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Jennie Rose Halperin

Jennie was the Senior Communications Manager at Creative Commons. She makes the CC communications and brand sparkle and works with communities to tell their stories through a variety of media.

Before joining Creative Commons, Jennie worked for Safari Books Online/O’Reilly Media as the Product Engagement Manager where she managed community marketing and test-driven product growth with a mighty team of technologists dedicated to innovation in online learning. She was previously at Mozilla on the Community Building Team and earned her masters degree in Library Science.

Posts by Jennie Rose Halperin

Let’s make some clothes: Joost de Cock on Make my Pattern

by Jennie Rose Halperin Uncategorized

The delightfully quirky sewing site Make my Pattern.com is the work of self-proclaimed “sewcialist” Joost de Cock, a Belgian designer with a flair for fashion. When he started Make my Pattern, de Cock set out to solve a major issue for amateur sewers: patterns fit best when hand-drafted, but hand-drafting is inaccessible to most hobbyists.…

“Let’s do this together”: an interview with Letters for Black Lives

by Jennie Rose Halperin Uncategorized

“We need to talk,” begins the first letter from the organizers of “Letters for Black Lives,” a new writing project aimed at opening up intercultural and inter-generational dialogue about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Big win for CC in Italy

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture

Last year, Festival delle Resistenze 2016 in Trentino-Alto Adige misused a photo of the journalist Niccolò Rampini that had been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under a CC-by-SA-4.0 license by a professional photographer named Federico Caranti.

“It’s music for the people”: Monk Turner on defying genre and the open community

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture

Monk Turner is a concept musician who has benefitted greatly from his collaborative, collective approach to music making and performance.

ICYMI: a June #OER roundup

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Education

June was a big month for OER in the United States, so here’s a quick roundup of some highlights, including a new open copyright policy from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the launch packet for districts incorporating open educational resources into their curriculum, and new funding for OER degrees in California! US Department of Education: #GoOpen Launch…