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Jessica Oublié is a French author, educator, historian, and environmental justice advocate. She has lived in Guadeloupe since 2018, and has published several documentary graphic novels, including Tropiques Toxiques, which was recently translated into English and published by Street Noise. Tropiques Toxiques is an in-depth, unflinching investigation of the Chlordecone scandal, whereby France purchased a pesticide banned in the U.S. and used it in Guadeloupe and Martinique from 1972 to 1993. As a result, the two islands register some of the highest rates for certain cancers today. Oublié also created “Chlordicus,” a board game on Chlordecone offered in 2022 to all middle and high schools in Martinique. She was also the artistic coordinator of “Sargassum: histoire(s) d’une marée brune.” This collective work, published by Editions Alliance française de Paris, takes the form of reports from 11 Caribbean and Latin American countries and territories affected by sargassum beachings: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Brazil, Venezuela, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Mexico. Since 2021, Jessica has been the Guadeloupe correspondent for the Agence nationale de lutte contre l’illettrisme.