Jeanie Linders
Jeanie Linders is a liberal arts graduate from Northern Illinois University and, as such, has been liberally involved in the arts for the last 30 years. For ten years she was president/ CEO of an advertising agency that specialized in entertainment and hospitality accounts. Concurrently she launched an events marketing and management firm, producing a full gamut of shows from A Conversation with Cary Grant to multistage music festivals featuring hundreds of performers from Ella and Mel to B.B., James and Miles. Ms. Linders served as an arts development consultant in Florida, California, North Carolina and Arkansas; she launched Orlando's first arts complex and incubator. She was an advance PR roadie for Michael Jackson's film crew for the Victory Tour, developed the Belize Performing and Visual Arts Consortium plus worked for Francis Ford Coppola's Blancaneux Lodge in that Central American country, taught high school in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and has served as a columnist/correspondent for outlets as diverse as The Chicago Tribune, The Sun-Times, Boston Globe and Variety. She has published two books including Womankind, a book of poetry for and about women.
