Guest Speakers & events
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2021
GUEST SPEAKERS
GUEST SPEAKERS
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JULY 26 - Chris Riley
Theme: Telling a Story with Photos
The July guest presenter is award-winning the Vallejo Times-Herald staff photographer, Chris Riley, who has been working as a photojournalist for 20 years.
Riley’s father was a junior high school art teacher for 40 years and growing up in an art family Chris’ creativity developed early. He found photography during his senior year of high school and was recruited to be on the Bakersfield Junior College newspaper.
Riley went on to excel in journalism, winning many awards at the junior college paper as well as two summer internships at the Bakersfield Californian. Riley's work gained the interest of the San Jose State journalism program and he was recruited to SJSU in 1997. In 1999 he was chosen to be one of 50 students to attend the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in New York. That year Riley also obtained an internship at the Gilroy Dispatch which launched his career as a photojournalist and started an eight-year stint for Main Street Media in Gilroy.
In 2007 Chris to advantage of the opportunity to move north and become a member of the MediaNews Group family and is now one of two photographers on the Vallejo Times-Herald staff.
Riley’s father was a junior high school art teacher for 40 years and growing up in an art family Chris’ creativity developed early. He found photography during his senior year of high school and was recruited to be on the Bakersfield Junior College newspaper.
Riley went on to excel in journalism, winning many awards at the junior college paper as well as two summer internships at the Bakersfield Californian. Riley's work gained the interest of the San Jose State journalism program and he was recruited to SJSU in 1997. In 1999 he was chosen to be one of 50 students to attend the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in New York. That year Riley also obtained an internship at the Gilroy Dispatch which launched his career as a photojournalist and started an eight-year stint for Main Street Media in Gilroy.
In 2007 Chris to advantage of the opportunity to move north and become a member of the MediaNews Group family and is now one of two photographers on the Vallejo Times-Herald staff.
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August 23 - Brenda Grimm
Theme: TBA
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