Jennifer Hubbs, JD ✯ Experience
In brief
After 25+ years' experience editing and writing for a newspaper, law, government, marketing, academia, freelance, protocol, fiction and just for fun, logic and creativity are my core skills. I've developed an analytical eye that can efficiently evaluate the forest and the trees.
A written work's organization determines its effectiveness in delivering its message, but its verbiage determines its heart. Making both speak to the desired audience is an art that I've cultivated since childhood.
The Vikings were awed by the idea that symbols scratched onto parchment could convey fully formed ideas to someone else; it had to be magic. I believe they were right. The written word is humanity's greatest innovation--the infinite power to move people.
Government ✯ Law
Experience in all three branches of government, state and federal levels, rule makings, writing reports for the legislature, grant fulfillment, policy, public reports, campaign positions, legal memoranda, court filings
Marketing ✯ Advertising
Website design and copy, blog ghostwriting on diverse subjects, branding, promotional materials, consulting on marketing through-lines
Journalism ✯ Academia ✯ Grants
Editing and writing newspaper pieces, grant applications, theses, dissertations, essays, exposition, creative writing, scientific and governmental studies
Purely creative
Novel in revision stage, short stories, humorous and observational essays
Protocol ✯ Events
Protocol officer and events management for past president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, including all related written materials for outreach, donor development and public outreach
Philosophy
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
In this famous painting of the signing of the US Constitution, Ben Franklin sits center front in the spotlight. By the time it was commissioned in 1939, everyone knew he had never held elected office in the political system he was so instrumental in assembling, so why does he merit such a place of honor, just chillin' with a knowing smile among the rest of our suitably serious and sober founding fathers?
Ben Franklin was clever, witty and wise (though flawed), and he maneuvered words to leverage every facet of their meaning. He was also diplomatic, brilliant, and creative, maneuvering his readers with artfully-crafted satire, journalism, essays and fiction. He reveled in the freedom his new country afforded him and personally explored all the possibility that made America unique. He is the personification of this nation's promise. As flawed as we see him by today's standards, I celebrate the complexity of his spirit--his statesmanship, his civic values, his vision, his style, his playfulness, his naughtiness and his love of language.
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