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Janice M. Saragoni is President of Saragoni & Company, a Boston-based communications consultancy specializing in media relations, relationship marketing, crisis communications and public affairs. Active in a variety of cultural and non-profit organizations, Jan is a member of the executive committee of Save Venice, Boston Chapter, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government Magazine. She is a committee member of UNICEF's "Children First Speakers Program" and sits on the advisory board of the Boston Public Market. On the digital front, Jan is managing editor of "styleboston.tv" a lifestyle website that first broadcast in Boston as an Emmy Award-winning television show.

Before launching her firm in 1996, Jan was director of marketing and public affairs for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority/Hynes Convention Center, director of communications for the Massachusetts Department of Public Works and an assistant press secretary in the Mayor's Office of Communications, City of Boston. As a correspondent for the Associated Press, she covered local news and politics in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia.

Over the years Jan has served on the boards of the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the Massachusetts Women's' Political Caucus, the Cambridge Office of Tourism and was a founding planning board member of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, responsible for the development of Boston's Greenway Parks.

A Brighton native who attended Boston public schools, Jan earned a B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College and holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She also attended Cape Cod Community College and completed a program of advanced studies at the University of Perugia, Italy.