Jess is an award-winning storyteller and Common Ground Activist. She spent seven years at Search for Common Ground, world’s largest dedicated peacebuilding organization. Utilizing the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO’s experience, Jess has trained young activists in some of the most hostile places on earth in what she’s coined the “Tattoo Method”, designing campaigns, storytelling, gameplay, and activities that have the power to shift people’s attitudes and behaviors. To date, Jess has collaborated with young lion-hearted warriors in Colombia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Burundi, Indonesia, Armenia, Thailand, and the US. She’s currently working on WS’s interactive story game “Pathways”.