Jess DiPierro Obert

Jess DiPierro Obert is an international writer, photographer, and award-winning filmmaker, now serving as Senior Video Producer at Good Power. Her work focuses on solution-based storytelling at the intersection of environment, education, and community resilience.

For nearly a decade, Jess lived and worked in Haiti, reporting on displacement, grassroots organizing, and shifting political dynamics. Her reporting and films have been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Buzzfeed News, Univision, Rest of World, and The New Humanitarian, among others. She has also edited podcasts and shorts for media companies like Freethink, produced campaigns for international NGOs, and led workshops for Girls Voices, a nonprofit that empowers young women globally to tell their own stories through media.

Jess studied journalism at the Walter Cronkite School in Phoenix, where she specialized in Gender, Religion, and Sociocultural Anthropology. She later completed an internship with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which inspired her to move to Haiti. Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognized with awards including an RTDNA Murrow Award, and her films have screened at festivals such as FESPACO in Burkina Faso.

She grew up in Arizona and California, where her passion for the environment was shaped by hiking desert mountains and walking the American River. Outside of work, she enjoys ceramics, native gardening, and personal creative projects.