Jess DiPierro Obert
@jessobert.bsky.social
journalist ☼ photographer ☼ doc filmmaker
Haiti since 2016 +📍 spread across the United States
jessobert.com | open to assignments: obert.jessica@gmail.com
Haiti since 2016 +📍 spread across the United States
jessobert.com | open to assignments: obert.jessica@gmail.com
New year, new Substack essay on choosing journalism, and celebrating inconvenience:
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My Non-Linear Life Line is Something of My Own
Choosing journalism has asked me to make peace with a life that is not a straight line, and mostly inconvenient. I'm celebrating.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
New year, new Substack essay on choosing journalism, and celebrating inconvenience:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I’m trying to share more beyond my published reporting, so here’s the first ‘Field Notes’: behind-the-scenes observations and fragments that often shape the stories I later pitch and pursue: open.substack.com/pub/jessdipi...
Field Notes 001: Salt, Stone, and Ash Trees
Notes on taking a vacation from New York, traveling through Croatia and Sicily, and following threads of family history.
open.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m trying to share more beyond my published reporting, so here’s the first ‘Field Notes’: behind-the-scenes observations and fragments that often shape the stories I later pitch and pursue: open.substack.com/pub/jessdipi...
My recent piece on #Haiti, looking at the effects on the south and north in the country as the center falls to further control by armed groups for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/port-au-prin...
How Gangs, Displacement, and Deportation Are Redrawing Haiti’s Map
Armed violence spreads, aid stalls, and strongmen step in to fill the power vacuum across Haiti’s North and South.
inkstickmedia.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My recent piece on #Haiti, looking at the effects on the south and north in the country as the center falls to further control by armed groups for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/port-au-prin...
Here's a trailer for my new short doc that's making its way through the festival circuit called RUN FROM RAIN / KOURI POU LAPLI. It follows a 16-year-old teen in Haiti who flees from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince due to gang violence that took the lives of his parents. vimeo.com/1082328698
Run from Rain - Trailer
RUN FROM RAIN / Kouri Pou Lapli is a short documentary that follows 16-year-old Macul Nelson, who fled Port Lafiteau near Haiti’s capital after losing both…
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June 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here's a trailer for my new short doc that's making its way through the festival circuit called RUN FROM RAIN / KOURI POU LAPLI. It follows a 16-year-old teen in Haiti who flees from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince due to gang violence that took the lives of his parents. vimeo.com/1082328698
I spoke with @michaeldeibert.bsky.social about my upcoming film, RUN FROM RAIN, that follows a family displaced by ongoing gang violence in Haiti. Take a listen!
It was good to speak with Jess DiPierro Obert about her new film Kouri Pou Lapli (Run from Rain), the distinctions between urban & rural Haiti and some of the unique challenges & joys of reporting from this most complex country. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/run-from-r...
Run from Rain
A Conversation with Jess DiPierro Obert
michaeldeibert.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I spoke with @michaeldeibert.bsky.social about my upcoming film, RUN FROM RAIN, that follows a family displaced by ongoing gang violence in Haiti. Take a listen!