NAME:
Donna Marie Miller
SCHOOL:
James Bowie High School
CLASS:
Journalism, Newspaper, Advanced Broadcast
SCHOOL PHONE:
512-841-4180
Ms. Miller, a veteran teacher in Texas public schools with more than 22 years experience, also
worked as a reporter for 11 years on four major Texas daily newspapers: including the El Paso Times,
El Paso Herald-Post, The Amarillo Globe-News, and The Austin American Statesman. She also served
five years as a first-round reader judge for the Austin Film Festival and her poetry has been
published for the past ten years in the Austin International Poetry Festival anthologies. Her poetry
also appeared in the 2007 anthology "What Wildness is This?: Women Who Write About the
Southwest," published by the University of Texas Press. While serving as advisor, her students' videos
have received numerous awards including: the 2009 Accolade Award; and the 2005, 2006, and 2007
National Academy of Television Award; have been selected as one of the top 20 films for the 2005,
2006 and 2007 South-by-Southwest high school shorts category. Her students' newspaper received
the Gold Star from Columbia Scholastic Press association in 2010 and the nomination for the 2008
Pacemaker Award by the National Scholastic Press Association and the 2008 and 2009 Award of
Distinguished Achievement by the Interscholastic Press Association. Her students also received
numerous individual University Interscholastic League (UIL) awards and Quill and Scroll International
Society for High School Journalists awards for newswriting, features, editorials, and headline writing
as well as broadcasting since she became a sponsor at Bowie in 2001.
Two things make the best kind of journalists: 1) an ombudsman's sense to serve others through
knowledge, expertise, and skills and 2) an individual desire to be the most ethical and accurate
reporter/writer, anchor, photographer/videographer, editor, producer, or web designer/ artist/graphic
designer one can be every single day in every aspect of media.
