About

Jess is an impact-driven content professional with two decades of experience as a writer, editor, and content strategist for lifestyle publications and corporate brands. Her favorite work resides at the intersection of home, lifestyle design, and the environment.

Fascinated by human nature, Jess is always on the hunt for people and products with unique and inspiring stories, believing strongly in the power of content reach and the responsibility to inspire smarter, healthier, low-impact living. As a long-time contributor for Sunset magazine (covering home, design, lifestyle, and travel for 15 years), Jess’s favorite story was her 2011 article "The Zero-Waste Home" which garnered more reader feedback than any single story in the history of the publication (est. 1898), sparked a national dialogue about consumerism in America, and motivated her efforts to humanize environmental issues.

Jess’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vanity Fair, San Francisco magazine, and on Ozy.com, NPR.org, Lonny, and Gardenista. She was a consulting editor for the book The Power of Zero: Learning from the World’s First Net Zero Energy Buildings (Ecotone Publishing, 2016), and contributed to the book Home: The Way We Live Now The Best of the New York Times Home Section (Rizzoli, 2017). Jess has been a guest curator for Etsy, Design*Sponge, and Airbnb. She's been a featured speaker at conferences like Altitude Design Summit and has appeared on national broadcast programs, most notably The Today Show.

For the 2015-16 academic year, Jess was a Ted Scripps Fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied how media, brands, organizations, and government agencies use image-centered mobile platforms like Instagram to do high-impact micro-storytelling. (She’s been dreaming of living in a cabin back near those Rocky Mountains ever since.)

Both Daily Candy and Thrillist once named Jess an instagrammer to follow. Get a look at her mobile photography and adventures here.

Currently, Jess is the editorial manager for The Climate Pledge where she identifies and amplifies the innovations and best practices of businesses committed to being net-zero carbon by 2040.

CONTACT: jvchamberlain@gmail.com