Jo started her directing career at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she made over 100 comedic documentary segments with the show’s correspondents. This directorial apprenticeship gave her boots-on-the ground experience and a lifetime fascination with the absurdity of life and the people who make it so. Along the way, she helped the show win its first Emmy and Peabody.

Later, working on the feature doc The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and HBO’s Black and Missing, that absurdity took the form of racial injustice. She won a Peabody for the The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series for Black and Missing. The series also earned an NAACP Image Award and a Television Academy Honor. Jo was the Executive Producer of TLC’s What Not To Wear and co-creator of the critically acclaimed Going Deep with David Rees and the cult hit Craft Corner Deathmatch. As a director, showrunner and producer, she has created and produced series for HBO, Discovery +, Bravo, E!, History, Lifetime, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Nat Geo, Syfy, Tru TV, Smithsonian Channel and VH1.