Jo Hodges (1959 – 25 July 2017) was a British scriptwriter, novelist, advertising creative and lecturer at London College of Communication.
[4] The Girl with Brains in Her Feet, a 1997 film script which Hodges turned into a 1998 novel, told the coming-of-age story of 'Jack', a mixed-race working-class girl from Leicester with dreams of becoming a professional runner.
[3] Photographed by Robert Taylor for a 2001 book Portraits of Black Achievement,[5] she provided encouragement to young black people feeling scared of attempting writing as a career: In the beginning I didn't dare write as I thought you had to be extremely clever and fantastically well educated to do it...I eventually had a go and decided that maybe I wasn't so stupid after all.
[6]Hodges worked in advertising for DMB&B, GGK and Ogilvy & Mather.
[2] In 2002 she started lecturing on advertising at the University of the Arts London.