About Omri Ceren

Omri lives and works in Washington DC, where he splits his time between the various activities described on this site. That and he goes to the National Zoo, a lot.

Omri graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, majoring in Communication, Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science. He graduated from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication in 2007 with a Masters degree in Communication, and expects to defend his PhD dissertation in late 2012.

Clicking on the categories in the menu bar, or on the links below, will take you to backgrounders on Omri’s work:

• Strategic Communication – Omri is Executive VP and Principal at LynxDC. His professional contact information is on his LynxDC bio.
• Academia & Scholarship – Omri is a PhD Candidate in Communication at USC Annenberg. His work on academic theory and everything else that’s not politics – travel, zoos, science news, programming jokes, etc. – is compiled on his academic blog Icon Index Symbol. He tweets about those topics from @omriceren.
• Politics Journalism – Omri is a contributor at Commentary Magazine’s blog Contentions. His articles and appearances on domestic and international affairs are compiled on his politics blog Mere Rhetoric. He tweets about those topics from @cerenomri.
• Travel Journalism – Omri is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Digital’s blog Jaunted. Emails and pitches about tourism and travel should go to the address currently listed in his Jaunted bio. These instructions have been followed exactly zero times ever, since those of you here to send press releases have already clicked on the envelop icon up top and aren’t even reading this. But they’re included for completion’s sake.

This is Omri, more or less: