Jessica Kizorek

ENTREPRENEUR. ACTIVIST. FUTURIST. With her unique experience telling stories with video, Jessica Kizorek teaches nonprofits and entrepreneurs to use multi-media inside of websites, social platforms, apps and eBooks. She is a futurist, constantly encouraging clients to deepen emotional relationships online, especially with the help of artificial intelligence.

Since 2001, Kizorek has developed a presence both domestically and abroad as an entrepreneur and international activist. She produces video content primarily for large humanitarian groups like United Nations Women, USAID, the AARP Foundation, Special Olympics, and Lions Club through her company Two Parrot Productions. Since co-founding Two Parrot with her father in 2001, the pair have created hundreds of short films and video-centric fundraising campaigns.

Having traveled to over 68 countries, she has covered a multitude of humanitarian causes as a journalist and documentarian. She has ventured onto the front lines of such efforts as education in Pakistan’s largest refugee camp, World Women’s Day in Nepal, and fair trade farming initiatives in Ghana. A large chunk of this work – including the airline miles to fly their crew around the world – is donated by the Kizorek family.

As a diplomat representing the USA, Jessica travels the world empowering millennial women to enter the workforce and start businesses. She facilitates this mainly through an organization she founded in 2010 called Badass Businesswomen. Her production company covers many issues, although female entrepreneurialism is the cause closest to her heart. Referred to as a “Women’s Empowerment Specialist” by the US Department of State and a “Small Business Expert” by Fox News, Jessica speaks to international audiences about the art of modern business in a digital world.

Kizorek has written 10 books, many of which focus on marketing with video on the internet. One is called “Filmmaking For Good” and focuses on teaching high school and college students how to make short documentaries about social causes they are passionate about. Another called “Make Them BEG” is designed to teach female entrepreneurs how to create an irresistible personal brand. She is currently finishing a dissertation named “FROM ANXIETY TO CREATIVITY: Factors that influence students’ intention to adopt artificial intelligence in US college classrooms.”

Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of University of Colorado Boulder with an undergraduate degree in Spanish and International Business, following a certificate program called “AI for Growth” at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business, Jessica enrolled at Florida International University (FIU) for a Masters in Global Strategic Communications. She remains a full time student at FIU, now writing her dissertation for a Doctorate of Business Administration. This Fall will be her first as teaching adjunct at the FIU Lee School of Communications, where she hopes to work as a full time clinical teaching faculty in years to come.

Guest lecturer at schools like Princeton, UC-Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Miami and Miami Ad School. She has also appeared as a featured guest on major news outlets such as Fox, NBC, CNN, Weekend Today and the Better Show.

Kizorek is an elite athlete; at one point, she was ranked second in the United States in track cycling and second in Chicago for tennis. She is a poet, singer/songwriter, and fine artist with a collection of over 30 canvases covered with calligraphy, electrified light, and shattered mirror. Some of her art, including her famous “Tennis Ball Chandelier,” has been featured by the Miami Children’s Museum and Art Basel Miami.