Jess Phoenix Biography
Jess Phoenix is a former Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives and an American television personality. Phoenix is a Discovery co-host on the show Hunting Atlantis.
Jess Phoenix Age
She was born in 1982 and grew up in Colorado in the United States of America. Jess is 41 years old as of 2022.
Jess Phoenix Education
She graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of Science in geology from California State University, Los Angeles, with a thesis titled Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift Zone of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. Phoenix later enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Queensland University of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, where she studied Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental range but dropped out after a disagreement with her Ph.D. advisor.
Is Jess Phoenix Married?- Husband
Yes, Phoenix is happily married to Carlos Peláez.
Jess Phoenix Career
In 2016, Phoenix participated in the Discovery series Trailblazers, Devil Sharks. In 2017, she appeared in the Science Channel series What on Earth?, and in 2021, she co-hosted the Discovery series Hunting Atlantis with Stel Pavlou. Scientists from the archaeology, anthropology, and history communities have attacked Hunting Atlantis for pseudoscience and misrepresenting history and archaeology for entertainment purposes. Phoenix ran in the 2018 election for the 25th Congressional District of California in the United States House of Representatives. She finished fourth in the Democratic primary on June 5, 2018, with 6.4% of the vote.
Jess Phoenix Books- Author
Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life is Phoenix’s book, released by Timber Press, a branch of Workman Publishing Group 2021. The book was named a finalist for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science category.
Jess Phoenix Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 800 thousand dollars.