Lindsey Turner is a design and communications leader with nearly two decades of experience spanning journalism, publishing, art direction, communications, graphic design, social media strategy, content creation, e-commerce, and digital marketing for small businesses and nonprofits.

A native of rural West Tennessee, Lindsey fled as soon as she could to the bustling metropolis of Murfreesboro to attend Middle Tennessee State University. It was there on the nicotine-stained third floor of the James Union Building, in the offices of the student newspaper, Sidelines, where Lindsey’s lifelong love affair with a little thing called “muckraking” was fully catalyzed.

After graduating with a Mass Communication degree, Lindsey spent the next seven years in Memphis as a designer, copy editor, and assistant art director at The Commercial Appeal, Memphis’ award-winning daily newspaper. She led presentation planning for Sunday 1A and Sunday Viewpoints and served as the nightside design manager most nights of the week. She also was part of the newsroom’s digital task force, where she helped launch The Memphis Blog (The CA’s now-defunct local blog curator/aggregator) and helped the paper’s digital team cover the Beale Street Music Festival between 2009-2011.

In 2012 Lindsey joined Gannett’s Design Studio Nashville as a team leader managing the production of five daily newspapers in the Gulf Coast region and Virginia. She was promoted to Creative Director in 2014, and managed the studio through a period of growth and a number of major corporate initiatives, including a companywide unified design style rollout, a companywide production and deadline restructuring, and rapid expansion in 2016 when Gannett acquired Journal Media Group and launched several new large papers into the Nashville studio. At its peak, Design Studio Nashville employed around 105 designers and page editors who produced more than 18 daily newspapers, plus dozens of magazine and nondaily print products throughout the Southeast.

Design Studio Nashville was shuttered in September 2017 and the production work moved to the remaining studios. Rather than remain in the journalism Hunger Games (she had survived many a round of layoffs over the years), Lindsey took her love for storytelling and struck out on a new path, landing in the nonprofit world at Hands On Nashville. As HON’s Director of Communications, Lindsey used her versatile writing and design skills to elevate the organization’s social and email marketing content as well as its development and marketing materials.

In 2021, Lindsey stepped down from her director role and began offering freelance design, communications, and digital marketing services full time. Lindsey Turner Creative helps nonprofits, social justice organizations, and small businesses clarify their communications and outreach goals, elevate their messaging and visual identity, streamline and optimize their content creation process, grow their audiences across platforms, and improve audience engagement across channels.

In her “spare” time, Lindsey is an artist and entrepreneur who has launched and grown several e-commerce brands, including Eyedot Creative, Deadnettle Apothecary, and Chaotic Good Trouble. (Eyedot Creative will change its name to Chaos Engine in 2025.)

She lives in Nashville with her husband, son, and dogs in a very loud house.