Web consultant Ingrid Sturgis is an educator and innovator with extensive experience as a content creator, editor and writer in print, broadcast and on Internet. She has exceptional knowledge of Web technologies and social networking and has developed multimedia content and curriculum for world-class interactive experiences.
Sturgis is also associate dean of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University and an associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film. She began working in interactive media in 1985 as a member of the New York Time’s videotext project. She has worked online since 2001, most recently as a Web strategist for heartandsoul.com, where she moved the site to the Word Press platform. She also worked as a senior programming manager for AOL’s Black Voices, the No. 1 Web site for African-Americans, and as editor in chief at Essence.com, the No. 1 Web site for African-American women.
Previously, she worked as a managing editor for startup magazines BET Weekend and Savoy. In addition, Sturgis has worked for several newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times-Herald Record and the Poughkeepsie Journal. She is the author of the critically acclaimed “The Nubian Wedding Book: Words and Rituals to Celebrate and Plan an African-American Wedding,” and the anthology “Aunties: 35 Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother.” Sturgis and Lamb also write the “Digitally Speaking” column on social media and technology for Howard Magazine.
