MEET OUR 2025 JUDGES

Megan Gilbert is Vice President of the award-winning FORTUNE Brand Studio, a division of Fortune Media. She drives the editorial direction, strategy, and production of all branded content, co-leading the creative studio team and guiding storytelling in all formats for high-profile clients such as Salesforce, PayPal, De Beers, Accenture, and more. Her career in branded content includes positions at Gawker/Gizmodo, Fusion/Univision, The Washington Post, Slate, and VICE.

Megan is a graduate of Boston University and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches a graduate-level Branded Content course at New York University (NYU). She was named to the 2024 class of Ragan’s ranking of Top Women in Marketing, won Content Marketer of the Year in 2022 (Women in Content Marketing Awards), and was included on the 100 Most Significant Women in Native Advertising list in 2018 and 2025. She is a judge for the Webby Awards, Signal Awards, Anthem Awards, Telly Awards, AIVA/W3 Awards, WICMA Awards, and Native Advertising Awards and is a proud member of the Brand Storytelling community at Sundance.