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Jonathan Benavides
A multimedia producer, digital media strategist who leads cross-functional teams to develop culturally diverse creative content and community experiences for media brands like Clear Channel, Fox Audience Strategy, Eviction Defense Network and dozens of companies. Jonathan started as a video creator/storyteller with his feature length documentary, Gay Latino LA: Coming of Age and in the content/community with his original trans-queer blogging social network, Qulture.org. Formerly, served the nation’s second largest HR association. He has been on panels in film, tech, queer and media conferences and spoken extensively about social media management and community engagement, as well as conducted workshops and trainings, at leading industry events and organizations such as Outfest Fusion, APLA, AHF, Grindr, Rich Media Institute, and the University of Chicago.
His newest venture as a Chinese business owner is as a consultant to the international tech renaissance. He sees technology as a radical space of boundless opportunities for connections between people, of ideas, through video, and within immersive platforms.
Geoffrey Davies
Geoffrey Davies is a Principal Lecturer in Journalism and Joint International Director for the School of Media, Arts and Design. He joined the University of Westminster on staff teaching journalism and television in 2002.
After Oxford University he trained with the Thomson Organisation in Newcastle on The Journal daily newspaper and then moved to broadcast journalism with Thames News, working as producer. After a brief spell in children’s television he was the original producer of Frost on Sunday at TV-am, a format that ran on several channels for the next 21 years. Moving to cable television he worked for Music Box (a British precursor of MTV), becoming Head of Production for the company, later working at BSB directing live studio for business television.
In his freelance career Geoffrey has worked at ITN (now ITV News) as a producer, as a business manager in a broadcast television services company, made corporate videos, conducted media training and marketed satellite delivery services to business, as well as writing about the industry and technology for national and trade press. Immediately before working at Westminster as a visiting lecturer, he was at the BBC at the start of what is became BBC Three.
Jinsun Ryu
Jinsun is from South Korea and is currently a senior student at Beijing Foreign Studies University majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy.
Jinsun has been volunteering with BeHive for over a year, in her role as an International Marketing Manager. She coordinates marketing operations and curates content/branding strategy for the international and domestic social media platforms of BeHive.