Meet Devan
Writer/Producer Devan Stuart is a five-time Florida Press Association Award winner and correspondent for People magazine, Chicago Sun Times, Suite101.com and the Associated Press. She has produced live TV news programs; feature packages for the Jacksonville Jaguars broadcast team; documentary projects, and corporate and promotional videos for major name clients.
As a journalist, she has interviewed dozens of notables, from pop starlet Jessica Simpson to Evangelist Billy Graham to the family of a downed World War II airman discovered frozen in the icy reaches of a Sierra Nevada glacier.
Stuart is founder of Kērris Media, a new production company focusing on documentary and TV/Web TV series. "Kērris" is derrived from a Creek/Muscogee word meaning “I am learning.” Currently, Stuart is developing a series featuring youth across America who are making positive contributions to their communities and an hour-long documentary on the 40th anniversary of consolidated city/county government in Jacksonville.
Stuart also is founding chair of the Norman Studios Silent Film Museum, Inc., a nonprofit organization working to restore and reopen silent filmmaker Richard Norman's five-building studio complex in Jacksonville's Arlington district. The Norman property is the nation's only surviving, full silent film studio complex and was among the first to break the motion picture industry's racial barrier, producing films that starred African-American actors playing positive, non-stereotypical roles. Plans include a museum that chronicles Northeast Florida's days as the "Winter Film Capital of the World," workshops led by veteran film and television professionals, and a summer camp designed to give underprivileged children a hands-on venture into the world of filmmaking.
Stuart earned a Bachelor's Degree in communications from the University of North Florida in 1996 and has continued studies at UCLA, the Poynter Institute, MediaBistro and the Southern Newspapers Association. She lives in Jacksonville, Fla. with her son and four rescued pups.
Reach Devan Stuart at 904.742.7011
