Lynn, Erika and Gil

 

Lynn Boswell brings 20 years of broadcast journalism experience to her role as mentor to Austin High students in the PBS Reporting Lab program. She works as series producer for the weekly PBS program Overheard with Evan Smith, and has produced more than 240 half-hour interviews for KLRU-TV, Austin's PBS station.  

Prior to her time with KLRU, Boswell spent eight years with NBC News in New York.  Her work there included dozens of magazine-length pieces, several long-term investigative stories and in-depth coverage of major news events including the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks and the Clinton impeachment proceedings.  Boswell’s work has been featured on Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Today, MSNBC, The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel.  She has earned 14 national awards, including a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, and received a national News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Programming.

Boswell, a San Antonio native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from SMU with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Latin American studies.  She also holds a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was editor in chief of The Texas Journal of Women and the Law. 

Erika Aguilar started working at KUT November 2007. If you're a weekend NPR listener, you may have caught her reports on KUT during "Weekend Edition" or "All Things Considered". She keeps tabs on what happens on the weekends in Austin and other environment, science and development  news. She came to KUT after working behind scenes in the newsroom at KEYE-TV in Austin. She is a proud Texas State Bobcat and originally from San Antonio. She loves to write, be creative, click away on internet, read history books, be outdoors, and always loves a rich conversation. 

Gil Garcia teaches the Media Arts courses at Austin High School and has a degree in Radio, Tv, Film from the University of Texas. He has worked in broadcast production most notably for GSD&M Advertising, 501 Post Production, and LatinWorks Marketing. He has been teaching for 5 years. While Lynn and Erika present the lessons to the class, Gil helps to makes sure that the lessons work for teenagers and make the most out of the ninety minute block period. Gil makes sure that the powerpoint that they create is uploaded to the class website for student review, makes copies of handouts and handles equipment checkout and computer/camera maintenance. Gil drafts all of the tests for the course and also handles deliverables to PBS. He also coordinates chaperones for when students leave campus for interviews and coordinates field trips for the students. While Lynn and Erika teach the journalism part of things, Gil teaches the production side of things.When he is not doing all of this, he stays busy trying to get his Ironman action figure to hold his business card on his desk