Margaret Slattery’s diverse skill set has been developed through taking on a number of responsibilities with a variety of companies over eleven years.  Before starting her family and relocating to Knoxville, TN, she was senior producer for CBS5, KPIX in San Francisco.  During her six years with CBS, Margaret earned two Emmy® awards and nine nominations for the local show, Evening Magazine.

Producing 350 features for Evening Magazine honed Margaret’s storytelling abilities.  She was responsible for finding ideas, researching, coordinating shoot logistics, supervising shoots, interviewing subjects, logging footage, writing scripts, and approving edits.  Her subjects included celebrities, philanthropists, inventors, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, even three-year-olds.  

Before that, she was an associate producer and unit production manager for Banyan Productions.  Margaret worked on all aspects of production including concept development, travel and shoot logistics, and post-production for TLC’s hit show, A Wedding Story, and an international travel show, Travelers, on Discovery Channel.  This was a natural transition for her after working at the Discovery Channel and TLC networks for nearly two years.

Margaret has also worked for a classical radio station, public television, a sports production company, and a network in London.  She has traveled to 22 countries and 39 states and relishes outdoor adventure challenges.  She has back-packed solo across Europe, climbed Half Dome, biked 150 miles to support MS, bungee jumped, white water rafted in the Alaska wilderness, and walked 50 miles to support breast cancer research. 

Margaret’s most recent role as full-time mom to two young boys is her most challenging and rewarding yet--trite but true.  In 2006 she helped establish the Northwest Knoxville chapter of MOMS Club® (an international, non-profit for stay-at-home and part-time working mothers).  As president, she helped it grow from 2 to 36 members in one year.

Margaret most enjoys featuring ordinary folks with extraordinary stories.  Some of her more memorable experiences include:
•    interviewing Ron Howard and Reba McIntire
•    witnessing a mother of seven donate a portion of her liver to her youngest daughter
•    shooting while paragliding in Aspen
•    featuring a woman who adopted eleven special needs kids (a story which later developed into an award-winning documentary)
•    flipping burgers with Julia Child and Jacques Pepin
•    seeing five-year-olds riding sheep rodeo style
•    returning to Alcatraz with a former inmate for the first time since his release
•    seeing her cameraman sail off a cliff and get charged by an over-protective llama (he survived both incidents just fine but changed careers not long after)
•    witnessing the transformation plastic surgeons make on children with cleft lips and palates
•    skydiving with a formation team of skydivers
•    watching a Japanese-American woman finally earn her high school diploma denied to her during World War II
•    and interviewing a little league team made up of seven sets of twins!    

Accolades & Education:
•    The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, winner of two Emmy’s and nominated for nine, 1999 – 2005.
•    American Society of Plastic Surgeons: Circle of Excellence Media Award for series, “A New Look on Life,” featuring the philanthropic work of surgeons in Peru, 2003.
•    Bay Area Video Coalition: certified in Final Cut Pro, 2003.
•    Davidson College:  BA in Psychology with honors, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1994.