Taylor Sisk, founder, writer and editor
Taylor is a writer, editor, researcher, producer and documentary filmmaker. He has served as a managing and contributing editor of The Carrboro Citizen and an associate and contributing editor of the Independent Weekly, as well as contributing to a wide range of publications. He’s worked with organizations like the Social Science Research Council, the National Undersea Research Program and the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission. Taylor has won awards from the N.C. Press Association for enterprise and feature writing and has been cited for excellence in higher education reporting by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Maxine Mills, creative director
Maxine has been designing books, magazines, business identities and other graphics for more than 30 years. She loves telling stories with clean visual design and compelling images. Maxine is particularly adept at infusing documents with the subject’s personality to create accurate reflections of the “character”. She has created the Annual Manual for the The Independent Weekly, Popular Government for UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Government, Chapter & Verse for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Creative Writing, N.C. State alumni magazine for North Carolina State University and Wingate Today for Wingate University. Her design work for Duke University’s Duke Magazine won several awards — including gold medals –from the Council for the Advancement of Education.
Margot Carmichael Lester, marketing director
Margot manages marketing, advertising and PR. The granddaughter of a true Southern storyteller and genealogist, she knows firsthand the value of preserving family history. She also runs The Word Factory, a strategic communications and content company. As director of marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School, she created institutional and family histories for the institution’s renaming. Margot also served as a contract vice president of corporate communications at two start-up technology companies and public affairs coordinator at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Her work has been recognized by the International Association of Business Communicators, the Independent Publishers Association and the N.C. Press Association.
The trio first collaborated on Town of Carrboro, N.C.’s Centennial Guide. You can download a copy here.
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