Marketing & Communications

The Marketing & Communications team advances John Jay's strategic goals and builds and protects its reputation. We do this by creating compelling content that highlights our strengths & shares our story via our website, social media channels, publications and more. We look forward to collaborating with you!

Editorial

The editorial team promotes John Jay by telling its stories and elevating its mission and visibility. They produce John Jay News, a monthly faculty/staff e-newsletter; JMail, a weekly student e-newsletter; and articles covering the accomplishments of faculty, students and alums. Please contact Andrea Dawn Clark, editorial director, with questions.

Graphic Design

The graphic design team provides consistent visual content that creates a strong, recognizable brand and helps bring John Jay’s identity to life. This includes ads, signage, website graphics, event promotion, social media graphics and logos. Read our list of services, submit a job request and explore self-serve resources. Please contact Laura DeVries, creative director, with questions or for our branding guidelines.

Please note that we do not have a copyeditor and are unable to copyedit your text. To ensure accuracy, please use a free platform like Grammarly to check your text.

Media Relations/Find an Expert

For information or to reach a faculty expert, please contact Jan Benjamin, director of media relations. You can also search our faculty expert guide.

Social Media

Our social media team manages John Jay's social channels and promotes our mission and the accomplishments of our community. See our channels below and contact Gina Mingione, social media manager, with questions. To request a social media post and/or graphic, please complete and submit our request form.

Instagram    Facebook     LinkedIn     YouTube

Video Production

The video production team produces and delivers professional videos aligned with John Jay's strategic priorities. To request a video, please complete and submit our request form. Contact Thomas Jaeger, director of video production, with questions.

Web Services

The web services team manages the public-facing John Jay website which includes updates, maintenance, SEO, analytics, etc. and can help with content strategy, organization & creation, web forms, ​​​​​​etc. Contact Anh Phan, web assistant, or Aaron Fineman, director of web services, with questions or if something on the site needs to be fixed.

Content owners are responsible for editing/updating their content and for creating new content. We can also assist as needed. Please note that we do not have a copyeditor and are unable to copyedit your text. To ensure accuracy, please use a free platform like Grammarly to check your text.

For website content management training and info, including our User Guide, please visit our resources for web editors

Team Members

Jan Benjamin, Director of Media Relations
jbenjamin@jjay.cuny.edu

Andrea Clark, Editorial Director 
anclark@jjay.cuny.edu 

Shirley Del Valle, Writer/Editor
sdelvalle@jjay.cuny.edu

Laura DeVries, Creative Director
ldevries@jjay.cuny.edu 

Aaron Fineman, Director of Web Services
afineman@jjay.cuny.edu

Shalise Idowu, Social Media Assistant
sidowu@jjay.cuny.edu

Thomas Jaeger, Director of Video Production
tjaeger@jjay.cuny.edu

Chunhui (Mandy) Meng, Web Developer 
cmeng@jjay.cuny.edu 

Gina Mingione, Social Media Manager
gmingione@jjay.cuny.edu

Anastasia Parent, Graphic Designer
aparent@jjay.cuny.edu

Kenny Beck, Graphic Designer
kbeck@jjay.cuny.edu 

Anh Phan, Assistant Web Manager
aphan@jjay.cuny.edu 

Kira Poplowski, Chief Communications Officer
kpoplowski@jjay.cuny.edu 

Praim Samsoondar, Communications Production Specialist
psamsoondar@jjay.cuny.edu

Justin Thomas, Video Producer
juthomas@jjay.cuny.edu

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