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Jessica Joyce Jacolbe is a freelance journalist and researcher from Brooklyn. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at CUNY Craig Newmark School of Journalism.
With an interest in arts and culture, identity, and the internet, Jessica has written for NYRA, ELLE.com, Vulture, and other publications. As a 2021 Open City Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop, she reported on the arts in Queens. She has been a contributing writer to the Art & Art History vertical at JSTOR Daily and a multimedia producer for the award-winning series, PBS For The Arts.
She received an M.A. in arts and culture journalism from Columbia Journalism School where she was a Gordon Parks Foundation scholar.
Since 2018, she has worked as an arts and community organizer along with her co-founders and co-organizers of Dogeaters Collective, a group of Filipinx American artists and writers based in New York City who are interested in challenging identity and creating radical futures. They successfully raised funds for their first art show, The First Picture of You, 1990 in May 2019.