Jessa Alston-O’Connor is an art educator and independent arts writer and critic from Vancouver. She holds a Masters in Art History from Concordia University with a concentration in Asian Canadian Art, Identity and Food Culture in Contemporary Art. Over the past ten years she has taught Art History at the University of Saskatchewan, and worked in public art galleries and collective run art spaces across Canada, developping and delivering programs for meaningful connections between art and diverse publics. She is an educator in Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
