In TV, she has worked as a Writer, Producer, and Researcher on films and series for Warner Bros Discovery (American Spirit (seasons 1 and 2), True Crime and Shine), CNN Originals (Vegas: The Story of Sin City), Max Originals (They Called Him Mostly Harmless), the Oxygen Network (Sins of the South, New York Homicide), the Magnolia Network, the History Channel, and Peacock. She is currently the researcher for a Shondaland series for Netflix, writing a scripted podcast produced by QCODE, LuckyChap Entertainment, and Elizabeth Cantillon, and developing original series with Muck Media, Lighthouse Pictures, Billy Magnussen's HappyBad Bungalow, and Sony TV.  

She is the 2023 recipient of the National Archive Foundation's Cokie Roberts Fellowship in Women's History, and is developing projects in the scripted and documentary spaces about the American women who worked at the Nuremberg Trials.

As a theatre writer, she has premiered/developed original new plays and musicals in New York and across the country— with New York Stage and Film, Roundabout Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Weston Theatre Company, and others. Her revisionist Western musical The Death of Desert Rose (with Elliah Heifetz) is under commercial option, and she has 2025 World Premiere Productions upcoming at Northern Stage (The Vermont Farm Project) and the Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center (In Her Bones). She is currently under new work commissions from Broadway Licensing (Concord) and the Alley Theatre.

Other theatre projects include Wild Fire (Commissioned, World Premiere, & Colorado Tour by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, upcoming at ZSpace), Letters to the President (with Michael Bello, Goodspeed Musicals, NY Premiere at the Great Hall at Cooper Union), Agent 355 (with Preston Max Allen, Signature Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theater Company), Wild Home (Notch Theatre Company, NEA “ArtWorks” Grant recipient ), and Nia (World Premiere: UNC Chapel Hill).

Jessica is the two-time recipient of the Marion International Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts (2017 and 2023), and has received a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, the Marscio Visiting Scholarship at Denver University, and a Redline Contemporary Arts Center “Arts-in-Society” Grant. She has been an artist in residence at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (New York) Faberllull Olot (Spain), UCROSS Foundation (Wyoming), Green Box Arts (Colorado), the Johnny Mercer Grove at Goodspeed Musicals (Connecticut), the Chautauqua Institution (New York), and was awarded the inaugural “Powered By Off-Center” creative residency at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

She is proud to be a guest lecturer at Wesleyan University (Course: Producing and Performing Anthropology with Dr. A. George Bajalia) and on faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts (Courses: Theatre Histories, Advanced Dramatic Structure and Text Analysis).

BA: Northwestern University. MBA (in process): SUNY New Paltz