Leading By Example, with Teacher and Author Jessica Martin

Jessica Era Martin is the author of four chess books and founder of the Over the Chessboard school in Charlotte, NC. In her playing days, she was ranked as the #1 woman in NC and in the Top 100 women in the US. She has been a chess instructor for over 20 years and started out training with Chess-in-the-Schools in NYC. Jessica is the past Vice President of Scholastic Chess of the North Carolina Chess Association (NCCA). She was a weekly author for http://chesskid.com from 2010-2015. More importantly, she cares deeply about her students and about making the chess world a better place. She continues to advocate for equity in chess, and with her background in creative writing, does so both with well-chosen words and by being a fantastic example of a leader in her community.

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