Recently named Associate Artistic Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jessica Tong was raised in Salt Lake City where she attended the University of Utah and danced as a member of Utah Ballet. Tong went on to dance with BalletMet, Eliot Feld/Ballet Tech, and Hubbard Street 2 before joining the main company for 11 years, becoming Rehearsal Director upon retirement.

Named one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch in 2009, Jessica has served on the Ambassador committee for Dance for Life Chicago and in 2013 had the honor of traveling to North Africa as part of Dance Motion USA, a US Department of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music sponsored program that facilitated cross-cultural exchange through dance. In 2020-2021 Tong is overseeing Hubbard Street’s first ever all-virtual Season 43, presenting five new dance films free of charge to online audiences everywhere.