Biography
Filmmaker and journalist Jill Yesko is a former cyclist who represented the United States in the 1983 World University Games and competed in the Olympic Trials. Her acclaimed documentary Tainted Blood: The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympic Blood Doping Scandal has been screened in the U.S., Europe and Africa and streams on Amazon. Jill has produced and directed commercials and short videos. Her writing has appeared in Women’s Sports & Fitness, Shape, Fitness Swimmer, the Baltimore Sunand other magazines. Jill is the author of two acclaimed crime fiction novels: Murder in the Dog Park and Dog Spelled Backwards. She has been profiled in O, the Oprah magazine and is a frequent commentator on NPR. Jill is a Fellow in the Center for Sports Communications & Media at the University of Texas at Austin.