Jessica Stuart is an award-winning media producer and successful entrepreneur.

After working at seminal television programs like NBC’s Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and ABC News, she left to start a production company at her kitchen table. In 2009 with just one employee, Jessica pioneered Long Story Short Media which became an early mainstay in the burgeoning short-form content field. Since its inception, the company has won more than 60 awards, including an Emmy Nomination, five Webby Awards and a People’s Choice Webby, 6 Webby Nominations and 6 Webby Honoree nods, 6 CINE Golden Eagle Awards, a CINE Special Jury Award, more than a dozen Telly Awards, 7 Davey Awards, a Platinum MarCom Award and an AEGIS Film and Video Production Award. In 2016, LSS earned a prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for “Uniquely Nasty”, their documentary co-production with Yahoo News. LSS has worked across the United States and in dozens of countries and has grown to earn a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three times.