Jihii Jolly
Jihii Jolly

I’m a writer interested in how life works outside of professionalized structures.


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 covering women’s labor, media, and news literacy. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, Narratively, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Humanitarian, and Tricycle, among others.


I’m based in San Francisco and always up for a chat. You can get in touch here.


Current Projects

A Civic Media Cookbook (News Futures, 2026)

Recipes for participation, power, and community — produced in collaboration with News Futures.

Literary memoir — in progress

A memoir about fertility and waiting as work.

Notes on an Emerging World

A nonfiction project examining what comes after the systems — news, work, birth, the self — that organized modern life.

Time Spent Press

Small books about the time we spend on things that are hard to explain.