LA City and Valley Colleges Educator Selected for Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by Television Academy

LA City and Valley Colleges adjunct professor Linda Beal has been selected for an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation. She is one of 18 professors selected from colleges and universities nationwide for the 2025 fellowship program.

Since 2021, the Foundation has offered Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowships, established by the Harry & Judy Friedman Family Foundation, in honor of the late television icon and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, which provide financial support for educators from community colleges and minority-serving institutions to attend its annual Media Educators Conference. The three-day conference, held at the Television Academy’s North Hollywood campus in California Oct. 22-24, connects college classrooms with the television industry by providing media professors with curriculum-enhancing seminars on the latest in the art, science and business of television with prominent leaders in entertainment.

Beal is an educator, television producer, attorney and nonprofit executive who has taught Cinema and Television courses at LA City College (LACC), LA Valley College, New York Film Academy (Burbank), Columbia College Hollywood, and high school dual enrollment for 16 years. Currently, she serves as adjunct professor in the Cinema-TV and Media Arts Departments at LA City and Valley Colleges. Her courses include Narrative and Documentary Film History, Television History, Diversity in Film, Film Genres, History of Animation and TV Announcing.

Beal served as LACC’s Academic Senator for 8 years and is a recipient of its 2020 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award. She also dedicated over 10 years as LACC’s Coordinator of year-round high school college camp programs.

As a television producer, Beal worked in the talk show genre for such shows as Whoopi Goldberg Show, Roseanne Show, Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, Gregg Kinnear Show and BET Live from LA. In 2024, she produced a documentary short about 99-year-old working artist Betye Saar for the Look What She’s Doing program.

Beal holds an M.F.A. degree from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film And Television Producer’s Program, and a J.D. from UC Law San Francisco.