Jim Jordan. After 35 years as the yearbook adviser of the Decamhian at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, Jim Jordan is now a Special Consultant with Walsworth Yearbooks. Under Jordan’s guidance, the Decamhian yearbook earned 20 NSPA Pacemakers and 20 CSPA Crowns which earned it second place in the NSPA all-time Top 100. In 1996, he was named the National Yearbook Adviser of the Year by JEA. He also was awarded the CSPA Gold Key, the JEA Medal of Merit, the NSPA Pioneer Award and the Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award from JEA. With Walsworth, he serves as the lead mentor for the company’s Adviser Mentor Program and is a host of “That Yearbook Podcast” a podcast that encourages advisers and staffs to create great yearbooks.

Crystal Kazmierski advised the Arrowhead Christian Academy Wings yearbook in Redlands, Calif. where she taught Theater, Journalism, Photography and Graphic Design. Her students were honored with both CSPA Crown and NSPA Pacemaker awards for 23 years. Kazmierski was the 2000 JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the year. She received CSPA’s Gold Key award in 2002 and NSPA’s Pioneer award in 2007. She continues to teach design and writing to journalism staffs at workshops and on a consulting basis. Kazmierski works as a designer and writer in development at Redlands Christian Schools and as a designer and docent tour guide at the Gamble House in Pasadena. 

Elizabeth Luna, NBCT, is a Graphic Design instructor at Wake Tech and a former award-winning yearbook adviser at Athens Drive Magnet High School in North Carolina. Over her 14-year advising career, her students consistently earned top honors, including consistent North Carolina Awards of Distinction, Tarheel Awards from NCSMA, All-American honors from NSPA, NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Gold Crowns. Elizabeth brings a strong design background to the classroom, using graphic design as a foundation to teach compelling storytelling through layout and photography. In 2024, she was honored as the Region 4 National Magnet Teacher of the Year by Magnet Schools of America.
 

Leland Mallett has been advising yearbooks and newspapers since 1999. He is the newspaper, yearbook and photo adviser at Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas. Legacy’s publications have won Crowns, Pacemakers and Stars. Mallett won JEA’s Distinguished Yearbook Adviser award in 2018. In 2015 he won the Max Haddick Texas Adviser of the Year award from ILPC. He loves the art of telling stories and working with publication staffs and advisers.

Susan Massy, who retired from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, built a journalism empire with the school’s yearbook, news magazine and online publications. The Lair was named #1 in NSPA’s Top 100 and the Northwest Passage was listed in the Top 100 in 2020. Both have won numerous Pacemakers and Gold Crowns during her 45-year career as a journalism instructor and publications adviser. In 1999, Massy was named the National Yearbook Teacher of the Year by the Journalism Education Association.She has received the Engel Award (Kansas Journalism Teacher of the Year), NSPA’s Pioneer Award, JEA’s Medal of Merit, the Lifetime Achievement Award (2023) and CSPA’s Charles O’Malley Teaching Award (2023). Massy continues to travel nationally to work with individual staffs as well as present at state and national conventions and summer workshops. 
 

Sabrina Schmitz is a representative of  Walsworth Yearbooks as the Key Accounts Specialist and is the former yearbook and newspaper adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, FL. Under her leadership, The Stampede yearbook was awarded multiple CSPA Crown awards, a NSPA Pacemaker Award, and was a Design of the Year Finalist in 2012. She was recognized as Teacher of the Year in 2013, was a District Teacher of the Year Finalist, and teaches at workshops and conventions around the country.  

Lindsey Shirack, CJE, advises the Lone Star yearbook at James Bowie High School in Austin, Texas. Previously, she advised yearbook, broadcast, newspaper and online at Gorzycki Middle School. Her staffs have won Pacemakers, Crowns, and Stars. No matter the medium, her passion is for helping students capture the story of the year in a way only they could tell. Shirack is a 2022 recipient of the ILPC Edith Fox King award.

Clint Smith teaches at Texas High School in Texarkana, Texas where he co-advises the student newspaper the Tiger Times and the Tiger yearbook. Smith teaches journalism, digital media, commercial photography and a convergent media class.Smith's program earned the Association of Texas Photography Instructors' Top Program Award 2023 and 2024. In 2019 Smith received the Edith Fox King Award from the Interscholastic League Press Conference for contributions to journalism in Texas. In 2023 he received the Texas Association of Journalism Educators Trailblazer Award for setting trends and helping to shape journalism in Texas. Students at Texas High School consistently receive individual achievement awards for photography on the state and national levels. The Tiger Times and the Tiger both received numerous NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Crowns Awards over the past 19 years.

Andrew Young, CJE advises The Round-Up at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. Young was named a 2017 Rising Star by JEA, 2018 Arkansas Adviser of the Year, 2018 Fayetteville Public Schools Teacher of the Year, 2020 Outstanding Young Alumni from the University of Arkansas, 2022 Special Recognition Adviser, and 2024 Distinguished Yearbook Adviser from JEA. His staffs have been recognized in state, regional, and national contests. Woodland’s 2024 The Round-Up yearbook received a Silver Crown from CSPA and won a NSPA Pacemaker. Young currently serves as the President of the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association and has a passion for seeing junior high and middle school journalism programs take it to the next level.