Jessica Hockett (PhD, Educational Psychology - Gifted Education, University of Virginia) is an independent researcher focused on COVID events in early 2020, with an emphasis on the New York City death spike. She spent more than 20 years in the K-12 education sector, first as a middle school teacher, and then as consultant to schools, agencies, & non-profits and online graduate instructor. Related publications include numerous articles, reports, other academic/scholarly works, and several books: Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, Differentiation in the Elementary Grades, & Differentiation in Middle & High School.
Since the WHO pandemic declaration in March 2020, Jessica has used her investigative skills to push against government mandates, censorship, and false claims about COVID-19. As part of that effort, she created a Twitter account under the literary pen name “Emma Woodhouse”. She became known in Illinois and beyond for directly challenging illegal orders & official COVID narratives using public data, sharp questions, and common sense.
A number of her tweets are featured in Team Reality: Fighting the Pandemic of the Uninformed. She’s a contributor to six chapters in Norman Fenton & Martin Neil’s Fighting Goliath: Exposing the Flawed Science and Statistics Behind the COVID-19 Event.
Jessica came to Substack in July 2021, when Twitter briefly suspended her account. A year later, she was again suspended for a tweet that directly quoted a Wall Street Journal reporter. Her Substack article about the incident was cited in an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri.
After homeschooling her two children for the 2020-21 academic year, Jessica assisted Liberty Justice Center in Chicago with media and data for cases the firm brought against COVID mandates and censorship. She also produced two studies through The National Opportunity Project – one on federal COVID dollars for private schools and the other on DEI hiring practices in public school districts.
Other COVID-Era advocacy Jessica is proud of includes planning & speaking at local anti-mandate events, pushing for open schools, fighting forced/compelled masking of children & adults, uncovering the University of Illinois’ false claims to an FDA EUA, detecting the CDC’s flawed reporting of COVID-19 deaths among children, and testifying as a data analyst in a vaccine mandate arbitration case.
She lives in a wood house in the Chicago area with her husband of 27 years, two children, & thousands of books (n=2,160 at last systematic count).
X accounts: @Wood_House76 | @JAHockett76
