ABOUT JEZZ
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ABOUT JEZZ ♡
JEZZ CHUNG (they/she) is an award-winning creative thinker and storyteller with a global audience drawn to their timely insights and wide range of cultural knowledge.
After studying public relations and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, Jezz built the foundations of her career at Media Arts Lab, the ad agency responsible for Apple’s legacy storytelling. She then spent time at Anomaly New York, developing integrated campaigns for YouTube, Sonos, Converse, and Sally Hansen before making headlines in 2019 for designing a job that merged her love for content creation and passion for community activations. Recognized for their efforts by the
Malala Fund, Logo TV, and Made of Millions, Jezz’s interdisciplinary approach has been referenced as refreshingly relatable and tuned into current realities.
After a decade in New York City, they are back in Los Angeles, providing narrative leadership as a freelance creative while exploring core human truths as an experimental artist
. A storyteller of many forms, they are an alum of the New York Neo-Futurists, a member of SAG-AFTRA, and a writing teacher to students of all ages.
Photography above by Jay Blacks Photography below by Mengwen Cao
Jezz has been featured in Time Out New York, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Teen Vogue, Them, The Folklore, Deem Journal, El País, and Público and has provided cultural commentary for Vogue, Them, Washington Post’s The Lily, Free The Work, Working Not Working Magazine, Adweek, Paper Mag, and i-D Magazine. Their work encourages audiences to exercise their imagination and reflect on ways to take better care of one another.
Jezz has collaborated with Nike, NYX, Squarespace, Marni, UGG, Levi’s, Tommy Hilfiger, and LinkedIn, and has been a guest speaker at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Smith College School of Social Work’s 2024 commencement ceremony.
She believes in telling stories and sharing conversations that help people feel less alone and more alive.
You can follow her personal blog @jezzchung, subscribe to Jezzlandia at jezzchung.substack.com, listen to the first season of Dreaming Different, and find This Way to Change in bookstores and audiobook platforms.
Jezz would like to thank Community New York, Ayesha Pande Literary, and Pande Lectures Management.
Speaking & Facilitating
ADCOLOR: Women in the Know, Sept 2017
American Association of Advertising Agencies Multicultural Advertising Intern Program orientation, Aug 2018
ADCOLOR Futures welcome dinner, Sept 2017
Asians for ADCOLOR dinner & discussion host, Sept 2018
Advertising Week main stage panel: A Conversation with the Future, Sept 2018
The Female Quotient Lounge at Advertising Week panel: Advocacy through Storytelling, Sept 2018
Moderator at The Wing for Women of Color in Music, Feb 2019
American Advertising Federation Most Promising Multicultural Students Luncheon Rising Star Award speech, Feb 2019
Kent State University student speaker, March 2019
MIMconnect panel & discussion facilitation: Cross-cultural Communication, May 2019
4A’s MAIP Alumni panel & discussion facilitation: Wellness at Work, May 2019
4A’s MAIP orientation panel, June 2019
4A’s MAIP fellows workshop facilitator: The Business of Being You, July 2019
She Runs It panel, July 2019
ADCOLOR Futures Orientation keynote: A Guide to Designing Your Future, Sept 2019
UT Austin’s Texas Advertising Group lecture, Oct 2019
SCAD’s Black Student Association’s Embrace Conference panel, Oct 2019
3% Conference discussion facilitator: Burnout & Well-being, Nov 2019
Foreground Summit keynote + workshop to unblock creativity and exercise the imagination, Nov 2019
AAF Most Promising Multicultural Students panel moderation: Notes To My Younger Self, Feb 2020
4A’s MAIP Alumni Summit panel: Inclusion Leaders and the Roles We Play, Feb 2020
Workshops with Ethel’s Club, MAIP Alumni, MAIP fellows, Wethos, Say Space, MIMconnect, STRTGST, March - August 2020
Working Not Working webinar: In Practice, Redefining Work Culture, May - July 2020
The Marketing Arm: Build the Future workshop, July 2020
The Marketing Arm workshop: Building Toolkits for Emotional Resilience, Oct 2020
Facebook Agency Women’s Leadership Day “4 Ways to Use Power with Purpose”, Oct 2020
ADCOLOR: Asian Americans Look Back on The Year + Black and Asian Solidarity, Sept 2020
Out for Undergrad LGBTQIA+ Symposium keynote, Oct 2020
Writer’s Club: Dreaming Bigger Futures workshop, Oct 2020
Ethel’s Club “Consciously Crafting a Liberated Lifestyle” workshop, Nov 2020
Ethel’s Club x Wethos: Collaborative Wealth, Nov 2020
Ethel’s Club workshop: Dreaming into the future, Jan 2021
Hyper Island Design lecture: The Business of Being You, Feb 2021
Skillshare’s Women’s History Month keynote: From Theory to Practice: Building a Lifestyle Around Justice, March 2021
Omnicom: AAPI Hope, Healing, and Well-Being, March 2021
Deutsch LA workshop: Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, March 2021
United Airlines panel: Addressing hate towards AAPI communities, March 2021
Columbia University Advocates for Asian American Health: toolkits for wellness workshop, April 2021
Facebook Community Connect: A Discussion with AAPI Community Leaders, April 2021
Amazon Music: Japanese Breakfast and Jezz Chung in conversation with Jane Shin, May 2021
Anomaly LA: APAHM, May 2021
Amazon: 4 Ways to Practice Allyship, September 2021
Taco Bell: Culture Breakdown, November 2021
Google virtual summit host: Creativity Starts from Within, Accessibility for a more innovative world, Dec 2021
Seed Health workshop: Interpersonal Communication, January 2022
ZenDesk: Creativity For Change, March 2022
Day of Healing against API Hate, March 2022
Google X: Building Wellness Toolkits with, March 2022
APIHM at RGA, May 2022
ADCOLOR: Future Pivots, June 2022
Queer, Trans, & Disabled Mental Health, September 2022
Eldest Daughter podcast, August 2023
Change is a Creative Practice with Slow Factory’s Open Edu, August 2023
Healing Modalities at Deem Symposium, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 2024
Commencement Speaker at Smith College School for Social Work, August 2024
Into Healing podcast, October 2024
So, Life Wants You Dead podcast, February 2025
Resilient Futures at New Museum’s DEMO2025, June 2025
Let it Break, Self-care and the Art of Building Community, August 2025
Honors & Awards
4A’s “100 people who make advertising great”
4A’s MAIPer to Watch 2018
HP’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity program
The Drum’s 50 under 30 creatives
AAF MPMS Rising Star Award 2019
Adweek and ADCOLOR 2020 Champion
Logo 30 Pride Honoree 2021
Can talk endlessly about:
Creative collaboration
Therapeutic modalities and TCM
Art that speaks to the human condition
Neurodivergent-friendly spaces
Community care
Lifestyle design
Fun facts:
Will karaoke any time, anywhere
Have lived in 6 states
Started playing the ukulele as a pandemic hobby
Recorded the voiceover for an audiobook
Often hyperfixating on a rotation of semi-niche topics
SOMETHING TO READ
In Burnout, siblings and researchers Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski break down the factors that lead to burnout and why it has become such a phenomenon. Specifically for people who are socially perceived as women, the emotional labor of people pleasing contributes to a sense of fatigue. As we navigate the impact of an ongoing pandemic and the conditions that led us here, this book provides some methods to improve our sense of doom and move us into compassion and care, starting with how we treat ourselves.
SOMETHING TO WATCH
Extraordinary Attorney Woo is a Korean drama streaming on Netflix that follows a charming autistic lawyer named Woo Young Woo as she begins a job at a prestigious law firm. While adding invaluable insight to high-stakes cases, she navigates both overt and subtle acts of ableism that she’s forced to overcome with the support of her single father and an emerging love interest. Though I wish the character was played by someone who is actually autistic, the show features a character rarely portrayed in film and TV. For that, it’s a worthy watch.
SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO
By writer and somatics practitioner Prentis Hemphill, this podcast explores what it means to be embodied in service of a collective cause. Guests include abolitionist teachers and movement stewards as they process the crises of the moment while offering alternative modalities of thinking to bring us closer to a world that honors what we truly need. Becoming the People is a gentle invitation back into our bodies, so that we may connect more deeply with ourselves and each other.