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— Sun, Oct 3, 2010: 2010 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference: Day 1 [SPJ Convention]
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David Cuillier, a former newspaper reporter and editor, is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Arizona. He researches public attitudes toward freedom of information and is one of the SPJ newsroom trainers for acquiring government documents.
Joe Adams is an editorial writer at The Florida Times-Union and author of The Florida Public Records Handbook published by the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee.
As projects editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, Sonny Albarado supervises reporters on investigative and explanatory journalism assignments. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, La.
Joel Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. He was a reporter and editor at the (Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning News for 15 years covering everything from the night police beat to Salt Lake's Olympic bid. He holds a master's degree from Ohio State University and bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. 
Carolyn S. Carlson is co-chairman of the SPJ FOI Committee’s Subcommittee On Campus Crime. For the past decade, she has been a leader in the effort to improve public access to records involving student discipline and crime on the nation’s college campuses. She founded the multi-organizational Campus Courts Task Force, which received an SPJ Freedom of Information Award in 1998 for its success in changing federal law to increase public access to college disciplinary records involving serious crime. Carlson has a doctorate from Georgia State University. She is an assistant professor of journalism and citizen media at Kennesaw State University. She is a former political press secretary and a longtime reporter and editor for The Associated Press. She was national president of SPJ in 1989-1990, chaired the SPJ Ethics Committee in 1993-94, received SPJ’s Wells Key in 1994, and was named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers in 2002, 2005 and 2006.
The humor and commentary of David Chartrand have appeared in publications throughout North America. His essays on families, children, education, and health issues are distributed to daily newspapers by Universal Press Syndicate as well as by his own distribution company.
Jodi Cleesattle is a deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice, where she works in the Civil Division in San Diego. Prior to joining the Attorney GeneralÕs Office, she was a partner at Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, in San Diego, where she handled media law cases and other commercial litigation. Jodi previously worked as a daily news reporter for The Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette, covering politics and legal issues, and was founding editor of The National Jurist, a national magazine for law students. Jodi serves on SPJ's national board as Region 11 director and on SPJÕs national FOI Committee and Legal Defense Fund Committee. She is SPJ Project Sunshine Chair for Southern California and a board member of the SPJ San Diego Pro Chapter and was president of the San Diego Pro Chapter from 2007-09. She also serves as editor of Lawyers Club News, the monthly newsletter of Lawyers Club of San Diego, a bar association dedicated to the advancement of women in the law and society, and she freelances for San Diego Lawyer magazine.
Carol Cole-Frowe is a veteran journalist and full-time freelancer, writing for daily newspapers, Web sites and regional and national magazines. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma. 
Charles N. Davis is executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Ana-Klara Hering is a joint degree candidate seeking her law degree and doctorate in media law and policy. She holds a masters in communication from the University of Florida and a bachelors in international affairs and journalism from The George Washington University. She has worked at The Jospeh L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information (www.brechner.org) since January 2005, serving as a research assistant and editor of The Brechner Report. She is also a legal research assistant at the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project (www.citizenaccess.org).
Robert Leger is assistant editorial page editor at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, responsible for an opinion page focused on Scottsdale and the Northeast Valley of the Sun. He was president of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2002-03 and has served on the SDX board since 2000. Among his other SPJ activities: He serves as a co-chair of the Freedom of Information Committee and as a member of the steering committee of OpenTheGovernment.org. He pioneered an exchange relationship with the Journalists Association of Korea.
Donald W. Meyers has been at a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune since July 2007. Prior to that, he was the editorial page editor of the Daily Herald in Provo, Utah for more than eight years, as well as having been a reporter at daily and weekly newspapers in Utah and New Jersey. He majored in Journalism at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey and Brigham Young University. He is a past-president of the Utah Headliners Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists and is a member of the Utah Foundation for Open Government.
Bryan P. Sears has been with Patuxent Publishing Co. since May 2002 first serving and the government and politics reporter and then as the political editor where he heads state and local government coverage in Baltimore County for eight community weeklies and writes a politics blog. He is currently the president of the Maryland Pro Chapter of SPJ and also serves on the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press AssociationÕs Government Affairs committee and that groupÕs Freedom of Information subcommittee. He also won a regional award for a story that revealed that MarylandÕs State Election Board was withholding the addresses of campaign donors from itÕs public web site and then charging $100 for 30 days access to a private site where that information could be obtained. The story and a letter to the board requesting a review of the agencyÕs rules written by Sears resulted in the boardÕs decision to drop the charges and add the information to the free public site. Bryan also works with local community activists and neighborhood groups, helping them understand and use MarylandÕs Public Information and Open Meetings Acts.