Jess Ladd

Biography

Jess Ladd has dedicated her career to advancing sexual health and wellbeing through a public health lens and through using technology tools. She created her own major in Public Policy and Human Sexuality at Pomona College and has a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and Health Communication from Johns Hopkins University, where she founded the Social Innovation Lab, an accelerator for student-led social innovation projects. She has worked as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations and done policy work around HIV/STD prevention with the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and the AIDS Institute. In 2015, Jess founded Callisto, a tech platform for sexual assault reporting that is now available at every college campus in the US. Jess is a Y Combinator Alum, Ashoka Fellow, Senior TED Fellow, and has received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the National Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Private Citizen.