Our Team
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Jonathan "Dexter" Albert
Jonathan "Dexter" Albert is a filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and visual storyteller with more than a decade of experience building visual work across commercial, editorial, fashion, beauty, culture, and branded storytelling. Raised in New Jersey by Haitian parents, his creative roots stretch from drawing and writing to music, photography, and film. Through Dexterity Productions, he built a production practice known for its attention to detail, color, composition, and atmosphere, with work connected to brands and platforms including Google, Amazon, TikTok, Barbie, Stanley, The Shade Room, MACRO, Ashley Stewart, AMP, Align Probiotics, ESSENCE, JCPenney, Pandora, and others. As a Co-Founder of The Story Tailors Agency, Dexter brings production leadership, visual direction, and creative execution to the agency, helping transform strategy and story into the images, films, and experiences audiences ultimately encounter.
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Magdala "Maggie" chery
Dr. Magdala “Maggie” Chéry is a strategist, storyteller, and experience architect who has spent her career finding the human story inside complex systems and turning it into strategy people can feel. Her path spans medicine, technology, entrepreneurship, and more than 16 years of public speaking, from listening to patients at the bedside to helping teams at Google translate user experiences into products, programs, and narratives that better reflect the people they serve. As Co-Founder and Director of Strategy + Vision at The Story Tailors Agency, Maggie brings together human-centered insight, creative strategy, and storytelling to help brands, founders, and organizations uncover what is most worth saying and build experiences that make people care. Outside of work, she loves community, travel, and baking alongside her sister through Chéry Bakehouse, the hospitality venture they created in loving tribute to their late parents.
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Cootchill "CJ" Nelson
Cootchill “CJ” Nelson is a multidisciplinary creator, technologist, solutions architect, and visual storyteller working at the intersection of technology, culture, and creative expression. A Senior Image Quality Engineer at Google, his background spans information technology, computational imaging, photography, filmmaking, music production, editing, and writing. As Co-Founder and Director of Technical Innovation + Operations at The Story Tailors Agency, CJ translates ambitious ideas into the systems, workflows, technical solutions, and emerging technologies required to bring them to life. Future-focused and deeply versatile, he can move fluidly between innovation strategy, AI-enabled workflows, production, creative direction, and hands-on execution, always with the goal of building smarter ways to create and tell stories.
Our Manifesto
The way we choose to make the work.
We tailor stories people can feel, at the place where health, sports, and culture meet. We don't hand off a file and disappear: if a story doesn't move something in someone, we're not done. Every story is built from scratch, to fit, and we still thread the needle even as we use AI to augment the work. We ask everything and assume nothing, out of curiosity, not judgment. When shame is part of what someone carries, we don't let it decide how the story gets told. We pull up chairs, not walls, building as one table of curious specialists who each keep their name and their craft. And before we activate, we ground ourselves first, because grounded work outlasts rushed work. Every thread tells a story, and we honor the whole of it.