Jessica Carew Kraft
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Jessica Carew Kraft | |
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| Born | May 28, 1978 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | jessicacarewkraft |
Jessica Carew Kraft is a journalist, author, and artist. She is the author of Why We Need To Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems, a first-person account of learning ancestral skills and the anti-civilization rewilding movement.
Early life and education[edit]
Jessica Carew Kraft was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in the American Midwest. Kraft is the great-great-niece of H. S. Kraft, a blacklisted screenwriter and playwright.
She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College, a master's degree in cultural anthropology from Yale University, and a master's from The University of London’s Consortium program. She received a Dorot Foundation in Israel fellowship. Her designs for Jewish wedding documents, known as ketubahs, are featured as top-sellers on Ketubah.com.[1]
Journalism[edit]
Kraft has written for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic,[2] Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, NBC News online, KQED, and other publications. She is a regular contributor to Proto.Life.[3]
Her 2014 article on a racial controversy in American college debate competitions[4] has been widely cited.[5][6][7] She has written about unjust genetic testing policy in the Medi-Cal system,[8] Tunisia’s post-revolutionary arts scene, and emerging mindful tech designers at Stanford.[9] She frequently writes about ecological issues and sustainability. Kraft also published graphic memoir essays about motherhood in Motherwell Magazine, Hip Mama, and Mutha Magazine.[10]
Books[edit]
Kraft is the author of Why We Need To Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems. The book was called "A great read for naturalists, those interest in rewilding, survivalists, and anyone searching for a different way of life" by Booklist,[11] and a "spiritual field guide" by Alta Magazine.[12] It was chosen as an August 2023 selection on Next Big Idea and excerpted in Big Think.[13] The author has been profiled in several publications that depict her use of ancestral skills in urban contexts.[14][15]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jessica Kraft Ketubahs". Ketubah.com.
- ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew. "Atlantic Author: Jessica Carew Kraft". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Jessica Carew Kraft". proto.life.
- ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew (April 16, 2014). "Hacking Traditional College Debate's White-Privilege Problem". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
- ^ Hicks, Darrin; Greene, Ronald Walter (2015). "Managed Convictions: Debate and the Limits of Electoral Politics". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 101 (1): 98. doi:10.1080/00335630.2015.994903. ISSN 0033-5630. S2CID 54687142.
- ^ Hogan, J. Michael; Kurr, Jessica A.; Bergmaier, Michael J.; Johnson, Jeremy D. (2017-11-08). Speech and Debate as Civic Education. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-08034-5.
- ^ Cooper, Brittney (13 May 2014). ""I was hurt": How white elite racism invaded a college debate championship". Salon.com.
- ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew (2014-08-20). "Medi-Cal denies patients access to now-basic genetic tests". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ Kraft, Jessica C. (20 July 2012). "Digital Overload?". The New York Times.
- ^ "hip mama | Jessica Carew Kraft: Motherwhelmed". 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ Townsend, Kathleen (July 2023). "Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems, by By Jessica Carew Kraft. | Booklist Online". Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Scheeres, Julia (11 December 2023). "Back to Nature". Alta Online. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Jessica Carew Kraft". Big Think. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ Baron, Ethan (31 October 2023). "Roadkill for Supper? How a Bay Area tech worker went back to the Stone Age". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ Furio, Joanne (10 September 2023). "Sautéed roadkill dinner parties are just the start of Berkeley author's adventures in 'rewilding'". Berkeleyside.