Jessica Leving Siegel is a seasoned communications specialist who has written for USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Jerusalem Post, and Global Traveler Magazine. Her nonprofit experience spans The Jewish United Fund, The American Lung Association, Walder Group, and more. She is also the author of three children's books, host of The Special Siblings Podcast, and the founder of The Center for Siblings of People with Disabilities.
Speaking topics include:
1) The Power of Story: Harnessing Strategic Storytelling to Achieve Your Goals
2) Modern Media Relations 101: How To Woo Reporters and Work with Influencers
3) Supporting Siblings: Showing Up for Brothers and Sisters of Kids with Disabilities
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Teri S.
October 13, 2021Have learned from her many times and always impressed!
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You could say it all started in 1998.
Jessica Leving Siegel, was an imaginative, gap-toothed fifth grader then. And she had just won her first award for a website she’d created from scratch to explain autism to other kids.
It wasn’t a class project: Jessica’s brother, Billy, had been diagnosed with autism a few years prior. She had hated feeling helpless as she watched him struggle among peers who just didn’t get it. But things changed after she created that website. Kids in Billy’s class started asking questions, instead of making assumptions. They started including him, instead of leaving him out when they didn’t understand him. Because of that basic little website, Billy’s whole world changed.
And Jessica's world changed, too. She had always loved writing and photography—but this time it was different. This time, she had told a story that mattered.
A few decades of journalism, marketing, and communications work later, Jessica’s drive to tell stories with a purpose is what eventually led her to create a company dedicated to doing just that. Today, she and a dynamic, hand-selected team of talented creatives are proud to leverage their skills to help innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers harness the power of storytelling to achieve their goals—and tell their own stories.
Together, her agency, Sing Creative Consulting, works with nonprofits looking to ramp up their communications efforts, small businesses trying to stand out in the crowd, and individuals embarking on creative projects—all from the lens of powerful, impactful storytelling.
Why?
Because the right hashtag can create a movement.
Because striking the right chord in a fundraising appeal can save lives.
Because stories... can change the world.
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Jessica Leving Siegel is a seasoned communications specialist with experience spanning the newspaper and magazine industry, the nonprofit sector, and children's book publishing.
Before starting Sing Creative Consulting, she initially got her start as a journalist, writing for publications such as USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Jerusalem Post and more. When she realized she wanted to use her storytelling skills to champion the causes she cared most about, she moved into the nonprofit world, and spent 10 years working on internal comms teams for organizations such as The Jewish United Fund, Spertus Institute, The American Lung Association, and Walder Group.
She is also the author of three children's books, host of The Special Siblings Podcast, and the founder of her own nonprofit organization, The Center for Siblings of People with Disabilities.
Jessica earned her MBA from The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and holds a BS in Journalism from Boston University, in addition to several smaller certifications and training programs. She currently lives in the Chicago suburbs, where she and her husband spend their free time wrangling their rambunctious dog and two cats.
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