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Jessica Marcy is an award-winning director, producer, and writer with extensive experience in film production, journalism, and non-profit communications. She founded Lumin Productions to produce social documentaries that tell compelling untold stories and explore connections across cultures, working across the US, Europe (Ireland, France), Africa, and Latin America. Based in Dublin, she most recently worked as a researcher for Venom Films, a Sundance and BAFTA award-winning documentary production company in Ireland. She also recently directed and co-produced "A Tree Story: Gullah/Geechee Roots and Resilience," which tells the story of an African-American community's efforts to preserve their ancestral land and culture in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Other work includes field producer in Paris for "Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony," a 2022 National Geographic documentary, and producer/writer for "After the Storm: Pollution in the Potomac," a 2020 Telly Award-winning documentary on Maryland Public Television. Jessica started as a journalist, with work appearing in National Geographic, The Washington Post, NPR, MSNBC, and Kaiser Health News. She has extensive international experience, including journalism work in Peru and serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa. As a 2021 Mandela Washington Reciprocal Exchange Fellow, she received U.S. State Department funding to teach filmmaking to young women in Mali. She holds an MFA in film from American University, a master's from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a graduate certificate in documentary filmmaking from George Washington University. She has extensive experience in climate storytelling and published a story in "Best Climate Change Stories: An Anthology of Original Short Fiction" (2024). She is also a current steering committee member of the Global Climate Storytelling Network (GCSN), a Doc Society initiative to support climate storytellers with the community and resources they need to produce with impact.