Jedidiah Jenkins

About Jedidiah

• I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and aspired to become a famous film director.
• I moved to Los Angeles, California, for college, but once I started taking some film classes and realized what being a director actually meant, I knew it wasn’t for me.
• I changed my major and graduated with a degree in creative writing.
• Unsure about how to make a living in the creative industry, I decided to get my law degree and work toward becoming a human rights lawyer.
• I wasn’t fulfilled by the legal jobs I had tried, so when my friends started Invisible Children, a human rights nonprofit, I jumped at the opportunity to come on as the organization’s lawyer.
• As I got closer to age 30, I started feeling like there was something else I was meant to do—I wanted to become a writer but didn’t think I had enough meaningful experience to write and impact others.
• When I turned 30, I quit my job to cycle from Oregon to Patagonia and have an adventure to write about—the experience became the subject for my memoir “To Shake the Sleeping Self.”
• I’m now living my dream of being a writer—I have another book coming out soon and I also share my writing through Instagram.