Jessica Galeria

Biography

Jessica Galeria is Director of Philanthropy Partnerships for Climate Breakthrough, the largest grant prize for individual climate action leaders globally. Climate Breakthrough partners donors to provide multimillion dollar, multi-year awards with few restrictions, plus robust capacity building support, to support strategies that can make a globally significant impact on carbon emissions. Jessica has 20+ years' social sector experience at organizations like Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, TechSoup in San Francisco, Fair Trade Certified in Oakland, and the International Rescue Committee Research & Innovations team. Jessica is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, having lived and worked for nearly a decade in Latin America, mostly Brazil, where was a Fulbright scholar. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, dual US/UK citizenship, and currently lives in California’s state capitol, Sacramento, with husband Pedro, two small daughters, and an old beagle mutt.