Ryan Ashworth is the Head of Production, managing all projects that come in and out of the studio, and is responsible for both creative and financial decisions regarding the process of each video campaign. Since joining Stockworth Studios, Ryan and his team have collectively won 7 awards in both the Commercial and Short-Form Documentary space. Before that, Ryan was a Producer/Editor with the Orlando Magic where he created content for the NBA franchise. Ryan continues to help businesses generate millions of dollars through video production by matching his talent for driving revenue with visionary storytelling. His biggest piece of advice is "Don't overthink it. Pretend like you're talking to your younger self. Would what you're creating make you even want to laugh, cry, or say wow? Crafting something without the intention of making someone want to watch it a second... or maybe even a third time is sacrificing your gift for creativity."

Kenon A. Brown is a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations (A+PR) at the University of Alabama. He is also the director for the Institute for Communication and Information Research and co-director for the Beyond Sports Initiative. Prior to his academic appointment, Kenon worked for eight years in restaurant management and marketing. His research interests include image and reputation management, particularly in sports, and minority recruitment in mass communication. During his academic career, Kenon has worked with several sport and entertainment organizations, including the International Olympic Committee, FOX Sports, Twitch, NASCAR and the Country Music Association, specifically assisting with strategic planning and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Tracey Eaton is an associate professor at Flagler College. He was a foreign correspondent for the Dallas Morning News before joining the college. He has worked throughout Latin America and is a former Fulbright scholar in Ecuador. His freelance journalism clients have included NBC News, USA Today, Newsweek and the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. He has also written for Insider, a digital media brand with an audience of more than 221 million.

Tony Fox is a well-respected and seasoned media executive with over 30 years of strategic communications experience in the television industry. He has held a variety of senior positions at such diverse national media companies as HBO, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV Networks and Al Jazeera America. His expertise includes media relations, corporate communications, crisis management, corporate responsibility, event production and management, media training, internal communications, digital marketing and social media. Most recently Fox served as a communications consultant for Al Jazeera America, the US-based 24-hour news network and offshoot of the Qatar-based international Arab news channel Al Jazeera. He was a senior member of the network’s US launch team where he developed communications strategy and executed pre-launch media, business, and community outreach plans. He also coordinated dozens of on-air and editorial talent announcements, executive and talent interviews, media tours of the network’s state-of-the-art newsrooms and studios and he publicized a dozen domestic news bureau openings. Prior to that, he was the executive vice president of corporate communications at the MTV Networks Entertainment Group, comprised of cable networks Comedy Central. Spike TV, and TV Land and several digital properties including atom.com and GameTrailers.com, among others. While there he managed three separate results-oriented PR teams as well as a centralized corporate PR unit. He and his team successfully drove ratings, ad revenue and cultural awareness for numerous hit television series including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, The Colbert Report, Chappelle’s Show, The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Deadliest Warrior, Hot in Cleveland and Happily Divorced. Fox joined Time-Warner’s fledgling Comedy Channel in 1990 and the network soon merged with MTV Network’s competing all comedy network HA! a year later to become Comedy Central. He began his 21-year stint at Comedy Central as director of media relations and held a variety of executive communications positions, ultimately being promoted to executive vice president of corporate communications in 1990. In addition to successfully launching most of the network’s biggest and most culturally significant television hits, he also developed several impactful pro-social campaigns including Comics Come Home and RX Laughter as well as an award-winning public service campaign called Central Issues, in partnership with the Advertising Council. Fox began his career at Home Box Office in 1981 and quickly rose to become the network’s manager of sports publicity, supporting such major sports properties as Inside the NFL, Wimbledon, World Championship Boxing, including the rise of Mike Tyson, and numerous award-winning sports documentaries. This later led CBS-TV to recruit him as director of sports publicity to spearhead the communications efforts for network’s unprecedented The Dream Season, the largest collection of major league sports franchises in the history of broadcast television. He retired in 2013. Join Tony for lunch in the D-Hall on Tuesday. See the Events page for details and to register for the lunch.

Tim Franta is an award-winning film producer and an aerospace executive. He also writes for feature-length and episodic documentaries. He produced and wrote the story for WOMAN IN MOTION, a feature-length documentary now streaming on Paramount+. It tells the story of how Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, recruited the first women and minority astronauts for NASA in the late 1970s for the Space Shuttle program. The film has won many awards and was nominated for an Emmy® In the aerospace industry, Tim is the vice president of Starfighters Space, based at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Starfighters uses a fleet of the legendary F-104s and is the only commercial company able to fly at sustained MACH 2 in the world.  He will be air launching at supersonic speeds the smallest rocket to space next year. Tim believes it is a myth that you must choose between art and science. “Creativity and technology are both expressions of the human imagination.”

Meet Abigale Kreinheder, Flagler College class of 2023 is originally from Lakewood, New York, but called St. Augustine home for three years. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, concentrating in political science, economics, and English. With a passion for writing and storytelling, she delved into journalism and communication studies in her final semester. Beyond the classroom, Abigale was a columnist for local newspapers and a contributing writer for Trill Mag. She was the recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowship where she travelled to Indonesia to report on The Last Traces of Wild Kopi Luwak. This opportunity transformed her understanding of journalism, her worldly perspective, and further instilled a love for storytelling and traveling. Join Abby for lunch on Tuesday in the Markland House. See the Events page for details and to register for the event.

A 2009 communications Flagler alumna, Lauren (Cribb) Peacock, is a #1 Amazon author and an award-winning Producer. She has 13 years’ experience in film, commercial and branded content developing and shepherding productions of all sizes. Lauren had the pleasure of Executive Producing the award winning film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (premiering at Seattle International Film Festival, released theatrically in the US, the UK and Germany and subsequently featured on Netflix & Amazon Prime), Co-Producing rom-com Lady-Like (winner of Best Director at Sunscreen Film Festival and featured on Netflix) as well as be a part of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival favorite For Ellen directed by So Yong Kim, starring Paul Dano & John Heder. Lauren has negotiated with top agencies like WME, CAA, UTA to secure elite talent including comedians and musicians. Her expertise in directing production logistics and creative has led her to work with clients like Under Armour, ABC, Coca-Cola, Garmin, Lindsey Vonn, Wiz Khalifa, Overtime Elite, StudioNow, and MGM Resorts International. She has contributed to over 30+ publications such as Woman’s Day, Brides.com, Authority Magazines and is also an annual judge for the Page Turner Awards. Lauren currently has 4 features in development, including one feature based off her #1 Amazon book.

Janeen graduated from Flagler College with a degree in Broadcasting. She freelanced in Film and Television in Orlando for 6 years in companies such as Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Lifetime Movies, NBC, Academy of Country Music Awards, Ford Motor Company, WInn Dixie, Broadcast Service Group, Buenavida Productions and Amblin Television. Janeen took some time to start her own business, LuLi's Cupcakes, but also freelanced as a production coordinator in Jacksonville. Now, she is focusing on screenplay writing and also heads the Jane Austen Society of North America's Young Filmmakers competition for the U.S. and Canada.

Mitzi Saul is a creative, passionate community leader with more than 15 years in successful marketing communications, project, and event management. As an independent contractor, she enjoys working in the nonprofit and B-to-B sectors developing compelling, strategic marketing campaigns, events, and public relations activities for regional healthcare, business, and consumer audiences. Mitzi led the development and implementation of marketing activities of the Jewish Federation & Foundation of Northeast Florida to build financial resources, community involvement, and volunteerism. She spent more than 10 years with Community Hospice and Palliative Care in various marketing communication roles, receiving two PRSA PRism Awards for video and special events. She held several leadership positions in the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Jacksonville chapter, including chapter president, and headed the IABC Southern Region Silver Quill Awards as chairperson and presenter in New Orleans. Mitzi is the board secretary of the PRSA North Florida chapter. Join Mitzi for the PRSA Workshop on Wednesday. See the Events page for details and to register.

Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter and journalism professor at NYU. She has reported for HBO, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal, where she has led a team investigating how artificial intelligence is changing our lives. Her 'extraordinary' (Variety) documentary for PBS, "Outlawed in Pakistan," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where The Los Angeles Times dubbed it 'among the standouts.' It won Emmy, Overseas Press Club, and Cinema for Peace awards.