Jessica Stuart is an award-winning media producer and successful entrepreneur.

After working at seminal television programs like NBC’s Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and ABC News, she left to start a production company at her kitchen table. In 2009 with just one employee, Jessica pioneered Long Story Short Media which became an early mainstay in the burgeoning short-form content field. Since its inception, the company has won more than 60 awards, including an Emmy Nomination, five Webby Awards and a People’s Choice Webby, 6 Webby Nominations and 6 Webby Honoree nods, 6 CINE Golden Eagle Awards, a CINE Special Jury Award, more than a dozen Telly Awards, 7 Davey Awards, a Platinum MarCom Award and an AEGIS Film and Video Production Award. In 2016, LSS earned a prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for “Uniquely Nasty”, their documentary co-production with Yahoo News. LSS has worked across the United States and in dozens of countries and has grown to earn a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three times.

Focusing on content creation with intent and meaningful messaging, Jessica and her team developed a savvy for memorable storytelling, creative strategy, and soup-to-nuts execution. Jessica has produced a variety of content styles for audiences ranging from hundreds to millions and has produced for live events for clients such as the Robin Hood Foundation, Mars, The Giving Pledge, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the David Lynch Foundation.

She is known for her authentic interview style and ability to direct pieces that pair fact with emotion in an engaging way and has interviewed presidents, international heads of state, celebrities, people appearing in front of an audience for the first time, and many others all over the world.

Her work has taken her throughout the United States and to a variety of countries, including Ghana, Brazil, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, India, Tanzania, Mozambique, Burundi, Thailand, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Malawi, Senegal the UK, and Canada. An avid supporter of women entrepreneurs and producers, she is a member of WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council), The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Telly Silver Council.

Jessica lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, David, and their son Alexander and daughter Ella.