Sherece (Shari) Lamke Email & Phone Number

Granite Falls, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Develop and execute narrative and nonfiction stories with purpose for broadcast and digital platforms. ●Program Manager for End in Mind Project, a nonprofit founded by MPR’s Cathy Wurzer to ignite transformative conversations in communities about intentional & purposeful living, now and through the end of life. ● Project Lead for Women in Focus, a collaborative partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport to develop material for a website for educators and decision makers. ● Producer and Production Manager for livestream of event “Why Cultural Heritage Matters Globally and Locally” and edit into a half hour broadcast program for Twin Cities PBS, a partnership with the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John’s University, November 2019-February 2020.● Producer of animated short “Minnesota War: Personal Stories” done in collaboration with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design student animators. Aired by Twin Cities PBS' Almanac series in 2012 and posted online via YouTube and collaborators website. ● Producer of digital shorts for numerous local and global musicians.● Recognized by Pollen Midwest as a leader in the Arts Community in 2019.● Writer of feature screenplays “Hockey Mom”, “Big Woods” and “Intellectual Beauty”. ● Producer and Editor for feature documentary, “Scenes from a Tour: Hothouse Flowers”. Chosen for festival screenings at Boston Irish Film Festival and Minneapolis' Sound Unseen in October 2004.● Producer and Editor for performance DVD “Live at the Ave” Hothouse Flowers with Colin Devlin released October 2004.● Executive Producer and Editor for documentary short “Burning Man Through Irish Eyes”. Screened at the Mythic Journeys Conference in Atlanta GA in June 2004.● Writer of feature length screenplay “Silence”. Final Draft award, the Edmonds International Film Festival/ Screenwriting competition, Washington 2001.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Efficient and creative media production and asset management for a trusted mission-based organization. ● Led a team of technical and creative production and budget managers to achieve high levels of efficiency, integrity, and quality, inspiring the growth of all personnel.● Guide the direction for the Production Services department to serve all content areas of the station in concert with station strategic plan.● Own the administrative control over resources and expenditures on a department budget of over $2.5 million and reporting on revenue of project budgets rolled up into over $5 million in revenue for content.● Keep all production and funding compliant with station, partner, grant, contract as well as state and federal guidelines and station editorial guidelines, related practices and policies.● Executive Produced EMMY winning “The People’s Protectors”, College Christmas concerts delivered nationally and EMMY nominated “Game On: Women Can Coach”, including social media extras and a version with new material introduced by Robin Givens of Good Morning America to be used by the partner, the Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota, to impact change within athletic leadership.● Point of contact for negotiating national coverage for locally produced programs.

Motivate a creative storytelling staff in partnership with area non-profits, educational institutions and government agencies with integrity.● Accomplished the launch of the Statewide Minnesota Channel and create new business model workflow.● Developed staff from production assistants to associate producers and producers who worked as a team with other production personnel to optimally deliver content to the diverse community served.● Created thousands of project bids from $5,000-$1,000,000, executed hundreds of contracts and project managed through to distribution on the Minnesota Channel, PBS stations and/or TPT or partner websites.● Grew from $200,000 annual goals to over $2,000,000.● Achieved nearly 1,000 television shows, and 2,500 digital stories with over 300 unique partners.● Produced EMMY winning “Media Coverage and Female Athletes” and EMMY nominated “The Art and Life of George Morrison”. Executive Produced EMMY winning “The Past Is Alive Within Us”.