Jessica Pellien, owner
Formerly director of marketing and communications at the MIT Press, associate director of publicity and ePublicity manager at Princeton University Press, and director of publicity at Fortier Public Relations, I have worked with many of the world’s leading thinkers, scientists, business leaders, and economists, including Cass Sunstein, Vaclav Smil, William G. Bowen, Kevin Bethune, Lee McIntyre, Patricia Churchland, Meredith Broussard, Ruchika Tulshyan, Ainissa Ramirez, Kat Holmes, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Andrew Gelman, Philip Tetlock, John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Olivier Blanchard, Bryan Caplan, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman.
My portfolio includes the successful launch of conversation-starting campaigns, such as Deanna Mulligan's Wall Street Journal best-seller Hire Purpose, Bill Weir’s Life as We Know It (Can Be), Eliza VanCort's A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space, April Rinne's Flux, Eric Cline's 1177 B.C., Bill Helmreich’s The New York Nobody Knows, Andrei Codrescu's Post-Human Dada Guide, Adrienne Mayor's The Amazons, Ai Weiwei's Weiwei-isms, Bee Wilson's Swindled, Leah Plunkett's Sharenthood, Karine Jean-Pierre's Moving Forward, Maria Eriksson et al.'s Spotify Teardown, and the New York Times best-seller paperback Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game.
I have also collaborated with industry and thought leaders, including Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter of Stanford’s d.school; Rob Chesnut, Chief Ethics Officer and Corporate Counsel for Airbnb; MIT Professor Sinan Aral, co-leader of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Hype Machine; data scientist Howard Steven Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan, authors of Winning with Data Science, and Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer, coauthors of Harvard Business Review's Family Business Handbook.
My professional background also includes roles as Marketing and Sales Director at Georgetown University Press and Associate Director of Marketing and Sales at Rutgers University Press.
I hold a B.A. in English from Rutgers University and live and work in Lower Bucks County, PA.
While most of my work has been on nonfiction trade and scholarly work, I am an innately curious reader and explorer and I love to tackle unusual challenges, too! Some of my more unconventional projects include:
Princeton University Press’s nature titles, including the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide series;
The launch of an open access overlay journal like Rapid Reviews: COVID-19;
The novels Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert and 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire by Pedro Domingos;
The 40th anniversary edition of Cooking for Crowds by Merry E. White; and even
YA graphic novels like Power On! by Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis and The Curie Society by Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, and Janet Harvey.
Kailey Tse-Harlow, marketing manager
Kailey Tse-Harlow, a former Digital Marketing Associate at MIT Press, has six years of experience in marketing and communications. She has worked in publicity, digital marketing, advertising, and social media. While at the Press, she specialized in professional and academic books and collaborated with authors such as Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Lev Manovich, Gascia Ouzounian, and Lik Sam Chan. At Pellien Public Relations, Kailey leads event and podcast pitching, social media, and other related tasks.
Outside of work, Kailey is a writer from Boston's Chinatown and holds a Bachelor's degree in Film and TV Production from Emerson College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her nonfiction writing has been featured in MIT News, and she is currently working on her debut novel with support from Tin House. She resides in Cambridge, MA, with her partner and two cats. To learn more, visit https://www.kaileytseharlow.com
25 years of books
Over the course of my publishing career, I’ve had the good fortune to work with an amazing number of authors and books. Here is a selection of particularly memorable campaigns.
Media hits include
CBS Sunday Morning
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Boston Globe
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Rolling Stone
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Los Angeles Times
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BBC
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Bloomberg
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The New York Times
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The New Yorker
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The Washington Post
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The Atlantic
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New York Magazine
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Chronicle of Higher Education
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Fast Company
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Marketplace
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New York Review of Books
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People
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Harvard Business Review
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Forbes
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Fortune
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Inside Higher Ed
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Vox
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Wired
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Science
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Natural History
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American Scientist
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National Geographic
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WBUR On Point
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Science Friday
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CBS Sunday Morning • Boston Globe • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • BBC • Bloomberg • The New York Times • The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Atlantic • New York Magazine • Chronicle of Higher Education • Fast Company • Marketplace • New York Review of Books • People • Harvard Business Review • Forbes • Fortune • Inside Higher Ed • Vox • Wired • Science • Natural History • American Scientist • National Geographic • WBUR On Point • Science Friday •
Books shown are projects I’ve worked on in the past, but are not current clients of Pellien Public Relations.
What are you working on?
There are a lot of publicity firms out there. Let us show you what makes PPR special. We’d welcome an opportunity to discuss your next book or project. Please use the contact form or email us at hello@pellienpr.com.
Thank you!