Meet the MyMediaMatters Team.
Kelsey Wagner
Owner, MyMediaMatters
Editor-in-Chief/Owner, Ponca City Monthly |
Kelsey founded MyMediaMatters Creative Agency in 2017 to help small businesses succeed in a world where websites, social media, e-commerce, and a professional online web presence can make or break a business. As CEO of MyMediaMatters, she leads a creative team of individuals that are driven to constantly innovate and adapt, keeping their clients and their businesses at the forefront of creative design and online solutions. Kelsey and her team have worked with hundreds all of clients nationwide and pride themselves on being thorough and responsive to client needs. Kelsey also founded Ponca City Monthly Magazine in 2020, which is a hyperlocal, full-color magazine, and is has a monthly readership of 8,000. Kelsey has an associate degree in journalism and a bachelor's degree in Administrative Leadership. Kelsey’s interdisciplinary background encompasses business development, technology, design, entrepreneurship, leadership, arts advocacy, and management that enables her to not only help grow her businesses, but others as well. Kelsey recently decided to get into politics to better serve her community and was elected to serve as a Ponca City Commissioner.
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Robyn RyanAdvertising Director/Associate Editor
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Robyn Ryan joined our creative team at MyMediaMatters as our Ponca City Monthly Magazine Advertising Director/Associate Editor in February of 2020, prior to the premier issue of the publication, a hyper-local community magazine in April of 2020. When Robyn isn’t out and about taking care of her advertising clients, whose support allows the magazine to be distributed to the public for free, she is utilizing her over 42 years of graphic design experience creating about 95% of all of the advertisements featured in the magazine. As Associate Editor, she enjoys fine-tuning the magazine each month before it is sent to the printer. Having grown from 32-pages to 80 pages in less than two years, www.PoncaCityMonthy.com now has around 40,000 visitors monthly and around 8,000 physical magazines are distributed each month locally. Robyn was employed by The Ponca City News for 25 years and retired in 2019 from her position as Advertising Director. That retirement lasted about six months. During a chance meeting with Kelsey, and learning about the idea for Ponca City Monthly Magazine, Robyn was eager to jump on board and has enjoyed every minute since. She loves being able to work with her Ponca City News advertising clients again in her role as Advertising Director for Ponca City Monthly and is equally excited to assist new business owners in promoting themselves through advertising. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of working with Robyn knows that customers become more than clients; they become friends.
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Jill RoweSocial Media Coordinator
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Jill graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati with a bachelor's degree in fine art, with an emphasis in Illustration in 2009. Jill has continued to show her custom artwork at various locations since graduating, and doing freelance work for a plethora of businesses including large murals and sign painting. Jill started an alternative modeling agency based in Cincinnati called HRH mafia from 2010 - 2012 with a business partner, and started a production company with friends called Vault51 Productions in 2013. Jill's company published a photography coffee table book called Absolution Abbey and a comic book called A Dark Alice in Wonderland. Vault51 Productions participated in the 48 hour film festival in 2014 with a short film called Door 2 Door which won best costume, and in 2015 with a short film called Acrimony which won best writing. Jill has also been bartending and bar managing since 2013 at every type of bar from bar-cades(bar arcade), dive music venues, to classic cocktail bars. Jill developed a hard working mentality from continually working in fast-paced, high volume environments. When she is not creating engaging and artistic social media content, she enjoy spending time her husband, Clint Rowe, and their three rescue dogs. Jill also enjoys watching horror movies, singing karaoke, riding motorcycles and traveling in and out of the country.
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Andy HicksLayout Designer
Digital Marketing Strategist Videographer |
Andy is a graphic artist, photographer, and storyteller. Andy says he has always loved the art of storytelling, saying "I was that kid that was on the school newspaper, yearbook, video annual, and art club. I’ve spent almost 25 years as a writer, photographer, and graphic designer for various newspapers and magazines in and around Oklahoma. Over the years, I watched storytelling evolve into a new art form including video and motion graphics. I am constantly searching for new technologies that will enable me to tell my client's stories and broadcast them to ever-growing digital audience."
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Hayley HarrisonOffice Manager
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After being a stay-at-home mom for five years, Hayley rejoined the work force in 2020 as the Assistant Executive Director for the City Arts organization. She enjoyed every aspect of working in the non-profit sector, and that is where she discovered her knack and passion for grant-writing. Over the course of two years, Hayley procured funding for many of the organization’s services and programs, and she continues to be an avid local arts advocate and supporter today. Hayley lives in rural, small-town Oklahoma with her husband J Berry, two daughters, Harper Grace and Berry Beth, and one very spirited basset hound named Sturgill. When Hayley is not at her desk or standing in front of her washing machine at home (a struggle that all working parents know) she enjoys spending time in her garden, shamelessly watching reality tv shows with her husband, perusing the shelves of her local public library, and then subsequently staying up way too late reading every night. But what gives her the most joy of all, is traveling with her daughters and watching their faces light up with the thrill and excitement of new experiences. Hayley is excited to be a member of the MyMediaMatters and Ponca City Monthly team, and she looks forward to watching your small-business dreams come true!
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Meet the 2023 Summer Interns.
Lexie CuttlerSummer Intern
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Lexie Cuttler is a rising senior at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study majoring in narratology and history. She has a passion for books and stories of all kinds and has interned at several publishing companies where she worked as an editor. Through these internships, she found a passion for graphic design and producing high quality literary work. While her main hobby is reading a vast number of books, she also enjoys video editing and spending time with her dog Chica. Though she lives in Claremore, both of her parents grew up in Ponca City and instilled in her a deep love for the city. She’s incredibly excited and honored to work for the MyMediaMatters team and the ability to learn through this amazing opportunity.
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Mallory KylerSummer Intern
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Mallory is a student who is always seeking out opportunities to be creative. graduated in Spring 2023 from Northern Oklahoma College with an Associate’s Degree in English Creative Writing. Mallory also has a background in the performing arts. Mallory was an NOC Roustabout, and has worked both onstage and behind the scenes of many musical theatre productions. In high school Mallory was heavily involved with the Evan’s Children’s Academy of Performing Arts at the Poncan Theatre, and learned a lot from her experiences. Some of Mallory's favorite productions were Beauty and the Beast(Belle u/s), Shrek the musical(Fiona), Les Miserables(Eponine), and Sweeney Todd(ensemble, social media manager). Mallory recently participated in the NOC 24 Hour PIay Festival in Spring 2023 as a scriptwriter. In the summer of 2021, Mallory had the honor of attending Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp. The performing arts has helped Mallory learn to be fearless, empathetic, hard-working, and goal-oriented. Mallory will always have an immense appreciation for what theatre has to offer the children and teens in this community. With that, Mallory hopes to shed some light, or at least inspire others to become involved in and support the little things that make Ponca City wonderfully unique. Mallory has made it a goal to become more literate and skilled when it comes to the world of creative media, and I hope to help others in telling their stories.
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