Jessica Wildfire

Callie Veelenturf is working to change the legal relationship between humanity and nature. Paul Jay is working to change how we reckon with the threat of nuclear war. Jessica Wildfire is doing something different. She is writing to help people understand the world they are already living in — and to give them the tools to navigate what is coming.

Her work names what most people sense but cannot articulate: that the systems we depend on are not failing but functioning exactly as designed, and that the cost of that design is being borne by ordinary people in ways that are accelerating and compounding. She writes about public health, economic precarity, institutional decay, and the quiet erosion of the social contract — not as abstract commentary but as practical reality that affects how people make decisions, protect their families, and plan for a future that looks less and less like the past. 

Her current project, Project C, is an illustrated survival manual — a practical guide to homesteading, preparedness, and self-sufficiency for a world where the systems we take for granted may not hold. AKET provides sustained support for Jessica's work because a voice this clear, this honest, and this useful should not have to fight for survival in the economics of independent writing.

Jessica's writings can be found here.