Jessica Hoppe

Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer and creator of @NuevaYorka. She has been featured on ABC News, HBOMax Pa'lante! and her work has appeared in the Latino Book Review, The New York Times, Vogue, GEN Mag, Paper Magazine, Refinery29, Tasteful Rude, The Temper, Luz Collective, PopSugar, HuffPost, Yahoo, and elsewhere. Jessica is a mental health care advocate with Sad Girls Club as well as a board member at Time of Butterflies, nonprofits providing support and resources to BIPOC women and femmes. She is a frequent speaker, both instructional and motivational, on issues related to identity, addiction, and recovery for podcasts and panels, appearing at a broad range of venues from high schools to Google. She is currently writing her debut memoir, First In The Family, which is forthcoming in 2023 from Flatiron Books.

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