Jessica Barrett

Jessica Barrett is an award-winning journalist and author of No Place Like Home: The Missing Key To Our Housing Crisis. Jessica got her start as a community newspaper reporter in Vancouver, B.C., where she fell in love with covering municipal issues and urban affairs. Over the years she worked her way up to reporting for the Vancouver Sun, B.C. Business Magazine and eventually became Senior Editor of Vancouver Magazine. Jessica has also appeared regularly as a columnist in print and on the radio. Her writing has won multiple awards, including Postmedia’s prestigious Michelle Lang Fellowship and the Jack Webster Foundation’s City Mike award for her columns about Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis.

Jessica continues to write and think about how to bring about systemic change for a more just, joyful and functional society. When not writing, she spends her time gardening, devouring podcasts and attempting to wrangle her young son into bed.

She is represented by Rob Firing at Transatlantic Agency rob@transatlanticagency.com