Christina Orticke

Christina Orticke

Christina Orticke is the Senior Consulting Producer for Arts2Work, a creative workforce development initiative of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture. Christina has over 25 years of experience working with large international public and private corporations, start-ups, minority-owned/women-owned enterprises, and nonprofit organizations.

Anselm Hook

Anselm Hook

Anselm Hook is an Augmented Reality developer at Samsung Accelerator. Working with a small team of artists, programmers and Computer Vision experts, he prototypes new hardware as a foundation for building new software experiences.

Gita Pullapilly

Gita Pullapilly

Gita Pullapilly is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director known for her intimate and authentic storytelling. Pullapilly and her film partner, Aron Gaudet, wrote and will direct Crook County, a true story on the 1980s FBI investigation in Chicago called Operation Greylord.

Alex Sloan

Alex Sloan

Alex serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships at Tides, which facilitates effective grantmaking programs for individual donors and institutions and also provides infrastructure and nonprofit management services to hundreds of nonprofit projects nationwide.

Nathalie Applewhite

Nathalie Applewhite

Nathalie is the Managing Director of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She has played a key role in the development of the Center's model and approach towards journalism initiatives and educational outreach.

Nathaniel James

Nathaniel James

Nathaniel James is the Founder of Philanthrogeek. He is a social entrepreneur, strategic consultant and activist across many fields and disciplines, including media & telecommunications, arts policy & advocacy.

Cece Hughley Noel

Cece Hughley Noel

Cece Hughley Noel is the Executive Director of Portland Community Media. Cece has led PCM to develop innovative strategies to provide access to technologies, services and training to promote digital inclusion.