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SPRING 2013 Adviser Update Mastering the art of staff recruiting By Kathy Craghead S ROUNDUP California   Beatrice Motamedi, CJE, has accepted the role of California state director for JEA, effective immediately.   Motamedi, CJE, teaches and advises print and web journalism at The Urban School of San Francisco, where her students have won more than 100 state, regional and national awards, including a 2012 Newspaper Pacemaker. She is also co-director of Newsroom by the Bay, a digital journalism program at Stanford University, and program director for the Student Voice Project, a nonprofit that seeks to raise literacy rates in high-need schools through journalism study.   She can be contacted at [email protected] Chicago   The Robert R. McCormick Foundation awarded DePaul University’s journalism program Pasos al Futuro, a summer journalism workshop that encourages Latino high school students to pursue careers in journalism, with the largest grant — $120,000 — the College of Communication has ever received.   Pasos al Futuro, Spanish for “steps towards the future,” teaches students of all ethnicities and backgrounds the skills and tools necessary in the professional field of journalism, such as reporting, interviewing and editing, while instilling in them the significance and impact of Latino culture in America.   More than 50 students from the Chicago Public HS League will be given the opportunity to benefit from this workshop. There is no cost for students to participate in this program, and many participants After 32 years of advising Missouri high school yearbooks and newspapers, Kathy Craghead has retired. She is a past National Yearbook Adviser of the Year and a former member of the Journalism Education Association Board of Directors. She is the recipient of the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association, Medal of Merit from JEA and is a Master Journalism Educator. She is currently the Newspaper in Education coordinator for her hometown newspaper. She can be reached at k.crag@ sbcglobal.net. often go on to enroll at DePaul. The grant will enable DePaul to expand the program even further and reach out to more of Chicago’s Latino high school students. Pasos al Futuro has grown by almost 700 percent since its inception three years ago. JEA   Mitch Eden, MJE, has been named secretary of the Journalism Education Board of Directors. JEA President Mark Newton, appointed Eden to serve an Eden interim See ROUNDUP on page 24A P01.V52.I4 treasury, Dow Jones & Company; and Richard S. Holden, executive director of the Fund.   Other directors re-elected were: Pam [H