Jessica Colarossi is a science writer and editor in Boston, MA. She’s a trained journalist with bylines at ThinkProgress, Spare Change News, Journalist's Resource, Futurity, and other institutional publications. She’s a full time science writer at Boston University’s central research magazine, The Brink, where she reports on high-level research emerging from BU’s 17 schools and colleges, including climate, ecology, astronomy, health, and humanities. As BU’s most senior science writer, she specializes in crafting stories that weave science into narrative, while carefully translating scientific discoveries to plain language. These stories make unreachable science relatable to readers and highlight human endeavors into the scientific process. Her writing also appears in alumni magazines, web publications, strategic communications, and marketing materials.

In 2024, a story she wrote for The Brink was awarded Best Writing in Research, Medicine, and Science News by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She also cowrote an award-winning story about a beached whale that was recognized as a finalist for Article of the Year by CASE in 2019. Jessica participated in the prestigious Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference at Middlebury College during the summer of 2022. She’s also an experienced speaker, and has given guest lectures on science, climate change, and environmental writing at Emerson College and at William and Mary College.

At the beginning of her career, she wrote about women entrepreneurs pioneering the legal cannabis scene in Massachusetts. On the side, she’s working on numerous creative projects—from zine making to embroidery—and eagerly wants to write more about the ocean, animals, microbiology, native plants, and our relationship to nature.