BIO

Jess is a white, fat, queer, genderqueer, feminist, antiracist, abolitionist, nurse dissident, activist-scholar.

 

Jess completed her/their PhD at Augusta University College of Nursing.  Jess earned her/their bachelor of science in science, technology, and culture from Georgia Institute of Technology and her master of arts in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College. Jess also completed prelicensure master of science in nursing from Medical College of Georgia and a master of science in nursing in community-based nurse-midwifery from Frontier Nursing University. Her/their vision for nursing education means preparing students to embrace the sociopolitical dimensions of nursing, activating a radical imagination for the profession in order to secure a more just, equitable future for all people.

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Dillard-Wright is an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her/their scholarship attends to ideas in nursing, focusing on the intersections where feminism, nursing, and activism interact.

 

Jess's work accounts for both the normative ideologies that historically shape nursing while documenting those nurses who have resisted in various ways.

 

Jess is a member of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society executive committee, a founding member of the Nursology Theory Collective, a co-organizer of Nursing Mutual Aid, and the American Association of History of Nursing.