Jennifer Colleen Douglas is an American writer/producer and activist.
Education
Douglas graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in Saginaw Township, Michigan, and graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and pursued graduate coursework in public health at Hunter College in New York City.
Career
She has worked in film, video, television, radio, print and Internet projects. She is the writer and co-producer of the 2012 documentary film, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio. Previously she lived in New York City and Washington, District of Columbia
In Washington, District of Columbia, Douglas was a staff news writer/field producer at WTTG-television, and a freelance writer at Cable News Network and WUSA-television (Columbia Broadcasting System).
She wrote for The Low-Cholesterol Gourmet television series on the Discovery Channel hosted by Lynn Fischer, and researched Fischer"s book, The Better Sex Diet.
She was marketing director for the Snow Globe Christmas Digital Video Disc, directed by Ron Ranson, and appears in the "Behind the Scenes" feature on the Digital Video Disc. She and Ranson also produced an Iraq Memorial video for documentary director Robert Greenwald"s Brave New Foundation. Douglas wrote and co-produced with Jon Monday the 2012 documentary, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio, narrated by Jon Elliott and Bree Walker, and featuring Editor Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Amy Goodman, Van Jones, Richard Wolffe, Jonathan Adelstein, Robert Reich, Eric Klinenberg, David Shuster, Stacy Taylor and many others
The film had its broadcast premiere on Link television in September 2012. Jennifer co-founded the grassroots project "San Diego Adopts Arizona", which brought volunteers from Southern California to Arizona to campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
In 2008 she led volunteers on trips to Nevada for the Democratic presidential candidate Obama and was planning trips to Arizona and Nevada to campaign for Obama"s 2012 re-election.
Membership
She is a founding member of the media reform group that grew out of the rallies to "Save KLSD" radio in 2007, now called Code of Professional Responsibility-San Diego (Campaign for Press Reform), which is becoming a project of the nonprofit group Common Cause.