John Hankemeier is Event Planning Department Deputy for the U.S. Navy Office of Community Outreach in Millington, Tennessee. He moved to the position in September, 2023 from the Navy Personnel Command Public Affairs Office, where he managed the NPC and MyNavyHR social media channels during his first year with the Navy that started in April, 2022.
Hankemeier has a background in multimedia production and began his career as a combat motion picture photographer with the United States Marine Corps in 1997. He has worked in various areas of communications and visual media that include outreach and planning, video production, broadcast journalism, public affairs, and was the public information coordinator for the Eugene Police Department in Eugene, Oregon, from 2013-2022, before joining the federal service and Department of the Navy. He spent five years in retail management before returning to school and graduating from the University of Oregon with a B.A. in Journalism in 2012. During his time at the university, he volunteered with the UO radio station KWVA, and received an Emmy nomination for a student documentary that was broadcast to a regional audience on the Oregon Public Broadcasting network. While with the police department, Hankemeier became proficient in other areas of digital media to include photography and design, and attended FEMA’s Advanced Public Information Officer Course in Maryland.
John moved to Munford, Tennessee with his wife Jessica in April, 2022 after having lived in Springfield, Oregon for 15 years and Boulder Creek, California before that.
In June, 2011, John was given an assignment while attending the UO School of Journalism and Communications to put together the following 3-minute documentary about himself, shot entirely by himself, and based on the theme “Essence,” which was to be included in the video as part of the assignment.
Disclaimer: All events that took place in this documentary are true and the people are all real.
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