Prior to Giving Green, Jackie worked at Elle Communications and DEY. Ideas + Influence, where she drove a wide range of impact-driven communications strategies for influential individuals, nonprofits, philanthropies, advocacy campaigns, businesses, and brands spanning environmental justice, climate solutions, impact investing, global health, worker rights and protections, democracy, and more. Before shifting gears to more mission-driven communications, Jackie got her start in travel and hospitality public relations at Hawkins International, and spent time as an educator, teaching English in Thailand and then elementary Zoom school during the height of the pandemic. Jackie holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from Pennsylvania State University, with minors in international studies and sociology.