Leah Jones

Founder and Social Media Coach, Natiiv Arts & Media

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Leah Jones is the founder of Natiiv Arts & Media where she is a social media coach for artists, writers and musicians. Additionally she works with small organizations looking to train their staff on using social media for clients or in the workplace. At Natiiv, Leah focuses on teaching individuals and groups the skills they need to be successful at online marketing and personal branding. She believes it is up to the artist, and not the label, to build relationships and manage their online persona.

Prior to launching Natiiv Arts & Media in January of 2009, Leah worked at Edelman PR as the Digital-Culture Evangelist. She served on the Strategic Services team and guided research on behalf of brands to understand what is being said online and developed digital strategy based on the findings. Previously, she was the Conversation Analyst in the me2revolution, focusing on research and internal communications. Over the last 2.5 years, she focused on global internal communications and trying to help each Edelman employee become more digitally savvy. With a degree in Chemistry from Millikin University, Leah shows that you don’t have to study communications to learn how to use social media.

As a convert to Judaism, she maintains the blog Accidentally Jewish and has written for publications about the intersection of Judaism and the internet and regularly speaks about her conversion experience in and around Chicago.

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