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Jobs At NASA that I bet you didn’t know existed or even knew were a thing!
Jobs At NASA that I bet you didn’t know existed or even knew were a thing!
By JinJa Birkenbeuel
Contributions
Activity
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#NDA season is over‼️🚷 #SlimShady (Hologram) Vs #Eminem in a Debate has finally arrived to #YouTube ⤵️ ✅️https://lnkd.in/g5EdVpRq #Web3Gang 🗣…
#NDA season is over‼️🚷 #SlimShady (Hologram) Vs #Eminem in a Debate has finally arrived to #YouTube ⤵️ ✅️https://lnkd.in/g5EdVpRq #Web3Gang 🗣…
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T minus 10 minutes till I give a talk on building company culture! In-person is always preferred but in this case it’s for a distributed team! A…
T minus 10 minutes till I give a talk on building company culture! In-person is always preferred but in this case it’s for a distributed team! A…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Social Impact
Google
- 3 years 5 months
Economic Empowerment
I serve on the board at Google for women@ in Chicago focusing on assisting local women-owned businesses with visibility an networks
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Board of Directors
Jewish-Black Business Alliance
- Present 10 years 9 months
Economic Empowerment
The Jewish-Black Business Alliance is a group of Jewish and Black business and civic leaders whose aim is to develop a better understanding of each other’s personal stories and cultural backgrounds.
Through meetings, commerce and travel, we create a bridge that transcends our differences, fosters new relationships and heals old divisions. The resulting shared community is safer, culturally and commercially enriched and leaves a foundation for others who follow us. -
Brain Trust Advisory Board Member
Chicago Ideas
- 1 year 4 months
The Brain Trust of Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) is a group of approximately 20 influencers from around Chicago. The Brain Trust is a group of influencers from across the Chicago community that we hope will see CIW through the honest exchange of ideas, the power of their collective impressions, and the willingness to engage their communities in our platform.
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Executive Board & Chairperson of Membership
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
- 3 years
Arts and Culture
Executive Board Member and Chairperson of Membership for the Women's Board of the MCA
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Founding Forty
The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute
- 2 years 3 months
Economic Empowerment
The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute at DePaul University's Coleman Entrepreneurship Center is the nation’s first comprehensive Institute for women founders that integrates academic learning, research, incubation, funding and public policy. Launching in July 2018, the Institute supports women entrepreneurs through academic research and programs as well as initiatives that invest in the success and sustainability of women-owned businesses. Composed of leading entrepreneurs, business leaders…
The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute at DePaul University's Coleman Entrepreneurship Center is the nation’s first comprehensive Institute for women founders that integrates academic learning, research, incubation, funding and public policy. Launching in July 2018, the Institute supports women entrepreneurs through academic research and programs as well as initiatives that invest in the success and sustainability of women-owned businesses. Composed of leading entrepreneurs, business leaders and influencers, the committee supports the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute through funding, strategic planning, and advancing the institute's academic, research, start-up incubation and public policy initiatives.
Publications
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Believe You Can Leave: A Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal
Birkdesign Inc.
I conceptualize and wrote this book based on my entrepreneurial journey that led me to the brink of burnout. I realized that if I could just get up and leave and travel and look up for my desk and see the world in other ways while also maintaining my business, it would protect me against emotional mental and physical failure. It worked! As a result of my transformation journey, I decided I wanted to share what I learned with others by putting this journal together to help guide other people and…
I conceptualize and wrote this book based on my entrepreneurial journey that led me to the brink of burnout. I realized that if I could just get up and leave and travel and look up for my desk and see the world in other ways while also maintaining my business, it would protect me against emotional mental and physical failure. It worked! As a result of my transformation journey, I decided I wanted to share what I learned with others by putting this journal together to help guide other people and their average to envision a new way of experiencing work as an entrepreneur.
My Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal is filled with reminders and inspiration to kick start your visualization process so that you can get up and go someplace and experience the joy of traveling to a foreign country. Included inside this widely-lined journal are blank pages for your thoughts and maybe even your own drawings. I hope my inspiration journal, specifically designed for the curious and want-to-be-traveler, will kick start your visualization process to help you lift yourself up, rediscover your imagination and then buy a plane ticket so you can travel somewhere safe and perhaps a bit unknown. -
The Wealth Connect: Your Pathway to Financial Freedom
Ross Mac
Established financial leader and public speaker Ross Mac, as an author, publisher, and thought leader by the creation of his first book.
My role specifically was to educate and train Ross on how to own his own intellectual property as a relates to publishing his own books. I established his publishing company, Maconomics, throughout the online ecosystem as well as established pipelines for him to create print books. Ross now has the tools to publish and release an ecosystem of books…Established financial leader and public speaker Ross Mac, as an author, publisher, and thought leader by the creation of his first book.
My role specifically was to educate and train Ross on how to own his own intellectual property as a relates to publishing his own books. I established his publishing company, Maconomics, throughout the online ecosystem as well as established pipelines for him to create print books. Ross now has the tools to publish and release an ecosystem of books through his company, and also with his family business Luster.
"The Wealth Connect: Your Pathway to Financial Freedom,” will help you’ll embark on a transformative journey from financial uncertainty to financial freedom. This book demystifies complex financial concepts and provides practical, actionable strategies to eliminate debt, optimize savings, invest wisely, and safeguard your future and that of your loved ones. It’s more than just a guide; it’s a roadmap to building generational wealth, designed to empower you to take control of your financial destiny.Other authorsSee publication -
Change-Maker Village
Once Upon a Blume, LLC
My role was to pitch to the author, Mel, to control her own publishing company. Mel already had books that she self-published. I saw an opportunity to train her on how she could start her own publishing company so that her books could be more well regarded but also be eligible to be in the library of Congress. So I helped Mel establish and launch her first publishing company to produce the book changemaker village. In addition to that, the book is about diversity equity inclusion as well as…
My role was to pitch to the author, Mel, to control her own publishing company. Mel already had books that she self-published. I saw an opportunity to train her on how she could start her own publishing company so that her books could be more well regarded but also be eligible to be in the library of Congress. So I helped Mel establish and launch her first publishing company to produce the book changemaker village. In addition to that, the book is about diversity equity inclusion as well as ideas on how to help children Recognize racism.
I became a cultural editor for Mel because the story that she envisioned with my help was about a little Jewish girl and a little black girl grew up in a similar environment, but on different streets. So I as an art Director was able to help her, and teach her how to hire an artist to produce her work how to also ensure that the artist she did hire understood her rights to her work, so I helped understand how to negotiate with an artist to protect her own actual property as she hires an artist. I also worked with the artist to help her understand how to communicate black characters, properly.
Created by a diverse, all-female team of Disney alumni, and a Forbes-celebrated Culture Editor, Change-Maker Village is an anti-racist children's book that was released on Apple Books November 2, 2020. The book takes readers of all ages on an emotional journey when two nine-year-old best friends, Mandisa, who is Black, and Rose, who is white, encounter racism for the first time. After this experience, and a powerful talk between the two, they make a pact to create and inspire change in their community. They host an event called "Change-Maker Village,” a day that encourages reading, donating, learning and listening. The girls perform Mandisa’s original song that day. The song “400 Years (remix)” co written by JinJa Davis of the band Utah Carol, can be downloaded on Apple Music and streamed on Spotify.Other authorsSee publication
Projects
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Believe You Can Leave: A Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal
- Present
My Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal is filled with reminders and inspiration to kick start your visualization process so that you can get up and go someplace and experience the joy of traveling to a foreign country. Included inside this widely-lined journal are blank pages for your thoughts and maybe even your own drawings. I hope my inspiration journal, specifically designed for the curious and want-to-be-traveler, will kick start your visualization process to help you lift yourself up…
My Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal is filled with reminders and inspiration to kick start your visualization process so that you can get up and go someplace and experience the joy of traveling to a foreign country. Included inside this widely-lined journal are blank pages for your thoughts and maybe even your own drawings. I hope my inspiration journal, specifically designed for the curious and want-to-be-traveler, will kick start your visualization process to help you lift yourself up, rediscover your imagination and then buy a plane ticket so you can travel somewhere safe and perhaps a bit unknown.
Believe You Can Leave: A Spontaneous Travel Inspiration Journal. https://a.co/d/asJnP3r -
Co-Creator & Co-Architect: Google Digital Coach Program
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I have long understood the challenges that Black and brown small business owners face, including a lack of access to financial, educational, and technological resources. I was hired by Google as a supplier in 2014 to research, design, create and architect a program to assist entrepreneurs in growing their businesses through their ecosystem of powerful tools. The program launched in pilot in 2017, as Accelerate With Google. It was a smashing success. It was acquired by the Grow With Google in…
I have long understood the challenges that Black and brown small business owners face, including a lack of access to financial, educational, and technological resources. I was hired by Google as a supplier in 2014 to research, design, create and architect a program to assist entrepreneurs in growing their businesses through their ecosystem of powerful tools. The program launched in pilot in 2017, as Accelerate With Google. It was a smashing success. It was acquired by the Grow With Google in 2019, and is now in 20 states across America.
Honors & Awards
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Innovation By Design
Fast Company
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Innovation By Design
Fast Company
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Birk Creative is Google Inc.'s Corporation of Global Economic Impact for the State of Illinois
Google, Inc.
Google Inc.'s Global Economic Impact Report details economic impact state-by-state and features extraordinary local businesses that have benefitted from utilizing Google's search and advertising technology as well as other beneficial tools in Google's ecosystem. Google agrees the web is working for American small businesses and they are proud to be a part of the Birk Creative story!
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Graphic Design USA
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Silk Road Chicago • Brochure and Collateral
Graphic Design USA/American In-house Design Awards
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American Corproate Identity 8
American Corporate Identity
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Communicator Awards
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Eat Play Love Our Neighborhoods
Illinois Governor's Conference on Tourism Awards
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Graphically Bold! 2
Graphically Bold! 2
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Graphis
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How Magazine
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How Magazine Merit Award
How Magazine
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Mohawk Paper Mills Merit
Mohawk Paper
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Print Magazine
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Print's Regional Design Annual
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Publicity Club of Chicago
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STA Chicago Design Archive
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Silk Road Chicago • Best Brochure
Illinois Governor's Conference on Tourism Awards
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Tranny Awards
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Organizations
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Harry Fox Agency
Publisher and Composer
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American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers
Publisher and Composer
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The Executives' Club of Chicago
Member
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