Jessica Fisher is a second year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Before beginning rabbinical school she ran the Chicago Diller Teen Fellows, a leadership development program for Jewish teens, and worked at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she first moved to New York to attend the joint program between Columbia University and JTS, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in the History of Social Inequality in the Americas and Midrash. Jessica is also a certified natural foods chef and has taught cooking classes and published articles on food and Judaism.
