Jessica Starr

About

Jess Starr joins the St. Edward High School Marketing & Communications team with nearly two decades of experience working in the media, marketing, and communications fields. Starr oversees a variety of marketing projects, including the school's Green & Gold Shop.

Starr is also a freelance journalist for Freshwater Cleveland, an e-magazine and website covering all that’s good in and around Cleveland.

Before St. Edward, Starr served as director of communications for eight years at Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM), an advocacy and social services nonprofit in Cleveland, where she led the external communications for the agency.

Starr spent several years in Erie, Pennsylvania as senior news reporter for the ABC and FOX affiliate television stations JET24 Action News and FOX66 News. Prior to reporting, Starr spent six years at WKYC-TV3 in Cleveland, working in both production and as part of the Emmy-winning news team. While at Channel 3, she was the supervising floor director and a fill-in producer. She was in charge of the studio while on-air, and also field produced for many of Channel 3's specials.

Starr is a Cleveland Leadership Center Bridge Builders graduate. She holds a certification in Advanced Crisis Communications from the Public Relations Society of America. She attended college at Kent State University and has a B.A. in public communication with a focus in mass media.

Starr lives in North Ridgeville with her husband Dan, and their five-year-old daughter, Layla.