Jessica Clark is AIR’s Media Strategist, an independent consultant, and news futurist. Before coming to work on AIR’s Localore production in 2011 (localore.net), she directed the Future of Public Media project at American University’s Center for Social Media, and served as a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. She’s a co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (Free Press, 2010), and her reporting has been published in PBS MediaShift, The American Prospect, In These Times and elsewhere.