Stacey L. Holman is a Harlem-based filmmaker who is a proud graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans and the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. She has directed and/or produced a number of award-winning projects including an episode of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, and she was an Associate Producer on the Emmy award-winning film Freedom Riders.

Gina Sabiston is an educator and ardent advocate for historic preservation. Her career evolved from diverse roles, including being a DJ and selling puppets, to eventually becoming a respected teacher for over 20 years. She is an eight-time Golden Apple Finalist. And she has served on the City of Fort Myers Historic Preservation Board since 2003, chairing the board for a significant portion of that time.

Walt Tiburski was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and lived there for nearly 60 years before moving to Naples in 2005. He spent more than 50 consecutive years in the commercial radio business, starting in college at a local radio station as a “gopher” and working his way up to becoming a radio station group owner of 23 stations. Early in his career Walt quickly rose from Account Executive to Sales Manager to Vice President and General Manager of the legendary WMMS “The Buzzard” in Cleveland. Walt rounded out his half-century-plus in radio with Alpine Broadcasting Corporation’s WAVV 101.1FM here in Southwest Florida where he has served as General Manager and Vice President of Sales for 13 years.

Katie Garcia is Vice President of A&R at Capitol Music Group. Prior to holding that role, Katie worked at Secretly Group for 8 years and helped sign some of their flagship artists including Slowdive, Faye Webster, serptentwithfeet, Japanese Breakfast, and Phoebe Bridgers. Before that she was the label manager and head of A&R at the independent record label, Captured Tracks. She also co-founded Bayonet Records with her husband Dustin Payseur. She's a first generation Cuban-American who was born in Miami.

Preston Rumbaugh is a roots-music veteran now based in Clarksdale, Mississippi — known as the Home of the Blues because blues music basically originated there — where he is a member of the Big A & the Allstars blues trio. He also leads his own blues band that features Big A & the Allstars members Anthony "Big A" Sherrod and Lee Williams, and he plays solo gigs. As a young musician, Preston toured domestically and internationally with the Scottish rockabilly band The Shakin' Pyramids. In the 2000s, he backed Memphis recording artist John Paul Keith before he decided to settle in Clarksdale to play blues exclusively. Since making the move, Preston has backed a who's who of blues legends including Robert "Bilbo" Walker, Big George Brock, and Terry "Big T" Williams, and he's a regular at festivals like the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale and venues like Ground Zero Blues Club.

Grace Lougen is a guitarist and songwriter from Buffalo, New York who actively plays out nearly every night both locally and nationally. She has contributed her songwriting and guitar playing to more than a dozen full-length records and in 2018 she joined forces with Megan Brown, Josh English, and Dylan Hund to form the band Grosh. Since then, they have put out two albums and an EP, and are currently at work on their third record, produced by the legendary Tim Lefebvre.

Dawn Belamarich is president and CEO of Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers. Originally from New Jersey, Dawn moved to Cape Coral a few years ago and joined Lee Health as the System Leader for the Behavioral Health division. Prior to coming to Southwest Florida her previous roles included Senior Vice President of Clinical and Operational Excellence, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Director at Recovery Centers of America, a national addiction treatment provider. We sat down with her in the podcast studio at Collaboratory.

Bryce is a creative leader and singer/songwriter based in SWFL who has more than 10 years of experience working in artistic and production fields. His main projects currently include working for Sugarshack Music Channel as the Events Director, and he also hosts their podcast that features conversations with the cool bands they bring to their porch. He’s also the frontman for an Americana Folk Rock band called Sun State Blues.

Chef Paul Rogalski is a renowned and passionate gastronomic leader and artist who finds his inspiration in locally sourced ingredients, the natural environment, and he says "collaborations with all the great people he works with and learns from every single day." He is the Culinary Director & Co-Owner of Rouge Restaurant in Calgary. He has done much to help define the farm to table concept in Calgary and beyond. And, he can be seen starring in Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest on PBS, where he explores natural landscapes across North America with Survivorman Les Stroud.

Dan Navarro is a singer/songwriter whose career started as a songwriter, most often with Eric Lowen, for artists including Pat Benatar (they wrote “We Belong”) The Bangles, Jackson Browne, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick and more. In the 1990s and 2000s, Dan and Eric recorded and toured as the acclaimed acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro. Dan has a parallel career as a voice actor and singer, in films including Happy Feet, Rio, The Lorax, and many more. Most recently, he sang on six Lin-Manuel Miranda songs in the Disney Film ENCANTO. He’s also done voice work for many TV shows including Family Guy and American Dad, and for video games and TV commercials. Dan’s latest album, "Horizon Line" was produced by multiple Grammy®-winner Jim Scott who’s worked with the likes of Tom Petty, Wilco, and the Dixie Chicks. He was in town to play a gig at the Americana Community Music Association in Fort Myers so graciously stopped by our studio with his guitar to give us his three Song Stories.