Hello!

I'm Jennifer.

I'm a functional creative.

I'm also a globe-trotting Alaskan who runs a boutique digital & media services production house called gracestudioDESIGNS.

While my operational base shifts occasionally, I've previously lived and worked in Tokyo and London, Long Beach, San Diego, Pittsburgh and Kansas City.

I value excellence, integrity, and character. I believe life's biggest successes come from building authentic relational equity with others.

I'm like a Swiss Army knife.

Friends and associates often refer to me as a, "human Swiss army knife— the one with all the tools." A fashion designer by trade, My DNA is that of a creative and serial problem solver. I'm one of those 50/50 left-brain, right-brain people and am equal parts:

  • creative/holistic/organic thinker

  • facts/logic/linear thinker

What does that mean?

It means, in addition to being a forward-thinking visionary who sees and envisions what's possible, I also strategize, plan, and execute.

I love helping others climb (and conquer) their project and operational mountains. One way I accomplish this is by providing expertise, tools, and endurance required to achieve goals and objectives.

I help people, organizations, and teams articulate their why, plan their how and execute their what.

I do this by partnering with them to ensure the most impactful version of their brand story gets told in relatable, compelling, culturally, and contextually relevant ways. While primarily utilizing digital media, I also deploy more traditional storytelling and communications mediums as well.

As a marketing minded, strategic thinker, with a mobile+design+user experience FIRST mindset, I have a knack for bringing order to chaos and playing Ringmaster at the digital media circus.

Looking & Sounding Good Online

My area expertise lies in helping companies and organizations look and sound good online— my skillset and experience extend well beyond the realm of marketing. And I have the unique ability to see from a 30,000 foot view as well as down in the weeds.

In front of the screen, I help with things like:

  • Consulting

  • Branding, Shaping Brand Identity, Voice & Cross Platform Messaging

  • Social Media & Websites

  • Content Strategy, Creation & Copywriting

  • Online Community Management

  • Cross Platform Customer Service & Engagement

Behind the screen, I help with things like:

  • Digital Ecosystem Audits

  • Platform and Website Optimizations

  • Information Architecture, Content Strategy & SEO

  • Developing Operational Policy, Systems, and Playbooks

  • One-off Initiatives — like websites, video, film, and live productions or events

Forging Partnerships

Building meaningful, long-term relationships with my clients is important to me and I consider it a privilege to do so.

I relish opportunities to work with those who not only have a powerful story themselves, but who intentionally create space for others to tell their stories as well.

Taming the Carousel of Crazy

Passionate about partnering with people to help them master the digital ring of their marketing and communications circus, I'm also excellent at training, upskilling, and onboarding team members who need to their hats in the ring, too. And whether I do 'the stuff' or teach you & your team how to run a top-notch, digital act, I truly love setting others up for success.

I help people manage the digital media side of their operations so they can focus on what really matters to them— like running and growing their businesses or organization.

Origin Story: The Genesis

A hopeless techie and gadget geek from the moment I laid eyes on my first computer at age 5 and full-blown theater nerd by age 9, I left my parents' home in Alaska at age 18 to study fashion in LA. Quite the paradox for a girl who loves fishing and the mountains, I must say!

After interning for a Paris-trained, Newport Beach-based courtier and training to be a Buyer at Nordstrom's (a higher-end department store in the US,) I traded my fashion aspirations for globe-trotting adventure.

Heading East

Armed with little else than a trunk full of creative problem-solving skills and a burning desire to forge ahead (whatever that looked like) — I landed in Tokyo, Japan.

I pivoted my career path by immersing myself in the training, education & cross-cultural communications industry. Publishing, print design, writing & remote team-based project management quickly worked their way into my skill set toolbox.

Enter: The Digital Age

An easy segue to photography, film & video production ensued as invitations to join project teams arrived. In a serendipitous turn of events (on the heels of much hard work), our team won two awards for a film production and I fell head over heels for the dapper fellow I hired as my cameraman. We built a website together and shortly after, and as they say he 'put a ring on it.' Together, we traveled to even more far-flung places, and I got published as a travel writer.

Founding gracestudioDESIGNS

In 2016, I gathered my menagerie of experiences, talents, and know-how; jigsaw puzzled them together and the multi-faceted, mobile, location-independent digital media production house now known as gracestudiosDESIGNS was born.

Need help?

Online marketing rules change daily.

If you're feeling lost in the weeds, overwhelmed or simply don't have the time to manage it all and keep up with the rest of your responsibilities and obligations, it's important to ask, "Is it time to get help and hire a digital media services professional?"