Jessica Keith

Jessica Keith is a professor of cross-cultural communication at San Diego State University. She graduated from Occidental College and received her master’s degree in international education from the University of San Francisco. She has worked for two foreign governments at the Embassy of Spain and The Consulate of Kuwait. A Community Action Grant from the American Association of University Women was awarded to her to produce her documentary, Beyond Our Boundaries, distributed by Berkely Media. She has been published in the New York Times, Kveller, McSweeney’s, The Nosher, Scary Mommy, Uptown News, Sammiches & Psych Meds, PJ Library, Medium, and BLUNTmoms. Publications are chronicled at Jessica’s website, www.jessicakeithwriter.com. Jessica lives in sunny San Diego with her soulmate and their three children, the family’s first generation of Black Jews.