About Jessica Glynn
Jessica Centers Glynn is a writer and teacher in Denver, Colorado. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and her award-winning reporting has also appeared in The Anniston Star and Westword.
Articles written by Jessica Glynn
‘Very Real, But Not Always Fair’
War in Bosnia-Herzegovina and injustice in Detroit forged Aida Spahic into an advocateAida Spahic was 8 years old when she remembers the first bombs dropping in Mostar, the scenic city in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Dinaric Alps, its iconic 16th century stone arch bridge stretching across the emerald Neretva River. During the following years in the early ’90s, she remembers: fighting to go to school, ushering her brothers downstairs when bomb sirens went off, giving a fake non-Muslim sounding name if a soldier approached, and walking in a zigzag pattern to make herself a difficult …
Your Rights as a Debtor
Debt collectors are not allowed to harass or pressure youNo one wants to get a call from a debt collector. But if you do, it’s common to either act hastily out of fear, or do nothing out of embarrassment. Consumer protection attorneys instead urge debtors to stay calm, ask questions, document everything, and know there are laws designed to protect you. “A lot of people, when they fall behind on debt, believe that they might be helpless, but it’s important for them to know that they have rights,” says Anthony Gonzalez, a Plantation attorney …
Fear on the Streets
What to know—even if you’re a U.S. citizen—to protect yourself against ICELos Angeles immigration lawyer Navid Dayzad was leading a “know your rights” presentation to employees of a company he represents—a growing part of his practice meant to calm people’s nerves about immigration investigations at work—when someone asked him what recourse they have if at the airport they’re singled out because of the color of their skin. “It breaks my heart that in America people have to worry about this,” says Dayzad, who’s an immigrant himself. He was a toddler …
When the Check Is Not in the Mail
How to handle overdue customer accountsWhen it comes to collecting overdue debts, the key is to not make a bad situation worse, say Atlanta lawyers who focus on creditor-debtor law. “The best type of letter is very vanilla,” says Douglas Tozzi with Tozzi Law in Decatur. “‘Hey, this is what is owed. We’d like to give you an opportunity to pay. If you don’t, we’ll have to look at our options.’ Something to that effect. Not threatening or making it anything more than it needs to be.” Too often, he sees creditors doing …
Fighting for Her Values
Sarah London has led multidistrict litigations against Uber, Juul and othersIt was day 16 of the 2026 Uber sexual assault civil trial, and Sarah London was listening to the defense’s closing argument. While mentally preparing the last words the jurors would hear from her, she felt both moved and determined to not let down Jaylynn Dean—the woman who came forward after she was raped by her Uber driver at 19—nor the team of female trial lawyers London had assembled from across the country as liaison counsel for more than 3,000 similar sexual assault cases. “There …
Wingman
Pilot Bob Williams keeps things steady for aviation industry clientsAviation attorney Bob Williams was piloting a cross-country flight when the collision avoidance system in his plane alerted him that another aircraft was coming too close. “I said to myself, ‘Any time now, air traffic control will be giving me a warning. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?’” It never came. As he broke through the clouds to approach the airport, he again knew there were other planes heading toward runways, and he again was given no warning beyond what his aircraft and …
Keeping Families Together
Ofelia Calderón on why that mission has gotten harderBefore Ofelia Calderón can describe what it’s like practicing immigration law during the second Trump term, she pulls over at a rest stop on I-95. She’s running late, still driving the 165 miles back to Fairfax from Farmville Detention Center, where she met with a client stuck in jail without bond. Like so many of her clients of late, she says, he was arrested with no criminal charges, picked up by ICE on his way to work. It’s hard not to feel pessimistic, Calderón notes, but she …
‘The Bow Tie Guy’
At a time when it’s easy to sit down and be quiet, John McHugh stands up as an LGBTQ advocateJohn McHugh stops mid-sentence to let out a warm, disarming laugh at his own expense before admitting he’d never given pro bono work much thought until the day in 2012 when two partners at Reilly Pozner came into his office. They were thinking about challenging Colorado’s ban on gay marriage, and asked if he could introduce them to anyone in the LGBTQ advocacy community. McHugh, now a director at Fennemore, was a young associate then. He was also new to Colorado, having followed his husband …
The Lessons of Lahaina
As Jesse Creed was preparing to argue on the Maui wildfires, his home in the Palisades was destroyedOn the morning of Jan. 7, 2025, Jesse Creed stepped from a deposition at the Panish Shea Ravipudi office in West Los Angeles and looked out the 7th-floor windows to see a dark plume of smoke coming from the Santa Monica Mountains near his home in the Pacific Palisades. When his wife had called earlier to discuss what she should do—there was no evacuation order yet, and their boys, 4 and 7, were at a school in the neighborhood—they were both thinking of Lahaina. As lead attorney in …
‘For All of Us’
The Leonard Peltier case and lessons from Kevin Sharp’s time on the federal benchWhen retired Chief Judge Kevin Sharp’s portrait was unveiled in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee this past May, the only speaker to address the audience had not stepped inside a courtroom since Sharp sentenced him to life in prison. Chris Young was convicted in 2014 for what Sharp called a minor role in a drug conspiracy case. At that point, three years after President Barack Obama put Sharp on the federal bench, Sharp had already spent many sleepless nights before …
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