Jessi Hempel is a technology writer and editor based out of Brooklyn, New York. She is currently the Senior Editor-at-Large at LinkedIn.

Jessi Hempel attended Shrewsbury High School, graduating in 1993. She later graduated from Brown University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with Honors in Creative Writing. In 2003, Hempel graduated from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with a Masters in Journalism. Hempel's coursework focused on international reporting in Asia. As part of her coursework, she traveled and reported in India, Japan, China, and Hong Kong.

Since October 2018, Jessi Hempel has been the Senior Editor-at-Large at LinkedIn. She decided to join LinkedIn because of its community of editors, writers, experts, and professionals. With LinkedIn's community of over 575 million professionals, it is easy for writers to interact with and learn from their audience. Through her editorial work, Hempel strives to produce deep reporting, uniquely knowledgeable insight, and a sense of what really matters in an echo chamber full of distracting journalistic noise. At LinkedIn, Hempel focuses on covering the technology industry with articles including "We need to talk about Wikipedia", "It’s time for Silicon Valley to outgrow its Sheryl Sandbergs", and "IBM spent $34 billion to take on Amazon. Can it succeed?".

Hempel was previously a Senior Writer at WIRED from 2014-2018. She wrote regular features on the business of technology including "Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make AI Better for Humanity", "Instagram’s Founders Have Always Had Impeccable Timing", and "An AI Pioneer, and the Researcher Bringing Humanity to AI". Hempel was proud to join WIRED in 2014 because of their history of deep analysis and high quality reporting. She first started reading WIRED in 1999, during the dot-com bubble and was impressed by their fair analysis of tech companies at a time when most publications were caught up in the hype of the era. From 2016-2017, while working at WIRED, Hempel was the Director of Editorial at Backchannel, an an editorial independent division of WIRED that publishes in-depth stories on technology-related news. [13][14][15][16]

From 2013-2015, Hempel was an Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Professional Studies: Center for Publishing. She created a new course for NYU's Masters in Publishing graduate program titled "Digital Management Strategies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google". In the course, students study these companies'business models, marketing strategies and penetration of the media. Students also learn the role of Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook in shaping how society connects, consumes content and conveys information. From 2011-2014, Hempel was the Co-Chair of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, a conference organized by Fortune . Along with Adam Lashinsky and Dan Primack, Hempel organized, programmed and issued invitations for the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference which addresses the most prominent issues in the industry. Every year Fortune invites 400 tech CEOs & founders, Fortune 500 leaders, and investors for a three-day brainstorm at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado.

From 2007-2014, Hempel was a Senior Writer at Fortune. At Fortune, she wrote regular features on technology, advertising and media for the magazine. She also posted thought pieces, analysis on current events, and occasionally breaking news pieces on Fortune.com. Some of the articles she wrote for Fortune include "CONTAGION—How the "selfie" became a social epidemic", "Little app of horrors", and "Reid Hoffman: You can't keep your best people forever". She co-hosted Tech Debate, a weekly video program on Fortune.com. Hempel participated in events on Fortune's behalf, moderating panels and interviewing business leaders, has represented Fortune on CNN, CNBC, and Al Jazeera America. She also participated in a group tasked with developing a new digital strategy for Fortune. [18][19][20][21]

Hempel was an Innovation Editor at Bloomberg Businessweek from 2003-2007. She wrote cover stories including “Valley Boys” and “The Myspace Generation." She also helped develop IN: Inside Innovation and innovation supplement. Hempel developed and wrote the Design Schools Special Report and the Philanthropy Special Report. She appeared on numerous radio and television programs including CNBC “Wakeup Call ,”Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and FOX's “Good Day New York." She was also a regular guest on ABC's “America This Morning”.

From 1998-2003, Hempel worked as an freelance writer. She wrote features on the grief and violence in Kashmir for Salon and The Indian Express. Hempel covered Pixar’s employee education program for SFGate. She wrote education and environmental features from Nagasaki, Japan for the San Jose Mercury News. She wrote tech story for CBS MarketWatch's holiday retail package. She also covered the growth of eating disorders among Asian women for WomensEnews.org.

In the summer of 2002, Hempel interned with Time Asia. She researched and wrote weekly world events page. Hempel also reported and wrote a travel feature looking at Nagasaki, Japan fifty years after the atomic bomb. She interviewed subjects for cover story on diabetes in Asia.

Hempelworked as a writer for the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative from 2000-2002.

She wrote, edited, and managed production for InDepth, a quarterly publication covering school reform issues. She wrote case studies on schools for annual reports, grant applications, and press releases.

Before becoming a writer, Hempel worked as a Teacher in the Teach For America program from 1998-1999. She taught fourth grade and designed a before-school literacy program.

Jessi Hempel was a Mentor at Girls Write Now from 2011-2013. She mentored a girl named Ava Nadel, meeting her weekly, and spent one Saturday each month with her for two years. Hempel worked with Ava on her writing, and helped her select and apply to colleges.