Hedda T. Schupak
Editor-in-chief
JCK International Publishing Group

Hedda T. Schupak, editor-in-chief of JCK, joined the magazine in January 1986 as a production editor and general reporter. She became JCK’s fashion editor in 1991 and, in the ensuing years, became the editor of JCK’s Luxury International, was the founding editor of JCK’s first fashion-focused jewelry trade publication, TRENDZ, and in 2000 became editor-in-chief and editorial director of the entire JCK International Publishing Group.

She is a popular lecturer in the jewelry industry and has given numerous talks at the world’s leading international jewelry fairs, as well as at regional conventions and individual jewelry store managers’ meetings. She has been a guest columnist for trade and consumer magazines in Italy, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and the United States, and has been quoted about the jewelry industry in the general media many times, including television programs in Europe and the United States, and newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Sarasota Times-Herald, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more.

Hedda sits on the board of the national Women’s Jewelry Association, the advisory board of the Diamond Empowerment Fund, and the NCCJ Jewelry and Watch Industry New Leadership Division executive committee. She is a member of the 24 Karat Club of the City of New York, and The Fashion Group International, an organization of women executives in the fashion industry. Locally, she has served on the Philadelphia Area Albright College Alumni Steering Committee and was a founding board member of Wings for Success of Chester County, Pa., a charitable organization that collects and provides work-appropriate clothing for disadvantaged women.

In 2003, she was named one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business and has won numerous awards both for journalism and in the jewelry industry, and in 2004 was named the Trade Press Editor of the Year by the Jewelry Information Center. In 2006, she was inducted into the Women’s Jewelry Association Hall of Fame, and in 2007, was inducted into the 24 Karat Club of the City of New York.

Hedda studied fashion design at Drexel University in Philadelphia and graduated in 1984 from Albright College, Reading, Pa., with a BA in English and Communication Arts.