Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

j.jeffreywilensky@gmail.com | 516 209 7415

EDUCATION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY | B.A., cum laude, LINGUISTICS
Aug. 2010 May 2014 | Ithaca, NY | GPA: 3.88

EXPERIENCE
FAST COMPANY, RADIATE INC., AND OTHERS | FREELANCE PRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Aug. 2016 present | New York, NY
Revamped Radiate CEO Betty Lius LinkedIn publishing strategy, earning her up to 100K views per article and a spot on the
2016 LinkedIn Top Voices list
Shot B-roll, interviewed attendees, and supported the Head of Video and Television for the Fast Company Innovation
Festival, an annual event with 200 speakers and over 6,000 attendees across 2 main locations
Co-wrote and co-produced a Fast Company piece on the Legalize V campaign after the group staged a protest near one of
the Innovation Festivals main locations
Assembled and operated lighting, camera, and sound equipment; went on prop and catering runs; and supported the
producer, DP, and cast in the creation of short web videos
Designed footage ingest procedure and custom tagging system, and used it to log hours of interviews

IXL LEARNING | LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM DESIGNER

July 2014 present | San Mateo, CA / New York, NY
Designed adaptive, interactive, Common Core-aligned ELA practice activities for IXL.com, an edtech platform used by 6
million students
Wrote and edited content in compliance with internal style guides and reading level restrictions
Designed a comprehensive kindergarten grammar curriculum
Worked closely with engineers to identify and resolve over 200 bugs, typos, factual errors, and UI issues
Interviewed candidates for the ELA CD role, resulting in four successful hires and growing our team by 50 percent
Recruited, onboarded, and closely supervised a team of ve illustrators

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS | STUDENT PUBLISHING ASSISTANT

Feb. 2012 May 2014 | Ithaca, NY
Researched niche markets, wrote targeted sales letters, and delivered ARCs for over 20 CUP titles
Maintained a 1000-item database of specialty bookstores
Helped coordinate a 10-city book tour for a 2012 release by Judith Weis

CORNELL BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB | STUDENT RESEARCHER

Aug. 2013 May 2014 | Ithaca, NY
Recruited 20 subjects for an fMRI study investigating the neural correlates of syntactic structure building
Designed a sensitive and IRB-compliant protocol for screening female participants
Completed training in MRI best practices and CPR/First Aid
Listed as co-author on a paper presented at the 20th AMLaP conference in Edinburgh, Scotland

CORNELL INTERACTION DESIGN LAB | STUDENT RESEARCHER

Mar. 2012 May 2013 | Ithaca, NY
Implemented a custom named-entity recognition system for an online tool examining framing in political news
Listed as co-author on a paper published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics

VOLUNTEER WORK
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA | DOG VOLUNTEER
May 2015 Apr. 2016 | San Francisco, CA

SKILLS
TECH: Python, UNIX command line, basic HTML/CSS, Microsoft Ofce Suite
VIDEO EDITING: Adobe Premiere (somewhat familiar), Pinnacle Studio (very familiar)
LANGUAGE: Spanish (limited working prociency)