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Dr. Celeste Stein

Dr. Celeste Stein has taught online for 16 years at numerous journalism schools. Her recent dissertation was on media and technology. In terms of management, she has been the principal owner of a 21-year-old marketing agency in Nashville.

Her primary asset, for this workshop on medical equities, is that she is in charge of External Affairs/Development for the Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry. As such, she developed and implemented three Health Summits for the Medical College. The first summit was co-hosted by NAIDS Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Meharry President, Dr. James E.K. Hildreth. Hildreth was named to President Biden’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. The second Health Summit focused on a call to action to improve health equity. 

In her position at MeHarry, Stein is in charge of fundraising, marketing, logistics and press relations. She is in a unique position to facilitate opportunities for the workshop students.

The third Health Summit will be held during the workshop. She can help to set up interviewing opportunities for the students with top doctors and scientists who are working on COVID-19.

She will also arrange virtual tours for the students of the Medical College advanced labs.

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Dr. Pam McAllister Johnson 

Dr. Pam McAllister Johnson gained invaluable executive management experience at numerous organizations: she was the first Black female president and publisher of a general circulation newspaper in the United States; the first black COO of  West World Productions, computer storage magazine, Beverly Hills, California the first black Director of the Western Kentucky University School of Media.

Johnson has applied and received DJNF grants for more than 14 years. She has designed, directed and taught in the digital workshops for college students and faculty. The DJNF requested that she plan and implement a digital workshop for a media company.

In 2020, Johnson was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame.

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Nancie Dodge

Nancie Dodge has taught digital journalism in the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for 12 years.

She also has taught digital journalism for the Cronkite Digital Academy, Village Voice and she is a permanent master teacher for the DJNF | WKU workshops.

Dodge was technical director for The Torn Identity. The documentary was nominated for an Emmy and received multiple Telly awards.

In terms of the workshop's medical content, Dodge has been a registered respiratory therapist for 45 years and managed several respiratory departments.

Dodge is a helicopter medical rescue pilot. She is involved in rescue and transport design and development of medical flight equipment and medical protocol.  

For more than a decade, Dodge has been a partner and media development consultant in Media Latitude. The company does Beta testing for numerous
technology companies. 

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Elise Stein

Elise Stein will help to teach workshop students how journalists use multimedia skills. Currently, she is working on social media campaigns for the Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry.

Elise started writing and doing social media campaigns as part of her pageants, modeling and show business career. She is the 2021 Miss Chattanooga Volunteer

Due to her work in the pageant world and Move 2 Stand, Elise has been featured in People Magazine, The Insider, E! News, Access Hollywood, Nashville's News Channel 5, The Tennessean and multiple Tennessee newspapers.

Elise is a published author. She wrote an article about her own experiences with bullying, "An Enemy With Many Faces," which was published in the Lebanon Democrat and 40 newspapers around the country in 2016.

She is an honor's graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in journalism, public relations-advertising, with a concentration in the recording industry.

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