Justin Daigle, CJE advises the Reflections Yearbook at Brighton HS and was named JEA’s H.L. Hall National Yearbook Adviser of the Year in 2024. He has also received JEA’s Distinguished Adviser award in 2016 and was a Special Recognition Adviser in 2014. The Reflections staff have won numerous national awards for design, photography and writing.

Justin will be leading our Storytelling skill track, presenting his breakouts “Dig Deep Into Profile Writing” on Monday, “Building a Staff Culture” on Wednesday, and is a featured keynote speaker. He also is a school counselor.

Annie Gorenstein Falkenberg, CJE, advises the Priam yearbook at Longmont HS. Her students have won numerous state awards, CSPA silver crowns and NSPA pacemaker finalists. Annie has been honored as the Colorado Student Media Association Teacher of the Year (2017), JEA Rising Star (2015), JEA special recognition adviser (2019), JEA distinguished adviser (2022), and JEA Medal of Merit (2025).

Annie will be leading the Editor-in-Chief skill track, presenting her breakouts “The Right Picture is Worth a Thousand Words” on Monday and “Better Every Deadline” on Wednesday, and is a featured keynote speaker. She also is a school counselor.

Carrie Faust, MJE advises the Summit Yearbook at Smoky Hill HS and was named JEA’s H.L. Hall National Yearbook Adviser of the Year in 2025. Her staff has won numerous national awards for design, photography and writing.

Carrie will be leading the Advanced Design skill track, presenting her breakouts “3 Tips that Will Change the Way You Design Pages” on Monday and “Managing the Interview Process” on Wednesday, and is a featured keynote speaker. She also is a school counselor.

Devon Adams the yearbook adviser at WIlliams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona. He started yearbooking in 1989, and remembers using wax pencils to crop print film photos as a staffer.

Devon will be leading the Advisers track, and is presenting his breakout “From Idi-Uh? to Idi-Awesome: Puns, Idioms, Titles. Oh My!” on Monday and “CTRL + ALT + DECEIT: Using AI the Right Way” on Wednesday.

Michael Feik has been rocking the teaching world for 13 years! You'll find him at Rigby High School, where he helps students get creative with Photography, Yearbook, and Broadcasting. He also brings his artistic touch to BYU-Idaho, teaching Ceramics. When he's not in the classroom, Michael's busy enjoying life with his awesome wife and three boys.

Michael will be teaching the Photography skills track, teaching the ”From Chaos to Content” breakout on Monday and “1,200 Books in 25 Minutes: The Ultimate No-Stress Distribution” breakout on Wednesday, and giving photo consults.

Megan Kling advises the Rebelations Yearbook for her high school alma mater, Columbine HS and teaches all levels of photography. In her “free time,” Megan also coaches gymnastics for area teams.

Megan will be teaching the Photography skills track and presenting her breakouts “Cook-Cook-Cook-Cookie Face” on Monday and “Stop the Action” on Wednesday.

Kathy Nicolson, CJE, has advised two national award winning yearbooks, formerly at Mesquite High in Gilbert and currently at Corona del Sol in Tempe, both in AZ. When not pushing her staff to meet deadlines, Kathy enjoys traveling with her family. All four of her children have been on her yearbook staff at one time.

Kathy will be teaching the Beginning Design track this year.

Jennifer Parsons, CJE, advises the national award winning Ingenium yearbook at Greenfield Junior High. She geeks out on everything journalism and it extends to her Jeep’s license plate that reads, YEARBK.

Jennifer will be leading our Yearbook Basics skill track, and presenting her breakouts “CTRL + ALT + MOD” on Monday and “Taming the Yearbook Madness” on Wednesday. She also is a school counselor.

Erik is the yearbook adviser and head hockey coach at Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs. He just finished his 20th yearbook, and is excited to get started on his next twenty!

Erik is serving as a school counselor this year.

Megan Sebold, CJE has been a rep with Varsity Yearbook for 18 years. As a former teacher, she believes in the real world learning that can only happen in the yearbook classroom and loves the power that it gives students.

Megan will be presenting the “Start with Square One” breakout on Wednesday.

Andi is the yearbook adviser and photography teacher at Vista Ridge High School in Colorado Springs. Andi was named the CSMA Adviser of the Year in 2022.

Andi will be presenting “CTE, CTSO, and Work-Based Learning” breakout on Monday.