Our Team

Cameron Strang

CEO
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Cameron 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

Josh Babyar

Chief Revenue Officer
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After 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

Chris Miyata

Chief Operations Officer
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Trivia 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

Maya Strang

Finance Director
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Maya 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

Philip Self

Account Director (Education and Publishing)
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After 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

Michael Romero

Account Director (Non-profits and Growth Markets)
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A 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

Roxanne Wieman

Editorial Director
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Originally 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

Ryan Hamm

Managing Editor, RELEVANT
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You 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

Ashley Emert

Managing Editor, Specialty Publications
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A 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

Josh Loveless

Senior Editor, Neue
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For 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

Alyce Giligan

Associate Editor
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In 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

Heather Meikle

Editorial Assistant
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Heather 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

Chaz Russo

Senior Designer
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A 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

Tanya Elshahawi

Senior Web Designer
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A 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

David Barratt

Web Developer
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Crazy 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

Lin Jackson

Web Production Coordinator
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Lin 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

Chad Michael Snavely

Audio & Video Producer
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If 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

Calvin Cearley

Marketing Manager
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Before 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

Stephanie Fry

Circulation & Fulfillment Manager
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Stephanie 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

Sarah Heyl

Customer Service/Marketing Assistant
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Sarah 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

Theresa Dobritch

Communications Manager &
Executive Assistant to Cameron Strang
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Theresa 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

Austin Sailsbury

Project Manager
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A 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

Tyler Legacy

Fulfillment Coordinator
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A 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

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

Jeremy Snell

Photographer/Videographer
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A 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