Senior Communications Director

Jess Davidson (she/her) is Senior Communications Director at AAPD. Jess leads the AAPD Communications Team in creating an informative and accessible multi-channel communications strategy. Jess has focused her career on using advocacy and communications strategies to strengthen and preserve the civil rights of multiply marginalized communities. In addition to her work at AAPD, she serves on the Ad Council’s Advisory Committee on Public Issues.

Jess graduated with Distinction from the University of Denver and holds certificates in Nonprofit Fundraising from the Harvard Kennedy School and Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Georgetown University. Her writing has been published in the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Washington Post, Glamour Magazine, and The Huffington Post, among others. In 2016, President Obama and then-Vice President Biden named her a White House Champion of Change for her advocacy to end campus sexual assault.

Outside of work, Jess enjoys cooking, reading, art (making and enjoying), paraskiing, and wheelchair hiking.