In TV, Jessica has worked as a Writer, Producer, and Researcher on films and series for Shondaland, Netflix, Warner Bros Discovery (American Spirit, 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 Archival Researcher for the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Good Night, and Good Luck (written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov), and has 2025 World Premiere Productions of The Vermont Farm Project at Northern Stage Theatre Company (“a rollicking and entertaining musical with pathos — and authentic” — Rutland Herald) and In Her Bones at the Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center (“a bittersweet story told with profound sensitivity and realism… heartwarming and heartbreaking” — Onstage Colorado). She was both a researcher and writer on the scripted podcast Madam Ram (starring Toni Collette, created by Michelle Rosenfarb, produced by QCODE, LuckyChap Entertainment, and Elizabeth Cantillon), and is developing original series with Muck Media, XTR Productions, Fifth Season, Lighthouse Pictures, Happy Accidents, Billy Magnussen's HappyBad Bungalow, and Sony TV. 

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. She is currently developing new musicals with Ellen Winter (under commission from Concord Theatricals/the Alley Theatre) and Katie Lynne Sharbaugh (under commission by Zachary Hausman/Andrew Patino). Other theatre projects include revisionist Western musical The Death of Desert Rose (with Elliah Heifetz, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship), 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 (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 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.

She is 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