# Elizabeth Strickler

> Speaker, workshop leader and educator based in Atlanta, working internationally. She studies what happens to creativity when machines can make anything, and helps universities, studios and creative teams direct AI instead of drowning in it.

Core idea: the product is not proof. If a machine can make it, the finished thing doesn't prove anyone learned anything. Her work asks what does.

## Book her for

- Keynotes and talks
- Generative Storytelling Lab: a one-day workshop where people develop, direct and screen their own short films made with generative tools. Ten run so far for industry professionals.
- Curriculum and faculty development: faculty workshops, AI curriculum, assessment that still works when students have AI
- Strategy and advisory: AI production systems and producer training for brand and in-house creative teams

## Talks

- The Age of Why: When how gets cheap, why is the only expensive thing left. What the hard parts of work, learning and institutions were for, which ones to keep, and what to build instead. First given at the Atlanta Regional Commission, October 2026.
- Five Tensions Reshaping the Creative Industries: curation and craft, influence and IP, leverage and labor, worldbuilding and workflow, ecosystem and audience. What's changing in creative work and what to do about each.
- The Product Is Not Proof: What counts as proof of learning, skill and authorship when the finished work can be generated. For educators and anyone who hires.

## Who books her

- Universities and colleges
- Studios and production companies
- Brand and in-house creative teams
- Civic and regional organizations

## Background

- Director of Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University. Teaches across the business and arts colleges.
- Built an agentic scripting system for StudioNow inside Coca-Cola and trained producers to work with generative tools.
- Co-teaches the AI and creativity module of the 2026 Founderz × Microsoft AI and Innovation certificate.
- Directs programming for the Immersive Experience Alliance; founded the Immersive Impact Review, a peer-reviewed journal.
- Writing "Teaching Attention," a chapter for an Edward Elgar book on teaching in the age of AI.
- Fulbright Specialist.
- Spoken at TEDxAtlanta, SXSW, NFT.NYC and MENA ICT Forum. Produced the Directors Guild of America Atlanta AI Seminar.
- Studied philosophy (BA, Boston College), computer science (BS, Georgia State) and filmmaking (MFA, Georgia State).

## Contact

- Booking form: https://elizabethstrickler.com/#contact
- Email: elizadaynight@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethstrickler/