Jess Jacobs is an actress, speaker and advocate. She is co-founder of a women-led, New York based production company, Invisible Pictures, whose mission is to develop, finance and produce film, television, documentary and digital content with a focus on stories not normally represented in dominant culture. Invisible Pictures has a mandate for authenticity, which is achieved through an inclusive development process in which any community represented in the content is a part of building the narrative, in front of and behind the camera.