Jessica Dheere

Current

• Founder and Director at Social Media Exchange
• Freelance journalist at various US-based publications

Past

• Articles Editor/Managing Editor at Home Magazine (HFMUS)
• Managing Editor at Elle DECOR (HFMUS)
• Managing Editor at ARTnews

• Copy editor at The McGraw-Hill Companies

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Education

• New School University
• Princeton University

Connections

125 connections

Industry

Civic & Social Organization

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Jessica Dheere’s Summary

Content producer of text, audio, and visual source material for a variety of contexts. Extensive project planning and management experience in both team-oriented and indpendently initiated environments.

Photo: Me in Beirut, 2007.

Jessica Dheere’s Specialties:

art, architecture, and design reporting and criticism; media criticism and literacy; workflow management, especially in communications production

Jessica Dheere’s Experience

• Founder and Director

  Social Media Exchange

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  SMEX provides digital and social media training and consulting to civil society organizations in Lebanon.

• Freelance journalist

  various US-based publications

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  1993 — Present (16 years )

  Selected Articles
  “Rebuilding After War,” Urban Land, April 2007
  “Preservation Movement Grows in Lebanon,” Architectural Record/Business Week Online,
  April 23, 2007
  “Out of Africa,” Interior Design, September 2006
  “Let There Be Light,” Interior Design, September 2006
  “A convenient excuse, but the wrong kind of green,” The Villager, June 21–27, 2006
  “Changes in the Plan: Michael Graves’ changed life,” Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), Nov. 17, 2004
  “Telling Stories Through a Lens,” PAW, May 12, 2004
  “Where Red Wine Meets White Marble,” New York Times, April 15, 2004
  “Teen Tableaux,” ARTnews, April 2003
  “Inside Havana,” PAW, Feb. 12, 2003
  “Lucky Number,” Elle Decor, May 2003
  “Bronze Age,” Elle Decor, October 2002
  “What Should Lower Manhattan Look Like?” ARTnews, April 2002
  “Climate Changers,” ARTnews, December 2001
  “Frank Gehry, Architect,” ARTnews, September 2001
  “North Carolina Pottery Center,” Architectural Record, January 2000

• Articles Editor/Managing Editor

  Home Magazine (HFMUS)

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

• Managing Editor

  Elle DECOR (HFMUS)

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

• Managing Editor

  ARTnews

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

• Copy editor

  The McGraw-Hill Companies

  (Public Company; Writing and Editing industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Jessica Dheere’s Education

• New School University

  MA , Media Studies , 2005 — 2008

• Princeton University

  AB , Art History, Latin American Studies

Additional Information

Jessica Dheere’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Jessica Dheere’s Interests:

Travel, design, languages

Jessica Dheere’s Groups:

National Conference on Media Reform
Global Forum for Media Development

•    Social Media Exchange

Jessica Dheere’s Honors:

Stella and Rensselaer W. Lee Thesis Prize, Department of Art & Archeology, Princeton University, 1993

Jessica Dheere’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch