Some people never really develop a taste for them. Others can’t get enough. Even as a kid, Jessica was hooked. Cereal boxes. Shampoo bottles. Comic books. Russian novels. Anything with words, she ate up. 

In her early 20s, she started her professional career as a copywriting intern at Stoltz. The second she laid eyes on the agency portfolio, a realization hit her like a bolt. Advertising was the one for her. It taps into our collective human experience and immediate environment to make you look and make you feel. From that day on, she took the adage that “no one reads copy” as a personal dare. Challenge, accepted.

Now 20 years later — after working in several ad agencies and as a sought-after freelance brand storyteller — the high has never worn off. Coming back to where it all began (now making more than $10 an hour) is the career arc of her dreams. She hopes she never wakes up. In between it all, she started the live storytelling phenomenon Story Story Night, became Boise’s funniest person in a stand-up comedy competition, and self-styled fashion shoots on her thrift store humor blog, Cheep.