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Jessica Clark is the research director of the Center for Social Media at American University, where she heads up the Future of Public Media project.
She is working on a book about the evolution of the progressive media sector with Tracy Van Slyke of The Media Consortium. Together they edit a related blog, Build the Echo. She is also the editor-at-large for In These Times, an award-winning monthly magazine of progressive news, analysis and cultural reporting.
Her articles on media, culture and politics have appeared in outlets like The San Francisco Chronicle, TAP Online, The Orlando Weekly, The Ottawa Citizen, South Africa’s Wireless, and AlterNet. She has been interviewed on NPR and in Newsweek, and has appeared as a guest on radio shows like “Your Call,” “Extension 720,” and “Media Matters,” and television news shows “Beyond the Beltway” and “Community Media and You.” She regularly organizes and appears on panels at conferences such as Media Re:Public, the National Conference for Media Reform, and Women, Action & the Media.
Jessica has been researching, creating, writing and fighting for independent media since the late ‘90s. She helped to bring Stay Free! magazine’s controversial and widely covered exhibit, Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, to Chicago. She served as a co-editor and writer for LiP Magazine in 2001-02. She has worked on a wide variety of media activism efforts with organizations like the Independent Press Association, The Media Consortium and Media Matters for America.
She 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 holds an MA in Social Sciences and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.
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