Philip Gay, Program Manager

Philip Gay brings a background in video production and online curriculum development to the Department of Education coming to Tufts from WGBH Educational Productions in Boston. While with WGBH he supervised best practice video library projects on a variety of topics that include special collections for teachersdomain.org focusing on climate change and native cultures, an NSF funded online learning curriculum, Getting Results, designed to help advanced technology teachers in Community Colleges, a pre-school Between the Lions literacy program, and a video library project created with Dr. Mel Levine to help parents, students, and teachers better understand learning and neuro-developmental issues in young learners. Philip has also worked on two major Annenberg initiatives; Teaching Foreign Languages and Social Studies in Action. These comprehensive best practice examples and Professional Development workshops can be accessed through www.learner.org.

Prior to joining the Department of Education at WGBH Philip produced and directed both local and national productions for WGBH. His most recent national directing credits include five seasons of Antiques Roadshow, three seasons of Championship Ballroom Dancing, and two seasons of the PBS series Cooking In, with Todd English.

Philip Gay has multiple New England Emmy awards for music and documentary specials produced at WGBH, as well for children's television series produced for Boston University's commercial television station and for specials produced for the Christian Science Monitor Channel. Through WGBH he has also received a 2006 Cine Golden Eagle Award for producing, Two Spirits Gallery, a video that features mentally ill and homeless artists sharing their work in Alaska.

Philip Gay has a Master's degree in English and American Literature from Harvard University and a BS degree in Communications from Temple University. He also attended undergraduate school at Pennsylvania State University and was enrolled in doctoral studies in Education at Boston University. He has also taught television production classes at Emerson College, Northeastern University, and Boston University.

Her works have been exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center, the Grossman Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has worked as a consultant doing education-based videography and photography within a digital media realm.