Jason Jessee

Jason Jessee is an American professional skateboarder and automotive designer, born on 27 December 1969, best known for his time with Santa Cruz Skateboards in the late 1980s. His first sponsor was Powell Peralta and later Vision Street Wear, and he moved to a professional deal with Santa Cruz in December 1987. He featured in the company's 1988 video Streets on Fire, playing a fictional version of himself who is arrested and jailed for illegal skateboarding, and the feature documentary Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Film was released in 2007. TransWorld SKATEboarding named him the 24th most influential skateboarder of all time in 2011 but later removed him from the list after controversies from his past came to light in 2018. He has also worked as a custom car and motorcycle builder.