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Jessica Shayne Lipaz

MA Philosophy and Education

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Jess is an educator and writer from Los Angeles. She currently resides in the Elysian Valley, where she enjoys biking along the river path and tending to her garden. 

​As an educator, her teaching pedagogy is arts-based, exploratory, and rooted in identity development. She received an MA in Philosophy and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2023, where she was a fellow with the Media and Social Change Lab. In this fellowship, she developed and facilitated a media-making curriculum focused on justice and personal identity for four fifth grade classes. Her MA thesis entitled, Preparing to Teach: Reflections on discomfort and the power of the erotic for self-actualization, highlighted the importance of teacher self-actualization for honoring the multitudes of lived-experiences in the classroom.

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As a writer, Jess weaves memoir with philosophy, combining her commitment to self-reflection with larger questions about human interaction and relations. She enjoys writing creative non-fiction essays and is working on a cohesive memoir about sexuality. Driven by social contact, she is interested in making her writing feel more three dimensional, which inspired her to play with film and documentary as a form. She is in the process of editing a film she shot about the open mic community in Silverlake. 

Contact

Los Angeles, California

310-913-3107

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