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Jessica Clark directs the center’s Future of Public Media project, authoring and commissioning related research, offering expert commentary on the evolution of public media for a range of national conferences and outlets, and organizing events such as Beyond Broadcast.

She is also working in tandem with Tracy Van Slyke, program director of The Media Consortium, to document and analyze an emerging national network of independent, progressive media outlets. Together they co-author a blog on the evolution and impact of this sector, Build the Echo, and are working on a related book for The New Press.

Jessica has been researching, creating, writing and fighting for independent media for more than a decade. From 2002-09, she worked on every facet of In These Times, a national monthly magazine of news, analysis and cultural reporting, serving as its editor-at-large, executive editor, managing editor, associate publisher and assistant publisher. There, she also organized several events addressing the intersection of art and politics, including the successful Chicago stop of Stay Free! magazine’s controversial exhibit, Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age. From late 2001 through 2002, Jessica was the co-editor for LiP Magazine, which championed “dangerous humor, liberated eroticism and informed revolt.” She served on the steering committee for the Midwest office of the Independent Press Association, and has worked on a wide variety of media activism efforts with organizations like The Free Press and Media Matters for America.

Jessica has also held editorial positions at Britannica.com, the Library of Congress, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and marketing positions at the Field Museum and the University of Chicago Press. She earned an MA in Social Sciences and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.

Center fellows collaborate with the Center for Social Media on various projects.

Barbara Abrash  

Director of Public Policy Programs, New York University

Mridu Chandra

Director, Documentary Ethics Project

Giovanna Chesler

Executive Producer, Tune in STI Network

Greg Fitzpatrick

Research Fellow

Gordon Quinn

Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films

JD Lasica

Media Fellow

Nina Keim

Research Fellow

Kate Schuler

Research Fellow

Matt Nisbet

Research Fellow

Neil Sieling

Media Fellow

Shalini Venturelli

Director, Global Public Media Research Project

Ann Williams

Media Fellow

The Center for Social Media Working Group is composed of School of Communication faculty who advise, assist and participate in the Center's activities.

Barbara Diggs-Brown

Jane Hall

Leena Jayaswal

Larry Kirkman

Brigid Maher

Kathryn Montgomery

Christopher Palmer

Rick Rockwell