San Diego Yearbooks & Walsworth Yearbooks Team

Carlos Giron
Workshop Director and Yearbook Rep

Carlos Giron
Workshop Director and Yearbook Rep
After working in the field for more than six years taking photos for universities, corporations and restaurants, I wanted to find a way to bring my skills and knowledge to the classroom. Being a former yearbook photo editor in high school, joining the Walsworth Yearbooks team was the next logical step.
I bring my knowledge of sports, events and portrait photography to help my schools achieve their photography dreams. I cover everything from the basic understanding of how to use their photography gear and what they should be looking for, to more advanced topics like how to use to studio lights on location. I have helped many students enter scholarship programs with universities who are current customers – such as Loyola Marymount University, California Baptist University, University of California-Irvine and Biola University, just to name a few.
When I am not yearbooking, I spend my time collecting pops, cycling, gaming and taking photos.
- Phone:(818) 404-3196
- Email:carlos.giron@walsworth.com

Damon Stephens
Walsworth Customer Service

Damon Stephens
Walsworth Customer Service
Damon Stephens is the In-Plant Customer Service Representative assigned to work with schools in San Diego County, Imperial County, and Temecula. He started his career in Cover Art and in the off season he worked in the Finishing Plant. During that time, he worked as a General Worker and was borrowed by Quality Assurance. After 5 years, Damon became a Computer Support Tech and then pivoted to a Customer Service Representative. Working in many areas throughout the plant, Damon has been able to see many books go completely through the process from start to finish. He feels his time at the finishing plant has given him a much greater understanding of the entire binding process, while his background as a Cover Artist & Computer Support Tech has made him fluent in Photoshop, InDesign and Online Design.

Rhonda O'Dea
Walsworth West Area Manager

Rhonda O'Dea
Walsworth West Area Manager
Rhonda O’Dea is the West Area Sales Manager for Walsworth Yearbooks. A lifelong yearbooker, Rhonda has been a yearbook kid, an adviser, a sales rep and now an Area Manager. As an adviser in Virginia, Rhonda’s yearbook staffs produced CSPA Crown and NSPA All American books for over eight years. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional workshops all across the country and contributes to the training and education of yearbook reps and their schools.
SPOOKTACULAR - Fall Workshop Creative Consultant Speaker (10/22-10/23)

Kathy Beers
Adobe & Creative Specialist

Kathy Beers
Adobe & Creative Specialist
Kathy Beers taught photojournalism and advised The Creek yearbook at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas. Beers encouraged her students to push the boundaries in theme and design. Over 22 yearbooks, her staffs have won numerous awards, including Texas Stars, CSPA Crowns, and NSPA All American and Individual Awards. She adores her family, dog, and yearbooks (in that order). Beers treasures all of her own yearbooks, including her 8th grade one in which her crush wrote that she talked like an orange. She truly loves yearbooks and believes every kid should get one, every year.
- Phone:(818) 404-3196
- Email:carlos.giron@walsworth.com
LOCK IN LAB - Winter Workshop Creative Consultant Speakers (12/5-12/6)

Andrew Young
Creative Consultant

Andrew Young
Creative Consultant
Andrew Young, CJE advises The Round-Up at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. Youngwas named a 2017 Rising Star by JEA, 2018 Arkansas Adviser of the Year, 2018 Fayetteville Public Schools Teacher of the Year, 2020 Outstanding Young Alumni from the University of Arkansas, 2022 Special Recognition Adviser, and 2024 Distinguished Yearbook Adviser
from JEA. His staffs have been recognized in the JEA Middle School/Junior High Media contest, NSPA Picture/Story/Design of the Year contests, Arkansas Scholastic Press Association awards and Walsworth Photo Contest. Woodland’s 2023 The Round-Up yearbook received a Silver Crown from CSPA and won a NSPA Pacemaker. Young currently serves as the President of the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association and has a passion for seeing junior high and middle school journalism programs take it to the next level.

Jim McCrossen
Creative Consultant

Jim McCrossen
Creative Consultant
Jim McCrossen is in his 34th year helping journalism students find their voice in a very loud and busy world. McCrossen has spent his entire teaching career in the Blue Valley School District in Overland Park, Kan. teaching and advising two years at Blue Valley North and the past 32 at Blue Valley Northwest, where he advises the Horizon yearbook, The Express newspaper and the BVNWnews.com website. McCrossen is a JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser, an NSPA Pioneer Award recipient, a Ball State University Marilyn Weaver Scholastic Journalism Award winner and a former Kansas journalism teacher of the year. He is a former award-winning photojournalist in Ventura County, Calif. He loves teaching photography mostly because he’s not very good with words. His students have won numerous awards for their work, and they have not won numerous awards, as well. McCrossen likes red meat, chocolate and Cheetos.