As an undergraduate student, Jessica Buchanan completed her bachelor’s degree in Film Studies at The University of North Carolina-Wilmington. After graduation, Jessica immediately moved to Los Angeles and began a fruitful 17-year career in unscripted television production, which ultimately brought her to Fritzi and the Compassion Prison Project.

In 2019, she completed her Master of Science in Integrated Design, Business and Technology from the University of Southern California’s Iovine and Young Academy. For Jessica, this experience sparked a lifelong fascination and passion for finding creative solutions towards society’s wicked problems. In her spare time, she is an avid practitioner of heated power vinyasa yoga, crochets beautiful blankets, enjoys live music, and watches as many films and television shows as humanly possible.