Contributors

This is the list of the contributors to Sundayed. If you’d like to contribute a post please send us an email: info @ sundayed.com with your name, brief bio, and brief description of the topic you’d like to cover.

B. Brandon Barker is an online media strategist with clients that include U.S. News & World Report, Time-Warner, Food Network, The Nielsen Company, Revolution Health, Entergy, Amplify Public Affairs and Dogster. His short stories have appeared in Global City Review, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin’s Press), Verbicide, and online at McSweeney’s. His first novel, OPERATION EMU, was the subject of a feature story in The Baltimore Sun. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he now lives in rural Virginia.

Timothy Braun is a writer living in Austin, TX. He has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, HERE Arts Center, Edward Albee Foundation, and a Warhol Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute. He is a frequent contributor to the Austin Chronicle, culturebot.org, and is the founder of Federal Prisoner 30664. He holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is a Cultural Studies professor at St. Edward’s University. Learn more at timothybraun.com.

Katy Marquez Carter is a recovering graphic designer. After thirteen years of ad execs, faculty meetings, and freelancing, she decided to close up shop and redirect her creative energy to things edible. A self-taught cook, she now experiments on her family (and anyone else who walks through the door), blogging about the results at Thought for Food: http://katymcarter.com.

Ed Cho is a cartoonist living in Indiana with his wife and newly born daughter.  He is an active member of The Indy Web Comics Group often referred to as IWG.  Al and Scout is a comic strip he updates weekly about his mischievous cats and can be read at www. alandscout.com. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/edcho7000.

Having stumbled upon In the American West by Richard Avedon in the ‘80’s, Leslie Edelman’s casual life on a central valley vineyard became less ordinary. Since then, Leslie has seen the lights of NYC, written poems to the winds of Morocco, and has worked in Advertising on some pretty big brands; Yahoo!, Gap/Old Navy, MSDW, Nike, Kodak, SanDisk, Wired, MTV.  More recently she was the Associate Publisher for Workbook, a strategic marketing partner for commercial artists. Home in San Francisco, she is happily married with two children, two dogs, two cats, two guinea pigs and one fish with a view of the ocean.

Scott Henderson is managing principal of CauseShift, a team of strategists who help clients provoke, connect, and market. He has led shifts for a variety of organizations, including P&G, UNICEF, and wecanendthis.com, a yearlong, multi-partner initiative to spark innovation and engage more people in the cause of ending hunger in America. Scott is a regular keynote speaker and publisher of rallythecause.com

Ben Kunz is director of strategic planning at Mediassociates, an advertising media planning firm. He has designed marketing campaigns for 3Com, the Centers for Disease Control, Cessna Aircraft, Gaylord Hotels, Navy Federal Credit Union, North American Savings Bank, PURE High Net Worth Insurance, Segway, SolarCity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Postal Service. Ben is also a columnist for BusinessWeek, where he covers the intersection of advertising and technology. You can read his mind at www.thoughtgadgets.com or on Twitter @benkunz.

Renata Lemos is a professional international surfer on the edge of contemporary culture. She has lived and worked in the US, France, Canada, Israel and it is now based in Brazil. She is a well published academic writer and scholar; a builder of transdisciplinary bridges that integrate culture, economics, politics, technology, science, art and spirituality. Her current conceptual exploration is about trying to identify and map the aesthetics of the edge of contemporary culture, that she is calling nowdernity.

Sara McGuyer works as a digital strategist, as well as serving as marketing director and board member to the Indianapolis International Film Festival. In the past she has been a book shop manager, an events/pr coordinator and a nonprofit marketing director. Find her on saramcguyer.com or on twitter @sara_mc.

Francine McKenna (@retheauditors on Twitter) has more than twenty-five years of experience in a range of industries in the consulting and professional services environment. She is the Managing Editor of the specialized news site, re: The Auditors, that focuses on the business of the Big 4 audit firms. This site provides essential updates on accounting regulation, auditing, and strategy combined with high- quality, independent, original reporting on the accounting industry. She is a freelance writer with credits in the Financial Times, Accountancy Age, Accountancy Magazine, Internal Auditor Magazine and various financial, media, and technology blogs and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Times of London and Chicago Tribune, amongst others. She also blogs at The Huffington Post. She has been interviewed by accounting and social marketing/media sites. Her public speaking credits include private training, university teaching, and speeches for the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and the Maryland Association of CPAs.

After working at a handful of start-ups (and before that, 6 years of art school) Jason Moriber helped launch Wise Elephant, a business/marketing strategy and tactics firm. As of October 2010 Jason is now the Director of Digital Strategies for Waggener Edstrom Studio D. Jason has an MFA in drawing, has played in 4 bands, created and implemented programs for auditors, start-ups, and organic farmers, and am in constant awe of the amazing people he learns about, meets, and fortunately gets to work with. You can read more of Jason’s writing at  NewCommBiz. Engage with Jason on Twitter: @jasonmoriber

Gregory Rader spends his 9-5 at an equity brokerage firm working with institutional asset managers.  His mind, however, is always wandering towards the horizon.  He expends much of his cognitive energy thinking about technological progress and how that progress might shape social and economic institutions in ways that enable people to explore their ambitions more freely and efficiently.  Greg has an undergraduate degree in economics from UCLA and is a candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.  You can read more from him at OnTheSpiral.com or start a conversation on Twitter @gregoryjrader.

Sheila Shidnia is the Director of Web Marketing and Communication for Butler University where she successfully initiates, develops, and manages interdisciplinary marketing programs. She has, at various moments in time, managed recording sessions for BMG, run a small publishing company, run a record label, made pillows, produced records, produced humans, played Rachmaninoff, transcribed early American folk songs, tended bar in Red Hook, played in a percussion ensemble, studied sound design with Robert Moog, and is currently on a mission to master backgammon. Twitter: @sheilashidnia.

Aaron Templer (AT) is a free agent mashing up leadership, branding,  strategy, marketing, and communications. A seemingly dichotic background (a technical trainer at a graphic design software company,  a marcom director at a business school, a Berklee College of Music student with an MBA) is driving his interest in better understanding the importance and balance between right- and left-directed brains. Connect with him on Twitter: @aarontempler.

Kathryn Wagner specializes in travel and food photography for the U.S. and Caribbean markets, offering creative solutions for editorial and commercial imaging. She loves collaborating with her clientele and developing innovative visual solutions with lasting impact. Kathryn’s photographic journey began with the high school mentorship of Stephanie Gross, a Washington Post freelancer. Through that guidance came an acceptance in the Photography and Film program of U.S. News and World Report’s number one public arts university: Virginia Commonwealth University. This experience was enriched with a year spent abroad near London, studying under creatives such as Ori Gersht, as an exchange student with the Kent Institute of Art and Design. Upon graduation, Kathryn worked as a commercial photographer’s assistant on advertising and editorial shoots with brands such as The Discovery Channel, Junior Achievement, and Sports Illustrated. This valuable experience helped Kathryn learn the art of creative business and gain a perspective on the life of creative professionals.

Maximo Zeledon Max studies consumer culture and technology. He is specifically interested in how people interact in virtual environments and helps others develop a more reflective approach to technology and the internet. His background is in digital communication technology and the history of science and technology. He works for tech startups, NGOs, and non profits. Max earned masters degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and San Francisco State University. He blogs here: http://consumerama.tumblr.com/