Who is Beau Jessup? Lisa Maxwell’s daughter dies aged 27 while studying at Columbia University

No cause of death was disclosed. Columbia also released an unpublishedinterviewwith Jessup, conducted last month for its “Notebook” series.

She was studying for an MS in Journalism and was expected to graduate in May 2027., Jessup was interested in “cultural journalism, particularly how institutions, identity, and social expectations influence the way we live and understand one another.”In the interview, she reflected on growing up as the daughter of a television actress, explaining: “As the daughter of a television actress, I grew up with an unusual awareness of the distance between people’s lives and the stories.”She added: “I saw how journalism could illuminate someone’s experiences, but also how those experiences could be distorted, simplified, or transformed into a public narrative over which the subject had very little control.”Jessup developed an interest in reporting while studying social anthropology at the London School of Economics and writing for performance at the University of Cambridge.

She also wrote her first play, The Sandbag, during her time at Cambridge. In 2016, she attracted attention after launching Special. Name, a website helping Chinese parents choose English names for their children.

Maxwell and her husband, Paul Jessup, have not publicly commented on their daughter’s death.