As Senior Global Advocacy Manager, Jess designs, implements, and evaluates advocacy programs to advance the Days for Girls mission of increasing access to menstrual health care and education. Her role focuses on activation in the Americas including youth engagement, menstrual health research, the Period Positive Workplace initiative, and volunteer-led policy advocacy & product distributions.
Jess became involved with Days for Girls in 2018 as a student volunteer before joining full-time in 2022. She holds a B.S. in Data Sciences with Honors from Penn State, where her thesis focused on period stigma among college students.
In her free time, Jess travels full-time as a digital nomad, practices yoga, and enjoys cooking shows.