Jessi DiBartolomeo is a Chicago-based audio producer. She is currently serving as Director of the Features & Production departments at CHIRP Radio, and in the past has worked as a copywriter, process analysis associate, wedding DJ, bartender, and doughnut-slinger from a vintage van. You can find her in her kitchen, drinking coffee, or wandering the green spaces of her neighborhood.

All Stories by Jessi DiBartolomeo

June 6, 2022

Prioritizing joy, humor, laughter — and badassery

Members of the Twin Cities-based comedy group FAWK (Funny Asian Women Kollective) Saymoukda Vongsay and May Lee-Yang, along with Chicago-based comedian Elizabeth Gomez, share how they created a space for Asian women comedians free of censorship and reflect on the recent anti-Asian violence.

February 13, 2022

Flipping the Script on Microaggressions

Clare Brown, a Virginia-based TikTok star, uses the platform to flip the script on microaggressions using comedy.

January 21, 2021

Prioritizing joy, humor, laughter — and badassery

Members of the Twin Cities-based comedy group FAWK (Funny Asian Women Kollective) Saymoukda Vongsay and May Lee-Yang, along with Chicago-based comedian Elizabeth Gomez, share how they created a space for Asian women comedians free of censorship and reflect on the recent anti-Asian violence.