Jessica Thompson is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering and restoration engineer, audio preservation specialist, and educator. She has digitized, restored and revived historic recordings for the Erroll Garner Jazz Project, the Barbara Dane Legacy Project, the Bottom Line Archive, the record label Awesome Tapes From Africa, and has mastered new records for Michael Daves, The Tins, Occurrence, Israel Nash, and Hailu Mergia. She writes gear reviews for Tape Op Magazine and contributed a chapter on “Mastering the Sonics of Historic Recording Media” for the book Music Preservation and Archiving Today (Rowman & Littlefield). She serves as Vice President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Recording Academy and chaired the Archiving & Restoration track for the Audio Engineering Society Convention in NYC in 2018 and 2019. In her limited spare time, she likes to ride bikes.