RTF Staff

Administrative Manager

E-mail: rachel.walker@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.120D
Phone: 512-471-4058

New to the department as of January 2017, Rachel Walker assists the Department Chair, managing all of the administrative functions of the Department. She is responsible for the instructional budget, course scheduling, human resource management, department scholarships and internships, faculty promotion and award nominations, and miscellaneous projects of all kinds. Rachel also works closely with the communications coordinator to develop department publications and large-scale events and acts as a liaison with the College's academic advisors for academic planning and course management.

Rachel earned her B.A. in English from the University of Texas. An avid music fan, she can often be found in the front row of a live show around Austin. She lives in a log cabin east of town and loves fussing over her chickens, ducks, cats, honeybees and Great Pyrenees dogs.

Financial Administrator

E-mail: Wendy.stuessy@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.120B
Phone: 512-471-4136

Wendy serves as a full-time accountant and purchaser for all the department accounts.

Office Manager

E-mail: marisela.campos@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.120
Hours: M-F 8 am - 5 pm
Phone: 512-471-4191

Marisela Campos recently received her B.S. with High Honors from the University of Texas at Austin RTF program in Spring 2019, where she focused on producing. Some of her producing credits include short films, The Adventures of… from director Sophia Loffreda, and The 11th Order from director Joshua DeFour. She is excited to join the department and hopes her unique perspective as a recent graduate will allow her to connect and support faculty, staff, and students.

Media Librarian/Administrative Assistant

E-mail: Lee.Sparks@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.168
Hours: M-F 10 am-4 pm
Phone: 471.1906

Lee, a 1997 Summa Cum Laude graduate of RTF, has served as the RTF Media Librarian since 1998. In addition to serving the RTF Graduate and Faculty communities, he coordinates RTF film and video class screenings and is the RTF Media Library purchasing agent. Lee also manages faculty travel, visiting speaker arrangements, reimbursements, pro card purchases, and vendor payments.

Recreationally, Lee is an avid consumer of American comic books and hates the pretentious term 'graphic novel.' When not enjoying genre films from other countries, he cleans up after his cats.

Senior Programs & Communications Coordinator

E-mail: ewakeman@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.104
Phone: 512-471-6617

Elana manages all content updates for the RTF website, coordinates department-sponsored summer camps and workshops, manages social media outreach, coordinates the Longhorn Denius showcase and other RTF initiatives, and produces promotional materials for departmental events.

She comes to RTF after working as Publications Manager at UT's Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and earning her M.F.A. in film production from Florida State University. She also holds a B.A. in English from Duke University.

Graduate Coordinator

E-mail: stacybrodie@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.116
Phone: 512-471-3532

Stacy joined RTF in September 2019. More details to come!

Administrative Associate

E-mail: bert.herigstad@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.120
Hours: on leave for September; 10 hours a week, beginning in October

Before retiring (August 2019), Bert was the office manager for the Department of Radio-Television-Film since the fall of 1997. He will be returning to work with us part-time in October. Bert is most proud of meeting a troubled student or faculty member and leaving them with hope.