Lisa is currently the Account Executive at Market Maker Interactive, a full-service web development and interactive marketing and advertising agency in New York City. Lisa also worked in Corporate Communications at Corning Inc., and in Account Operations at Modern Marketing Concepts, both in upstate New York. She has written for multiple newspapers and magazines, lectured for mass communications classes, and she has experience in public relations, advertising, and market research. Lisa has also completed the Eric Mower and Associates workshops in both Crisis Communications and Media Training. Along with her master's degree in Arts Journalism from Syracuse University (with a concentration in Television Criticism and Popular Culture), Lisa holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from St. Bonaventure University. She has also studied at Fordham University in NYC and at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Lisa writes about TV and pop culture in her blogs. Read more from Lisa at http://madstreetcred.com and http://thetelevisionista.com .

Hansa Bergwall is currently working as an intern at The Post-Standard in Syracuse. He is a graduate of Seattle University, where he earned departmental honors in English and minors in both history and philosophy. He served as president of the university's Literary Society and spent his summers traveling, taking art classes and working as a camp instructor in ceramics.

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Lauren Burger received her undergraduate degree in Television, Radio and Film from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Since then she has lived in New York City, where she worked in the television industry at VH1 in program development and at The History Channel in production. She then shifted her career to focus on marketing in both the real estate and construction industries.

Blog: "Couch Critic" - A blend of criticism, sarcasm and lots of perspective on what's hot in the world of entertainment.

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Kim Greene is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and holds degrees in both dance and communication arts. After a short sojourn dancing on a cruise ship, Kim returned to New York City and worked at a well-known literary agency. She is currently working on pieces for euphorixmagazine.com as well as interning at the insider, a weekly arts and events section published by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Blog: "Someone Seeking Up" - A diary that attempts to reconcile dance, arts issues, my life, and all that blurred nonsense in between.

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Steve Kobak was ten when he discovered Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and knew his destiny was to be involved in music. He majored in English and minored in journalism at Central Connecticut State University. There, he served an internship at the Hartford Courant. He is currently a writer for the website Tiny Mix Tapes and an intern at The Post-Standard in Syracuse.

Blog: "Apples and Heroin" - The ups and downs and musical observations of Warholian superstar Steve Kobak.

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Jamie Newsom is a native of Anchorage, Alaska. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Alaska Anchorage and has been a theatre reviewer for the Anchorage Daily News for the past three years. She co-hosts a local public radio program, "Stagetalk" and has been a member of the American Theatre Critics Association since 2003. She covered the 2004 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska for a local publication, has contributed to Backstage in New York, and was a fellow at the 2004 O'Neill Critics Institute.

Blog: "Fire In Mine Ears" - Personal reactions to current events, random bits of information, and all the arts she can pack on to the page. Includes some original photography and occasional poems.

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Julie Pinsonneault is a proud Syracuse native, currently residing in Brooklyn. She earned her B.A. at SUNY Binghamton with a major in English/rhetoric and minor in music. Julie is the former music editor of the Syracuse New Times and a current columnist for the City Eagle, both located in her hometown. She has also written for various publiations, including Esquire online, Sentimentalist, Jerk Magazine, Gambit Weekly and www.stylusmagazine.com, where her capstone project, "Women in Metal," was published last year. Julie presently works as a Communications Analyst at the financial advisory firm Duff & Phelps and freelances in her spare time.

Jennifer Polland graduated from Colgate University with high honors and a Bachelor's degree in English and Classical Studies. Polland is an intern at The Post-Standard, the major daily newspaper of Syracuse, where she writes features and theater reviews. As a staff writer for the Maroon News, Colgate University's weekly newspaper, Polland covered and reviewed all theater events in addition to writing on many arts-related events and issues. Polland was an editorial intern at WHERE Magazine, a New York City visitor publication. Polland aspires to become a theater critic and a culture editor.

Blog: "A Pair of Fine Eyes" - Thoughts and reviews on arts, culture and current events.

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Sarah Pye recently completed bachelor's degrees in journalism and public relations at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. At Pepperdine, Sarah served as editor of the student newspaper, the Graphic, and the student magazine, Currents. Upon graduation, she was honored to receive the award for Most Outstanding Graduate in Communication. For the past three summers, she has been an intern at California Musical Theatre

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Anna Reguero is the editor of the Journal of the Conductors Guild, and a freelance classical music critic for the Syracuse New Times. She is also an intern with NewMusicBox, the on-line magazine of the American Music Center in New York City. She graduated from the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School and received a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded a Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate from the Institute for Arts Leadership. Concurrently she received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester. While at Eastman, she was the Eastman section editor of the Campus Times, held an internship with Rochester's classical radio station WXXI FM, and hosted a radio show called Classical Music with a Twist on WRUR FM in Rochester. As a clarinetist, she has appeared under the batons of such illustrious conductors as Krzysztof Penderecki and JoAnne Falletta and garnered awards at competitions sponsored by the Greenwich Symphony and Chamber Music Society, leading to performances at Avery Fisher and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. She has toured the U.S., England, China, Japan, and Taiwan and recorded on the Summit Records label with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. She plays regularly with the Trio d'Exuberance.

Blog: Retrograde Inversions - Frequently updated posts on Anna Reguero's thoughts on music and journalism as a musician, journalist and student.

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Nancy Keefe Rhodes reviews films regularly for Stylusmagazine.com and was a 2006 recipient of Syracuse University's Francis McMillan Parks Women of Influence Award. She writes commentary & is a producer/host for Women's Voices Radio on WAER Syracuse 88.3 FM. She freelances for the insider, a Gannett weekly tab produced by the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Her interviews with international filmmakers appeared in Dossier, the Syracuse International Film & Video Festival's annual publication, of which she was also copy editor in 2005. She has edited a national newsletter on police accountability, written & spoken on how communities articulate issues & organize for change, and has worked as a therapist focusing on addictions & trauma. A Central New York native, she holds a BA in English & a Masters of Social Work from SU & was also a doctoral candidate in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship. In her writing, she concentrates on cinema, visual arts and photography and has interviewed such figures as Wendy Ewald & Martha Cooper, reviewed the major Young America daguerreotype exhibit at Rochester's Eastman House & the ICP's African American Vernacular Photography in New York City, and profiled Syracuse documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins. She is writing a masters thesis on how the Western film genre addresses modern global post-conflict situations.

Blog: "Movie Cross Rhodes" - Film reviews, related commentary & filmmaker interviews.

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Rebecca J. Ritzel (2006) is a freelance arts and entertainment writer for The Washington Post. Since graduating from the Goldring Arts Journalism Program, she has been published in a variety of daily newspapers and magazines. In 2007, she received a theater journalism fellowship from the University of Southern California and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Alexandria, Va. and enjoys running along the Potomac River. Links to her recent writings for the Post--and other publications--can be found here: http://www.rjritzel.com/linkstorecentwork.html

Arthur Ryel-Lindsey was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from The Ohio State University with degrees in film and English. He has written and produced seven original plays, written and lectured on several film topics (including a thesis on the films of Joel and Ethan Coen), edited a feature-length student film, and was a three year member of the Ohio State University Marching Band. In 2005, he was a finalist for the Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. Currently, he is an intern at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, works in Newhouse's editing suites, and writes essays on film for his blog and for several online magazines.

Blog: "Drop Frame" - On the Art and Culture of Film

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Justin Sawyers is originally from Houston, Texas where he graduated with his Bachelor’s degree in English from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He moved to Syracuse as part of the inaugural class of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program, receiving his Masters in Arts Journalism in 2006. He is currently the Director of Marketing & Communications at The Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology in Syracuse. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Syracuse Gay & Lesbian Chorus and the Syracuse Stage Guild.

Erin Smith received her bachelor's degree in English and Textual Studies with a minor in Architecture from Syracuse University in May 2005. She was a contributing writer for The Daily Orange, studied abroad in London, and held internships at the I. Grace Co. and London Misher Public Relations, both in Manhattan. Born in Los Angeles and raised outside New York City, Erin looks forward to working in the city as either a publicist or on the editorial team of a magazine. She is writing a masters thesis on the architectural styles of the Newport Mansions in Rhode Island - paying particular attention to the work of Richard Morris Hunt. Erin is a Dean's Scholar and an alumnus of The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.

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David Wilcox graduated with honors from SUNY Geneseo in 2005 with a double major in communication and psychology. He served as a Resident Assistant and editor of the school paper's Arts and Entertainment section for two years. In his senior year he was awarded a Second Place Paper award at the 2005 RIT Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication for his paper, Parasocial Interaction across International Borders: Directions for Future Research. He was born and raised in Fairport, NY, where he co-produced, wrote, directed, and acted in a cable-access television show during high school. David is an intern at the insider, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle's weekly alt tab newspaper. This year he serves as a Newhouse research assistant and last fall he taught journalism to students at Grant Middle School. His interests include film, lacrosse, music, video games, weightlifting, and chess.

Blog: Wilcox Vox - A voice on film, music, politics, and pop culture minutiae.

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