Viewers Voice, Inc., P.O. Box 27758 West Allis, WI 53227-0758 Please make checks payable to Viewers Voice, Inc. |
Board Members
President Email: srhode@viewersvoice.org Sharon Rhode currently serves as President on the Board of Directors of Viewers Voice, Inc. Rhode is one of the original founders of the organization that was founded in 1991. Rhode has produced and hosted the Viewers Voice TV Show for the past fourteen years. She has produced over 245 shows for Viewers Voice plus many other access shows for West Allis. Rhode hasn’t stopped with just TV coverage, but has moved Viewers Voice into the print media as well. Her column titled “TV Viewers Voice” appears weekly in the Hometown Express Newspaper in West Allis and surrounding suburbs of Milwaukee. Now over 500,000 subscribers enjoy her article and learn about the work of Viewers Voice. Rhode also oversees and serves as editor of the Viewers Voice News. The industry newsletter is published quarterly and mailed to members of Viewers Voice and the entertainment industry. Rhode was the editor of her school newspaper and very active in sports. She enlisted in the Woman’s Army Corp after graduating high school .and headed to Alabama for her basic training at Fort McClellan. Rhode was transferred after completing basic training to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. She graduated at the top of her class as an Army Medic from Brooke Army Hospital. Rhode later married her high school sweetheart, Jim Rhode after leaving the army. Jim and Sharon have five children, four girls and one boy. Marriage and kids didn’t slow her down. She continued to stay active in sports by managing a West Allis woman’s softball team and volleyball team. Married 42 years, Sharon and Jim now tremendously enjoy their seven wonderful grandchildren and one great-grandson. Rhode has always been very active in numerous civic and charitable organizations. She is on the West Allis Community Communications, Inc. Board. Rhode is also an avid animal lover as can be ascertained by her three spoiled dogs, a cat and two rabbits to just name a few of the animals that roam her home and yard. Needless to say she is an active member of several animal organizations including Actor’s and Others for Animals and the Zoological society of Milwaukee County. Sharon recently joined the Timber Wolf Preservation Society, Inc. and adopted a wolf named Dakota.
Thomas Lowery Executive Vice-President Email: TLowery@viewersvoice.org Thomas C. Lowery, Jr. has been a member since the inception of Viewers Voice in 1991. Lowery has served in various leadership capacities and currently is on the board of directors and serves as the organizations Executive Vice-President. His contributions over the past 15 years would require more space than available. Tom’s wide range of skills and knowledge quickly made him our “Go To” person when needs arose. However, he does not sit back waiting for a call, but is always looking for new and better ways to maintain our long-term growth plans. He earned his degrees from South Georgia Technical College in Business Education, -Georgia Southwestern University in Business Administration and Weist-Barron School of Television in Commercial Acting. In addition to degrees, he holds numerous certificates and licenses in a wide variety of career fields from banking to real estate. Lowery has an extensive background in the corporate and entertainment fields. He currently manages a wide spectrum of business operations for the global conglomerate Barksdale & Associates, Inc. He has been a team member of some of the largest conglomerates in the world, such as the Lockheed Corporation and Beatrice-Hunt-Wesson-Con-Agra. The entertainment field has also been a rewarding part of his life. His first appearance in front of the cameras came when only nine years old. Since that time he has been fortunate to appear in feature films, sitcoms, and dramas, including spokesperson and print media. When not in front of the camera he enjoys creating, directing and producing. Many of the companies he has worked for used his creative skills to produce successful magazines, corporate marketing, and commercial product promotions. Lowery has even portrayed many of the product characters of the various companies. The most remembered being a live public appearance promoting a national peanut butter brand. He arrived on location dressed in the peanut butter jar used in the shooting of the commercial. While walking between locations, he was confronted by several kids who proceeded to try and unscrew the top. When it became apparent the top was not going to come off, the kids knocked him over and began to roll him down the hill. Lowery is an active member of numerous civic organizations throughout the United States. He holds or has held leadership positions in all of them He has received countless awards for his work in a wide variety of fields including the Georgia Occupational award of Leadership presented by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. The spare time that he does have is spent managing and coaching an international high school boy’s baseball team he owns. The team travels throughout the world and has remained in the top three for the past five years and won the International Championship three years in a row. He has also received numerous coaching awards.
Secretary Email: lmuffler@viewersvoice.org
Laurie Muffler has been a member with Viewer’s Voice since 2001. She was elected to the Board of Directors in 2002. Laurie is currently one of the co-hosts of Viewer’s Voice Television Show and has been submitting articles for the “Kid’s Corner” in the Newsletter. She plans on having an active role with Fundraising for Viewer’s Voice.
Laurie and her husband are proud parents of 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 8. She enjoys taking the kids to the zoo, parks, ballgames and museums and is active with her children’s scouting, baseball, ballet and soccer events. She also enjoys bingo, reliving her youth at various rock concerts, and secretly indulges in watching “Desperate Housewives”.
When not busy as a domestic diva, Laurie can be found volunteering at her children’s' school and participating in the P.T.A. She is a volunteer Sunday school teacher. She moonlights part time as a "lunch lady" at the local high school, as well as co-hosting and producing the local access cable show "Rockin the Cable Show" which features interviews and performances with local and national artists and bands. She is also working on screenwriting and film work. When she has free time, Laurie can be found working on her scrapbooks, and surfing Dennis DeYoung and Styx message boards. Once a fan, always a fan. 1. Desperate Housewives
Brenda Posada Board Member Email: bposada@viewersvoice.org Brenda Posada is the author of five books including Hogan’s Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13 and Party of Five: The Unofficial Companion. She is Director of Publications for the Los Angeles Zoo and editor of the zoo’s award-winning quarterly magazine, Zoo View. It’s the ideal job for this animal lover, who has a degree in primatology and worked as a chimpanzee caregiver at a wildlife sanctuary. Not surprisingly, a monkey figures into the plot of her upcoming novel, Monkey Love, scheduled for publication in February 2006 by NAL-Penguin. Her favorite current TV shows are Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, American Dreams, and As the World Turns, but she most frequently watches Sesame Street with her infant son, Nicholas.
Dawn Spoto Board Member Email: dspoto@viewersvoice.org
Dawn Spoto has been a member of Viewer’s Voice since 2000 and a board member since 2001. Dawn currently works at the Orange County Fire Authority in their Finance Division. Besides providing support to sections within the division, she also designs all the graphics for various budget publications.
When she has down time, Dawn can be found surfing CSI and NCIS message boards, reading (and trying to write) fan fiction, and bicycling along the beach. When she’s not meeting with Viewers Voice in October every year, she also tries to get to a few tv show tapings as well.
Dawn’s favorite shows are:
1. CSI (Las Vegas only) 2. NCIS 3. Cold Case 4. Less Than Perfect 5. Without a Trace
Board Member Email: dperkins@viewersvoice.org Debra Perkins has been a member of Viewers Voice since 1991 and was elected to the Board of Directors as a General Board Member in April 2000. She has served as photographer for the organization during their visits to Los Angeles. Debra worked for 25 years in the banking industry, until in 1997; she decided to pursue other opportunities. Currently, she is starting a pet sitting business with her husband. She enjoys gardening, taking walks, and biking around the local lake. Her favorite TV shows are 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Alias, Everwood, and the recently canceled Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia.
Web Designer Email: drhode@viewersvoice.org I’ve been married since 1998, and had my first kid in 2002. I worked in finance for seven years for the American Cancer Society, until I went back to school for computers. I’m now a Customer Engineer with a company called NCR and am a Web Designer for Viewers Voice. My hobbies include volleyball, softball, and spending time with my family. When I’m not working on the Viewers Voice website I have my own right here rhode14. Favorite Shows:
Board Member Email: rkrieger@viewersvoice.org
Born 11/24/1944 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BAE), Univ. of Wis. (MSME), UW-M (MBA) Retired product-development engineer, Rockwell Automation. Miscellaneous video work (camera, editing, audio, graphics) for past two years.
Board Member Email: joeski@viewersvoice.org
Joe has been a member of Viewers’ Voice since 1995 and a board member since 1997. Joe’s full-time job is at Towers Perrin, a global human resource consulting firm. Joe has worked at Towers Perrin for over 13 years as an Actuarial Specialist and also as the Technical Specialist running the office’s computer network. Joe’s other full-time job is watching television and enjoys a wide variety of TV genres including science fiction, soap operas and is the board member most in favor of the “Reality TV” craze that has swept over television the last few years. Joe Favorite Shows are: 1. Lost 2. The Amazing Race 3. Desperate Housewives 4. Arrested Development 5. CSI (Las Vegas and Miami)
Board Member Email: mkasar@viewersvoice.org
Michelle Kasar has been a board member since 1999, and elected to the board in 2000. Michelle has been directing the V V television show since year? And has been active in West Allis local access television since 1984; directing a variety of shows from Cousine to Rock 'n' Roll to political issues. Her hobbies include collecting and listening to music, architecture via computer, and writing lyrics and stories. M is single and lives with her two cats and enjoys time with her nieces and nephews. She works in Accounts receivable and billing and has had a variety of office positions. 1. Favorite shows 2. Lost 3. Crossing Jordan 4. House 5. American Idol 6. CSI (Las Vegas only)
Vice President Email: jkrieger@viewersvoice.org Jonathan joined Viewers Voice in
1994 and has been a board member since
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