Formerly Vice President Dan Quayle’s communications director at the White House, Jeff Nesbit was a national journalist with Knight-Ridder, ABC News’ Satellite News Channels, and others, and the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies: the National Science Foundation and the Food and Drug Administration.
For nearly 15 years, Jeff managed Shiloh Media Group, a successful strategic communications business whose projects represented more than 100 national clients, such as the Discovery Channel networks, Yale University, the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Red Cross. Shiloh Media Group helped create and launch three unique television networks for Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Lockheed Martin. They also developed programming and a new cable television network concept for the Britannica Channel; global programming partnerships for the successful launch of the Discovery Health Channel, including a novel CME programming initiative and the Medical Honors live broadcast from Constitution Hall; and programming strategies for the creation of the first-ever IPTV network developed by Lockheed Martin.
Jeff was the cocreator of the Science of the Olympic Winter Games and the Science of NFL Football video series with NBC Sports, which won the 2010 Sports Emmy for best original sports programming, as well as The Science of Speed, a novel video series partnership with the NASCAR Media Group.
Believing in the power of the written word to change hearts, minds, and lives, Jeff has written over 20 inspirational and commercially successful novels—including his latest blockbusters, Jude, Peace, and Oil—for publishing houses such as David C. Cook, Tyndale, Zondervan/Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins, WaterBrook/Random House, Victor Books, Hodder & Stoughton, Guideposts, and others.
Jeff is executive director for Climate Nexus, strategic advisor and cofounder of Thrive Sports/Thrive Entertainment Network, and managing director of OakTara (www.oaktara.com). He writes a weekly science column for U.S. News & World Report called At the Edge (www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge) and comanages the Faith Matters blog (www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/faith-matters).