About

Jessica Jones is an Emmy® (CA-regional) nominated documentary filmmaker and editor. Her work often focuses on community, cultural representation, and racial equity through character-driven narratives. She served as an assistant editor for For Our Children, A Fragile Trust, A New Color, and as an additional editor for Voices Rising: The Music Behind Wakanda Forever. She has edited numerous short documentaries that have appeared in The New York Times, BBC, KQED, and other publications, where she was part of Webby-winning teams, including for If Cities Can Dance (KQED).

In 2021, she completed the short film On the Pulse of Life, which screened at the Smithsonian Futures exhibit and at numerous festivals nationally. The film won the "American History" short award at the Jackson Doc Fest. In 2023, she co-edited her first feature, Born for This, a documentary addressing Black maternal health and birth equity.

Jessica is a graduate of Northwestern University and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow, a participant in the 2020 inaugural Re-Take Oakland fellowship program, and a 2023-24 Sundance Documentary Contributing Editor Fellow. Currently, she is a 2024 SFFILM House Resident and a Wexner Center for the Arts Studio Resident.

She is also the director and editor of Women Who Ride, a short documentary about Oakland’s first Black all-female motorcycle club, and editor of Coach Emily, an upcoming feature documentary.

In her spare time, she is dancing with her toddler, attempting to learn calligraphy, and reading fiction.