Access Jay works with businesses and other entities to make spaces more friendly to the 1 in 7 Americans with chronic pain, and hopes to provide a space for all-important connections to form within the disabled community. Founded with the help of Venture Labs and 2gether Intl, Access Jay wants to prompt a sea change in the way that businesses and other entities can become more accessible to their potential customers who have pain conditions. Everyone wins! If you're interested in more about how Access Jay can help your business or nonprofit, please contact me.

Janetjay.com is the blog I've always wanted to write about my life dealing with chronic pain and disability. It's irreverent and personal and I hope more than anything that it helps some people navigate and avoid the medical nonsense that has run my life since I was 15. If nothing else, I've got all the first-hand experience a person could ever need; I am so thrilled to get a chance to help others understand what's happening, how to get get through it, and how to come out the other side as a person you're proud of.

The mission of U.S. Pain Foundation is

 to empower, educate, connect, and advocate for people living with chronic conditions that cause pain. 
As a 501(3)(c) organization dedicated to serving those who live with pain conditions and their care providers, U.S. Pain Foundation helps individuals find resources and inspiration.As someone with chronic pain, I'm thrilled to get the chance to work here. My job involves a little bit of everything: development work, social media, PR, content creation, possibly advocacy... we'll see! I am also a proud member of our Disparity Solutions Advisory Council, helping make what we do more welcoming and accessible.

I do freelance writing and editing for the web on behalf of a variety of clients. Major clients include Best of the Web (botw.org), SEOSamba, Face Up Gaming, and a variety of businesses nationwide. I can produce PR and marketing materials as well as social media campaigns and content.

Recent clients:- Popular Science- Carnegie Mellon Today - Defiant Media- Vice Motherboard- Maxim (print magazine) - MAKE Magazine (print magazine)- TakePart.com- LStyleGStyle (print magazine) I have ongoing relationships with a variety of both print and online publications, for whom I write a wide variety of news, features, profiles and reviews. I tend to specialize in writing about science and technology or culture, but have a wide range of interests (my first feature story was about rat rod trucks)! I also often photograph my own stories. You can see my clips, from music reviews to first-person adventures to cutting-edge science, at janetjayonline.com.

Foundry is a storytelling community for hardware entrepreneurs and a discovery platform for the tools and services they need to build products. Foundry exists to help hardware entrepreneurs design, build and sell products by connecting them to the tools and services they need to mass-produce goods and grow companies.My specific responsibilities included interviewing inventors, CEOs and CTOs about their innovative hardware products and then working closely with them to create SEO-optimized copy for the Foundry.net site. I was also responsible for obtaining high quality visual elements, both still and video, to run with the story. I was then responsible for inputting both the copy and visual elements into Foundry's CMS, including bio/headshots for the interviewee and a variety of other information.Essentially, I was responsible for each story from the introductory email through the final approval by the client. From hoverboards to walking origami, Foundry allowed me the chance to write about and work closely with the inventors of some really interesting technology.

Published features and music articles in this alt-weekly newspaper. For most stories I also photographed the subjects and had that photography published with the articles.

- Developed projects from treatment to pitch stage; wrote pitches for shows to major television networks- Analyzed the market potential of prospective scripts, treatments, pitches and proposals, and determined the feasibility of involvement in each project- Wrote marketing, public relations and pitch materials (online and print); edited written output. - Primary researcher and copywriter for “one-sheets” on each major project, division and capability of the company- Wrote articles about company for publication in local media- Wrote the press packet for the film <i>That Evening Sun</i>, which received the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and a special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast at South By Southwest 2009- Primarily responsible for content on company website; contributed copy to a variety of client websites, including Knoxville Ice Bears, Holidays on Ice, Todd Richesin Interiors, Broadway Sound, and more- Wrote promotional material for nonprofits Center City Events, Knoxville’s Holidays on Ice and Random Acts of Flowers, including magazine articles, web content, PR and marketing materials- Networked and corresponded with potential clients for business development purposes- Wrote and revised scripts for commercials and copy for print advertisements- Wrote press releases for in-house publicity needs

Published 10 stories to the front page of the Business section of the Knoxville News Sentinel. I specialized in stories with quick turnaround and a tight deadline, while also writing some in-depth pieces on more complicated issues.

Wrote tourism and culture articles about interesting events in the Knoxville area

• Wrote press materials about advances in the College of Fine Arts, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Entertainment Technology Center, and other programs associated with the College of Fine Arts• Pitched stories to and facilitated contact with local, national and international media• Wrote pieces which were published online and in campus publications (please see portfolio)

• Responsible for press releases on breaking news in computer science and robotics• Interviewed for and wrote stories and profiles which were published on the Computer Science website and in the campus publications “8 ½ x 11” and “Carnegie Mellon Today” (please see portfolio)• Helped execute and coordinate the mayor’s dedication of a new building

• Edited numerous books for publication, including four that had over 10,000 copies printed internationally by Simon and Schuster• Responsible for in-house editing, including new acquisitions, reprints and business correspondence