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Jessica Carew Kraft
BornMay 28, 1978
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
Websitejessicacarewkraft.com
Jessica Carew Kraft speaking at Mrs. Dalloway's book store in Berkeley, California on August 27, 2023.

Jessica Carew Kraft is a journalist, author, and artist. She is the author of Why We Need To Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems, a first-person account of learning ancestral skills and the anti-civilization rewilding movement.

Early life and education

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Jessica Carew Kraft was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in the American Midwest. Kraft is the great-great-niece of H. S. Kraft, a blacklisted screenwriter and playwright.

She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College, a master's degree in cultural anthropology from Yale University, and a master's from The University of London’s Consortium program. She received a Dorot Foundation in Israel fellowship. Her designs for Jewish wedding documents, known as ketubahs, are featured as top-sellers on Ketubah.com.[1]

Journalism

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Kraft has written for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic,[2] Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, NBC News online, KQED, and other publications. She is a regular contributor to Proto.Life.[3]

Her 2014 article on a racial controversy in American college debate competitions[4] has been widely cited.[5][6][7] She has written about unjust genetic testing policy in the Medi-Cal system,[8] Tunisia’s post-revolutionary arts scene, and emerging mindful tech designers at Stanford.[9] She frequently writes about ecological issues and sustainability. Kraft also published graphic memoir essays about motherhood in Motherwell Magazine, Hip Mama, and Mutha Magazine.[10]

Books

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Kraft is the author of Why We Need To Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems. The book was called "A great read for naturalists, those interest in rewilding, survivalists, and anyone searching for a different way of life" by Booklist,[11] and a "spiritual field guide" by Alta Magazine.[12] It was chosen as an August 2023 selection on Next Big Idea and excerpted in Big Think.[13] The author has been profiled in several publications that depict her use of ancestral skills in urban contexts.[14][15]

References

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  1. ^ "Jessica Kraft Ketubahs". Ketubah.com.
  2. ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew. "Atlantic Author: Jessica Carew Kraft". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Jessica Carew Kraft". proto.life.
  4. ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew (April 16, 2014). "Hacking Traditional College Debate's White-Privilege Problem". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  5. ^ Hicks, Darrin; Greene, Ronald Walter (2015). "Managed Convictions: Debate and the Limits of Electoral Politics". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 101 (1): 98. doi:10.1080/00335630.2015.994903. ISSN 0033-5630. S2CID 54687142.
  6. ^ Hogan, J. Michael; Kurr, Jessica A.; Bergmaier, Michael J.; Johnson, Jeremy D. (2017-11-08). Speech and Debate as Civic Education. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-08034-5.
  7. ^ Cooper, Brittney (13 May 2014). ""I was hurt": How white elite racism invaded a college debate championship". Salon.com.
  8. ^ Kraft, Jessica Carew (2014-08-20). "Medi-Cal denies patients access to now-basic genetic tests". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  9. ^ Kraft, Jessica C. (20 July 2012). "Digital Overload?". The New York Times.
  10. ^ "hip mama | Jessica Carew Kraft: Motherwhelmed". 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  11. ^ Townsend, Kathleen (July 2023). "Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems, by By Jessica Carew Kraft. | Booklist Online". Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  12. ^ Scheeres, Julia (11 December 2023). "Back to Nature". Alta Online. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Jessica Carew Kraft". Big Think. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  14. ^ Baron, Ethan (31 October 2023). "Roadkill for Supper? How a Bay Area tech worker went back to the Stone Age". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  15. ^ Furio, Joanne (10 September 2023). "Sautéed roadkill dinner parties are just the start of Berkeley author's adventures in 'rewilding'". Berkeleyside.
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