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 Woman to Watch.
I wrote a book a few years back. At least a dozen people read it, which I appreciated.
You might enjoy reading the excellent bio my colleague Emily Bihl wrote for me.
I grew up in Orlando, “The City Beautiful.”
These are my great-great grandparents Zelig and Tema Greenblatt.
In 1908 they made a very big trip from Vitebsk, Belarus to Brooklyn.
Zelig and Tema are proof that “Jazzy” is not the strangest name in my family line. Favorites include Faivish and Velvel.
Zelig and Tema’s daughter Ann (far right) was born in Russia in 1902.
That’s me in the middle, with my parents, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother (Ann).
Lorne Greene of Bonanza was Ann’s cousin.
Anyway, I was born to be a ham.
And “sometimes bossy.”
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.