Jess DiPierro Obert is a writer, photographer and award-winning filmmaker who splits her time between Brooklyn and Haiti, where she’s worked since 2016. She is focused on solution-based storytelling around armed conflict, women and abortion, and mental health and borders in Latin America & the Caribbean, and the U.S. Jess’ stories are investigative by nature, centered on people and the environments that shape them.
She has been published in numerous publications including Buzzfeed News, The Guardian, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, Reuters, Al Jazeera English, Univision, The New York Times, ARD TV, Bloomberg, The New Humanitarian, Rest of World, and more.
Jess produced content and campaigns for several NGOs, and led a series of workshops in Haiti for Girls Voices, a nonprofit organization that empowers young girls globally to develop their media storytelling skills.
Jess completed an undergraduate degree in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona. During her studies, she specialized in Gender, Religion and Sociocultural Anthropology and completed documentaries related to gentrification and the US-Mexico border. She completed a six-month internship at The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, DC, which inspired her to move to Haiti. In 2020, she received a ‘Still I Rise’ Visual Arts Grant to work on a film about women peace builders in conflict zones within Port Au Prince, Haiti, which premiered at FESPACO in Burkina Faso in March 2023. Jess’ work has been exhibited at Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie (France, 2022) and has received a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Murrow award (Univision, 2022).
A HEFAT-Certified photojournalist, Jess speaks English, French, and Haitian Creole—and is available for assignments worldwide.
