Jessica Arriola Marati can’t keep still. A freelance writer with photo, video, graphic design and web marketing experience, Jessica was born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific island of Guam, where she caught the travel bug in the steamy tropical jungle. Subsequently, she has made a mission of delaying the real world, one passport stamp at a time, and has spent the past year exploring the pyramids in Egypt, covering Fashion Week in Paris, diving in Vietnam, teaching at Oxford and Tarzan – swinging through the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador, among other adventures.

Jessica graduated from Princeton University in 2008 with a B.A. in history. She has a passion for magazine writing and has interned at CosmoGIRL!, Quick & Simple and In Style in New York, the last through the American Society of Magazine Editors Summer Internship Program. She has had work published in magazines, newspapers, books and websites around the world. She currently writes a thrice-weekly global fashion column for Full Frontal Fashion, from the Sundance Channel.

In her spare time, Jessica enjoys sampling new cuisines, reading voraciously, scouring budget airline sites for new travel destinations and blogging about her adventures.

She can be reached at jessica.marati@gmail.com.