Linda Loe ’96

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Linda Loe is a non-traditional returning student who maintains a full-time career as director of membership and activities for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. While working with Jeffrey Cole, she was instrumental in formulating the highly-successful Information Superhighway Summit at UCLA in 1994, a conference attended by Vice President Gore and CEOs of prestigious communication corporations. She was the liaison and a producer of the 1995 White House conference on aging. Loe is currently involved in planning a national conference on violence in the broadcast media, “Television’s Impact on Society,” at which President Clinton is expected to be the featured speaker.

As director of the Academy’s campaign against substance abuse, Loe has integrated her career expertise with her education commitment. The educational potential of this role and her participation as a panelist at the White House conference for a drug free America motivated her to host a College Satellite Network talk show on drug abuse and to direct the Academy’s anti-drug college video competition.

Loe has devoted her energies with equal diligence on a much more personal level, using her success to motivate others. Her struggle to overcome a lifelong learning disability and to attain an outstanding record of scholarship serves as an encouraging model for the disabled students she mentors through the UCLA Office of Students with Disabilities.

Dr. Eugenie Dye notes, “Regarding her own presence at UCLA as a dream come true, Linda overcame almost insurmountable obstacles before she could even imagine coming here. The death of her husband left her with a young family to raise and support. After reaching an executive position in the workplace, she had to continue her demanding career in order to afford the ‘luxury’ of a university education, Linda Loe intends to use the law and business management graduate degrees she will work toward next for the empowerment of others. That she has used her education to benefit others by initiating creative ventures for our university, our faculty and out students, should be an inspiration to us all.”