Story Changes Culture Media & Consulting - Women Helping Women - Social Change

Company: Story Changes Culture Media & Consulting
Company Description: Story Changes Culture is a media platform and consulting practice dedicated to advancing truth and transparency in storytelling. It produces content, builds connections and amplifies stories that change culture and elevate leaders who are redefining the future through technology, media and advocacy. We do this by telling stories that disrupt, transform and inspire. We tell stories that matter.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Women Helping Women - Social Change

Nomination Title: Jennifer Cloer

Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Story Changes Culture Media & Consulting. She has been recognized for her storytelling acumen by BusinessInsider, who ranked her among the best PR people in tech and by CIO.com, which identified her as one of the most influential women in open source.

Jennifer was on the founding team of the Linux Foundation, the industry’s leading technology consortium, where she focused on establishing the organization as the predominant thought leader on open source development and governance and garnering developer attention for open source projects and new technologies. She started the communications function at the Foundation as an individual contributor and grew it to a 30-person team of PR, social media and content production professionals. Prior to the Linux Foundation, Jennifer worked at the Director and VP levels at agencies focused on VC-funded startups and developer communities.

Jennifer is also the creator and executive producer of the Chasing Grace Project, a three-episode docuseries exclusively dedicated to elevating women’s voices and advancing a constructive narrative about inclusivity. She is a Women’s Media CenterSheSource expert and co-host of the Hyped podcast. She is regularly quoted in publications such as Forbes, TechCrunch, BusinessInsider, TechTarget and more.

Jennifer wrapped up production on the incredibly popular Chasing Grace Project in August 2019 and hosted the final in-person screening at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles with special guest Cheryl Strayed. She raised nearly $500,000 from tech companies like Comcast NBCUniversal, Intel, Autodesk and more to produce the three-part series andduring the spring of 2020, as COVID hit, she coordinated an online series of screenings to make the episodes available to anyone anywhere. Thousands logged on to see the episodes that had only been accessible by attending a VIP screening in a major city. Jennifer knew she couldn't film any more episodes during COVID so pivoted quickly to create the Story Changes Culture blog and media platform, which expands upon the Chasing Grace Project to host more stories in more formats (blog, film, podcast, books, community). She launched the blog/platform in April 2021 and since then has introduced the Story Changes Culture Book Club and the Story Changes Culture Retreat (scheduled for December 2021) to create community and connection among women in tech, media and advocacy. She also introduced ELEVATE, a quarterly program that awards financial and other support to storytelling projects that have the potential to change culture (the first project supported is the Mother of Color film).

Jennifer is the only PR executive in tech that has extended her storytelling and PR skills to exclusively elevate and amplify women's stories. She is filling a gaping hole in tech for a feminine media brand and platform that shares the real experiences of women in the tech space. She isn't limited by media format, investing her own money in film, podcasts and more to lift up voices that wouldn't otherwise be heard.

Reference any attachments of supporting materials

Please see Chasing Grace video clips, the Story Changes Culture blog, the Mother of Color (suppored throug the ELEVATE program) link, references to Jennifer's work, and animage of her with Cheryl Strayed at Chasing Grace Ep3 screening.