Our Workshop Team

Michael Caterina is a multimedia photojournalist for the South Bend Tribune photographing local news, high school and Notre Dame football and basketball. After graduating from Lansing Everett High School, Caterina received a degree in photographic technology from Lansing Community College. Michael attended MIPA conferences in high school and helped instruct in the past. He is very excited to be teaching for his seventh year!

Mishal Charania is an award-winning collegiate journalist and an audience engagement specialist, serving as editor-in-chief of The Michiganensian yearbook at the University of Michigan. She’s also worked for The Michigan Daily. She is interested in the intersection of design, social media and storytelling. This is her sixth year participating in the MIPA Summer Workshop.

Cammie Hall is an English and journalism teacher at H.H. Dow High School, where she advises the school newspaper, Update and Update Online, The Charger yearbook, and a video communication club. Her staffs have earned Spartans, a Pacemaker, Silver Crown and a Gold Crown. In the little time her students allow her outside of the journalism room, she enjoys spending time watching her children compete on the field and reading all kinds of books.

Cody Harrell is a journalism and English teacher at East Lansing High School, where he advises the award-winning Ceniad yearbook and Portrait newspaper. He is a graduate of the Michigan State University School of Journalism and serves on the MIPA Executive Board as the 2024-2026 President.

Michael Kaufman serves as the program director for LCPS-TV, is a connected educator with PBS Student Reporting Labs and teaches Broadcast Journalism at L’Anse Creuse. In 2019, Kaufman received both the Wall Street Journal Courageous Leader Award and the DAFT Media Teacher of the Year. In 2015, his TV & Broadcast Media program received the Education Excellence 2020 award from the State of Michigan School Boards Association. He was Michigan Theatre Teacher of the Year in 2004, a finalist for Michigan Teacher of the Year in 2005 and is Apple Certified in Final Cut Pro Editing Software.

Haley Kluge, based in Los Angeles, serves as the creative director of Variety magazine. She has previously worked at Netflix, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. In 2023, she was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 and an American Society of Magazine Editors NEXT Journalist. She holds a degree in journalism and graphic design from Michigan State University (and attended MIPA camp for four years as a student!).

Ike Lea heads the Photographic Imaging Program at Lansing Community College, where he teaches digital photography and digital imaging courses. Lea worked for newspapers early in his career and continues to be actively involved in photography, working as a freelancer and shooting running events for RunMichigan.com.

Julia Satterthwaite, MJE, advises the national award-winning El Estoque and elestoque.org at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif. Satterthwaite is a former director at large for the national Journalism Education Association. She was honored with MIPA’s Golden Pen in 2014 and named a Distinguished Adviser by CSPA and the Dow Jones News Fund in 2019. She enjoys reading, being outdoors and spending time with her three favorite boys: Rod, Micah and Jonah.

A resident of Grand Haven, where he advises the Bucs’ Blade newspaper, C.E. Sikkenga attended the MIPA Summer Workshop as a student in 1986 and 1987 and has worked on staff since 2002.  A past president of MIPA, C.E. currently serves as the Newspaper Chair.  When not wrapped up in journalism-related projects, C.E. enjoys driving America’s back roads searching for adventures and crate digging in search of buried vinyl treasures.

Jason Springer started his broadcast career in a small studio in Rockford High School. After graduation, Jason moved to Southfield to attend Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts. His first job was at WZZM-TV as studio crew. From there he traveled to Great Lakes Video Services, quickly moving into management of the small production/duplication company. Then a call came from his old teacher who was leaving her position and requesting Jason return to his high school as a full-time staff member. Twenty years later his job has evolved into Rogueview Community TV manager and Beyond the Rock classroom technician. He instructs students in videography, editing and live production. In his tenure at RHS, the students have brought home 16 Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation Station of the Year awards.

Jim Streisel, the 2013 Dow Jones News Fund National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year, is the adviser of the Carmel (Indiana) High School HiLite newspaper. Streisel has written two journalism textbooks, “High School Journalism: A Practical Guide” and “Scholastic Web Journalism: Connecting with Readers in a Digital World.” He earned a 2012 Pioneer Award from the NSPA and was named a 2012 DJNF Distinguished Adviser. He also was named the 2011 Carmel Clay Schools Teacher of the Year and the 2011 Indiana Journalism Adviser of the Year.

Jeremy Whiting is the general manager of Michigan State University’s student-run radio station, Impact 89FM. He is the former adviser of the broadcast, yearbook and online news programs at Ovid-Elsie High School. Jeremy started at the MIPA workshop as a high school student in the late ’90s and never really left. He has previously served as president of MIPA’s board of directors.

Jim Woehrle started working in a newspaper press room at the age of 15, and ever since he has had ink in his veins. He worked as a professional journalist at various newspapers around the Midwest for a dozen years, and has been a journalism teacher and newspaper adviser at Midland High School since 2000. He advises the Focus newspaper. In his spare time, his goals are to grill the perfect burger and travel the world, staring in slack-jawed wonder at dramatic mountain scenery and masterpieces of art.

Sara-Beth Badalamente advises the newspaper and yearbook publications at Huron High School in Ann Arbor. Badalamente, better known as “OC,” was named a winner of the American Society of News Editors’ First Amendment Challenge for innovative lesson plans on the First Amendment in 2015. She was named a JEA “Rising Star,” in 2011 and received the future journalism teacher scholarship in 2006.

Sara-Beth supervises the workshop’s curriculum, leads the response to various participant issues during the workshop and is our CFO (chief fun officer).

Jeremy Steele got his start from MIPA and now he coordinates MIPA’s conferences and contests throughout the year as the organization’s executive director. He is an academic specialist and associate director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism, where he teaches reporting and visual communication classes. Jeremy was named a 2020 Friend of Scholastic Journalism by the national Journalism Education Association.

Jeremy manages the registration process for the workshop, including payments, and provides technology support to our instructors.