Jessica Siegel

Jessica Siegel is a journalist and an educator. She recently retired as associate professor of journalism, English and education at Brooklyn College. She was the co-founder and director of the Brooklyn College Listening Project, a cross-disciplinary oral history project. She created We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices, a multimedia exhibition, based on Brooklyn College students’ interviews with immigrants and children of immigrants, which toured New York City for a year and a half. Previously, she was director of The New York City High School Journalism Program and organized six high school journalism conferences which drew over 350 New York City high school students and their teachers each time to workshops conducted by outstanding journalists from many media. She was coordinator of ArtsConnection’s Young Talent Journalism Program, which provided support for journalism teachers and their students in six underserved New York City high schools. Before that, she taught journalism and English at Seward Park High School on New York City’s Lower East Side for 10 years. She had her students were the subject of Samuel G. Freedman’s Small Victories, a sympathetic look at urban education. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Teachers College and the University of Chicago. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn.