Our Team
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Cameron Strang
CEO
EmailCameron founded RELEVANT way back in 2000 (we can't believe it's been 11 years either). He's a lover, not a fighter, is a husband, dad of the most incredible kid in the world and is a disturbingly avid fan of the Orlando Magic. You can connect with him via Twitter, Google+, Facebook and CameronStrang.com. But he's no social media whore.
Hometown: Orlando | College: Oral Roberts
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Josh Babyar
Chief Revenue Officer
EmailAfter a tenure as a label exec and publisher at Stop Smiling, Josh joined the RELEVANT team in 2008 and has been instrumental in a lot of our recent growth, leading much of our marketing and consultation business. To say he wears many hats would be, well, yeah, he wears many hats.
Hometown: Chicago | College: Middle Tennessee State
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Chris Miyata
Chief Operations Officer
EmailTrivia note: Chris was RELEVANT's fourth employee back in 2000. After that era, he went on to do project management and marketing for tech companies across the country. We finally wooed him back in 2010 with the promise of unlimited beef jerky, and he now heads up our digital team and operations—as well as some of the most insightful data analysis you've ever seen. Also, Chris really likes baseball, which we don't hold against him.
Hometown: Atlanta | College: Oral Roberts
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Maya Strang
Finance Director
EmailMaya is Cameron's wife, podcaster and the second-most-tenured team member at RELEVANT. Among her many duties is making sure everyone gets paid (both us and the people who send us bills), and she's continually bringing in treats from her baking business, so she's easily the most popular Strang of all.
Hometown: Waconia, Minnesota | College: Central Florida
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Philip Self
Account Director (Education and Publishing)
EmailAfter serving as director of business development for a prominent animation studio, running a successful financial services business and spending 7 years as a pastor, Philip joined the RELEVANT team in 2008 to spearhead a reinvention of our advertising and consultation business. To say he brings a well-rounded wealth of experience to the table would be kind of an understatement.
Hometown: Atlanta | College: Georgia State
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Michael Romero
Account Director (Non-profits and Growth Markets)
EmailA Houston native and one of the most passionate college basketball fans we know, Michael brings marketing expertise and creative passion to every advertising partner he works with. Meaning, if you have a bad idea, he'll help you fix it.
Hometown: Houston | College: Oral Roberts
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Roxanne Wieman
Editorial Director
EmailOriginally hailing from rural Colorado, Roxy leads our editorial team, writes the occasional cover story and has a hand in leading all the content we produce. Considering we're always evolving—and expanding from magazines and web to apps and tablets (and beyond!)—we'd like to clone her. Can someone work on that for us?
Hometown: Vona, Colorado | College: Colorado State
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Ryan Hamm
Managing Editor, RELEVANT
EmailYou know that snarky voice that writes the slices on RELEVANTmagazine.com? That's Ryan. He manages all of RELEVANT's content (web and print), so if you want to write for us or have ideas to pitch, hit him up. Just beware, he's elitist. And smart. And snarky. And has really good taste.
Hometown: Battle Creek, Nebraska | College: Wheaton
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Ashley Emert
Managing Editor, Specialty Publications
EmailA closet Disney fan, Ashley oversees all content for Reject Apathy and the RELEVANT Magazine College Guides, as well as leading copy editing for all of our publications. She's an organized, hard-working, busy, and very cool, lady.
Hometown: Bowie, MD | College: Flagler
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Josh Loveless
Senior Editor, Neue
EmailFor 14 years, Josh led impactful and innovative church communities in Chicago and Orlando, served as a movie producer and is the president of a music label. He applies his vision and passion for the Church in leading our ministry division, Neue—and is the voice of reason on the RELEVANT podcast.
Hometown: Norman, OK | School: Hard Knocks
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Alyce Giligan
Associate Editor
EmailIn addition to writing, editing and doing a ton of interviews for the magazines, websites and podcasts, Alyce is the primary online content updater and our social media voice. All those tweets in your timeline? That's her. (She's pretty funny.)
Hometown: Ocala, FL | College: Southeastern
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Heather Meikle
Editorial Assistant
EmailHeather carries the crown as the youngest member of the RELEVANT team. She fills that ever-crucial and always changing support role in the editorial team, making sure all the editorial plates keep spinning and spinning. And spinning and spinning. We keep her busy.
Hometown: TBD | College: TBD
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Chaz Russo
Senior Designer
EmailA grad of the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York, Chaz has put his unique creative stamp on all things RELEVANT, Neue and Reject Apathy. Add to that his impeccable music taste, and we think he's a keeper. Plus, he takes a very serious picture.
Hometown: Madison, NJ | College: School of Visual Arts
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Tanya Elshahawi
Senior Web Designer
EmailA grad of American University in D.C. and a New Jersey native, Tanya is easily the best digital designer we've ever encountered. She's innovative, creative and above all, nice—and is leading the creative direction for our web and tablet future.
Hometown: Franklin Lakes, NJ | College: American
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David Barratt
Web Developer
EmailCrazy smart when it comes to coding, problem-solving and meticulous with detail, David helps make our complex web and app visions a reality. Without him, well, the complex part of the visions would go really badly.
Hometown: Norma, OK | College: Central Florida
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Lin Jackson
Web Production Coordinator
EmailLin is the type of guy who knows how to bring digital ideas to life. He's not cranky, he's not loud, he works hard and has good ideas. We like him a lot.
Hometown: Milton, FL | College: Central Florida
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Chad Michael Snavely
Audio & Video Producer
EmailIf it has our name on it and it makes noise or moves, Chad had a hand in it. Not only is he the illustrious producer behind RELEVANT.tv and RELEVANT Podcast (he's the guy on the ones and twos), he's also the DJ of RELEVANT.fm. In real life he doesn't look nearly as much like Moby as this picture implies.
Hometown: Corning, NY | College: Bryan
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Calvin Cearley
Marketing Manager
EmailBefore joining our team to lead creative marketing ideas for us and our clients, Calvin was in a band in Boston and then ran marketing campaigns for the influential and innovative Full Sail University. We're trying to get him to write a RELEVANT jingle.
Hometown: Lantana, FL | College: Full Sail
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Stephanie Fry
Circulation & Fulfillment Manager
EmailStephanie is the newest member of our marketing team, handling all aspects of our distribution, fullfilment and the subscriber services of our magazines. With her in charge, trust us you're in good hands.
Hometown: Cleveland, TN | College: Columbia International
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Sarah Heyl
Customer Service/Marketing Assistant
EmailSarah is one of the nicest people you're going to meet. That's why we have her handle all customer service inquiries that come in, as well as assist with partnerships and promotions events. You won't be able to ruffle her. Go ahead, try.
Hometown: Orlando | College: UCF
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Theresa Dobritch
Communications Manager &
Executive Assistant to Cameron Strang
EmailTheresa is the keeper of sanity on the RELEVANT team. She knows everything about everything, and Cameron would be in a non-stop fetal position if not for her. She also has impeccable music taste (which is why she does The Drop and RELEVANT.tv music selections) and is the life of any good party—which is perfect, because we like throwing parties.
Hometown: Youngstown, OH | College: Youngstown State
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Austin Sailsbury
Project Manager
EmailA former camp director and architecture major, Austin is the center spoke of the madness wheel. He keeps everyone on deadline and on task, and makes sure every client and advertiser is taken care of. Basically, he could shut us down if he wanted to.
Hometown: Norman, OK | College: Oklahoma
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Tyler Legacy
Fulfillment Coordinator
EmailA guy who rides his bike to work every day, Tyler handles all customer service for our magazines, manages our online store and easily has the coolest last name we've ever heard.
Hometown: Daytona Beach, FL | College: Central Florida
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Stephen Willis
Build-Out Czar
Stephen is a music engineer who spent a year rebuilding homes in New Orleans after Katrina. In addition to working at a studio and bike shop, he now spends a few days a week helping us creatively transform our office and studio spaces. Cameron's his biggest fan, because before Stephen came along he was the one building stages and installing stuff.
Hometown: Jersey Shore | College: Full Sail
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Jeremy Snell
Photographer/Videographer
EmailA student at the University of Hawaii, Jeremy interned with us this summer doing a ton of photography for the magazines, as well as shooting/directing a couple of short films for the web and tablet editions of the magazine. He's an amazing creative talent, and we're sad to see him go back to paradise.
Hometown: Honolulu, HI | College: Hawaii
