Deanna Shoss, Neighbor

Deanna Shoss is a marketer, writer, and interculturalist in Chicago.

She is President, CEO and Founder of Intercultural Talk, Inc., a marketing and communications firm that serves successful entrepreneurs and dreamers 50 and older who want to exist (aka be found on social media and the Internet). She also helps people co-exist as a Strategic Partner of Executive Diversity Services, which provides Diversity & Inclusion training to global corporations, police departments and municipalities.

Prior to being an entrepreneur Deanna enjoyed 11 years in City Government (she personally got the dinosaur in Terminal 1 at O’Hare through security), being past President of the League of Chicago Theatres, and heading-up Marketing for Jewish Child & Family Services and JVS Chicago.

Deanna “walks the talk,” at home, too, living in an intercultural, interfaith world as a Jewish Midwesterner with a Brazilian husband and a Gen Z son. Who knew “oy,” meaning “everything hurts” in Yiddish is a friendly “hello” (“oi”) in Portuguese?