Jessie Findlay is a three-time Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and creative leader with 20+ years of experience making ambitious nonfiction, documentary, branded, commercial and digital work.

Born in Down East, Maine, Jessie spent her formative years chased around the backyard by the family’s chicken flock and attending a two-room schoolhouse. As the middle child, she honed her negotiation skills early and is still considered the family’s “straight talk express” (presumably a compliment). Her favorite childhood memories include filming make-believe stories with her siblings on a borrowed VHS camera and summer trips to her grandparents’ “camp” in Poland Spring (yes, like the water).

Though she hails from a family of educators, it was presumed Jessie would become a therapist (such a good listener!). In high school, she was a music and theater nerd, and pursued classical vocal training through college.

Fresh out of college, Jessie pursued various freelancing production stints around New York, but it was at Nickelodeon’s Nick News with Linda Ellerbee where she finally found her people – and her purpose. For six years, Jessie produced stories about kids whose voices didn’t always get heard: kids in foster care, kids with undocumented parents, kids living with HIV. She loved the challenge of earning their trust and telling their stories with the nuance and dignity they deserved. She was often told she “didn’t sound like an adult,” which she took as a high compliment. During her time on the series, Jessie and her team received two Primetime Emmys, a National Gracie Award, two PRISM Awards and a NAMIC Vision Award.

From there, the work got bigger. Jessie went on to Executive Produce and Showrun Animal Planet’s The Zoo and The Aquarium franchises, producing nearly 100 hours across three series and leading the teams, budgets and complicated production machinery behind them. She has also written, directed and produced work for commercial and nonprofit clients, expanding her work beyond traditional television.

Most recently, Jessie Executive Produced Disney+/National Geographic’s Science Fair: The Series, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary series. She continues to work across nonfiction, branded, commercial and digital storytelling – most recently on a 2026 Cannes Lions Gold Lion-winning social campaign.

She lives in Brooklyn with her family; every summer they all still visit the camp in Poland Spring. It’s the best water.