Jessea Hankins

Jessea (rhymes with messy) is an extremely online creative director and writer who was pulled into the vortex of advertising by fate. Her decades-long career began at Wieden+Kennedy (in the finance department! With a poetry degree!), flew through Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and landed at Duncan Channon. She can be blamed for work on brands like Sephora, Kettle Chips, the United Nations, Kona Big Wave, Horizon Organic, and the CA Department of Public Health – from their first anti-vaping campaign to the recent fentanyl prevention effort, “Facts Fight Fentanyl.” In between, she took a 4-year hiatus in the advertising wilderness before boomeranging back to DC to continue being very silly and very serious forever. Jessea holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College and has published two young adult novels under her not-so-secret pen name, Avery Williams. In her free time, she ponders how algorithms mirror biological systems and plays Fortnite.