Jaclyn Cohen Associate
Jackie creates both moving and memorable multimedia campaigns and compelling narratives in a single medium. She can deploy the charisma of pop culture storytelling techniques to help clients achieve serious goals. She writes profiles that capture personality and shapes digital presentations that turn the abstract into everyday reality. Her formidable organizational skills help keep SteegeThomson on track, on deadline, and on budget.
After eight years as a television writer and producer, Jackie went to graduate school to earn a master’s degree in health science, specializing in health communications to influence behavior change. She then developed videos, wrote educational materials, and organized conferences aimed at reducing youth smoking rates while a communications specialist with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. During a year at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, she produced multimedia materials for a campaign aimed at eradicating malaria in Africa. She previously wrote scripts, produced segments and supervised production teams for shows for Comedy Central, Nick at Nite, CBS, VH1, and the Style and Oxygen networks.
Jackie holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Master of Health Science degree with a Certificate in Health Communications from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Jackie has worked with such clients as:
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Jefferson Medical College, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution
