Jerzy Shedlock Email & Phone Number

After a decade of reporting in Alaska and Washington, I shifted my professional focus and currently use my communications skills to write, edit, design and produce content for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. At the ACLU, I assist in enhancing and defending the civil liberties and rights of all Georgians by engaging our target audiences about litigation and advocacy, securing news coverage about the organization's efforts, and creating content for publications and the website. In collaboration with the communications director, I develop and lead communications strategies and campaigns to advance key policy, legal, and development goals.Many of the skills I use as a communications specialist I learned as a journalist. At Alaska’s largest newspaper, I covered cops and courts, criminal justice and other general assignment news. More specifically, I wrote about justice reform and failures within that system, the rehabilitation of people in prison and profiled locals prominent and typically unseen. I saw the inside of jails, police standoffs and grieving rural communities far from Alaska’s urban center, Anchorage. I did much of the same at The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington, for several years after having left Alaska. Upon departing the world of journalism, I was hired as communications coordinator for the Native American Youth and Family Center, or NAYA Family Center, in Portland, Oregon. During my employment and through continued contract work, I share the successes of the city's urban Indigenous community, a family of numerous tribes that are rooted in sustaining tradition and building cultural wealth.

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  University Of Alaska Anchorage

  Journalism