Jihii Jolly

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I’m a San Francisco-based writer with a background in journalism and design research. I see both as practices that can be applied to a range of work: audio, video, text, teaching, product design, community engagement, conversation, and, perhaps most importantly, life.

Currently, I focus my time on care work and stewarding several community groups, ranging from local parent networks and a neighborhood Buddhist group, to an artist collective called Mothers in Art & Design and a media collective called News Futures.

As a parent, journalist, and organizer, the tension between work and life grew into the central question of my work: What happens after the professions and systems we’ve relied on to navigate life begin to dissolve? How do we design better tools and frameworks for the invisible work that sustains our lives and communities?

I’m currently working on a literary memoir about waiting as work, and a nonfiction project called Notes on an Emerging World. Many of these ideas first appear in my newsletter, Time Spent.

Previously, I was Director of Engagement at the International Association for Feminist Economics, the founding host of the Buddhist podcast Buddhability, and a freelance journalist who covered women’s labor, media, and news literacy. My reporting and essays have appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Narratively, Columbia Journalism Review, the New Humanitarian and Tricycle, among others.

You can contact me here.