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Conversations With Creatives: Kenyatta Cheese

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Kenyatta Cheese is co-founder and CEO of Everybody at Once, a marketing firm that has worked with such major brands as Netflix and YouTube, and media properties such as Dr. Who and Killing Eve. In the interview, Kenyatta shares how his personal experiences of not quite fitting in led to a quest to create spaces and platforms where everyone can feel included and connected to a life-affirming community that is larger than themselves.

Conversations With Creatives is a periodic series of interviews with media professionals and entrepreneurs who have carved out interesting career paths.

Conversations with Creatives: Jonathan Stauder

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Jon Stauder’s role as cinematic director at Deck Nine Games is the latest in a series of positions as an animator, director in a variety of professional contexts. In this interview, he shares his journey from his time as a student and project lead in TCNJ’s novel game design and production courses to the work he is doing today.

Conversations With Creatives is a periodic series of interviews with media professionals and entrepreneurs who have carved out interesting career paths.

Conversations with creatives: Justin Gaynor

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Justin Gaynor is Director of Web Applications Development for Weblications, a subsidiary of the Creative Marketing Alliance and host and producer of Big Unhappy Family: An On Cinema Fan Show on Adult Swim. He says the interdisciplinary preparation he received in his interactive major at TCNJ has been important to his success.

Conversations With Creatives is a periodic series of interviews with media professionals and entrepreneurs who have carved out interesting career paths.

Conversations with Creatives: Audrey Blumberg

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Audrey Blumberg is the owner and editor of The Breeze, which serves Bridgewater, New Jersey and co-owner and editor in chief of Tapinto Flemington-Raritan, a hyperlocal news service for Hunterdon County, NJ. She started with the goal of becoming a reporter and editor for entertainment magazines. So how did she end up becoming an editor and owner of two hyperlocal news properties? She shares her journey in this interview.

Conversations With Creatives is a periodic series of interviews with media professionals and entrepreneurs who have carved out interesting career paths.

Serving Diverse Audiences With Science Writing

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It was an honor to be a panelist for this November 17, 2020 conversation, sponsored by the DC chapter of the National Association of Science Writers and moderated by Emily Conover.

Here’s DCSWA’s description of the panel that accompanies the YouTube video:

Audiences for many forms of science communication skew predominantly white. This panel will discuss the origins of the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in audiences and strategies for how newsrooms and individual writers can work to remove barriers and better serve and engage communities of color. Panelists: Juliet M. Beverly, Content Manager at BrainFacts.org Mónica Feliú-Mójer, Director of Communications and Science Outreach for Ciencia Puerto Rico Kim Pearson, Associate Professor of Journalism at The College of New Jersey Andrea Wenzel, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University Moderator: Emily Conover, Physics Reporter at Science News (Note: the gray panelist image indicates a co-host present to help with logistics.)

Resources shared by the panelists: