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 My guest Richard Mackson also photographed football all levels. We’ve both seen changes in the way this wonderful sport has been covered over the years. Today we dive into football etiquette.

Former Vice President at Kodak and Sports Illustrated photographer Richard Mackson talks about 40 years in the photo industry.  Richard has photographed World Cup Soccer, America’s Cup Yachting, fourteen Olympic Games, Rose Bowls, the Oscars, Kentucky Derbies, NCAA Final Fours, BCS/CFP Championships, NBA Finals, over thirty Super Bowls, Stanley Cups, World Championship Boxing, and countless other national and international sporting events. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Arts Education from California State University, Long Beach, and is also a frequent and enthusiastic speaker and lecturer on photography, technology and business strategy topics.  Today Richard resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife Joy and their daughter Lauren.

Jill Connelly is a documentary photographer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is a contributor to Zuma Press and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, TIME magazine, Newsweek Japan, People, The Globe and Mail, The San Francisco Chronicle,  the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and many others. She has produced images for the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters  and for five years worked as a contract photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Her images are included in the books “Wichita: Coming Home, Going Global” and “4:31– Images of the 1994 Los Angeles Earthquake.” Her work has also been exhibited in numerous group shows at galleries and other venues. Her current project, “Living With the Dead,” explores cemeteries as places for celebrations of life, art, culture and history.

She has enjoyed photographing numerous celebrities, athletes and politicians, including Rosa Parks, Shaquille O’Neal and Bill Clinton, but her favorite stories are those of the ordinary people who have overcome hardships, and have interesting stories to tell of their journey along the way.

Jill has done work for NGOs as well. She traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo and photographed the subjects of education, malnutrition, child soldiers, survival and sexual violence for UNICEF. She also went to Greece to photograph the refugee crisis for Allied Aid and photographs for The Red Cross in Los Angeles

Jill teaches photojournalism at Pierce College where she is the Chair of the Media Arts department and advisor for the campus newspaper and magazine. She has also taught at Brooks Institute of Photography and with the UCLA Student Media program.

She has a master’s degree in Journalism with a photojournalism concentration from Boston University and a bachelor’s in Communication from State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh, where she minored in Photography. She also completed a social media certificate at Cal State Dominguez Hills and has created social media content for Allied Aid and Pierce College.

Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge. We talk about going to the Arctic with the Navy, Hiking up Mt. Shasta and Capturing Will Smith slap Chris Rock. You can follow Myung on Instagram www.instagram.com/myung_chun

Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge. We talk about covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 1994 Northridge earthquake and O.J. Simpson murder case. You can follow Myung on Instagram www.instagram.com/myung_chun

Dr. Tiffany Herbert is the Associate Vice President for Health and Well-Being at California State University-Dominguez Hills. Herbert has been with CSUDH for 18 years, ever since she arrived on campus as a pre-doctoral psychology intern. She fell in love with the campus and its students, and was officially hired as a full-time counselor in January 2005. Over the years, Herbert has held several positions on campus, including a year as chair of the Africana Studies department. As such, she’s developed relationships with faculty, staff, and students from all areas of the university.

Chad Cordero is one of the greatest baseball players to ever wear a Cal State Fullerton uniform. For three years (01-03) he was unstoppable on the mound. He was drafted by the Expos in the 1st round (20th overall). Cordero's best season was in 2005, when he was an All-Star and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award. During the period of 2005–2007, he recorded 113 saves. He completed the 2005 season with 47 saves, leading the major leagues, and was selected to the National League pitching staff for the 2005 MLB All-Star game. Cordero (at age 25 years and 86 days) became the second youngest player in baseball history to reach 100 saves in a career. (Francisco Rodríguez is the youngest at 24 years and 246 days old. Cordero missed almost all of the 2008 season after undergoing surgery to repair a labrum tear, an injury he suffered in April.[2] On October 30, 2008 the Nationals sent him outright to AAA Syracuse, and he rejected the assignment, becoming a free agent. Among other reasons for Cordero's rejection was that he was displeased with how he found out that he would be "non-tendered" by the Nationals at the end of the season—via an impromptu comment made by Nationals' GM Jim Bowden on a radio show in July. Chad has two children: Riley and Tehya. Tehya died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 2010. He was named head coach of the Iolani softball team in Hawaii.

Mike Greenlee and I sit down talk about MLB baseball playoffs.  We are both Dodgers fans and we discuss their game against San Diego as well as the Yankees, Albert Pujols, Angels and more. Mike is in the Cal State Fullerton Hall of Fame as he was a pitcher with a devastating slider. I've shot over 1000 MLB games and spent 4 years as the Angels team photographer. We both worked together at CSF covering college baseball and doing a documentary on Rosenblatt Stadium in 2010.

Jason is a CSU, Chico alumnus in communication design and former photo editor for The Orion. He also has an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Previously, he worked as a staff photographer for the Chico Enterprise-Record, where he won two first-place awards for his photos from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Among his duties are taking photos for Chico State publications and web pages, covering campus events, and managing a database of university images. We talk about finding his love of photography, his newspaper career and finding home at Chino State.

Cristina Salvador Klenz, a photojournalist, freelance photographer, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism degree majoring in Photojournalism (1986). Cristina's documentary photography work on the Roma culture has been published worldwide in Aperture, Geo France, Interfacemagazine in Paris, and the textbook Photojournalism the Professional's Approach. She also received a National Endowment for the Arts/WESTAF grant for her work on the Roma culture. She was a grant finalist for the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Nikon Documentary Grant. Her Roma images are in the collection of The Romani Archives & Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cristina's interest in psychology inspired her to purse an additional Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Cal State University Long Beach (2005) and a Master of Education Curriculum and Instruction/Applied Behavior Analysis from Arizona State Univeristy (2015). In 2020 she became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

She currently works as a behavior intervention assistant for Long Beach (CA) Unified School District.