With empathy and collaboration at the heart of her approach, Jessica works closely with clients to cultivate values-based partnerships and identify practical solutions to meet their needs. She draws on a sharp eye for detail, a talent for research, and a decade of nonprofit and fundraising experience to build consensus across stakeholders and help complex projects succeed.
Jessica has always sought opportunities to catalyze social change while building authentic, trusting relationships to connect donors with causes that speak to their core values. She honed her skills across the resource development continuum: individual fundraising, grantwriting, special events, moves management, philanthropy and prospect research, data management and operations, corporate volunteer engagement, and strategic communications.
Prior to Geneva Global, Jessica was a freelance consultant, producing deliverables, guiding fundraising strategies, and writing grants for nonprofit clients. She previously oversaw a $6 million institutional partnerships portfolio and a robust grant pipeline to support LGBTQ older New Yorkers. In the global Jewish humanitarian space, she managed a portfolio of individual and institutional major donors, as well as two unrestricted multi-million-dollar campaigns. She started her career in social justice and community organizing, including building power with low-income communities in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Jessica graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Italian, with certificates in Latin American Studies, Western European Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies.