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, creative practice and contributing to communities of practice, including 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 have grown into the central questions 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 approaching these questions through several projects: a literary memoir about fertility and waiting as work, a nonfiction project called Notes on an Emerging World, and thinking tools that have grown out of popular issues of 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.