AI Media Strategist · Educator · Speaker

Where should AI belong in creative work?

I work with studios, creative teams, and institutions to answer that question through strategy, education, and production. My focus is on how AI can extend creative practice without displacing authorship, judgment, or meaning.

Speaking Workshops Consulting
Based in Atlanta, working internationally.

Georgia State University

Directs Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Helped originate and build the Creative Media Industries Institute, designed its technology architecture, and created the core curriculum for its Media Entrepreneurship program. Current teaching focuses on AI, creativity, and the creative industries, with programs for students and working professionals.

StudioNow / Coca-Cola

Designed agentic systems, trained producers in AI production methods and working with AI talent, and advised creative leadership through StudioNow’s embedded operation at Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters.

Founderz × Microsoft

Teaches AI and creativity in the 2026 Founderz × Microsoft AI and Innovation certificate program, with a focus on imagination, creative direction, and producing work that moves beyond the average.

Selected speaking and professional recognition
TEDxAtlanta · SXSW · MENA ICT Forum · Fulbright Specialist · Directors Guild of America

Speaking

My talks explore how AI is changing authorship, creative labor, production, and the role of human judgment.

  • The Script Is a Prompt for Humans
    What happens to authorship, taste, and creative labor when stories and images can be generated instantly?
  • Directed Compute
    How creative leaders turn abundant machine output into coherent work shaped by intention, standards, and meaning.
  • Inverting the Loop
    A practical model for designing AI systems around human judgment, rather than reorganizing people around the machine.

Each talk is developed for its particular audience and occasion.

Speaking inquiries →

Workshops

The Generative Storytelling Lab

A one-day intensive in which participants develop, direct, and screen original short films using generative production tools.

Designed for creative teams, studios, agencies, educators, and leadership groups, the lab combines story development, visual direction, experimentation, and production. Participants leave with completed work and a method they can continue using.

Private labs can be brought to organizations and events. Public editions are held at Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute in Atlanta.

“Astonishing. Like it or not, AI is here, and it is something every filmmaker needs to understand.”

Tom Luse, Executive Producer, The Walking Dead, on the Generative Storytelling Lab
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Consulting

I advise media, entertainment, and creative organizations on AI strategy, production systems, team capabilities, and the changing relationship between human and machine-made work.

Engagements may include strategic advising, workflow design, applied experimentation, leadership sessions, and team training.

Consulting inquiries →

Films from the lab.

A selection of short films made by students and workshop participants, many of them first-time filmmakers, during a single-day Generative Storytelling Lab.

Watch the films →

AI Creative Resources
A living collection of tools, references, and production resources maintained for students, workshop participants, and consulting clients.
Explore the library →

About Elizabeth.

Biography for programs and introductions
Elizabeth Strickler

Elizabeth Strickler is an AI media strategist and educator whose work examines how emerging technologies reshape authorship, creative practice, and production.

At Georgia State University, she directs Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She helped develop the Creative Media Industries Institute from its earliest planning, designing its technology architecture and creating the core curriculum for its Media Entrepreneurship program.

Her recent work includes advising creative leadership and training producers through StudioNow’s embedded operation at Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters, where she designed an agentic scripting system. Her consulting has also included Trilith Studios and Dallas Austin Distribution.

Strickler has spoken at TEDxAtlanta, SXSW, and the MENA ICT Forum; produced the Directors Guild of America Atlanta AI Seminar; and founded the Immersive Impact Review, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to immersive media.

She began her career building internet infrastructure and holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and digital filmmaking. Her work returns to one enduring question: how can people use powerful technologies without surrendering authorship, judgment, or meaning?

Contact.

Tell me about the occasion, the audience, and what you would like people to understand or question differently afterward. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

Prefer email? elizadaynight@gmail.com
Based in Atlanta · Available for selected travel