The CEO of the Equality Fund, Jess leads an effort to resource feminist movements worldwide, working to change systems, shift power, and dismantle barriers. Jess has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Asia for various actors, including the UN and the World Bank.
Previously, Jess re-created the MATCH International Women’s Fund-Canada’s only global fund for women. The Stevie Awards named Jess as 2017’s Most Innovative Woman of the Year, and she is a recipient of the Women of Influence award in 2020.
Learn more about Jess’ new book: uprisingofwomeninphilanthropy.com
Be sure to read this important book, “The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy”
This social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges — Join the Revolution!
What is certain to be a bestseller, the 2024 book — The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy — tells the inspiring, never-before-told story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement, considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money to free themselves from oppression.
Co-authored by 10 international powerhouses — Ndana Bofu-Tawamba, Ruby Bright, Stephanie Clohesy, Musimbi Kanyoro, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ana Oliveira, Laura Risimini, Jane Sloane, and Jessica Tomlin — this book is an important read for everyone interested in the long-practiced Feminist Funding Principles imparted by the authors. It is a recipe for the feminist alchemy needed to transform society for the betterment of all.
Brimming with feminist epiphanies, this social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges, overcoming patriarchy’s multi-millennium reign through the uprising of women leaders and philanthropists. Founded during the second-wave women’s movement of the early 1970s, small groups of women worldwide, independent of each other, had the same epiphany: it will take a movement of women to raise the money needed to fund women’s freedom.
Since then, the Global Women’s Funding Movement has grown into a global network of radically generous, risk-taking philanthropists who collectively wield financial might to win seismic gender equality victories. The authors document the “Women Effect” that results from gender equality and women’s collective leadership, including improved public health and reproductive justice, expanded public education, more robust democracies, resilient economies, climate recovery, and enduring peace. Click here to learn more.