

She knew that the sender’s name and return address, as well as the label that said the box held architectural materials, were likely false. She lives in Brooklyn with a dog named Max and more plants than you can shake a leafy stick at.On May 14, 2013, Jessica Bruder ’00 came home to her Brooklyn apartment to find a box in front of her door. Jessica is also the author of Burning Book and Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance which she co-authored. Earlier in her career, she was a staff reporter at The Oregonian and The New York Observer. She has written for New York Magazine, WIRED, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Inc. Jessica has been teaching narrative storytelling at Columbia Journalism School and contributing to The New York Times for more than a decade.


Nomadland has been adapted for a film of the same name featuring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn, directed by Chloé Zhao and distributed by Fox Searchlight. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. Named a New York Times Notable Book and Editors’ Choice, Nomadland won the 2017 Discover Award and was a finalist for the J. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving - from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. For her latest book, Nomadland, she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in a precarious economy.

Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about social issues and subcultures.
