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Jana Goldman, principal and founder of Press Here, has been in communications all of her many-decade career.
She was a newspaper reporter and editor at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Mich., events section director for the Commerce Department of the State of Michigan, deputy press secretary for a U.S. Senator, communications director for two Washington, D.C. non-profits, and a public affairs officer for the research office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
She has covered topics from climate change to ocean acidification, changes in the Arctic and Antarctic, and creatures on land and under sea. While at NOAA, she earned a Frolich Fellowship and spent six weeks in Hobart, Tasmania. In 2012 she organized and managed the press room at the 3rd International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in Monterey, Calif.
In 2011, she became a Plain Language trainer, offering workshops for Federal employees so they could comply with the requirements of the Plain Writing Act of 2010.
Jana is a member of the National Press Club, American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the D.C. Science Writers Association, the Center for Plain Language, and PLAIN. She is a media volunteer for the Silver Spring Village. She is past chair and board member of the Center for Plain Language. A board member of the international PLAIN organization, she has been its vice-president since 2018.
Jana was a volunteer at the Reptile Discovery Center at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and a Montgomery County riding stable.
Born in Detroit, Mich., she moved to Silver Spring, Md. in 1992, where she lives with her husband, cultural anthropologist and author Michael French Smith, and their two mixed Airedales, Scout and Ranger.
"Jana Goldman at NOAA is one of the best public relations specialists I've ever had the pleasure of working with." -- Bob Reiss, author of The Eskimo and the Oil Man (Business Plus, New York/Boston 2012)
She was a newspaper reporter and editor at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Mich., events section director for the Commerce Department of the State of Michigan, deputy press secretary for a U.S. Senator, communications director for two Washington, D.C. non-profits, and a public affairs officer for the research office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
She has covered topics from climate change to ocean acidification, changes in the Arctic and Antarctic, and creatures on land and under sea. While at NOAA, she earned a Frolich Fellowship and spent six weeks in Hobart, Tasmania. In 2012 she organized and managed the press room at the 3rd International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in Monterey, Calif.
In 2011, she became a Plain Language trainer, offering workshops for Federal employees so they could comply with the requirements of the Plain Writing Act of 2010.
Jana is a member of the National Press Club, American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the D.C. Science Writers Association, the Center for Plain Language, and PLAIN. She is a media volunteer for the Silver Spring Village. She is past chair and board member of the Center for Plain Language. A board member of the international PLAIN organization, she has been its vice-president since 2018.
Jana was a volunteer at the Reptile Discovery Center at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and a Montgomery County riding stable.
Born in Detroit, Mich., she moved to Silver Spring, Md. in 1992, where she lives with her husband, cultural anthropologist and author Michael French Smith, and their two mixed Airedales, Scout and Ranger.
"Jana Goldman at NOAA is one of the best public relations specialists I've ever had the pleasure of working with." -- Bob Reiss, author of The Eskimo and the Oil Man (Business Plus, New York/Boston 2012)