Santiago Carlos Ayulo is the Lee Enterprises Design Center Director and formerly the Assistant Managing Editor of Presentation for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has been at the Post-Dispatch for twelve years. He has been the Sports Design Director and overall Design Director during his time with the P-D. Previously he was lead sports designer…

Sarah Kirksey is in her 12th year of advising scholastic journalism and her 10th year at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri. Kirksey advises the Panorama Newsmagazine, Rambler Yearbook, Melodrama Literary Magazine, ID Feature Magazine, LadueToday.com and teaches intro to journalistic writing, design and media courses. Kirksey graduated from Kent State University…

Anna Steenson’s journey in visual storytelling began in high school at Central Campus in Des Moines, where Film & Broadcasting and Graphic Design classes introduced her to how visuals can spark curiosity, inspire action, and bring ideas to life. Her early work earned local and national recognition and set her on a path to explore…

Aaron Manfull is a former Dow Jones News Fund National Teacher of the Year and has spent the last 28 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 a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Chris has a journalism degree from the University of Iowa and an MBA from Drake University. He’s worked as a newspaper designer and…

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 19 years at both Liberty and McCluer North. At Liberty, he advises all of the media classes including: yearbook, journalism, magazine, online news and broadcast media. Liberty’s yearbook…

Mitch Eden, MJE, is an education and media consultant helping advisers and students improve themselves and their programs. He advised 27 years, most recently at Kirkwood H.S. (MO), where he advised The Kirkwood Call newsmagazine/website and the Pioneer yearbook. Eden is a former Dow Jones News Fund National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. He…