Javacia Harris Bowser is a freelance writer, blogger, and entrepreneur based in Birmingham, Ala., and the founder of See Jane Write , an award-winning membership organization and website for women who write and blog. A proud graduate of the journalism programs at the University of Alabama and the University of California at Berkeley, Bowser has written for a number of local and national media outlets including USA Today, Good Grit, Birmingham magazine, B-Metro, and Birmingham

Available for more freelance work. Based in the Birmingham area. Donna Francavilla is an international CBS radio and local television journalist and founder of Frankly Speaking Communications, LLC, a boutique public relations firm offering voice-over work, public speaking, presentation assistance, media training, and strategic marketing planning. FSC is a certified minority-owned, women-owned business by the State of Alabama. She is a REV Birmingham Co-Starters 2015 graduate.

Retired and not available for freelance work. Based in the Birmingham area. Peggy Gargis' career was bookended by her first love: print news. After a brief stint at her hometown newspaper, Gargis spent two decades in medical editing and technical writing. From 2003-2012, as a stringer for Reuters (Thomson Reuters), she covered corporate and political corruption trials, church arsons, and natural disasters, among other Alabama news. AMP member since 1996. Contact through email

Available for more freelance work. Based in the Birmingham area. Brigette Cannon Scott has been in the radio business over 30 years. She is currently the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Myriad Gospel Music Countdown; anchors morning news for iheart media's Alabama Radio Network and is an on-air personality on Iheart's Hallelujah 105.1. She is available as a speaker, voice-over artist, writer, and studio vocalist. Three primary areas of expertise: Public