Brandon Graves is an award-winning visual storyteller and creative director with ten years of experience in storytelling, editorial production, and strategic communications. His expertise in storytelling comes from a local TV news background in recruiting, training, and developing talent to achieve award-winning individual and team accomplishments through coaching, culture shaping, and content transformation. Brandon is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where he teaches multimedia storytelling in asynchronous formats. He has a bachelor's degree in communication from Old Dominion University. His industry knowledge in communications expands to program management, innovative instructional design, and brand communication and presentation. Brandon is a teacher and coach at heart with a passion for developing a new generation of storytellers to reframe and restore the spectrum of black images in media.