Get to know the team behind The Ned Fritz Legacy: An Online Biography. Amy Martin serves as the website content researcher and writer. Kristi Kerr Leonard is the project manager and fundraiser. The final member of the team is Scooter Smith, a computer animation pioneer and husband of Amy. For a complete list of the tasks needed to create this website, please see What it Takes.
Amy Martin as Researcher and Writer
After spending three years as a back-to-the-land cucumber farmer in Northeast Texas following high school, Amy Martin returned to Dallas. Her first journalism foray for Over the Garden Fence won an award from Ned’s Texas Committee on Natural Resources. It inspired her to get a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University and become a professional journalist. Amy has enjoyed a 45-year career writing for local and national publications, including Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, and D magazine, alternating between entertainment and environmental journalism. She is currently senior features writer for GreenSourceDFW. She is the author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant. Her upcoming book, Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, will be published in early 2023 by Timber Press.
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Kristi Kerr Leonard as Project Manager and Fundraiser
Kristi’s love of nature developed in childhood exploring Oak Cliff creeks and interactions with her brothers’ Boy Scout troops. After receiving an MBA from the American School of International Business, she began her career at The Richard’s Group advertising agency, developing marketing strategies across a wide variety of clients. While raising two children, she used her business skills to manage estates of high-net-worth individuals. She is the Marketing Director for C3 Financial Services and David Hurt’s Wild Birds Unlimited store in Dallas, tapping into skills honed in a nine-month certification program from SMU in Social Media and Digital Communications.
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Scooter Smith as Webmaster and Graphic Artist
A new media specialist for over 40 years, Scooter was among the first wave of computer artist-animators. He helped usher in the digital video age with Video Post & Transfer, was a founding member of the technologically innovative production company Dreamtime Imagineering, and taught New Media at The University of Texas at Arlington.
Today, he continues to provide new media services such as photoshop artistry, web development, online newsletters, video editing, illustration, and graphic animation.
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· Amy Martin
· Eastwood Neighborhood Association
· Freddie Jones
· Itchy Business
· Standards Gazette
· Wild DFW
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