Jess is the Founder and CEO of Sexual Health Innovations, a non-profit dedicated to creating technology that advances sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. She has been honored as a Fearless Changemaker by the Case Foundation, an Emerging Innovator by Ashoka and American Express, and as the Civic Hacker of the Year by Baltimore Innovation Week. She has been asked to speak at events such as TEDxMidAtlantic, Health 2.0, and TEDxUChicago. Before founding Sexual Health Innovations, Jess worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, as a Public Policy Associate at The AIDS Institute, and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. Jess also founded The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore and a chapter of FemSex at Pomona College. She is a board member of Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER). Jess received her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and her BA in Public Policy/Human Sexuality at Pomona College. She left a PhD program in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in order to pursue work at Sexual Health Innovations full-time.