CASSIOPEIA GUTHRIE (SHE/HER/HERS)

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An accomplished journalist, educator, and consultant with expertise in community relations, project management, experience/content design, curriculum writing,TK-12 education, and higher education, Cassiopeia leverages storytelling to inspire the imperative: courageous, creative, equity-minded, and empowered communities ready to change the world. After 12 years of balancing credits as an actor, producer, and costumer with managing local nonprofits including a 501c3 theatre, Cassiopeia returned to her roots in journalism in 2022. She received San Diego Press Club Awards for Excellence in Journalism in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Cassiopeia has a bachelor's in journalism, an executive MBA, training in storytelling and photojournalism from National Geographic, and is a doctoral candidate earning a doctorate in educational leadership with an emphasis in social justice. Cassiopeia has appeared on local television at CBS, NBC, ABC, and KUSI and her work can be found across a wide breadth of regional and national publications, but she currently writes for SanDiegoStory.com, San Diego Magazine, and On the Craft. She is a member of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle, San Diego Press Club, and American Theatre Critics Association, and a judge for the annual Craig Noel Awards in San Diego. She is currently on faculty at California State University San Marcos, where she teaches courses in the School of Education and serves as Center ARTES Faculty Fellow in Interdisciplinary Innovation and Project R.I.S.E. Faculty Fellow.