Jacqueline Olive, a 2007 graduate of CJC’s Documentary Institute master’s program, is an independent filmmaker and immersive media producer with more than a decade of experience in journalism and film. She founded Tell It MEDIA, a production company that creates short and feature-length documentaries, narrative fiction, hybrid films, and immersive media projects that tell stories of diverse people, places, and cultures.
Her debut feature documentary, Always in Season, premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency. Olive is currently producing a VR companion to Always in Season that uses 360° video and computer-generated imagery to explore themes of dehumanization and violence and offers strategies to black women for moving confidently through racialized public spaces.
Warren Zanes is a musician, teacher and writer whose subjects range from Jimmy Rodgers to Dusty Springfield to the history of Warner Bros. Records. He is the author of 
Claire Smith is a pioneering, female sports journalist who has been covering baseball for more than three decades, including seven years as a national baseball writer and columnist for The New York Times. She has covered baseball for ESPN since 2007.
Best-selling authors Michael Connelly (B.S. Journalism 1980, Alumnus of Distinction 2003) and James Patterson speak in the Reitz Union as part of GatorNights on February 24, 2017. The event was co-sponsored by the CJC Great Storytellers series.
Author and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Debbie Cenziper, B.S. Journalism 1992, discussed her new book Love Wins and the fight for legalization of same-sex marriage.
Best-selling and critically acclaimed author Michael Connelly returned to his educational roots at the University of Florida on Sept. 21, 2015 to talk about the art and craft of storytelling.