Jennifer Amdur Spitz is principal of Amdur Spitz & Associates, Inc., which she founded in 1992. Jennifer leads all program development and marketing communications projects for this national agency and works with clients on strategic direction and planning. She attends to each project personally and assembles custom-tailored project teams of seasoned professionals to accomplish specific client goals.

Jennifer has utilized her keen marketing, non-profit management and entrepreneurial skills to design and develop new non-profit organizations or programs within existing ones and to develop award-winning integrated marketing communications campaigns for clients.

Prior to starting the agency, Jennifer worked nine years in government, corporate and nonprofit communications. She held the following positions: Chief, Office of Communications for the Illinois Department of Public Aid, 1988 - 1992; Account Executive in consumer marketing at Burson-Marsteller, Chicago; and Director of Communications and Development at the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. She began her career in public relations, working with several nonprofit arts organizations. Email Jennifer.

Jeff Spitz, an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, creates original documentaries for broadcast on PBS and cable. His credits as a writer/producer/director include: The Return of Navajo Boy, a one-hour documentary that reunited a Navajo family, premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and has screened and won awards at film festivals internationally; From the Bottom Up, a one-hour, national PBS special on community activism; The Roosevelt Experiment, a half-hour program for ABC-TV telling the story of an integrated college in a segregated city; and Libraries Change Lives, celebrating the immigrant experience in America's public libraries, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Jeff is also an accomplished writer, media placement specialist and fundraiser and brings his uncanny ability to package issues to ASA clients. Jeff's work includes building audiences and constituencies for his documentaries and those by other production companies. He is particularly skilled at building media interest in nonfiction film and has helped to place hundreds of news stories in print, broadcast an online media. Email Jeff.