Friday Forum

Oct. 15, 2021

Ashley Sommardahl (ST, 1998)

Associate Director / Brandcenter

Oct. 8, 2021

Mike May

GVP Strategy / HUGE

April 30, 2021

Eric Kallman

Co-Founder/CCO, Erich & Kallman

April 23, 2021

Rachel Mercer

Co-Founder and CEO, Proto (XD, 2012)

April 16, 2021

Matt Skibiak

Creative Director, Arts & Letters (CW, 2013)

March 19, 2021

Adam Wiese

VP, Strategy Director (ST, 2010), Giant Spoon

Erin Hauswirth

Associate Creative Director, Copy, Giant Spoon

March 12, 2021

Anya Liddiard

Brand Strategist, INNOCEAN (ST, 2011)

Erin Bohlender

Director of Brand Strategy at INNOCEAN 

March 5, 2021

Lindsey Lake

Senior Recruiter, ROSEWOOD Creative

Kelsey Honz

Talent & Culture Manager, Butler Shine, Stern, & Partners

Feb. 26, 2021

Khartoon Weiss

Head of Global Agency and Accounts, TikTok

Feb. 25, 2021

Aisha Hakim

Associate Creative Director, PREACHER

Feb. 12, 2021

Second-Year Students Present Work

Feb. 5, 2021

Natalie Garramone

Owner & Principal Consultant, ONE EIGHTY

Benita Conde

Founder, Create Radical Love

Nov. 19, 2020

Jarrod Higgins

Creative Director / Wieden+Kennedy Portland

Nov. 5, 2020

Abu Ngauja

Associate Director, Talent & Culture / The Martin Agency

Oct. 22, 2020

Margaret Johnson

Chief Creative Officer / Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Zach Canfield

Director of Talent / Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Oct. 15, 2020

Elizabeth Paul

Chief Strategy Officer / The Martin Agency

Helena Berhane

Senior Brand Strategist / The Martin Agency

Oct. 8, 2020

Carl Desir

Founder / The Boom List

Oct. 1, 2020

Mira Kaddoura (AD, 2002)

Founder and Executive Creative Director / Red & Co.

Sept. 24, 2020

Vanessa Toro

VP Creative Strategy / Digitas

Sept. 17, 2020

Benita Conde

Founder / Create Radical Love

Sept. 10, 2020

Tim Gordon (CW, 2008)

Chief Creative Officer / Droga5

March 6, 2020

MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER

Katie Ramp, John Matejczyk and Henry Fernandez of MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER, joined by their client The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Feb. 28, 2020

Jean Scofield & Kris Roggemann

Executive Creative Producer & Creative Producer/Partner  /  Mophonics

Feb. 21, 2020

Alain Sylvain

Founder & CEO / Sylvain Labs

Jan. 31, 2020

Mike Lear

Executive Creative Director / BrightHouse

Jan. 24, 2020

Elizabeth Paul

Chief Strategy Officer / The Martin Agency

Nov. 22, 2019

Barbara Soalheiro

Founder / MESA

Nov. 15, 2019

Jonathan Rosen (AD, 1999)

Visual Artist and Creative Director

Nov. 8, 2019

Tim Gordon (CW, 2008)

Executive Creative Director / Droga5

Nick Maschmeyer (ST, 2012)

Brand Strategy Director / Droga5

Oct. 25, 2019

Jean Freeman

Principal + CEO / Zambezi

Oct. 11, 2019

Brian Salzman

Founder and President / RQ

Sept. 27, 2019

Michael Fanuele

Author of Stop Making Sense: The Art of Inspiring Anybody and Former Chief Creative Officer / General Mills

Sept. 20, 2019

Jennifer London

EVP, Insights & Strategy, Edelman DC Digital

David Benbassett

Senior Digital Strategic Planner, Edelman DC Digital

Sept. 13, 2019

Katherine Wintsch

Founder and CEO / The Mom Complex + Author of Slay Like a Mother

April 5, 2019

Nikki Baker & Leslie Shaffer

Executive Creative Directors, Fallon New York

March 29, 2019

Tom Manion & Jack Colley

Creatives at Google Experiences

March 22, 2019

Tom Mooney

President, ADDigital Productions

March 15, 2019

Rafi Kugler and Lionel Carreon

Director of Recruiting, barrettSF and Global Director, Creative Recruiting, R/GA

March 1, 2019

Dominic Willsdon

Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Feb. 22, 2019

Class of 2018 Alumni Panel

Coryn Bajema (XD), Google
Evan Chiplock (CW), The Community
Whitney Downing (AD), Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Hannah Levy (CBM), The Martin Agency
Martin Madriaga (ST), Arts & Letters
Christa Prater (CW), Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Blake Smoral (ST), The Martin Agency

Feb. 15, 2019

Val Middleton

Partner, West Venture Studio

Feb. 1, 2019

Jason Musante & Tim Flood

Chief Creative Officer and Executive Creative Director, Huge

Jan. 25, 2019

Howard Jordan, Jr. (CW, 1999)

TV Writer / Creative Director / Strategist

Nov. 30, 2018

Matthew Freeman

Founder, Dialectix Consulting

Nov. 16, 2018

Courtney Ferrell

Creative Thinking Partner. Speaker. Writer.

Nov. 9, 2018

Eric Kallman

Co-Founder/Creative Director, Erich & Kallman

Nov. 2, 2018

Lucas Casão and Guilherme Rácz

Creative Directors, Arnold Worldwide

Oct. 26, 2018

Karen Costello

Chief Creative Officer, The Martin Agency

Oct. 12, 2018

Brian Bennett

Vice President Executive Creative Director, Carhartt

Oct. 5, 2018

Luke Rabin

Cofounder and product lead at BLDR

Sept. 21, 2018

Elsa Perushek, Peter Petrulo & Jason Zabel

Strategist, Designer & Partner, and Creative, Zeus Jones

April 20, 2018

Jarrod Higgins (XD, 2010)

Creative Director, Wieden + Kennedy

April 13, 2018

Justin Gignac

Co-Founder, Working Not Working

April 6, 2018

Bob Winter

Executive Creative Director, VSA Partners

Joe Nio (ST, 2000)

Associate Partner, Strategy Discipline Lead, VSA Partners

March 23, 2018

Allison Arden

Founder & CEO, SOUL + CO

March 16, 2018

Class of 2017 Alumni Panel

Featuring alums from R/GA, Arts & Letters, The Martin Agency, Deutsch New York and Terri & Sandy

March 2, 2018

Tiffany Rolfe

Partner/Chief Content Officer, Co:collective

Feb. 23, 2018

Moses Foster

President & CEO, West Cary Group

Feb. 16, 2018

Saneel Radia

Executive Vice President, Global Head of Consulting, R/GA

Feb. 9, 2018

Rob Baird

Co-Founder/Chief Creative Officer, Preacher

Feb. 2, 2018

Kristina Jenkins

Chief Strategy Officer, Zambezi

Jan. 26, 2018

Charles Hodges (CW, 2009)

Founder & ECD, Arts & Letters Creative Co.

Andy Grayson (ST, 2003)

Director of Strategy, Arts & Letters Creative Co.

Jan. 19, 2018

Jason Peterson

Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, Havas Creative, U.S.

Dec. 1, 2017

Karl Lieberman

Executive Creative Director, Wieden + Kennedy

Nov. 10, 2017

David Muhlenfeld

Vice President/Creative Director, The Martin Agency

Oct. 27, 2017

Rick Boyko

Former Director/Professor, VCU Brandcenter

Oct. 13, 2017

Gautam Ramdurai (ST, 2011)

Regional Product Marketing, Asia Pacific, Google

Oct. 6, 2017

Kelli Lemon

Social Entrepreneur, On Air Personality for Radio One Richmond, and Host of Coffee with Strangers

Sept. 29, 2017

David Baldwin

Lead Guitar / Baldwin&

Sept. 22, 2017

Matt Donlon

Founder / UZURV

Sept. 15, 2017

Matthew Freeman

Author / “Overcoming Bias”​ 

Co-Founder and Lead Consultant / TMI Consulting, Inc

Sept. 8, 2017

Cecelia Parrish (CBM, 2015)

Strategic planner / The Martin Agency

April 21, 2017

Karen Land Short

Group creative director/Droga5 New York

April 14, 2017

Jess Greenwood

VP, content and partnerships/R/GA

April 7, 2017

Jason Harris

President/CEO/Mekanism Inc.

March 31, 2017

Debbi Vandeven

Chief creative officer/VML

John Cook

Global CEO /VML

March 24, 2017

Kevin McKeon

Chief creative officer/Olson

March 17, 2017

Fitz Maro

Senior innovation strategist/360i

March 3, 2017

Heidi Hackemer

Founder/Wolf & Wilhelmin

Feb. 24, 2017

Lisa Freiman

Director, VCU Institute for Contemporary Art

Feb. 17, 2017

Paul Keister

Chief Creative Officer, Carvana

Feb. 10, 2017

Frank McCann

President & CEO, McCann Systems

Chad Hutson

President, Leviathan

Feb. 3, 2017

Winston Binch

Chief Digital Officer, Deutsch North America

Jan. 27, 2017

Kristen Cavallo

US Chief Growth Officer, MullenLowe

Jan. 20, 2017

Rick Webb

Author, Consultant, & Chief Operations Officer, Timehop