Jessica Clark is a futurist, journalist, and strategist whose work connects ideas and people across art, technology, media, and politics. She founded Dot Connector Studio in November 2013—clients have included the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, and other philanthropic and media organizations. 

In 2022-23, Jessica served as the Futurist in Residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the co-author of *Making a New Reality: A toolkit for inclusive media futures,* published in 2020. In 2016, she co-founded Immerse — an online publication designed to spur creative discussion of emerging storytelling.

From 2011-2014, Jessica served as AIR’s media strategist, working to develop the 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.   The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (2010), she was the Executive Editor at national political magazine In These Times. She holds a BA/MA from the University of Chicago.