Meet Teresa

Teresa Jusino is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. For over a decade, Jusino has been a pop culture journalist, her work appearing in outlets like Tor.com, Jezebel, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Mary Sue, where she was an editor from 2015-18 and is currently a contributing writer.

Jusino has done development work at Topple Productions and is a member of the L.A-based theater company, Force of Nature Productions, through which she has produced, written, and directed several works.

In 2018, Jusino launched Pomonok Entertainment, a production company that tells entertaining and inclusive stories across multiple mediums in pursuit of a more just and equitable world. Pomonok has produced theater, podcasts, and filmed content.

Jusino is a 2024 Fellow in the RespectAbility TV Drama Writing Intensive. She was a 2022 Finalist for the AMC One-Hour Pilot Competition at Austin Film Festival and was a 2021 Fellow in the Disruptors TV Writing Fellowship.

She lives in Los Angeles with her wife. Her other great loves are Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.