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Staff Bios Jessica Clark

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.

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Jessica Clark

Director, Future of Public Media Project

Alison Hanold

Associate Director

Micael Bogar

Projects Manager

Maura Ugarte

Associate Research Director

Katie Donnelly

Research Fellow

Lauren Donia

Senior Administrative Assistant

Claire Darby

Graduate Fellow

Research & Media Fellows

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

Advisory Committee

Helen De Michiel

Co-Director
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture

Sally Jo Fifer

President
Independent Television Service

Faye Ginsburg

Professor and Director
Center for Media, Culture and History
New York University

Barbara Kopple

Filmmaker

Cara Mertes

Director
Sundance Documentary Film Program

Chon Noriega

Professor and Associate Director
Chicano Studies Research Center
University of California Los Angeles

Mimi Pickering

Film/Video Producer
Appalshop Films

Ellen Schneider

Executive Director
Active Voice

George Stoney

Filmmaker and Goddard Professor of Cinema
New York University

Debra Zimmerman

Executive Director
Women Make Movies

Sandra Braman

Professor
Department of Communication
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Andrew Calabrese

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado

Katy Chevigny

Executive Director
Arts Engine, Inc.

Linda Garcia

Director
Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Georgetown University

David Liroff

Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Kevin Martin

Vice President, Station Grants and Television Station Initiatives
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Michael Schudson

Professor
Department of Communication
University of California - San Diego

Ernest J. Wilson III

Dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication
School for Communication
University of Southern California

Don Young

Interim Executive Director
Center for Asian American Media

Working Group

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