ABOUT ME

Jessibel stepped on a stage for the first time at age three as a ballet dancer. She started taking acting classes at age five with the acclaimed acting coach Ofelia D'acosta in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Throughout her school years, she was the assigned master of ceremony for events and was a member of the school choir, oratory & theater groups. In her senior year at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, she was the President of the theater club and the lead actress for school plays.

She pursued a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts at the University of Puerto Rico. She quickly became a member of the acclaimed UPR Touring Theater led by the legendary Puerto Rican director Dean Zayas and became the lead actress for several plays.

She was the lead actress for la Villana de Vallecas, which represented Puerto Rico at El Chamizal Spanish Golden Age Theater Festival in El Paso, Texas, and received outstanding reviews from critics. The play also toured around Mexico.

The following year she toured Spain as the lead actress representing Puerto Rico on the Federico Garcia Lorca's La Barraca Route with the University of Puerto Rico Touring Theater under the direction of Prof. Dean Zayas. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and proceeded to pursue a Juris Doctor at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico Law School with a focus on Family Law and Animal Rights. She was the president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter and fought hard for the dissemination of animal rights awareness.

She passed the BAR & is licensed to practice Law in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. She was also a Notary Public. At the same time, she pursued a second Bachelor's degree at the University of Puerto Rico focusing on Portuguese & German. She did several student exchange programs in Brazil and Portugal including at Candido Mendes Law School in Rio de Janeiro and at the University of Coimbra for Portuguese Language Studies. She then became an Adjunct Portuguese Professor at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. Jessibel recently finished a Master's Degree in Dramatic Arts at Harvard University Extension School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has also trained at the New York Film Academy and Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

After participating in local projects, she was signed by the prestigious New England modeling agency Maggie Inc. and became a SAG-AFTRA member.