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jessica.morkert-shibley@multco.us
Jessica Morkert-Shibley is a communications coordinator for Multnomah County. She joined the team in August 2014.
Jessica comes to the county as a 12-year-veteran of the broadcast journalism field. She graduated from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in broadcast journalism. She also received a secondary bachelor's degree in French — also from Arizona State University. She spent several years working for broadcast stations in Arizona, California and Arkansas.
Her last seven years in broadcast journalism were spent as a general assignment reporter for KOIN T.V. in Portland — often covering public safety, social justice issues and natural disasters.
Jessica came to Multnomah County to see the other side of the job. “A lot of people don’t know the wealth of services the county offers,” she says. In the future she looks forward to building more relationships and collaborating to figure out “how to make the community as a whole better.”