let’s makesomething dope.

a little about me

My work brings together website design and development, podcast and webcast production, social media management, editing, and writing. I work with clients in Chicago and beyond.

I’m Jené Mitchell, a Chicago-based front-end developer and technology professional with more than a decade of experience building for the web. I specialize in creating digital experiences that are accessible, responsive, thoughtful, and built for the people who actually have to use them. My work spans front-end development, CMS platforms, accessibility, performance, and digital strategy, from the first “what if we did this?” to launch and everything that happens in between.

I’ve spent my career building digital experiences for everyone from major brands to small businesses and nonprofits, creating reusable components and responsive interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and a long list of content management systems. I believe good development is more than making something work. Design, development, content, accessibility, and user experience all have to speak the same language. When they don’t, the user is usually the first person to notice.

I bring that same thinking to the things I build for myself. I’m the co-founder and Managing Editor of The Women’s Cut Media, where I work as a journalist and editor while also building and managing our digital properties, overseeing editorial operations, and producing content across web, podcast, video, and social. I’m also a member of NABJ Chicago. It’s one of the few places where all the different parts of my brain get to work at the same time: journalist, writer, editor, developer, designer, strategist, and occasionally the person asking, “What are we missing?”

In 2019, I founded Village606, a nonprofit focused on supporting and empowering residents on Chicago’s West Side. I’m also a longtime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and service to others has been a constant throughout my life. It may seem like a different lane from technology or media, but to me the work is connected. Whether I’m building a website, developing a digital strategy, managing a publication, or working in my community, I’m always thinking about the people on the other side of the work. Who does this serve? How can I help? Then I figure out what I can do to make it work.