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episode 12: JESSICA TEAL: On the Obama campaign, letting life take you and designing with conscience.
Jessica Teal is one of our AMAZING mentors and the founder and principal of Teal Media, a full-service creative and design agency with offices in Washington, DC and Detroit, MI. Jessica leads the creative vision and strategy for Teal's nonprofit clients who are taking on the most important social justice issues of our time. Teal Media also created the original website for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, encouraging people to know the candidate and optimized for conversions, with a strong focus on privacy, security and accessibility.
Before founding Teal, Jessica served as Design Manager for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. She also served as a special consultant to the Obama White House, advising on digital strategy, user experience, and visual design. Jessica was recently named in the top 5 “2018 Responsible Designers to Watch” by Graphic Design USA, has been featured in Forbes as part of the ongoing Self-Made Women series, and has been a speaker at SXSW Interactive, NTEN, NOI, RootsCamp, and Netroots Nation.
On this episode, she discusses how a heartbreak landed her a job, letting life take her to different paths, politics and leading a life with purpose.
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