FEZANA Appoints Jim Engineer as its first Chief Communications Officer
The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) is pleased to appoint Jamshed ‘Jim’ Engineer as its first Chief Communications Officer (CCO), effective immediately. In this role, Jim will continue to serve FEZANA by articulating principled position statements on issues, events and crises concerning FEZANA. Jim will work closely with the FEZANA executive team, its committee chairs and other stakeholders to provide: strategic communications counsel and issues management; writing news releases and position statements; guest moderating the new FEZANA Talks podcast; occasionally authoring articles in the FEZANA Journal; coordinating media relations initiatives; and helping shape and influence FEZANA’s reputation in print, video and online media.
Jim has twice-served as FEZANA’s Public Relations Chair or Co-Chair; united Zarathushtis worldwide as a founding administrator of the popular NextGenNow group on Facebook; participated in the 2018 World Zoroastrian Youth Leaders Forum at the Asha Centre in England; reported from the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto; promoted the 2016 Zoroastrian Games in Chicago; moderated inter-generational panel discussions for FEZANA’s North American congresses; led next generation Zoroastrians at the1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago; and most recently, served a two-year stint as Secretary of the board of directors for the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago.
As the CCO, Jim will continue to co-chair FEZANA’s Public Relations Committee. If you would like to join FEZANA’s Public Relations team, please reach out to Jim via email.
We look forward to Jim’s many contributions to help elevate FEZANA’s awareness and reputation across the North American diaspora and around the world, based on his years of dedication and frontline communications experience on behalf of the North American Zarathushti community.
Jim can be reached at jim@fezana.org
For any and all media queries email pr@fezana.org
