My keynote for JACC 2014
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Tonight I gave one of the most important talks I have ever given in my life.
In 1996, while a student at Pierce Community College, I attended my first journalism conference: Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC).
Now, nearly 20 years later, I returned to be its keynote speaker.
This was an intense, historical talk for me… and I knew I wanted to document it. So, while the audio isn’t perfect, I did a screen capture of my talk.
NOTE: The first 30 minutes is my talk, the second 30 minutes is the Q&A.
Thank you to JACC for inviting to speak.
And thank you to everyone who has changed my life. I mention many of you.
I did not do this alone.
The video (unedited):
Some of the pics from the event:
A ‘helfie’ as the students walked into the room for the keynote.
I apologized and warned the attendees that I would probably break down from the feels.
Great photo as I talked about my life where ‘stuff happened.’.
Someone sketched a cartoon of me during my talk.
I took a (forced) selfie with my first journalism professor Rob O’Neil. This man changed my life.