Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark is an internationally published journalist, researcher, and media futurist whose work connects thought leaders across disparate disciplines. She founded Dot Connector Studio in November 2013. Her first client was Media Impact Funders, a knowledge network for foundations that support media in the public interest, and she is currently serving as the organization’s Director of Research and Strategy.
From 2011 through mid-2014, she served as AIR’s media strategist, and a member of the core team for the groundbreaking national public media transformation production Localore. From 2007-2011 she led the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact. Over the past decade, she has developed research and convenings with high-profile universities and national media networks, including NPR, PBS, CPB, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, USC Annenberg, and MIT. Her previous consulting clients have included the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Learning for Action, and Black Public Media.
The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press, 2010), she was the Executive Editor at national news magazine In These Times, and has written for PBS MediaShift and the American Prospect and other outlets. Clark has served as a source and speaker for numerous conferences and outlets—including ABC, NBC, PBS, Newsweek, Voice of America, the BBC, SXSW and multiple NPR stations.
She holds a BA/MA from the University of Chicago. Learn more: jessicaclark.com.
From 2011 through mid-2014, she served as AIR’s media strategist, and a member of the core team for the groundbreaking national public media transformation production Localore. From 2007-2011 she led the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact. Over the past decade, she has developed research and convenings with high-profile universities and national media networks, including NPR, PBS, CPB, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, USC Annenberg, and MIT. Her previous consulting clients have included the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Learning for Action, and Black Public Media.
The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press, 2010), she was the Executive Editor at national news magazine In These Times, and has written for PBS MediaShift and the American Prospect and other outlets. Clark has served as a source and speaker for numerous conferences and outlets—including ABC, NBC, PBS, Newsweek, Voice of America, the BBC, SXSW and multiple NPR stations.
She holds a BA/MA from the University of Chicago. Learn more: jessicaclark.com.