Bio

Jackie joined Founders Pledge in September 2025 as a Grants & Monitoring Officer. Prior to FP, she worked at the Urban Institute and Innovations for Poverty Action where she served in grants management roles, building trust-based relationships with both donors and grant recipients. She has also worked in a program management capacity, leading the project design process and management of multiple grant awards that boosted the livelihoods of 700+ women and youth in Iraq.

Jackie has an MEd from Boston College.

In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and hanging out with her pup, Luna.

Q&A with Jackie

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

Anne Boleyn because historians often portray her in a bad light, and I’d like to learn more about her side of the story given how consequential her (short) life was.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An astronaut.

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

A dramedy a la Wes Anderson. Natalie Portman has already played another Jackie (albeit a more famous one), so I’ll go with her.