Updated 12 August 2025
Wood House 76 is focused on the COVID-19 event, with an emphasis on documents, data, propaganda, and episodes leading up to, involving, and resulting from mortality spikes in spring 2020 — particularly in New York City and Bergamo Province, Italy.
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About Jessica Hockett
I hold a PhD from the University of Virginia (Educational Psychology- Gifted Education, research methodology emphasis), M.A. from the University of Connecticut (Gifted & Talented Education), M.A.T. from National-Louis University (Secondary Education), and B.A. from Columbia College Chicago (Marketing Communications, PR emphasis).
I spent 20 years in K–12 education as a teacher, consultant, and graduate instructor. My publications include Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, Differentiation in the Elementary Grades, & Differentiation in Middle & High School and articles, reports, other academic/scholarly works.
I stepped away from the professional field of education to homeschool my two children during the 2020–21 school year. Later, I assisted the Liberty Justice Center in Chicago with media and data for cases challenging COVID mandates and censorship. I also produced two reports for the National Opportunity Project—one on federal COVID funding for private schools and the other on DEI-influenced hiring practices in public school districts.
I came Substack in July 2021, when Twitter briefly suspended my account for posting “Covid-19 misinformation”. A year later, I was suspended again for a tweet that directly quoted a Wall Street Journal reporter. The Wood House 76 article about the incident was cited in an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. Some of the tweets from my initial COVID-related Twitter account (“Emma Woodhouse”) appear in Team Reality: Fighting the Pandemic of the Uninformed.
Other COVID-Era advocacy involved 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 against the city of Chicago.
I contributed to six chapters in Norman Fenton and Martin Neil’s Fighting Goliath: Exposing the Flawed Science and Statistics Behind the COVID-19 Event and was interviewed for and quoted in Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley’s The Children's Inquiry: How the State and Society Failed the Young during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
COVID-Era Affiliations
From 2020 through early 2023, I was involved with Rational Ground. I participated in PANDA from early 2023 through early 2024. Brownstone Institute republished nine articles I wrote or co-wrote — the last being the PANDA piece Does New York City Make Any Sense? in November 2023.
I write independent of affiliation and have collaborated most often with Jonathan Engler and Martin Neil. (All co-authored articles here.)
Why “Wood House 76”?
Wood House is both literary — a reference to my previous COVID-Twitter name “Emma Woodhouse” — and literal: I live in a wood-shingled house in the Chicago area with my husband, two children, and thousands of books. The number 76 is from my birth year: 1976.
X accounts: @Wood_House76 | @jahockett76
