Three creative service professionals who have been working together for more than a decade founded the Alumni Magazine Group to serve the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities. From Washington, DC to Stanford, Toronto and beyond, our writer, photographer, and illustrator have reported, photographed and illustrated the stories that fill alumni magazines and publications with dynamic images and articles. To hire us individually or as a group, contact the ALUMNI MAGAZINE GROUP by phone [703 502-3405] or EMAIL.
Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986, Northern Virginia freelance writer Hope Katz Gibbs has been a newspaper and magazine reporter. She launched her freelance writing business in 1993, and in the last 15 years her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Miami Herald, dozens of magazines, and many alumni magazines including Baylor, Duke, Georgetown, the George Washington University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas, and the University of Virginia. Hope also regularly writes book reviews for the Costco Connection, artist profiles for elan magazine, and is currently the director of communications for the City of Fairfax Schools, and the leader of corporate communications for Social Technologies, a global futurist research and consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Hope has won several awards for her writing from the Florida Magazine Group (for feature writing, and best column) and the National School Public Relations Association (for Close-Up, the bimonthly newsletter she writes for the City of Fairfax Schools.) View Hope’s published articles on her website:
www.hopegibbs.com
In the 20 years that Washington DC photographer Steve Barrett has been taking pictures, the likes of Michael Jordan, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Spike Lee and Boris Yeltsin have found their way to the end of his lens. He has photographed George Clooney, James Earl Jones and Bill and Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain. His photos have been featured in Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, USA Today and Washingtonian, among others business and general interest publications. Alumni magazines have always been some of his favorite clients and he has taken cover and inside feature shots for Harvard Auburn Stanfrond, the Career College Association and Vanderbilt.
“Since I live so close to Washington, DC, dozens of alumni magazines call on me regularly to photograph their DC-based alumni, and also hire to me to photograph the politicians and DC insiders that they may be writing about,” he says. “I work hard to be as effective as possible for my clients. I know they are the boss, and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to do what I do.” View Steve’s photography portfolio on his website:
www.stevebarrettphotography.com
Michael Gibbs has been a freelance illustrator since the early ’80s. After majoring in architecture at the University of Maryland, he attended Pratt Institute as a photography and illustration major. His award-winning artwork has appeared in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth Magazine, Consumer Reports, Harvard Business Review, and publications for United Airlines, Verizon, IBM, Sears, American Airlines, CitiGroup and Oracle. He has also illustrated the covers and features of dozens of alumni magazines including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, the University of Chicago and American University. His illustrations have been recognized by prestigious art publications such as Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, Print, and Spectrum. His work has also been exhibited at a variety of museums and galleries including the Society of Illustrator‚Äôs Museum of American Illustration in New York City, the Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, and in Washington area at the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Sumner School Museum, Montgomery College Gallery and the University of Maryland Gallery. View more of Michael’s artwork on his website:
www.michaelgibbs.com.