Sarah Kirksey is in her 10th year of advising scholastic journalism and her eighth year at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri. Kirksey advises the Panorama Newsmagazine, Rambler Yearbook, Melodrama Literary Magazine, ID Feature Magazine and Laduepublications.com and teaches intro to journalistic writing, design and media courses. Kirksey was a 2018 recipient…

Kelly Furnas teaches multimedia journalism at Elon (N.C.) University, where he also advises the converged student news media, Elon News Network. He serves as the Journalism Education Association’s global engagement director, and he’s a member of the board of directors for the Student Press Law Center.

Aaron Manfull is a former Dow Jones News Fund National Teacher of the Year and has spent the last 26 years advising student media in Iowa and Missouri and for more than half of that time his students have been working online with digital media. Aaron currently advises media at Francis Howell North High School…

Chris Snider has spent his career telling stories in innovative and creative ways. He’s currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Chris had a journalism degree from the University of Iowa and an MBA from Drake University. He’s worked as a newspaper designer…

Jonathan Hall is the publications teacher at Liberty High School in Lake Saint Louis, Mo. He has been teaching high school student publications classes for the past 16 years at both Liberty and McCluer North. At Liberty, I teach all of the media classes: yearbook, journalism, magazine, online news and broadcast media. Liberty’s yearbook was…