A talented author, editor and columnist, Wil LaVeist has more than fifteen years of award winning print and online journalism, and media startup experience with companies such as, The Arizona Republic and Tribune Interactive, Inc. He has been through employee strikes, downsizings and on both sides of the pink slip. Mr. LaVeist is editor of MIX Magazine, a multicultural monthly and website in Virginia published by Targeted Publications + Media, a subsidiary of The Virginian-Pilot Media Companies. Through his firm LELLC, he also does Web publishing consulting and public speaking. Mr. LaVeist is a graduate of the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative, a national program for Christian ministry leaders who guide youth. He has a bachelor's in English from Lincoln University of Pennsylvania and a master's in journalism from the University of Arizona. He has also been a professor at major universities in the Midwest and South.