Faculty and Staff
T. Andrew Wahl
Andrew Wahl is the head of the Journalism & Media Communication program where he advises and mentors students, develops curriculum and teaches the full range of journalism and media communication courses offered at EvCC. He has worked at daily newspapers throughout Washington state as an editor, designer, writer and editorial cartoonist. He also has experience in media communication from his time serving as communications director for the statewide nonprofit organization Humanities Washington. Wahl has been involved with student journalism in a teaching or support role since 1996.
Wahl is an alumni of EvCC and former Editor-in-Chief of The Clipper. He has a bachelor's degree in comparative U.S. and international studies from the University of Washington Bothell and a master's degree in humanities from Fort Hays State University. He is passionate about the First Amendment because it is the bedrock of our society. Self-proclaimed "massive comic-book geek," Wahl spends his free time traveling the state to give talks on comics and U.S. history. He also offers a comics studies class every summer at EvCC.
T. Andrew Wahl's Classes and Office Hours
Zaki Hamid
Zaki Barak Hamid is an Arab immigrant from Jordan. Having lived in the U.S. since 1994, he received his bachelor’s degree in theater from the University at Albany, and a Master of Fine Arts in classical theatre from the University of Delaware. Hamid teaches film, mass media and other courses at EvCC, the Creative Retirement Institute and OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Washington. He is the director of community engagement at KUOW where he oversees all community engagement efforts as well as supervises Radio Active, KUOW’s youth media program. He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, reading, watching endless movies and cheering on his beloved Seattle Sounders.
Zaki Hamid’s Classes and Contact Information
Vanessa McVay
Vanessa McVay teaches Introduction to Multimedia at EvCC and is the Visuals Editor at The Everett Daily Herald. McVay has been a journalist for more than 25 years, and in that time she has had a variety of jobs in the newsroom including photojournalist, reporter, copy editor, page designer and news editor. While she has worked at several large name papers, her passion lies in working with smaller community news organizations where she believes journalists provide a crucial service for their communities. In 2012, McVay went back to school to get her master’s in multimedia from the University of North Carolina journalism school in Chapel Hill. She enjoys editing audio and video more than shooting it, but is still a die-hard photographer.
Fun fact: McVay is probably one of the few people you will ever meet who has scars from a turkey vulture. While she was a copy editor at The Columbian in Vancouver, she volunteered for The Portland Zoo. In a glove mishap, a bratty turkey vulture named Clyde managed to bite her. She got a lot of teasing from her coworkers about getting bitten by a bird that usually eats dead stuff.