Jess Solomon is a Baltimore-based comedian, cultural worker, and organizational development practitioner, which is a long way of saying she still holds space… it’s just funnier now.

The club grew out of Jess’s own journey navigating comedy spaces that said “diversity” but felt like group projects where she was doing all the work. So she built something else.

Before stepping into stand-up, Jess spent over a decade as a business owner and consultant in the social impact sector, working with nonprofits, foundations, and cultural institutions across the country. Through her studio, Culture Rules Everything (formerly Art in Praxis), she helps leaders and organizations navigate complexity, make decisions, and build cultures that actually reflect their values. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, facilitation, and what she calls “real-life group chat dynamics.”

She is also the creator of BALT Lab (Baltimore Applied Laughter & Truth), an emerging project bringing comedians, researchers, and organizers together to turn data and lived experience into comedic storytelling that shifts how people understand Baltimore. Because sometimes the truth hits harder when it’s funny.

On stage, Jess brings that same lens, sharp, reflective, and a little unhinged. Her comedy pulls from her life as a Black, queer, neuroexpansive elder millennial navigating burnout, belonging, and the absurdity of trying to heal yourself while still answering emails. 

Jess has featured at the Baltimore Comedy Festival, Lady Laughs Philly, Joke Sistahs, Shhh & Giggles, Sugar Tank, and In Laughing Color, and has trained with the American Comedy Institute, Gold Comedy and The LaughtHer Collective.

Jess is growing into comedy in real time and is always looking to learn, collaborate, and be in community with like-minded folks. Offstage, she’s probably facilitating something, collecting art by Black women, or studying human behavior through the cinematic universe of 90 Day Fiancé.