christian raymond

AFS Director of Outreach & Education

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Christian honed his craft as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, working with Walt Disney Films, Touchstone Pictures and the Jacobson Company through the Disney Screenwriting Fellowship. Christian has developed scripts for production companies and studios, has received a variety of writing awards, and been honored by the Writers Guild of America, West. He also spent several years as a writer/producer of educational films, creating fifty-some projects ranging in subject matter from multilingual hotel security training to stories about living with traumatic brain injury. Many of these films have been distributed and screened for educational purposes around the globe.

Christian earned his M.A. from Wayne State University, studying Radio-Television-Film in his hometown of Detroit. As an educator, he has developed curriculum and taught in a variety of school and community-based settings for nearly a decade. Christian directs AFS’ multifaceted education department, is a film instructor in the program, and also editor of the journal, PERSISTENCE OF VISION.