Editors Forum

Faculty

Message From Your Co-Chairs

As we began planning the 2011 Editors Forum last summer, the task appeared daunting: Take one of CASE's most popular professional development conferences—a two-and-a-half day grand bazaar of marquee speakers and substantive seminars attended annually by more than 250 university editors from around the nation—figure out what had worked in the past and what hadn't, devise a schedule designed to appeal to both new and experienced communications professionals, and persuade total strangers to fly to Denver next spring and teach us how we can do our jobs better.

Yet that's also when the fun began. The simple act of assembling this forum renewed our love for our work and reminded us why we chose to do what we do. Even as budgets are tight and all of us are being asked to explore new ways of communicating, the fundamental power of story remains the same. Join us in the foothills of the Rockies next spring as we celebrate our love of words and education, share a few tales, and get excited—again—about having the best jobs on campus.

Conference Co-Chairs

Maureen Harmon
Editor, Denison Magazine
Denison University

Maureen Harmon's original life plan was to teach literature at the college level, but after graduating from Penn State Behrend in 2000, she figured making money was a better bet than spending it, so she begged for a job at The Penn Stater instead of enrolling in grad school. They actually hired her. She spent seven years in State College, Pa., before making the trek to Granville, Ohio, in 2009 to become the editor of Denison Magazine. Her time in the alumni/college magazine world has taught her that these kinds of publications can be surprisingly exciting and awfully stressful--but she likes it here and figures she'll stick around for a while.

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Betsy Robertson
Editor, Auburn Magazine
Auburn University

Betsy Robertson is editor of Auburn Magazine, which mails quarterly to 46,000 dues-paying members of the Auburn Alumni Association at Auburn University. A former daily newspaper reporter and freelance news writer for CNN.com, Robertson has worked in higher-education publications and public relations for 18 years, including stints at Georgia State and Kennesaw State universities. She has shared in a total of four national and 18 regional CASE awards for alumni magazines, internal and external tabloids, editorial design and media relations. Robertson hates banal writing, loves her four-year-old chow chow, Whiskey, and believes she has the best job in the world.

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Ketnote Speaker

Deborah Blum
Author, Professor of Journalism
University of Wisconsin

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer prize-winning science writer, the author of five popular science books, most recently the best-selling title, The Poisoner's Handbook. She teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism.

Before joining the faculty in 1997, she worked at The Sacramento Bee, where she won the Pulitzer in 1992 for beat reporting. She has also written for publications including the New York Times, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, Science News, and New Scientist. Her work has been featured on "The Today show", "Good Morning America," and NPR's "This American Life" and "Talk of the Nation/ Science Friday" among others. Earlier books include Ghost Hunters, published in 2006; Love at Goon Park, a 2002 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Sex on the Brain, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, and The Monkey Wars. She is also co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers.

A past president of the National Association of Science Writers, Blum now serves on the board of the Council for Advance of Science Writing and the board of the World Federation of Science Journalists. She currently blogs at Speakeasy Science, part of the PLoS network, and for Women in Crime Ink.

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Guest Speakers

Constance Hale
Freelance Writer and Editor
San Francisco Writers Grotto

As the author of Sin and Syntax and Wired Style, Constance Hale has carved a niche as a critic of narrative journalism and a fiend about the craft of writing. She blogs about both at sinandsyntax.com. As a reporter she has also covered Latin plurals and Latino culture, Berkeley politics and Hawaiian sovereignty. She has been a staff editor at the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, Wired, and Health magazines, and her freelance work has appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Times, Honolulu, as well as several anthologies. She edits books for Harvard Business School Press and many private clients, helping to turn books about serious subjects into serious page-turners. She is currently working on a new book about verbs, titled Vex, Hex, Smash, and Smooch.

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Vicki Glembocki
Writer-at-Large
Philadelphia Magazine

In a former life, Vicki Glembocki was the senior editor at the Penn Stater Magazine and articles editor at Philadelphia Magazine. Now, she's is an award-winning magazine writer and essayist, a writer-at-large for Philadelphia Magazine, a columnist for Reader's Digest, a blogger (a.k.a. "Blunt Force Mama" at vickiglembocki.blogspot.com), and author of the memoir The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth About Becoming a Mom--Finally. (She appeared on Oprah as one of "the boldest moms in the country" where she admitted to the entire nation that she once peed in a diaper...when she was 37.)

Her articles have appeared in many publications including Playboy, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Town and Country, Women's Health, More and Fit Pregnancy.  She has been a guest on many TV and radio shows, led seminars at conferences, lectured in college classes, sung karaoke, taught yoga, and performed in more than 100 plays and musicals (including two where she danced on stage naked).

Glembocki has a bachelor's degree in English and a master's of fine art degree in nonfiction writing, both from Penn State.

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Robert D. Richards
John & Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Robert D. Richards is the John & Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies and founding director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at Penn State University. He is the co-author of the 2003 book Mass Communications Law in Pennsylvania and is the author of Freedom's Voice: The Perilous Present and Uncertain Future of the First Amendment (1998) and Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: Mr. Justice Brennan's Legacy to the First Amendment (1994). He has also published more than 150 articles on the First Amendment in the academic and popular press. He appears frequently in the media commenting on First Amendment issues.

At Penn State, he has served as the head of the journalism department and associate dean of the College of Communications. He created and currently directs the Penn State Washington D.C. Program. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mass communications law and the First Amendment.

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Thomas French
Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism
Indiana University

Thomas French, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, worked for three decades at the St. Petersburg Times. In 1998, he was awarded the Pulitzer prize for feature writing for Angels & Demons, a series that chronicled the murder of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters while they vacationed in Tampa Bay. One of his other projects, South of Heaven, followed a year in the life of a Florida high school and was expanded into a book. His most recent project, Zoo Story, explored life and death among the species at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. A book version has just been published by Hyperion.

French is a Writing Fellow at the Poynter Institute and has led reporting workshops in newsrooms and at conferences around the world, from Singapore to Johannesburg to Helsinki. He now teaches journalism fulltime at his alma mater, Indiana University.

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Tyler Stableford
Commercial & Editorial Photographer

Aspen photographer and filmmaker Tyler Stableford has earned a worldwide clientele for his commercial and editorial work. Men's Journal named him "One of the Seven World's Greatest Adventure Photographers," and he is one of Canon's prestigious Explorers of Light. Tyler has won numerous photo and filmmaking awards from Communication Arts, PDN, American Photo and The International Photography Awards, among others.

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Faculty

Susan Allen
College Editor, Manger of Publications
St. Norbert College

Susan Allen joined St. Norbert College in 2003. Among her responsibilities are St. Norbert College Magazine and @St. Norbert, a Circle of Excellence award-winning monthly newsletter. Allen has worked as writer, editor and critic in England and the United States. Her experience in media relations stems from her time as government press officer in London.

When not at her desk, Allen can usually be found on a tennis court. But when it gets too dark to see the ball she turns to other endeavors: recently, these have included editing a suite of sonnets and writing reflections on the collects and other examples of Thomas (Book of Common Prayer) Cranmer's magnificent prose. She says it's a good thing this is the kind of work that makes you rich AND famous, since her children's four college educations look set to overlap for the next three years.

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Edie Filice Barry
Vice President, Communications and Marketing
Stanford University Alumni Association

After graduating from UCLA with a degree in graphic design, Edie Filice Barry worked as a field representative for a California congressman, and quickly jumped into the publishing world working at California Magazine.

After marriage, she moved to San Francisco and joined Stanford Magazine as advertising manager. In that role, she also managed other publishing activities at the Stanford Alumni Association including the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and the Portable Stanford book series. Over the next 14 years, she developed and managed revenue programs both at the magazine and at the alumni association programs in travel study, Sierra Camp, membership and executive education.

n 1998, Barry left Stanford and joined two technology companies—Beyond.com and Handspring—working in marketing, strategy and new product development. She is currently vice president for marketing and communications at the Stanford Alumni Association and serves as publisher of Stanford Magazine.

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Carole Bass
Senior Writer, Yale Alumni Magazine

Since 2009, Carole Bass has been senior writer at the Yale Alumni Magazine, a position created to bolster the magazine's online presence. She helped launch a news blog, on which she posts daily, and writes a web-only "Yalie of the Week" feature about a graduate who is in the news for reasons good, bad or neutral. She also writes for the print alumni magazine.

Bass spent most of her career as a reporter and editor at weekly newspapers, ranging from the Connecticut Law Tribune to the alternative New Haven Advocate. In 2008, she received an Alicia Patterson Fellowship to report and write about toxic exposures on the job. Although she has two degrees from Yale, she is grateful that the alumni magazine is editorially independent of her alma mater.

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Susan Blystone
Editor, Illinois State Alumni Magazine; Assistant Director, University Marketing and Communications
Illinois State University

Forget the silver spoon, Susan Blystone was born with a pen in her hand. It was no surprise when Blystone majored in communications and completed a master's degree in English studies/professional writing. Her career started in print journalism, primarily with The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill. She found her love for higher education there as the reporter on that beat for several years. She transitioned from newspapers in 1992, becoming the first PR/marketing person for Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill.

For the past 16 years, she has been at her alma mater, Illinois State University, where she serves as editor of Illinois State. She is the only full-time employee assigned to the quarterly publication that goes to approximately 160,000 alumni. Accolades for her work include selection as the 2008 recipient of Illinois State's Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest campus honor given professional staff. She is also a past recipient of a CASE Circle of Excellence Bronze Medal for Tabloid and Newsletter Publishing Improvement awarded for the first redesign of Illinois State from tabloid to magazine format.

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Christine Deriso
Editorial Manager
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Medical College of Georgia)

Christine Deriso has overseen publications and editorial standards at GHSU for 25 years while maintaining an active freelance writing career. She has written articles and humor essays for national magazines including Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Child and Family Circle. Deriso has published three novels with Random House, along with a children's picture book and a book on the health benefits of green tea, co-written with cell biologist Stephen Hsu. Her next novel, Then I Met My Sister, will be published in April 2011.

Deriso earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and began her writing career in the newspaper industry. Her writing has earned awards from CASE, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Georgia Society for Hospital Marketing and Public Relations and Independent Publisher, among other organizations.

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Matthew Dewald
Editor, University of Dayton Magazine
University of Dayton

Matthew Dewald is editor of University of Dayton Magazine, which, along with its predecessor, University of Dayton Quarterly, has been a regular winner of national and regional CASE awards for writing, design and publication excellence. He is also director of the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, which honors the legacy of one of UD's best-known graduates by encouraging beginning and seasoned writers with the advice Erma received from one of her professors: "You can write."

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Brian Doyle
Editor, Portland Magazine
University of Portland

Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon - "the best spiritual magazine in the country," according to author Annie Dillard, clearly a woman of surpassing taste and discernment. Portland won the 2005 Robert Sibley Award as the best university magazine in North America (lovely sentence, that).

Doyle is the author of ten books: five collections of essays, two nonfiction books (The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine, about the "muddles & musics of the heart"), two collections of "proems," and the sprawling novel Mink River, just published by Oregon State University Press. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion, The American Scholar, and in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Among various honors for his work is mysteriously a 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His greatest accomplishments are that a riveting woman said yup when he mumbled a marriage proposal, that the Coherent Mercy then sent them three lanky snotty sneery testy sweet brilliant nutty muttering children in skin boats from the sea of the stars, and that he once made the all-star team in a Boston men's basketball league.

Photo credit: Jerry Hart

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Stephanie Epp
Executive Director, Alumni Relations
Illinois State University Alumni Center

Stephanie Epp is executive director of alumni relations for Illinois State University. Epp coordinates a staff of ten alumni relations professionals as well as a 27-member Alumni Association Board of Directors. She serves as publisher of the Illinois State alumni magazine, a quarterly publication distributed to 150,000 alumni.

Prior to joining alumni relations, Epp served as co-director of the National Board Resource Center at Illinois State University, a unit of the College of Education dedicated to improving teacher quality through a grassroots network of board-certified educators across Illinois and the nation. Before coming to Illinois State University in 2003, she managed higher education and professional development initiatives for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. A former elementary educator, Epp taught kindergarten and third grade in West Des Moines, Iowa, from 1990-1998.

She holds a graduate certificate in nonprofit leadership from Georgetown University; a certificate in fundraising management from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; a master's degree in curriculum and teaching management from Drake University; a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Northwest Missouri State University; and National Board Certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

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Laurel Thomas Gnagey
Director of Internal Communications
University of Michigan

Laurel Thomas Gnagey is director of internal communications at the University of Michigan. In this role, she is responsible for the weekly University Record in print and online, a publication for faculty and staff. She also manages the Record Update, a daily electronic publication that is e-mailed to all faculty and staff and is available by subscription to anyone who wishes to receive it.

She also manages the university's official Facebook page, which has more than 229,000 fans, and she is responsible for a network of communicators across campus known as Communicators' Forum.

Thomas Gnagey also works on strategic communication for campus events and initiatives, including the July 1, 2011, move to a smoke-free university, and as the lead communicator during the Spring Commencement visit from President Barack Obama.

She began her career as a reporter and anchor for radio and television. She later worked in public relations for a small hospital and a chamber of commerce in Northern Michigan. She has held faculty positions in broadcast journalism, journalism and public relations at Central Michigan University and Taylor University in Indiana. Before coming to U-M, she served as director of communications for Lutheran Social Services of Michigan.

Thomas Gnagey earned a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Illinois State University, a master's degree in broadcast and cinematic arts from CMU, and has completed 21 hours at the doctoral level at Ball State University.

She holds universal accreditation through the Public Relations Society of America.

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Tina Hay
Editor
The Penn Stater magazine

Tina Hay is editor of The Penn Stater, which is sent bimonthly to the 164,000 members of the Penn State Alumni Association, and which won the 2007 Sibley Award from CASE and Newsweek. Hay is a little embarrassed to admit that The Penn Stater doesn't yet have a website, but points out that the magazine does have a pretty cool daily blog: http://pennstatermag.com.

Hay is a frequent presenter at the CASE Editors Forum and has twice co-chaired the forum. She also has taught the magazine track at the CASE Summer Institute in Marketing and Communications and has provided private consultation and critiques to a number of alumni magazines.

She has been editor of The Penn Stater since 1996. Before that, she spent 13 years doing communications for Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, and a really long time ago she was the all-night DJ on an FM rock radio station. In her spare time she sings alto in a choral society, is an avid photographer, and plays servant to three cute but demanding cats. Because her house and life apparently aren't cluttered enough, she recently also took up knitting.

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Art Jahnke
Executive Editor, Bostonia
Boston University

Art Jahnke began his career as a journalist at The Real Paper, a Boston-based alternative weekly, where his beat ran from prostitution to the existence of God. At Boston magazine, where Jahnke was an investigative reporter and editor, he wrote about everything from Jamaican gangs to ancient Egyptian archeology. He also worked for several years at IDG, as web editorial director for CXO media, winning several national awards for website design and content.

In 2006, Jahnke returned to BU, where many years earlier he earned a master's degree in journalism. He has taught courses in writing and publishing at Suffolk University, Emerson College and Harvard Summer School. He is executive editor of BU Today and Bostonia magazine.

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Matthew Jennings
Editor, Middlebury Magazine
Middlebury College

Matt Jennings is the editorial director in the communications office at Middlebury College, where he has edited the award-winning Middlebury Magazine since 2002. The son of a now-retired journalism professor, Matt conducts both editorial workshops at conferences around the country and on webinars via the series of tubes known as the internets. He also serves as an editorial consultant for higher ed magazines and communications offices. Prior to working at Middlebury, Matt directed an award-winning publications program at Sidwell Friends School, an independent school in Washington, D.C.

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Dave Jorgensen
Assistant Director, Graphic Design
Illinois State University

Dave Jorgenson completed an undergraduate degree in graphic design in 1987, and in 2003 a master's degree in communication. He entered the design field during its trasition phase from typesetting and paste-up to the formative years of Quark, Photoshop and digital cameras. For the first seven years, his career began with two small design agencies where he quickly learned to juggle many responsibilities for a wide variety of clients. In 1995, Jorgensen came on board as a designer for Illinois State University with University Marketing and Communications.

Jorgensen now serves as UMC's assistant director, and helps guide all the design work the office produces. The design team at UMC includes five other staff members and a few design interns and serves the needs for a long list of university clients for a variety of audiences including campus, current and potential students and parents, alumni and the community at large.

For the past five years, he has been the lead designer for Illinois State alumni magazine. In addition to in-house and freelance writers, all five staff designers and photographer work together as a team to create a quarterly magazine for print (140,000) and its Internet component.

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Dale Keiger
Associate Editor
Johns Hopkins University

Dale Keiger is associate editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine, author of the popular UMagazinology blog, and a frequent presenter at the CASE Editors Forum. In his 19 years at Johns Hopkins, he has won 15 CASE Circle of Excellence awards for feature writing, including six gold medals.

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Sherri Kimmel
Director of Editorial Services
Dickinson College

Sherri Kimmel began her career in as a copy editor and feature writer for The Dayton Daily News. She has been managing editor of The Hill, editor of The Pennsylvania Lawyer and, since 1999, senior editor of Dickinson Magazine. She also is director of editorial services, leading a team of four writers who are perennial winners in the staff-writing category of CASE District II's Accolade Awards.

Dickinson Magazine also has won many awards for photography, illustration, multimedia and general excellence from CASE, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Communicators in Education. One of Kimmel's most fulfilling activities is working with student writers. She was named 2010 Northeast Region Supervisor of the Year by the Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators, which covers most of the Eastern Seaboard. Other interests include photography. She recently let the battery on her 30-year-old Canon AE1 run down and has taken up with a Nikon D-300 digital SLR.

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Morven Knowles
Alumni Relations Manager, Communications & Benefits
University of Cambridge

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Morven Knowles spent over 15 years in UK book publishing in roles ranging across PR, marketing and editing. She spent five years at the Telegraph Media Group, publishers of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, developing branded publications and working on both print and online relationship marketing, before joining the University of Cambridge Alumni Relations Office as benefits and communications manager in 2008. There she has worked on the successful redesign of the alumni magazine CAM, as the magazine's managing editor, and has been instrumental in setting up a range of new print and electronic communications for the university's 193,000 alumni.

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Jeffrey Lott
Senior Publications Editor
Swarthmore College

Jeff Lott has been editor of the Swarthmore College Bulletin since 1992. He co-chaired the Editors Forum in 1998 and 2006 and was a leader among editors in conceiving, drafting and urging adoption of the CASE Principles of Practice for College and University Editors. Since 2006, Lott has been instrumental in creating, adopting and interpreting the CASE Members Magazine Readership Survey.

He has served as a member of the CASE Communications and Marketing Commission, on the faculty of the Summer Institute, and as chair of the 2009 Annual Conference for Publications Professionals. He was educated at Middlebury College and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied studio art and art education. He taught elementary and secondary school art for 12 years before turning to graphic design, journalism, and publications management in the 1980s.

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Alicia Lutz
Director of College Publications
College of Charleston

Alicia Lutz has been writing and editing publications for more than 15 years. She came to the College of Charleston, her alma mater, in 2006 to start the college's employee newsletter, The Portico. Since its first issue in February 2007, The Portico has won 14 awards, including the 2008 CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Medal Award for Print Internal Audience Tabloids and Newsletters.

In addition to being the sole writer and editor of The Portico,Lutz is the managing editor of the College of Charleston Magazine, which won the 2010 CASE Circle of Excellence Bronze Medal Award for College and University General Interest Magazines and the Silver 2010 National ADDY Award for Editorial Spread.

Before joining the college's publications team, she served as the project editor for several book publishers, and was a technical writer, ghostwriter, copywriter and copy editor in various capacities--most notably as editor-in-chief of Care Magazine, an award-winning monthly aimed at digesting complex medical information and making it as straightforward and engaging for the layman as possible. Having begun her first newsletter --a neighborhood circular called The Haynes Gazette-- at the age of 10, Lutz has always enjoyed using the written word to celebrate the people within her community.

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Nicole McKeen
Freelance Editor

Nicole McKeen became editor of The Florida Engineer when her brain began to feel like mush after birthing three boys back-to-back (ok not really back to back, more like every 17 months). She is not an engineer but loved the challenge of learning how to tell their stories. After four years of studying the craft of coffee-table-worthy magazines, she earned a CASE District III Award followed by a Circle of Excellence Bronze Medal for best cover, four University and College Designers Association Awards of Excellence and most recently four awards from the Florida Magazine Association, including one for best overall magazine.

In August, her husband accepted an irresistible offer to chair the journalism department at Boston University. So, the McKeens--including their daughter, three boys and Max the cat--took the 1,262-mile trip north. There, McKeen edited her final issue of The Florida Engineer and is now building up the nest for her family, freelancing and awaiting the next opportunity to swap the housecoat for a sassy pair of commuter shoes.

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Becky Morphis
Director, Communications
North Carolina State University

Becky Morphis the director of communications for the NC State Alumni Association and managing editor of NC State Magazine, which mails quarterly to 43,000 alumni and friends.

During the decade Morphis has worked in higher-education communications and marketing, she's shared in more than 40 regional and national awards, including several national CASE awards.

Morphis earned her bachelor's degree in history from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master's degree in mass communications from UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Paige Parvin
Editor, Emory Magazine
Emory University

Paige Parvin joined Emory Magazine, Emory's central alumni quarterly, in 2000 and has served as editor since 2007. Her work in Emory Magazine has won two CASE Circle of Excellence awards for feature writing, and the magazine was recognized in 2008 with the CASE III Grand Award for Excellence in Feature Writing and a Special Merit Award for feature writing, as well as a Special Merit Award for overall excellence.

Before her arrival at Emory, Parvin was a staff writer at Southern Voice newspaper, a public relations officer for American InterContinental University and the High Museum of Art, and features writer for the Northside Neighbor newspaper.

A graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee), she holds a master's degree in film studies from Emory's Institute of Liberal Arts.

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Paul Pegher
Creative Director, University Communications
Denison University

As the creative director for University Communications at Denison University, Paul Pegher guides the development and execution of advancement, admissions and campus communications. He previously served as the editor of Denison Magazine, which earned ten national awards under his direction, including the 2006 Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year.

A graduate of Ohio University, Pegher has done magazine and communications work at the College of William & Mary, Carlow University and the University of Pittsburgh. Between Pitt and Denison, he swam with the sharks as a marketing/design project manager for Exhibitgroup/Giltspur--a role that had him working ungodly hours and frequently hopping from Düsseldorf to Dearborn, Green Bay to Miami Beach. But he eventually saw the light, and realized that not only is higher ed a cooler and smarter gig where people smile more, it gives him more time to focus on his favorite project: collaborating with his wife, Deborah, on raising kids Ella and Sam.

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Catherine Pierre
Editor, Johns Hopkins Magazine
Johns Hopkins University

Catherine Pierre is editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine and director of the University Magazine Group, which provides editorial and design consulting for alumni publications. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, she was the manager of public relations at the Walters Art Museum, an internationally renowned institution located in Baltimore. Prior to that, she spent five years as an editor at Baltimore magazine, where she covered the arts, health and other topics of interest to a general readership. In all, she has more than 14 years' experience as a magazine editor.

She holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in English literature from Indiana University. She joined the Johns Hopkins Magazine staff in 2003.

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Shawn Presley
Editor, Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin and Associate Vice President of College Relations and Public Affairs
Kenyon College

Shawn Presley is the editor of the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin and the associate vice president of college relations and public affairs in Gambier, Ohio, where he oversees everything from fancy-pants branding initiatives to the college phone book.

The Alumni Bulletin received the 2009 and 2011 Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award from CASE. Presley co-chaired the Editors Forum in 2010 and has worked in higher education for twenty-one years, including stints at the University of Iowa, Central College and the University of Missouri.

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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Deb Rieselman
Digital Executive Editor, University of Cincinnati Magazine
University of Cincinnati

Deb Rieselman is editor of University of Cincinnati Magazine, executive editor of the digital magazine and assistant director of public relations at UC. Prior to her 26 years there, she spent 10 years in community journalism, including three years as managing editor of three weekly newspapers. She is an Accredited Business Communicator who has earned 121 editorial awards, including a CASE Circle of Excellence award and an international Gold Quill from the International Association of Business Communicators. She judges national competitions, teaches workshops, presents at national conferences and leads retreats.

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Sheila Haar Siegel
Writer/Editor
St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Sheila Haar Siegel attended her first Editor's Forum in 2008, when she was barely a toddler in her career as editor of Script alumni magazine at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. During the conference, and for weeks thereafter, she ever so politely tugged on the pants of as many of her new colleagues as possible, asking them for answers to everything from, "What size font do you use?" to "What is the mission statement of your magazine?" She found everyone to be enormously helpful, particularly when it came to the distinct challenge, and opportunity, of coming up with creative content for the only independent pharmacy school in the country with just one degree program and a "Eutectic" for a mascot.

She has been editor of Script since 2006. Before that, she worked for several years in development and marketing for universities and nonprofit organizations. Though certainly not smart enough to be a pharmacist, she has become highly educated in telling pharmacists' stories and helping to communicate their ever-expanding roles in health care. Her 22-month-old son, Harrison, (if he could verbalize it) might say, "She's the smartest person I know."

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DJ Stout
Partner
Pentagram Design

DJ Stout is a fifth generation Texan born in the small West Texas town of Alpine. He received his degree in design communication from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he was honored as a distinguished alumnus. Between 1987 and 1999 he was art director of Texas Monthly, where he helped to guide the magazine to three National Magazine Awards.

Stout joined Pentagram's Austin office as a partner in 2000. In a special 1998 issue, American Photo magazine selected DJ as one of the "100 most important people in photography" primarily because of the impressive body of original photographic works that he commissioned and art directed during his 13 years at the magazine. In 2004 I.D. (International Design) magazine selected Stout for "The I.D. Fifty," its annual listing of design innovators. In 2010 The Society of Illustrators honoredhim with the national Richard Gangel Art Director Award. Also in 2010 Stout was recognized as the AIGA Austin Fellow award recipient for his exceptional contributions to the field of design.

Stout and his team specialize in the creation of brand identity design and strategy, publication design, packaging and interactive design solutions. Recent projects include Microsoft Windows Vista, Ruby Tuesday Restaurants, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Walgreens, L.L. Bean, Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine, Yankee magazine, and Texas A&M's Advance magazine.

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Michelle Tedford
Director, Communications
University of Dayton

Michelle Tedford is director of communications at the University of Dayton. As managing editor of the University of Dayton Magazine, she gets to dust out dark corners of campus in "Hidden Treasure," meet the Flyer Class of 2030 in "Class Notes," and talk to priests about everything from running shoes to female ordination in "Big Questions." She has worked on print and digital publications for more than 15 years and is proud to lead a staff that continues to receive national and regional CASE awards for writing, design and publication excellence.

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Kim Urquhart
Editor, Emory Report
Emory University

Kim Urquhart manages the writing, editing, photography, production and distribution of Emory Report, Emory University's faculty and staff publication. On the heels of earning the 2010 CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Award for print internal audience periodicals, Urquhart was tasked with transforming Emory Report from a weekly print newspaper to a daily online publication. Needless to say, her job is anything but boring. She's worked as a writer, photographer and editor--as well as backpacking guide, tour guide and mountain bike instructor--before joining Emory's Office of Communications & Marketing in 2006. An iPad-toting, Facebook-posting student of new media, she nonetheless delights in opportunities to "unplug." Her favorite recent assignment at Emory was interviewing His Holiness the Dalai Lama about science and spirituality.

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