Meet the Expert

Meet the Expert — a popular workshop offering — makes nationally acclaimed scholastic journalism educators available to consult individually with publication staffs.

Emily Pyeatt Arnold and Margaret Sorrows will be available on Tuesday, July 1, and Wednesday, July 2,, at the following times both days —

9:30 a.m. • 10:30 a.m. • 1 p.m. • 2 p.m. • 3 p.m. • 4 p.m.

When registering for the workshop, advisers sign up for each session, although the entire staff attends. The cost is $75 for each 50-minute session.

While the consultants are not company employees, the Meet the Expert program is made possible by our sponsors: Jostens and Walsworth.

Emily Pyeatt Arnold is currently the Upper School photography and film teacher at Fort Worth Country Day School (Texas). 

She previously advised the Ledoian yearbook, Cat’s Eye online, Catalyst literary arts magazine, and Bearcat TV at Aledo High School (Texas)

Arnold was awarded the JEA Medal of Merit, recognized as a TAJE Texas Trailblazer and was an ILPC Edith Fox King award recipient. She was also a former JEA Special Recognition Adviser and JEA Rising Star.

Margaret Sorrows retired after 36 years of advising yearbooks and teaching digital photography, most recently for 24 years at Bryant High School (Arkansas).

She was the 2014 JEA H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Her yearbooks won Gold and Silver CSPA Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers, including selection to the NSPA Hall of Fame in 2008. Her honors include a JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, NSPA Pioneer Award, CSPA Gold Key, TAJE Texas Trailblazer Award and runner-up to Arkansas Teacher of the Year.

She is currently an ambassador for Jostens, serving as an educational and creative consultant.

Ray Westbrook is a retired journalism teacher and adviser who worked the past 23 years at St. Mark’s School of Texas.

While at St. Mark’s, he served as director of communications and was holder of the Oltrogge Master Teaching Chair and advised the newspaper and yearbook.  Publications he advised won Gold Crowns, Pacemakers and Gold Stars.  He was named National Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2021 and has received the Gold Key from CSPA, the John Murrell Excellence in Teaching Award from St. Mark’s, ILPC’s Edith Fox King Award, the TAJE Trailblazer Award, and was named Texas High School Journalism Teacher of the Year in 2010.