Jess Z
Artist Educator, Writer, Editor, Researcher
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJess Z is an interdisciplinary artist-educator, writer, editor, and researcher based in San Francisco with a decade of experience bridging creative practice, UX/content strategy, and community-centered research. They run an independent studio collaborating on projects that prioritize liberation, joy, and sustainability, offering services from UX writing and content design to teaching, curation, and performance. Their practice spans gallery exhibitions and contemporary poetry publications and fellowships, reflecting a rare fluency across experimental art venues and product-focused teams (including roles at OpenAI, MSCHF, and Twitter). Jess combines technical curiosity—evident from machine learning and software internships—with cultural critique, intentionally rejecting narrow “professionalism” norms to center embodied, equitable modes of practice.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
diy art x eng school, diy art x eng school at locating better forms, structures to hold us 🪢Concurrent Enrollment, Concurrent Enrollment at El Camino CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) — “leave” “of” “absence” less in a Zucc way and more in an art school way, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — “leave” “of” “absence” less in a Zucc way and more in an art school way at Washington State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at West Torrance High
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
javascript3
compression1
insider1
mozilla1
rebuild1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jessicazhou/empiricalswe
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
jessicazhou/Comp-Sci-1
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:49 pushes, 4 branches, 4 issues in 3 months
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