Jok ChurchCreative • Experienced • Fun
Best-selling author, internationally syndicated newspaper columnist, TV series creator, difficult-to-simple translator, lecturer seeks marketing, build-up, tear-down or running a mop around the room kind a' career position
Created, write and illustrate You Can with Beakman & Jax, a syndicated newspaper feature that answers readers' real questions about how the real world really works. At peak, published in 6 languages with weekly circulation of 52,000,000.
Created, wrote, developed funding for Beakman's World television series. Four seasons on CBS and internationally syndicated. Now on Netflix.
Authored 6 best-selling books based on You Can, as well as calendars and teaching materials.
Special Projects Manager — Wrote, edited and published Star Wars Magazine. Operated mail-order business based in magazine. Maintained audience relations writing and computer-assembled fan mail responses. Wrote and produced media kits and marketing materials. Wrote/produced hint books for Lucasfilm Games division.
Pretty much was the go-to-guy when a new project didn't have an existing job description.
News/Public Affairs Director — Wrote and broadcast 8 newscasts daily. Budgeted and managed staff of 6. Spot writing and production.
Writer/webMaster/creator of artists' webSite that pioneered live video webCast of art projects being installed.
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Developing a TED-related Gay conference
creating with my friends/associates:
TED Speaker:
Designed and hands-on built the lodge at Sassafras, Short Mountain, Tennessee
HTML knowledge: Live webCast of The Wrapped Reichstag necessitated creation of mirror sites servers and first ever code (1995) to randomly select files from scores of mirror sites set up by .edu sites worldwide.
I stir up a great kettle of various soups.
