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Patrick Egan is the director of marketing and communications at Children’s Aid, which has been battling childhood poverty in New York City for 164 years and counting. In addition to working with the media and overseeing digital and content strategies, he played a leading role in the organization’s recent rebranding and subsequent relaunch of its website.
Before coming to Children’s Aid in 2014, Patrick was the senior content manager at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where he put together a grassroots campaign that attracted hundreds of thousands of Americans in support of a woman’s unequivocal right to make choices about her health and future. He started in nonprofit advocacy with Children’s Rights, a legal advocacy firm reforming foster care nationally.
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Bayeté Ross Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, visual journalist, and filmmaker. He is a TED Speaker, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, Columbia Law School’s inaugural Artist-In-Residence, and a CatchLight Global Fellow. He is also a Professor at NYU.
He has created public art with the Apollo Theater, Lincoln Center, the PhotoSaintGermain and Paris Photo Festivals, Dysturb, The NYC Parks Department, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. His recent public sculpture series made of sugarcane and cotton boomboxes exhibited in New York, Paris, and Benin simultaneously. His journalistic work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and PBS.
He has exhibited his work and presented keynotes internationally in France, China, Belgium, Ukraine, Benin, South Africa, Colombia, and Ethiopia. He has published visual journalism projects with The NY Times, The Guardian, and PBS. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Oakland Museum of California, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Birmingham Museum of Fine Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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Australian by birth and a Chicagoan by residence, Sarah Matheson is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, visual storyteller and Digital Asset Strategist.
Sarah has documented Presidents, Congressional and State elected officials, candidates, volunteers and political strategists hard at work. She has captured all sides of politics, across all parties and at all levels and just about every major rally or march you can think of.
Volunteering during the 2016 Presidential campaign, Sarah was based out of the Hillary for America Illinois office in downtown Chicago. It was here she fell in love with documenting how people engaged in the US political process at a local level. She documenting 56 political events across 4 states in 42 days.
She also designs & produces large & complex digital asset projects, from running the 50 strong Digital Media Team for the 2018 Women’s March Chicago to sourcing a digital library of 10,000 images across 156 topics for a corporate client.
In her previous 25-year corporate career in Australia, Sarah worked as a Business Development Manager in internet and marketing companies.
Married to Rob Lowe (not the actor), Sarah carries her cameras everywhere, talks about photography incessantly, much to the annoyance of Harry, her 12-year-old son. When not making photos, Sarah is doing what every other working parent is doing… juggling the demands of family life whilst trying to carve out time for spontaneous creativity.
Sarah holds Illinois Secretary of State and Illinois House of Representatives Media Credentials, is an APA (American Photographic Association) National Member and a member of the Chicago Women in Photography community.
