Board of Governors
Jill Dickerson, Reality Programming
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Jill Dickerson
Jill Dickerson currently serves as Head of Unscripted Originals at Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat. Since joining Snap, Jill has led development on a number of made-for-mobile shows for Snapchat's 306 million daily active users including Will Smith's Will From Home featuring the first-ever Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion, Ryan Doesn't Know with Ryan Reynolds, and Charli vs. Dixie with Dixie and Charli D'Amelio.
Prior to joining Snap in January 2020, Jill served as SVP, Programming & Development at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network for over 10 years, where she started as VP of Programming and Development and helped launch the network's unscripted division with series including Our America with Lisa Ling, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, Black Love, Ready to Love, and Love & Marriage: Huntsville.
Ms. Dickerson brings over two decades of experience in reality programming to Snap, where she actively collaborates with producers in the development of nonfiction programming, and supervises editorial management of outside production. Before becoming an executive, she was consulting producer and head writer for the Sydney, Hollywood and Brooklyn seasons of MTV's longest running reality series The Real World, where she was responsible for developing all storylines and overseeing structure and editing of the groundbreaking show.
Previously Ms. Dickerson served as series producer for TLC's Miami Ink, supervising story producer for the premiere seasons of ABC series The Bachelorette, The Mole, and Making the Band, and senior story editor for CBS' Big Brother. She got her start as a story editor on MTV's The Real World: Hawaii.
Ms. Dickerson holds an MFA in Culture & Media from New York University and a bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges.
updated 1.20.22
Jill Dickerson currently serves as Head of Unscripted Originals at Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat. Since joining Snap, Jill has led development on a number of made-for-mobile shows for Snapchat's 306 million daily active users including Will Smith's Will From Home featuring the first-ever Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion, Ryan Doesn't Know with Ryan Reynolds, and Charli vs. Dixie with Dixie and Charli D'Amelio.
Prior to joining Snap in January 2020, Jill served as SVP, Programming & Development at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network for over 10 years, where she started as VP of Programming and Development and helped launch the network's unscripted division with series including Our America with Lisa Ling, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, Black Love, Ready to Love, and Love & Marriage: Huntsville.
Ms. Dickerson brings over two decades of experience in reality programming to Snap, where she actively collaborates with producers in the development of nonfiction programming, and supervises editorial management of outside production. Before becoming an executive, she was consulting producer and head writer for the Sydney, Hollywood and Brooklyn seasons of MTV's longest running reality series The Real World, where she was responsible for developing all storylines and overseeing structure and editing of the groundbreaking show.
Previously Ms. Dickerson served as series producer for TLC's Miami Ink, supervising story producer for the premiere seasons of ABC series The Bachelorette, The Mole, and Making the Band, and senior story editor for CBS' Big Brother. She got her start as a story editor on MTV's The Real World: Hawaii.
Ms. Dickerson holds an MFA in Culture & Media from New York University and a bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges.
updated 1.20.22