Jane Hodges Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

I'm an award-winning journalist who covers business -- real estate, entrepreneurship/small business, personal finance, marketing -- and occasional lifestyle topics (travel, food). Work has appeared in national papers (WSJ, NYT), magazines (AARP, Success, Money, Real Estate Forum), Web sites (CBS's BNET, MSNBC.com, Earnest, Entrepreneur.com, Guidevine, Millie), and in local venues (Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Weekly, Publicola). I excel at explaining complex business scenarios and concepts for lay readers as well as sophisticated audiences. I also write outside the business beat: I published an astrology gift book series with Chronicle Books/Rhino Records (Cosmic Grooves, 2001), wrote a monthly astrology column for Southwest's Spirit (2006-8), and have published fiction (Brooklyn Review) and essay (Seal Press, Recessionwire.com). I will take on corporate clients (custom publishing, annual reports) that don't conflict with my journalistic areas of expertise.

Mineral, Wa And Seattle, Wa

Since launching the Mineral School residency program in 2015, I have managed the residency and culinary program every year as well as those programs’ seasonal staffing, and resident logistics -- I did this as board president and we disbanded the board and renamed the role in 2019. I manage organization finances, partnerships, in-residency and non-residency events, community relations, volunteer weekends, the facility, most grants, most social media and paid marketing, and most communications to alumni, donors, and media. Since launch the program budget has grown from $0 to $75,000, annual applicant count has more than tripled from 72 to 250+, we've hosted 140+ artists and more than 83 public events near Mt. Rainier and in Seattle, and all of this has been achieved with no paid staff -- although we've begun contracting some labor. I've written successful grants to Amazon Literary Partners, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and ArtsFund/Paul Allen Foundation, secured Humanities Washington speaker support, and led efforts to collaborate with other arts organizations including Centralia College, Fire Mountain Arts Council, Hugo House, Lewis County Dignity Guild, The Mineral Lake Lions Club, The Rainier Independent Film Festival, and Seattle Escribe.

Greater Seattle Area

I create consumer-friendly and readable business service copy related to personal finance and investing, entrepreneurship, insurance, real estate, healthcare, tech, and nonprofits. Recent clients: Bell Fortino (New Balance); College Success Foundation; Earnest; Fluke; Fordham Alumni Magazine; Frye Art Museum; Greystone; Guidevine; Beth Kobliner Co.; LendingTree; Motif Investing; Newscred (Chase); Northwestern Mutual; Publica Press; Seattle Public Library; SmartSheet; Steyer; Thomas Co.; Wayfair; WeWork; Zillow. Additional clients: Alaska Airlines Magazine; Coffey Communications; Expedia; Gault Millau (Gayot); Meridian Capital; National Federation of Independent Businesses; Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine; Sound Transit; Symantec, Trulia, University of Phoenix; USAA Magazine; WIN Home Inspection

Greater Seattle Area

West Coast stringer: I review multiple US news sources as well as Canadian securities filings daily and aggregate breaking news pertaining to new mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, financings, developments with large deals -- and for a brief time also debt situations pertaining to capital raises, asset-backed securities and distressed debt -- for time-sensitive subscription news products used by financial experts, including MergerMarket, dealReporter, Debtwire, ActivistMonitor, and Wealthmonitor.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Source, edit, and proof syndicated and freelance stories as part of a small four-person team producing the weekly print At Home and Careers sections of the Seattle Times and the paper's web site, working in Wordpress and adjusting copy to adhere to AP Style and Seattle Times style. Role also includes basic use of PhotoShop and InDesign to resize and edit photos and produce basic page layouts for print.

My real estate book, "Rent Versus Own: A Modern Real Estate Manual for Navigating Booms, Busts, and Bad Advice," published on March 21, 2012. I've been talking to national and local print, web, and radio outlets and at panel and bookstore events.

I wrote about business for this 250,000-circ. daily paper and a zoned weekly section distributed in Snohomish County. Beats: Residential and commercial estate, aerospace, agribusiness, economic development, small business, consumer fraud. I broke news related to the Boeing 787 site selection, NASCAR's potential siting of an in-state track, and other developments.

I wrote about general business, tech business models, work/life topics. Business clients: Business 2.0 (contributor), Chief Executive, Fortune Small Business, Industry Standard, Inside.com, The New York Times, Small Business Computing, WSJ Online, Washington CEO. Custom work: Ericsson’s On (Appelberg Publishing, Sweden); Helsinki School of Economics’ Kynamies Oy (Appelberg); Northwestern Mutual’s Creative Living (Forbes Custom Publishing); Quicken.com. Non-business clients: Amazon.com, Book, Chronicle Books (Cosmic Grooves series published 2001), Seattle Weekly, Teen People, Working Woman.

As a contributor, I wrote on monthly contract for this mass-market monthly magazine's marketing section, and also filed cover stories (Motley Fool profile) and developed and wrote for a section called Where It's @ about the dot-com economy in cities around the U.S.

New York, New York, United States

I researched, reported, and wrote stories about Internet business and startups for this bi-monthly (readership: over 500,000). Wrote for Investing, Tech, and upfront news sections.

New York, Ny

As departments editor, I oversaw four sections (news/finance/Internet) for this consumer-audience tech monthly. Generated story ideas, assigned and edited freelancers’ work, wrote features. Oversaw copyediting, art direction, and fact-checking for my sections. Contributed my own stories to the magazine as well.

New York, New York, United States

I covered interactive marketing, print publishing, and direct marketing for this weekly with a readership of 100,000, I filed features, breaking news, cover stories, for weekly and daily deadlines. I also traveled to Cannes, France to cover the International Advertising Festival and to direct marketing and Internet marketing conferences.

Certificate In Nonprofit Management, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Mfa, Creative Writing (Fiction)

Completed short stories and began novel. Related work: Writers Voice of the West Side YMCA (oversaw contests); Magazine Publishers.

Ba, Comparative Literature (W/French)

Activities and Societies: The Dartmouth, Stonefence Review, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, creative writingHonors: John E. Johnson Journalism.

K-12, 13 Years At An All-Girls' School In The South. Charm, Manners, Smarts!