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. She also edits Immerse, an online publication designed to spur creative discussion of emerging storytelling. Currently, she is a research affiliate at MIT's Open Doc Lab; previously, she held fellowships at USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center and the New America Foundation. From 2011 through mid-2014, she served as AIR's media strategist and a core team member 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, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, USC Annenberg, and MIT. 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, 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.