About.

Jess McIntosh is a communications strategist, CNN commentator, and co-host of the award-winning SiriusXM radio show Signal Boost with Zerlina and Jess. After a decade of running communications for candidates across the country, up and down the ballot, Jess turned her attention to broad-scale storytelling and consulting for projects that help us build the dynamic, inclusive, messy, compassionate world we want to live in. Her writing about politics and gender has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ELLE Magazine, Refinery29, Shondaland, The American Independent, Lenny Letter, and more. Jess lives in Brooklyn with her partner and a rescue puppy who recently decided he was going to be 80 pounds.