Jinal Shah

Business leader, Connector, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Life mentor, Marketer, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

As a Digital Strategist, Jinal leverages her multidisciplinary background in journalism, strategy and design to craft thoughtful communications and brand experiences for some of the world's leading brands in the financial services, media and publishing sectors. At JWT, she co-founded an interdisciplinary practice area that focuses on decoding digital behaviors. In 2011, she was awarded the prestigious WPP/JWT High Potential Award for her exemplary contributions to the company. She was also invited to be one of the six industry nominators for TED Ads Worth Spreading Initiative. Jinal is most interested in exploring possibilities at the intersection of education and technology. She is currently an Adviser to the Social Innovation Design program at School of Visual Arts, New York. Jinal is a StartingBloc Fellow and a graduate of Temple University. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Story-telling, Education, Technology, Learning.

Communication Design, Digital Strategy and Creative Thinking, Fiction writing

Serendipity. I met Ronda at a conference in Greece and we hit it off. I was humbled when she invited me to be one of the six industry nominators for TED's Ads Worth Spreading Initiative. I look forward to future collaborations with TED and the AWS team.

Hula Hooping.