Jazzy. “Real” name Jessica.

First things first. Here’s how you pronounce “Danziger.”

I’m a group creative director at Paradowski and an MM&M 2020 Woman to Watch.

I wrote a book a few years back. At least ten people read it, which I appreciated.

If you'd like to read my résumé, go for it. If you'd like to watch me struggle valiantly to define myself via photographs, videos, and irreverent captions, scroll on.

Here I am, doing what appears to be a T-Rex impression during a creative review.

Doing what appears to be a T-Rex impression during a creative review.

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I grew up in Orlando, “The City Beautiful.”

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Ready for work-from-home conditions since the ‘90s.

These are my great-great grandparents Zelig and Tema Greenblatt.

In 1908 they made a very big trip from Vitebsk, Belarus to Brooklyn, New York. Zelig and Tema are proof that “Jazzy” is not the strangest name in my family line. Favorites include Faivish and Velvel.

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Lorne Greene of Bonanza was Ann’s cousin.

I guess “Greenblatt” didn't sound very Hollywood. A Jewish cowboy!

That’s me in the middle, with my parents and my grandmother. Four generations.

Zelig and Tema’s daughter Ann (far right) was born in Russia in 1902.

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Anyway, I was born to be a ham.

And “sometimes bossy.”

My mom’s notes from a pre-school performance review.

Mom’s notes from a pre-school performance review.

Taylor Hanson emailed me in 1996.

Like many young women who came of age during the dawn of the internet, I taught myself HTML through trial and error by reading, stealing, and adapting source code from sites I admired. I used my budding coding skills to create a Hanson fan site (on Geocities, where else?) called “The Loser-Free I Happen To Like Hanson Site.” One day I received a three-line email from taylor@hansonline.com letting me know the band wouldn’t be cutting their hair anytime soon. Apparently I had expressed some concern about this matter. In a Yahoo! search for “Hanson,” I popped up second after their official site.

I was forced to abandon the site after I was banned from AOL and lost access to the email associated with my Geocities account. That’s a story for another time.

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Thank you so much for existing, Internet Archive.

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