Jessica Damiano

Bio

Jessica Damiano is a journalist with more than 20 years experience in radio, television, print and online media.

She has worked on Newsday's interactive endeavors since 1994, and currently is a Newsday.com Internet news manager.

Jessica enjoys toiling in her garden -- an ongoing work in progress -- and helping local gardeners solve their horticultural problems in her column, Garden Detective, which appears every Thursday in Newsday. She has completed Master Gardener training through the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County.

She lives in Glen Head, NY, with her husband John, daughters Justine and Julia, Boxer-Ridgeback mutt Shelby, and a whole bunch of perennials, vegetable plants and weeds.