About

I’m Jeff Hagan, a writer and editor living in Cleveland, Ohio.

Since November, 2022, I have served as the communications director for In the Public Interest, a national nonprofit research and policy organization that studies public goods and services (shortcut to what we do: we fight against the privatization of public goods and services–think schools, water systems, parks, and lots more that should stay in the public’s control). For nearly 14 years prior to that, I was the editor of the award winning (and award winning) Oberlin Alumni Magazine, as well as a freelance writer. I have also written for Edible Cleveland (which is about food, not…edibles) and CAN Journal (Collective Arts Network publication elevating the arts in Cleveland). My work has appeared in a range of outlets that includes Teen Vogue, Jacobin, Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Marketplace on public radio, and the Plain Dealer. For a decade I wrote the script for the annual Cleveland Arts Prize ceremony, which each year gave me a tutorial on a batch of amazing area artist (Cleveland is rich with fantastic artists–if you’re not from here, you should look into it).

A Cleveland resident since 1989, I’ve never needed tax abatement to live here and in fact I happily pay taxes. After living for many years on the near west side, I moved to the North Collinwood neighborhood in 1998.