Jessica Ashley is a content strategist, content creator and media personality who brings voice to brands and websites. She’s the author of Single Mom Nation and the award-winning single-mom-in-the-city blog Sassafrass. Her writing online has tallied more than 40 million page views and 40,000 comments. She was named a Top 50 Mom Blogger and Top 3 Relationship Blogger.

Jessica is host and producer of the podcast Single Mom Nation Radio, and one-half of the podcasts Write At Home Moms and The Content Coaches. A former founding senior editor at Yahoo! Shine, Jessica has also contributed to Huffington Post, Forbes, More, Pink, Disney’s Babble.com, Nick Jr., Mom.me, The Bump, MSN’s TakePart.com, We Are Teachers, Daily Candy Kids, Today’s Chicago Woman, Better Homes and Gardens and many other stops on the internet. She’s also appeared live on Huffington Post Live, Martha Stewart Radio, WGN-TV, NBC5 in Chicago, Better TV, FM100 in NYC and local morning shows across the country.

Jessica’s client roster includes two Shark Tank-funded start-ups, Plated and Hatch Baby, as well as Green Life Guide / Green Mom Guide, TapGenes.com, BestMomsTV, Sara’s Prints, Sway Group influencer agency, and others. National sponsored campaigns include Target, Huggies, Duracell, Walgreens, AARP, National Education Association, Foundation for Alcohol Advancement and Responsibility and the CDC.

Jessica wears inappropriately high heels to the playground and is mother of a Tae Kwon Do-ing, voracious reading, stand-up comic 11-year old, and a drooly-kissing, delicious-thighed baby girl known as Boss Lady. She lives in Chicago with her children and chef boyfriend, owner of Ampersand Wine Bar.