About

David A. Ragsdale, CJE, has advised student publications since 2001 at Clarke Central HS (Athens, Ga.)., where his duties include advising the Odyssey Newsmagazine, Odyssey Media Group (Online), and Iliad Literary-Art magazine. He was the GSPA Adviser of the Year in 2007 and 2020. Ragsdale was named an ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Fellow in 2014, a Distinguished Service Award recipient from SIPA in 2015, and was named a Distinguished Adviser by the CSPA in 2019.  He serves as the JEA State Director for Georgia.