Hi, Iām Ben Ray.
I'm a social media strategist, video producer, and storyteller who's spent his career figuring out what makes people stop scrolling and start paying attention.
You might know me as the anchor, writer, and editor of Straight Arrow's social series, Here's What's Happening, a daily short-form news show I built from the ground up. But that's only one thing I do.
Before news, I served as creative director and editor across three comedy podcasts, edited sketch comedy videos, and built out skills in music production and graphic design along the way ā mostly self-taught, filling gaps as each new project demanded them.
That instinct for visual storytelling started early. At 17, I joined Metropolitan Community College's high school video production academy, where I first learned to shoot and edit. It's the foundation everything else got built on.
What ties it together is range. I'm a multifaceted creator who can be on camera, behind the camera, in the editing bay, or in the writer's room.
If you've got a project- video, podcast, social, writing, something in between- I'm interested.
Let's talk about what you need, and I'll deliver.

