Jessica Clark

Founder & Executive Director

Jessica Clark is the founder and executive director of media strategy and futurism firm Dot Connector Studio, the director of the Guild of Future Architect’s New/s initiative, and the publisher of Immerse.

Participating Sessions

CONSTRUCTING THE NEW/S: YEAR ONE

Moved to action by widespread reckonings in newsrooms over race and gender equity, the Ford Foundation released a report in 2020 titled Reconstructing American News. Commissioned by journalism program officer Farai Chideya and authored by Jessica Clark’s team at Dot Connector Studio, the report detailed the pressing need for investment in diverse journalism innovators, and the ways in which such leaders had stepped up in a time of unprecedented strife...

FUTURIST WRITERS ROOM: THE FUTURE OF REALITY

Journalism and documentary are both technologies of capturing and interrogating the real. But how might the ways in which we represent reality have changed 20 years ago to head off the current crisis of misinformation? And how might news creators and audiences experience a more nuanced and pluralistic version of reality in 2040? Jessica Clark of the Guild of Future Architect’s New/s Initiative will host a participatory session inviting attendees...