about
Jessica Park Wright is a writer and litigator based in Brooklyn. Prior to returning to New York City several years ago, she lived and worked in Kabul where she advised international corporations on Afghan and international law and collaborated with NATO and the Office of the President of Afghanistan on rule of law initiatives. She is currently a senior associate at an international firm where she focuses on complex commercial litigation.
Jess studied international relations theory and political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and remains interested in research within those fields, as well as issues at the intersection of law and religion. During law school, Jess worked at NATO’s military command center (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe or SHAPE), where she focused on laws of war and rules of engagement with member nation representatives. While there, and with the assistance of senior NATO Legal Advisors, she conducted research on humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect in the context of the Syrian civil war.
In her spare time, Jess writes essays for her newsletter, Light Years.