Jessica Sun

(she/her) Mentor

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Jessica Sun is the program coordinator for the Artists at Risk Connection at PEN America. Previously, she was the interim executive assistant and Board liaison at PEN America, a research assistant for Dr. Ellen Chesler at the Roosevelt Institute, and interned at the American Ballet Theatre and an Assembly member’s office, among other experiences. She is also a Girls Write Now mentor, providing college and career mentorship to a high school student, and an incoming Community Fellow at the Institute for Nonprofit Practice. She was a 2018 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) JSI Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and a Fulbright semi-finalist for interdisciplinary research in Argentina. She holds a BA in Political Science and a certificate in Public Policy, with concentrations in international development, international relations, and human rights, from Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College.

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