Niema Jordan, The MultiTasking Writer

@niemajordan • niemajordan.com

Member of DIYTogether Beta Group

#BHAG2012: “To start my own media company that incorporates content creation and curriculum development.”

1. Picture yourself at a networking event filled with entrepreneurs, creative people, journalists, and PR folks. How do you answer this question in two sentences or less: “Who are you, and what do you do?”

I am a writer, journalist, and new- and social-media consultant.

2. In two sentences or less, what is your mission?

To create and promote media that are diverse, informative, accurate and promote healthy communities.

3. What are you working on right now?

Health coverage for Essence magazine, documenting Bay Area Hip-Hop culture for 38th Notes, freelance writing for various publications, and writing two books.

4. Of all the projects you’ve worked on, which one was your favorite and why?

I fall in love with any project that allows me to write and help people.

5. What are your top three strengths?

Connecting people, supporting people, generating ideas.

6. How did you get started as a creative person?

I started off writing poetry as an elementary-school kid.

Niema Jordan’s Bio:

Daughter. Sister. Friend. Oakland Girl. Hip-Hop Lover. Dream Chaser.

No matter how you describe her, Niema Jordan is a Writer. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Jordan started writing and performing poetry as an elementary school student. By high school she was a slam poet with passion for telling other people’s stories and an insatiable appetite for magazines. Convinced writing was her calling, she left California and braved Midwest winters at Northwestern University. In 2008 she earned a B.S. from Medill School of Journalism.

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Created January 17, 2012 • Goal Completion Date: February 17, 2012 

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Editor’s Note: This is the VERY FIRST profile prototype for diytogether.biz, a professional networking site for entrepreneurs to connect, share and build work opportunities. DIY Business Association will launch diytogether.biz in beta in the first quarter of 2012.

Niema Jordan is a member of the DIYTogether Beta Group (formerly known as the First Official DIYTogether Incubator Group.) DIYTogether Beta Group is a tribe of creative entrepreneurs, filmmakers, designers, writers, friendly fashionistas and business developers who are helping to build the DIYTogether movement.

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