Jessica Clark Email & Phone Number

Greater Philadelphia Area

Dot Connector Studio works hand-in-hand with media and arts producers, researchers, and funders to suss out emerging social and tech trends and create related publications and tools. In 2020, we expanded our focus to futurism to help ourselves and and our clients imagine a more just, healthy, and creative society. In partnership with some of the country's.

Dot Connector Studio's Impact Pack helps media makers, investors, and nonprofits playfully prototype new products or campaigns, and think through the ways they will move audiences to action. We've used the cards to help clients think through their projects and invent new ones, to run workshops and classes around the world, and to support journalism and.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

In September 2020, working with co-author Kamal Sinclair and editor Carrie McLaren, we released this free, downloadable PDF, which provides a host of carefully curated resources for making emerging media (such as VR, AR, social media) more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Since then we have been speaking in classes, on podcasts, and to makers and funders.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Currently serving as the publisher for this online magazine about emerging forms of nonfiction media, which Dot Connector Studio co-produces with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. I helped to launch the publication in 2016, and served as its editor from inception through late-2020.

Philadelphia

Working with this national network of foundations that support public interest media over five years, I helped the organization to rebrand, led the Assessing Impact of Media initiative, collaborated with the team to plan funder gatherings, and conducted/commissioned research related to the field. Over time, I handed off this work to my Dot Connector Studio.

Boston

Served as a member of the core team for Localore (www.localore.net), a national public media transformation project that placed independent producers at public stations to lead multiplatform storytelling teams. Responsibilities included strategic development, project evaluation, blog and social media content production, curating the weekly Public Media.

Produced research and events related to policy about the information needs of communities, and the transformation of journalism.

Before I started Dot Connector Studio, my influential publications helped to define the field of online media strategy for journalism, documentary, and digital public media. They included:- Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media" (New Press, 2010) - Designing for Impact (Center for Social Media, 2011) - Public Media.

Headed up a research project for the Center for Social Media at American University to reimagine public media as participatory, diverse and impactful.

Over the course of several years, I held multiple leadership positions for this national progressive monthly magazine and its companion Web site, www.inthesetimes.com.As executive editor from 2006-2007, I oversaw editorial planning and production. Duties include managing editorial staff; writing, editing and assigning stories; strategic planning; and media.

Worked with LiP's founder to re-launch this quarterly newsstand magazine as a political and cultural Web publication. Collaborated on all aspects of the site: editing, writing, design, programming, promotion and staff development, and served in an advisory capacity as Editor-at-Large.

Participated in the launch of Encyclopaedia Britannica's public site in October 1999, developing feature and reference content related to social science, contemporary U.S. issues, and world news. Also wrote short, daily pieces for the BritannicaWire team on topics related to current headlines.

Designed and managed educational Web projects for Illinois farmers, rural communities, environmental groups, and consumers.

Wrote and edited newsletters and reports on federal information technology and policy, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996, copyright law, and online privacy. Helped to coordinate FLICC's annual forum and regular meetings for federal information professionals.

Helped to manage daily operations and promotion of EurekAlert!, an international science news service for journalists.

Chicago

Throughout college and grad school, and just after, I worked in a series of museums and cultural institutions—writing, editing and producing promotional materials that included newsletters, catalogs, ads and brochures, helping to organize outreach events, and collaborating with editors and curators to develop related installations.

M.A., Social Science

I used this interdisciplinary M.A. program to study the role of women in the then-emerging Internet.

B.A., English

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

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