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JEANNETTE VENINGA
Writing is a central theme in Jeannette Veninga’s work. Interviews, research, organising, managing, communication and meetings are part of a creative writing process. Recently, the public sector receives a lot of professional attention. Her specialisation is focusing on urban development. ‘Fascination for a certain theme or person, a specific development or problem within the bigger structure of a city forms my drive’, she says. The question ‘why do things happen the way they happen’, comes up when it concerns issues where citizens meet governmental bodies. Jeannette Veninga has travelled through Australia, America, Africa and Europe and she has worked in cities like Accra, Nairobi, Paris, Detroit and Hamburg. In the Netherlands she worked in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Maastricht, Groningen and Tilburg.
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Curriculum Vitae
Academic training
Jeannette Veninga’s academic training covers a degree from the Academy for Journalism in Tilburg (graduation in 1996) and a Master in Public Administration (MSc) as result from a mid-career programme of the Erasmus Univeristy in Rotterdam. The topic of her Masterthesis was ‘Social trust in relation with government,
civil society and citizen in the cities Rotterdam and Detroit’
Furthermore, she specialised in health- and development issues
at the University of Amsterdam and gathered experience in leadership qualities she deepened during a training ‘Projectmanagement’ at InAxis (Amsterdam).
Company foundation
Write-Art
In March 2006, Jeannette Veninga formally started her company Write-Art by registration in the national commercial register.
National professional and project experience
Journalism
Write-Art undertook contractual work for several projects and publications in different newspapers and magazines, recently in Nederland in Ontwikkeling, Deloitte magazine, Univers and
Wordt Vervolgd. Next to projects and articles for non-profit organisations and the media, Write-Art has clients within public government institutions.
Public administration
From 2000 until 2005 Mrs Veninga worked as policy officer and project leader within different town councils in the field of
welfare, recreation and tourism, art and culture. Recently the
town council of Rotterdam requested a writing assignment
within the project RotterdamIdee, a project of the Dienst Jeugd, Onderwijs and Samenleving. On request by the Rotterdam town council, Write-Art undertook a communications analyses of a
re-organisation towards a business unit of the Kenniscentrum Concernsystemen Rotterdam.
International experience
America: Detroit
In the year 2006, Jeannette spend five months living and
working in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. During this time, the socio-economic and political problems of the near-by metropole Detroit played a central role. Due to the intensive preparatory work
for her Master thesis (see earlier) Jeannette Veninga had the opportunity to receive fundamental insights into American institutions, companies and societal structures. Jeannette undertook detailed studies on the decline of the American car industry and its accompanying social effects. These activities included close contacts with the management and staff of
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, as well as the attendance
of relevant academic lectures and symposia at the University of Michigan.
Africa: Nairobi and Accra
In 1996 and 1998, Veninga stayed for longer periods of time in Nairobi (Kenya), where she exercised her freelance practice with special interest for developmental issues, politics, immigration
and human rights. An assignment for Amnesty International was part of this. During these years she also worked for the Dutch Refugee Council (legal advice to asylum seekers), the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (communications), and the Centre for Foreign Women in Tilburg.
In 2003 Write-Art researched the legal structures of the Registry
in Accra (Ghana) in assignment of the town council of Amsterdam.
Various assignments
Her Dutch assignments during the nineties were fundraising for Caritas the Netherlands/ Mensen in Nood and operating as a
press officer for the election campaign in ’98 for non-profit organisations.
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