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Judith Nies
Writer and Editor

Judith Nies is a writer and developmental editor with a specialty in visual presentation of information. She was the founder of JNA Communications whose nonprofit clients included WGBH Television, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Peabody Museum of Salem. Subsequently she worked at Fidelity Investments in Boston where her communications projects included web site development, marketing communications in corporate human resources and speechwriting for the president of institutional services. Her skills include marketing writing, editing, concept development, websites, and project management.

A former congressional speechwriter and assistant secretary of environmental affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Judith was Project Manager for the Boston Harbor Islands Park and the Lowell Heritage Park. The author of two books in history and biography (Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition and Native American History), Nies has continued to write about politics and the environment for the Museum of Science, the Conservation Law Foundation, and journals such as Harvard Review and Orion.

Her awards include a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/Radcliffe, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio grant, and residency awards at the MacDowell and Yaddo artists colonies. A graduate of Tufts and Johns Hopkins universities, for the past five years Nies has taught adults and graduate students at Cambridge Center for Adult education and Massachusetts College of Art.

Emily Hiestand
Creative Director
Barbara Hindley
Creative Director
All the Elements
 
  Richard Adler
Public Relations
 
  Patricia Brady
Writer and Editor
 
  Margaret Bucholt
Writer and Editor

 
  Kate Canfield
Graphic Designer
 
  Dorothy Crawford
Multimedia Producer
 
  Richard Howard
Photographer
 
  • Judith Nies
Writer and Editor
 
  Karl Nurse
Video Producer
 
  Jon Sachs
Photographer and Web Designer

 
  Karen Watson
Artist, Illustrator and Designer
 
  Ande Zellman
Creative Strategist
 



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