Jessica is the previous executive director of Young Women’s Freedom Center - YWFC, where she supported the organization's growth from 5 to 45 staff members and 1 to 5 locations and increased the annual budget by over 1700%.
During her tenure at YWFC, Jessica also drafted and launched a Freedom Charter with a base of over 400 formerly incarcerated women, young women, and trans people of all genders.
She is driven in her work by her experiences navigating the juvenile justice system as a young person and poverty, houselessness, and intimate partner violence as a single mother.
As the president of Reimagine Freedom, Jessica is nurturing the vision of the Freedom Charter, and mobilizing the resources and power to ensure this movement is successful and sustainable.