Kris Killough

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I'm Kris Killough, CJE

Greater Atlanta Yearbook Representative

My Story

Like many of my yearbook advisers, I was “voluntold” that I was going to get involved with yearbook. My junior year yearbook was an absolute trainwreck and I was just the guy to fix it.

After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a Sports Management degree, I quickly realized that I should not have decided a major based off the Tom Cruise movie Jerry McGuire! My dad, a principal in Memphis, worked some magic and got me a sales territory in the yearbook business.

Quickly realizing that yearbook was more than picking a template from a book, I became the local expert in Pagemaker, InDesign and Photoshop. Over the years I worked to receive my MBA, which comes in handy, when talking book and ad sales, as well as becoming a Certified Journalism Educator. My favorite things about yearbook are covers and making budget. With those two things in place, you are free to capture memories and document the amazing experience that is high school.

I live in the Atlanta area with my wife, Sara, and our three boys, Thomas, Trenton and Dawson.

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