Jenessa Joffe is a Los Angeles-based director, writer, and producer who is passionate about comedy and social activism. Jenessa directed the award winning web series, Radical Cram School, for comedian Kristina Wong about Asian American identity and activism for kids. The series went viral, got attacked by far-right hate groups, was distributed by women’s comedy platform, WhoHaHa, and led to a book deal. Also for the web, Jenessa directed Kristina Wong's How Not To Pick Up Asian Chicks, The Whizz! The All-New, All-White Version of The Wiz!, and Intercourse With A Vampire, which have garnered millions of views online, been distributed by Comedy Central and Fusion Comedy, and received positive press coverage from publications such as Huffington Post, AJ+, and Cosmopolitan. Jenessa’s short films, Over The Moon, The Legend of Shizuko Nishimura, Shank, and American Obon, have played at film festivals and been distributed worldwide by Shorts International. Over The Moon appear in the feature anthology, The Edge of Her Mind, a collection of short films about women and mental health. Jenessa has produced and directed video content for clients such as Sony Pictures, HarperAudio, Avantus Solar Energy, Toyota, Amanda Palmer, SoCalGas, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the City of Los Angeles. She served as the Head of Video Production to the Mayor of Los Angeles. Jenessa grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.