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Jeff Dellinger is an award-winning marketing and communications professional who has worked for the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, and iHeart Media (among others). He is currently Director of Marketing and Communications at the Center for Inquiry.*

In his free time, Jeff is a digital animation hobbyist and film buff. He also writes writes occasionally about sports, politics, pop culture, and any other random thing that irritates him. He and his wife (and their dog) currently live in Round Rock, Texas.

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A FEW SMALL DETAILS

  • Gen-Xer, grew up in Indianapolis.
  • Attended Indiana University where I worked on the school paper as a cartoonist and editorial columnist; was also a DJ on the campus radio station.
  • Started my career in radio doing a little bit of everything: copywriting, production, promotions, and on-air work.
  • Moved to L.A. in 2003 to pursue a screenwriting career that never took off (shocking, I know). I did eventually land an industry-adjacent role in entertainment marketing with the Los Angeles Times, where I met the brilliant, incredible woman who later became my wife.
  • We moved to Seattle in 2014, where I managed the digital comics storefront for an obscure online retailer. Started teaching myself computer animation in my spare time.
  • Relocated to Round Rock, TX in 2018.
  • Rooting interest in the Hoosiers, Hammers, Bears, Kings, Cubs, and Bulls. [Will cheer for teams from places I used to live (Indy, LA, Seattle) as long as they’re not playing one of my “real” clubs.]

*All content on this site is my own. It may not reflect CFI’s positions, strategies, or opinions, nor is it intended to.

“There’s no mystical energy field controls my destiny. It’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.”

— Han Solo

HEY, HOW COME YOU AREN’T ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

Oh, I am…I just keep my profiles gated.

As a marketer, I know social media is a very useful and powerful tool. I know these platforms—and how to leverage them—very well.

Knowing them how I do is also why I limit my time spent on them in “civilian” life (and who can see me when I am there). My only public profiles are on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Letterboxd. Otherwise, if there’s something I want to share with the world at large…well, that’s what this website is for.

“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I HOPE YOU LIKE POP CULTURE METAPHORS!

There’s an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” where the crew encounters an alien race that communicates entirely though metaphors and references to ancient myth. I’m not quite that bad, but I do tend to use sports and pop culture references a lot.

Speaking in references no one understands didn’t work out too well for poor Captain Dathon, so when I’m not at least 95-percent sure a normal person would get it, I try to link out to YouTube clips or GIFs of what I’m referencing. Hopefully that’ll help clarify whatever point I’m trying to make at any given moment.