2022 JDFF Adjudicators

Eboné Camille Amos is a performer, choreographer and educator from Memphis, TN. As a recent graduate of Florida State University with her MFA in Performance and Choreography, her work has been performed nationally and internationally at COCO Festival (Port of Prince, Trinidad), Middle TN State University, the Tallahassee Ballet (Tallahassee, FL) and Florida State College (Jacksonville, FL). Eboné is currently an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Austin Peay State University. Here, she continues her interdisciplinary approach to her research, choreography and pedagogy teaching courses in Black History, the Black Arts and contemporary issues within the Black community.

Yidi Lin is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Jacksonville University. She started her professional career in China as a hip-hop dancer in 2006, teaching and performing nationally. In 2010 she founded her dance company in Guangzhou, China and actively engaged in the promotion of modern dance and hip-hop fusion. In 2016 Lin earned her MFA in dance at Case Western Reserve University. In the spring semester 2017, she taught and choreographed at Penn State Altoona as an emerging artist. Internationally, she has been performing and teaching in Beijing Dance festival, the renowned modern dance festivals in China.

Tony Rodrígues is an artist based in Northeast Florida with three decades of studio practice, exhibiting regularly during his career in galleries, artist cooperatives, nontraditional spaces and museums. Rodrigues has also served for over twenty years as a teaching artist at the John E. Goode Pretoria’s Detention Facility in Jacksonville, Florida. His students are juvenile boys being prosecuted as adults, often facing long sentences in adult populations once they reach 18 years of age. Additionally, Tony works with museums, private, colleges and universities, private and corporate art collections as a preparator, registrar and installation specialist.

Toni Smailagic is a photographer and owner of Cre8Jax, a platform dedicated to highlighting the cultural development, events, and creators in Jacksonville, FL. His background is in fashion photography, but has shifted to primarily focusing on photojournalism & portraiture after relocating to Jacksonville from NYC in 2016.

Madeleine Peck Wagner is an artist, writer, and instructor based in Jacksonville, Florida. She has a BFA from Clark University and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She believes in the power of humor and compassion—in about equal doses.

As part of Indie Atlantic Films, Katie McEntire Wiatt has produced, edited, and directed commercials and films. In 2019 she made her feature-length directorial debut with the documentary, Fly Like a Girl. The film was selected for twelve film festivals across the country and won multiple awards and honors. The film was acquired by Gravitas Ventures in 2020 and is now streaming on Hulu and all major VOD platforms. She has served as a panelist at film festivals and events across the United States, speaking on the topic of women in film, women in STEM, and documentary filmmaking. Wiatt is a member of Women in Film & Television Florida and enjoys giving back to her community by using her talents to help create free films for local and emerging nonprofits.