Eric Flagg left a successful career as an environmental scientist to pursue an interest that he thought could significantly impact the world — documentary filmmaking. Moonlighting as a college digital film instructor, Flagg makes films with a focus on environmental issues, American history and off-beat characters. Gimme Green (Mountainfilm 2007), a graduate school film project made with fellow student Isaac Brown, studies America’s obsession with its largest irrigated crop: lawns. Terra Blight (Mountainfilm 2012), also made with Brown, looks at the environmental component that accompanies our gargantuan appetite for computers.

Mr. Frazier born in 1950 is a Jacksonville native, his participation in the Civil Rights Movement began as an adolescent marching with his mother in civil rights demonstrations in downtown Jacksonville during segregation. In 1979 Mr. Frazier became the first African American to anchor a major television newscast in Jacksonville, Eyewitness News at Noon. Mr. Frazier is an Emmy award winning journalist and the recipient of more that 200 awards for journalistic excellence and community service such as NAACP's “Rutledge Pearson Civil Rights Award”, Jacksonville Image Award “Trailblazer Category” and Folio’s “Best Community Activist”. In the past year he achieved international prominence when he was invited to Geneva, Switzerland and addressed the United Nations: Committee To Eliminate Racial Discrimination. Mr. Frazier spoke on social injustice and human rights here in Florida. In 2017 Mr. Frazier founded The Northside Coalition of Jacksonville Inc, a non-profit, civil rights organization . With its Mission: “To stand up and speak out against any and all forms of all forms of social, racial and economic injustice.

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Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. He has reported on the pandemic and economic relief efforts, and led work on five International Consortium of Investigative Journalists collaborations, including the Implant Files, China Files, and the FinCEN Files. His work on people injured by foul balls led Major League Baseball to extend protections at all its stadiums. He previously spent almost 13 years as a reporter at The New York Times, working on a range of national, international, and investigative stories. He was one of the newspaper’s lead reporters analyzing the WikiLeaks trove of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, and Guantanamo detainee dossiers. Those stories were compiled into a bestselling book, Open Secrets. He contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that examined substandard Chinese chemicals tainting U.S. pharmaceuticals. He has also covered President Trump’s finances, the BP oil spill and other environmental disasters, Olympic sports, mining disasters, and abuses in railroad disability pensions. He contributed to the bestselling book Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard. Before joining The Times, he was an investigative producer at NBC News, covering 9/11 and terrorism. Lehren’s investigative documentaries examined racially biased policing, defective automobiles, and how a major insurance company created an elaborate system to defraud its own customers. He has won numerous awards, including a Polk, Peabody, two duPont-Columbia batons, two Gerald Loeb Awards, three Edward R. Murrow investigative Awards, Emmys, three Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, two Overseas Press Club honors, and two Daniel Pearl Awards. He is the director of investigative reporting for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where his students have twice won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for best student investigation in the nation. He also teaches at the Columbia Journalism School. While working for Investigative Reporters and Editors, he oversaw its computer-assisted reporting operation. He has written for Reuters, the Philadelphia Daily News, JazzTimes, and The National Law Journal. He earned degrees from the University of Missouri and Lehigh University. As a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow, he has reported on how products by Tesla, Toyota, Adidas and others have contributed to the destruction of tropical rainforests.

Skyler graduated from Flagler College in 2020 with a bachelor's in Digital Media Production and Journalism. Relocating to Western Montana later that year, her experience has ranged from non-profit communications to media production with Montana PBS in the state's capitol. Stemming from a passion for empathetic storytelling and documentary production, she has dived in to civic-driven comms that have served rural communities in access to critical information.

Director of Trusting News, Joy Mayer leads an organization that learns how people decide what news to trust and turns that knowledge into actionable strategies for journalists. They train and empower journalists to take responsibility for demonstrating credibility and actively earning trust through transparency and engagement. In a continual cycle of research, learning and sharing with the industry, they explore how to incorporate trust-building into journalism’s standards and practices. Joy Mayer founded Trusting News in 2016 after a 20-year career in newsrooms and teaching. She spent 12 years at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an audience engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design and print design.

Dr. Moody is a professor of Communications Media at Fitchburg State University. A former program director, radio station manager and social media consultant for several businesses, Dr. Moody’s research interests include how video game fans and consumers are involved in the production and dissemination of fan and journalistic content, and also examines how media audiences are involved in the production and dissemination of new media content through field studies. His research also includes online communities of users and players of video games, new media design, social media applications, ethnography, cultural studies, and media production. Dr. Moody received worldwide attention for his innovative class offering in Fall 2012. “Specialized Reporting and Writing: Video Games and Communication” was Iowa's first course that focused on the journalistic aspects of gaming and the game industry. The course worked with leading video game publication IGN, which provided unprecedented production assistance and input to assist student learning and enhance collegiate journalism practices. It has received extensive coverage outside of the academy, including news stories published by Jim Romenesko, Kotaku, and the University of Iowa’s own esteemed student newspaper The Daily Iowan.

Lorraine Portman is an award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, and Filmmaker. She taught Playwriting and Screenwriting at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida for ten years. She holds a B.A. in Theater from Smith College and M.F.A. in Film from Florida State University. Lorraine also attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Portman currently works as a Development Consultant for Samaco Films, an LA based production company known for "Guns, Girls and Gambling" and "Game of Aces." She has directed seven short films and a feature. “Saving Sophie”, the feature, was based on one of her produced plays and as a film played 26 film festivals and won 9 awards. Her recent film, “Falling South,” has been programmed in 51 film festivals to date and won a number of awards. She directs plays as well as films. Lorraine has written a stack of spec scripts, and many have been optioned. She has also worked with other people to take their project from idea to screenplay, developing the story and writing the screenplay.

Tom Szaroleta has been a print journalist for more than 35 years, working at newspapers in South Carolina, Idaho and Florida. He's been with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville since 2001. He's covered just about everything but sports and mostly writes entertainment stories these days.

Josh Wallace is a Senior Content Editor for the PGA TOUR focusing on creating video content for social media, YouTube, PGATOUR.com, and the PGA TOUR app. Josh, a Flagler alum, has been with the TOUR for 6 years and leads a team of four editors. He will be making his 4th trip to the Masters this April to edit video for their website and app.

Matthew Wysocki is an Associate Professor at Flagler College where he is the Coordinator of Media Studies and Film Studies. His research frequently focuses on “deviance” and media and on textual analysis of video games, professional wrestling, and Film Noir. He is especially interested in “control” with regard to video games and their narratives and the nature of sex and romance options in video games. He is the co-editor of Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games and editor of CTRL-ALT-PLAY: Essays on Control in Video Games.