Jessica is a widely published travel and food writer, cook and photographer.

Her cooking series, The Dining Traveler Cooking Series, has garnered over 400,000 views in 18 months.

Jessica was raised in Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Jessica van Dop DeJesus

She began traveling over twenty years ago as a young Marine.

She has traveled to over fifty countries and lived in six.

When she’s not traveling, she’s a home with her family in Washington, DC.

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