Jody Arlington
Jody is an in-demand industry veteran with a wealth of experience in entertainment PR, issue advocacy and special events. She has helped launch several new business entities (Snagfilms, indiegogo) and currently consults on festivals, narrative and documentary independent film projects, books, and congressional education activities. She also has an impressive track record designing and implementing successful research-based and strategy-driven integrated public education campaigns inclusive of hill briefings, special events and performances.
Along with Jamie Shor, and Kimball Stroud, Jody co-founded and sits on the Board for the Impact Arts + Film Fund. She served as Festival Director for the 2008 and 2012 Impact Film Festivals at the National Political Conventions. She serves on the Executive Committee for the IFP Festival Forum, the professional alliance of film festival professionals. Jody was a VP at Fleishman Hillard and a Manager at Burson-Marsteller, recognized for her award-winning work for the US Treasury and US Mint. Recent clients have included Sundance Institute/Sundance Film Festival, The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Applegate Farms, The American Film Institute/AFI-Silverdocs, Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Futures without Violence, Snagfims, Indiegogo, and dozens of independent narrative and documentary films at all stages of their distribution cycle.
Jody has been quoted about the industry in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. She has been published in the Washington Post featured in Washington Post Magazine, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” ABC’s “Let’s Talk Live” NBC News and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She has covered the business of entertainment for International Documentary Magazine and Washington Life, and reviews graphic novels for NPR Books.
Jody holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Georgetown University and is the Director of the Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance, DC. She teaches Entertainment PR and Film Festival Studies at Georgetown University.
Julia Cohen, Senior Associate
Julia Cohen develops and executes grassroots and grasstops outreach campaigns for a wide range of clients in the entertainment and non-profit industries. She has over 20 years experience in United Nations, government, nonprofit and public health management, civic engagement, advocacy, marketing, fundraising and technology development. Cohen’s diverse experience includes serving as Deputy Director for Campus Progress at the Center for American Progress and directing major initiatives for the National Democratic Institute, YouthNOISE, Youth Vote, Rock the Vote, Planned Parenthood and the U.S. State Department, among others. At Voxiva, she led efforts to develop global health, political and civic engagement mobile technology applications and directed projects for AIDS relief and Tsunami recovery. Cohen is a Board member of WITNESS, founded by musician Peter Gabriel, which uses the power of video to expose human rights abuses.
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