Jesse Bernard is a London-based journalist, DJ and filmmaker with work published in GQ, Esquire, NME &The Guardian. He is also Youth and Community Lead for the Y-Stop project, a collaboration between charities, lawyers, young people, youth workers, community, and media organisations aiming to give young people the skills to handle their interactions with the police, and stop and search, including the reporting of illegal or inappropriate police behaviour.

His first book, Escaping Babylon, tracing the history of Black British music and culture, was released by Profile Books in October 2023.