Jillian Eugenios is a creative leader, digital strategist and Emmy Award–winning journalist and filmmaker.

She focuses on social-first audiences and builds ambitious storytelling projects from the ground up — across platforms, formats and disciplines. Jillian has led high-performing creative teams inside major newsrooms, overseen editorial strategy for award-winning initiatives and developed original content for brands across social, streaming and broadcast. She brings a combination of editorial rigor, visual sensibility and strategic thinking to every project, along with the ability to translate big ideas into systems that scale.

As a journalist, she has reported for NBC News, CNN and others, covering breaking news, politics, LGBTQ+ issues and economic inequality. She has filmed, directed and produced dozens of documentaries, and her work has been recognized with multiple honors and nominations, including a Gracie award for exemplary reporting for and about women and several documentary awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

Jillian’s creative practice spans formats and disciplines, with a particular interest in tactile media, archival research and place-based storytelling. Much of her personal work is rooted in oral history, investigations of institutional oppression and the politics of memory. Her forthcoming documentary film, which explores the familial impact of the criminal justice system, is generously supported by The Sundance Institute and The Marshall Project.

She holds an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from The New School and an MA in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on business and economics reporting. Today she serves as a mentor in the CUNY documentary program and sits on the university’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Council.

She is also a licensed New York City tour guide and leads queer history walking tours in Greenwich Village. (Take a tour!)

Jillian lives in the Village with her wife, their very nervous rescue dog and towering stacks of books.