Kamerin Chambers is a Chicago native always on the prowl to discover new experiences wherever she travels. She's the creator of a global lifestyle blog titled "Where's She Going?" and a proud graduate from DePaul University with a degree in Public Relations & Advertising. She worked for CS Modern Luxury, Leo Burnett and is currently an Associate Program Manager at Google. She was granted acceptance into the 2016 ADCOLOR Futures and joined a group of dedicated young leaders in advertising, marketing, media and public relations industries at this year's ADCOLOR Awards & Industry Conference. Kamerin is a connector as she loves bringing people together and creating unforgettable memories. She aspires to be a self-made entrepreneur, one of her ultimate goals.
Pamela Powell is a Chicago area film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Growing up in rural New York State, Pamela rarely saw first-run films until she was unleashed in Chicago as a young adult where she met the Fine Arts Theater and fell in love with independent films. With a master’s degree from Northwestern and a healthcare background, Pamela gravitates toward films that can better our community and world. From teaching radio broadcasting to having her own radio show on an NPR affiliated station, Pamela shares her unique perspectives about films with her audiences. Currently, Pamela writes for The Daily Journal’s Reel Talk, FF2 Media, and www.reelhonestreviews.com
Alexis Ross is the Director of Operations and Creative Services in Los Angeles, CA. Her passion project is her well-received blog, Styled By Alexis, on Tumblr, where Alexis explores her love of cooking, entertaining at home, shopping, travel, interior design, happy hours and getting great deals. What she loves most is surprising good friends and people who ask how little she spends on an item or introducing new things / techniques to make their lives more fashionable. A modern woman on the go with a 4 and 3-year-old, she strives to enjoy the finer things in life at a reasonable price. Alexis is an Emmy Award Winning Associate Producer and received her BA degree in Pre-Law / Law & Society from University of California Santa Barbara.
Daphne Ortiz is a freelance publicist covering clients in film, TV, sports, lifestyle, fashion, beauty, healthcare, and non-profits. She began her career at a tech PR firm working at some of the industry’s top celebrity PR firms. Ortiz was a member of the publicity team for New Line Cinema film studio and worked on films such as The Notebook and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that swept the 2003 Academy Awards. In 2007, she decided to pursue a freelance career enabling her to work alongside former colleagues and various companies. Ortiz commutes between Chicago and Los Angeles and has offices in both cities.
Martha Chandran-Dickerson, was born in India, raised in Europe and East Africa, and now resides in America. As a global citizen and Indian Christian, she is an anomaly. Issues pertaining to faith, culture, diaspora and identity have perpetually intrigued her. As an outlier, the innocuous, however haunting question, “where are you from?” still confounds her. Her eclectic background informs her views and she embraces diversity wherever she encounters it. As a daughter to a Statistician and an Economics Instructor, she abandoned the sciences, and embraced the arts, initially pursuing journalism but eventually becoming an educator, as a writing consultant. She is also a freelance writer. When she isn’t tutoring students, or putting pen to paper, she's mothering her boys. She hopes to pursue her PhD in English, with a Postcolonial emphasis and aspires to write a memoir about her meanderings through the peaks, plateaus and valleys of her borderless life.
Heather Reid is a writer, freelance editor, essayist and avid home cook with a particular passion for baking bread. She has a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and has worked as a newspaper editor and advertising executive with a specialty in digital marketing. Her work has appeared in various parenting magazines and a collection of her essays can be found at www.heatherreidwrites.com. Most importantly, she’s the proud mother of two precocious and hilarious little boys who keep her ninja skills on point.