Jessica Clark

Founder and Director of Dot Connector Studio—a boutique production and strategy firm that works with documentarians, journalists and foundations, combining media and tech for social impact. Clark's work connects thought leaders across disparate disciplines to learn from one another.

From mid-2011 through early 2014, she served as AIR’s media strategist, and a member of the core production team for groundbreaking national public media transformation project 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 worked 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 clients have included Media Impact Funders, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and Black Public Media.

The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (New Press, 2010), she was the Executive Editor at national news magazine In These Times, and has written regularly for PBS MediaShift and The American Prospect. 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.