Brian Thomson
I was raised in Cooperstown, NY. Yes, that Cooperstown - home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, incidentally the home of my first job in video as well. Since 2004 I’ve lived in Southeast Portland, Oregon with my beautiful family. Spending almost a decade building the video department at Cambia Health Solutions, I have worked on everything from commercials and music videos, to training videos and corporate branding. I am a story teller and video is my medium. I am a problem solver and video is my tool.
Dondrea Elmquist
My love for broadcasting began when I was 14 and started my career at a local radio station in Salt Lake City. It’s a path that took me through the University of Utah where I majored in Broadcast Journalism/Mass Communication, to local Salt Lake radio and television news stations, a short national stint at ABC News Washington, and then to Portland, Oregon where I raised my family while running a radio news service. I left news behind to help build the video department at Cambia Health Solutions where, for almost a decade, my partner-in-crime and I have been lucky to expand our talents, meet incredibly inspirational people and share their stories.
JJ Morell
I was born in Tampa, Florida and graduated from high school in Waxahachie, Texas. After receiving my BA at Baylor University and working as a trained ballet, jazz, and modern dancer, I enlisted in the Navy as an Intelligence Specialist. Three deployments later I was accepted to, and finished, Navy Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida. After a 20 year career in the Navy, I retired in the Portland-metro area. I am a coach and account manager for a company that provides resilience training to the military and corporations.