JESSICA VAN SACK

Jessica Van Sack is a journalist, currently serving as technology reviewer and columnist for the Boston Herald. She eschews writing about herself in the third person but is making an exception to avoid obnoxious use of the pronoun 'I.'

In the last decade as a reporter, Jessica has covered: all levels of government, the 2008 Presidential Primary, the police beat, human interest stories, small-town politics, education and public safety, to name a few topics. Her work has taken her to a variety of interesting and exotic locales, from the corn fields of Iowa to the Saratoga Race Track to the small Bavarian town of Siegsdorf, Germany.

She has appeared on many radio stations and television networks including C-Span, CNN, NBC and Fox to talk about her articles. This used to give her agita but has become easier over time.

Jessica's current position focuses on New England's rich landscape of innovators, worldwide technology trends and social media. In a beat that she often refers to as "wicked cool," Jessica gets to review the hottest new consumer devices, write a popular column titled "Booting Up" and a blog with the same name.

A political junkie, clumsy yoga enthusiast, and crock-pot cooking mom, Jess (we're familiar now, right?) lives in Charlestown with her husband Robert, two adopted dogs and a son whose laugh could cure the world's ills. She and her husband are hell-bent on raising baby Sagan in the city of Boston, which they firmly believe to be the second-greatest place on earth (the first being the Tuscan countryside). Sagan is named for the late astronomer Carl Sagan. His middle name, Lawrence, is for Jess' grandfather, an unsung hero of the Greatest Generation.

Jess and her husband traveled a lot before their son was born, and are looking forward to one day getting on a plane again.

Though Jess grew up in Long Island, New York, she was born to be a New Englander -- specifically, a Bostonian. Realizing this, she moved here 13 years ago and never looked back. She was never a fan of the Yankees so don't even trip.