Jessica Hamlin is a writer and editor who was born and raised in Southern California and currently resides in the historic city of Pasadena.

Jessica has written on a wide variety of topics for publications including LA Weekly, LAist, Pasadena Weekly, Eater LA, LA Downtown News, Arroyo Monthly, Pasadena Magazine, EAT: LA, and Beacon Media’s Pasadena Cosmopolitan and Arcadia, Monrovia, and Sierra Madre Weeklies. She also wrote for “Thirsty? Los Angeles”, a local drinkery guidebook.

Passionate about health and nutrition, Jessica is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and loves finding healthy topics to cover. You can see her health and wellness coverage in Clean Plates and Do The Good Stuff.

Jessica has frequently filled in as a web producer for KPCC, NPR’s Los Angeles-based affiliate station, where she wrote and edited articles and updated the site. She also served as KPCC’s social media producer and a digital producer for the popular show Take Two.

From Nov. 2010 to Aug. 2013 Jessica was a Local Editor for AOL Patch news websites covering Pasadena, Altadena and San Marino. She managed the sites; recruited and managed freelancers; created and posted original and aggregated content; and updated social media for the local news sites daily. Jessica and her San Gabriel Valley Patch colleagues won an LA Press Club Award in 2012 for their breaking news coverage of the powerful winter 2011 windstorm that hit the area.

Please contact Jessica regarding opportunities in writing, editing, social media, health and more. Thank you for stopping by!