Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
She currently works as a Digital Public Relations Manager at Time Inc. where she acts as a publicist for TIME, FORTUNE, MONEY, CNNMoney and LIFE brands.
Previously, Jen served as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media. While there, she worked with Air America’s 15 different radio shows and six news channels until the company filed bankruptcy in January of 2010.
During this same time period, between August 2008 and December 2009, Jen pursued her passion for writing and activism by serving as Editor of the Women’s Rights Blog for Change.org where she facilitated daily discussion about the feminist movement as it related to politics, technology and social norms. Prior to that, she worked for New Media Strategies where she employed online campaigns for Fortune 500 companies utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect clients.
Jen has given presentations and speeches in front of audiences at Organize 2.0, STAND Against Genocide Conference, Netroots Nation, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Online Conference, and YWCA’s 150th Anniversary regarding the evolution of social media and the state of the feminist movement.
In March 2010, Jen was chosen as one of “30 extraordinary women making history” by Women’s Media Center for her writing and activism surrounding health care reform.
Jen first began her career by studying journalism at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs in Washington, DC. During this experience, she was published by the likes of NewYorkTimes.com, Washingtonpost.com and Stateline.org, among others. She was also a Yitzhak Rabin Fellow at the Israel Embassy in 2007, worked on independent research for The Brookings Institution. During college, she held several internships with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office, the Washington Post and NBC 11 in San Francisco, CA where she was born and raised.
In addition to her more serious pursuits, Jen is a do-gooder and a hell-raiser. She is a music lover, book nerd, coffee enthusiast and martini drinker who speaks Spanish fluently and French terribly. You can follow her daily musings on Twitter @JenNedeau and read her latest attempt to keep a blog over at Tumblr.