Jenniffer Gómez

Producer, VIDA | Inside the Writers Room with VIDA

Jenniffer Gómez is a Queer Latinx writer who has come up through scripted television. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she spent four years in Boston where she received a B.A. in English from Boston College. She later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an M.F.A. in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television. Upon graduating, she began as an assistant and script coordinator on shows such as “Castle,” “Hit the Floor,” “Black Sails,” and “Power.” In 2012, she quit her job as an assistant to direct a cross-country documentary about a group of undocumented activists who walked from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., for immigrant rights. One of those activists became her wife — formerly a grassroots organizer, now a Los Angeles Sheriff Officer. They met in Provo, Utah, and fell in love by the time they reached Denver — which is why their bichon frise is now called Denver. You can watch the documentary, American Dreamers, which originally premiered at the 2015 LA Film Festival, on Amazon Prime. Gómez most recently wrote on the Facebook Watch series “Sacred Lies,” and she was a writer/producer on Starz’s “Vida.” She is currently writing a pilot for Blumhouse Productions based on the Sundance award-winning documentary- narrative film The Infiltrators.