Jessica Levin has 30+ years of experience launching and leading education non-profit organizations and initiatives, developing federal K-12 education policy, serving as an instructor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, advising non-profit CEOs on strategy, and mobilizing communities around education goals. After creating the policy shop at The New Teacher Project (TNTP), she researched and wrote two widely publicized national reports on urban teacher hiring policies, which spurred policy reforms in multiple districts. She also conceptualized, co-founded, and co-built a multi-million-dollar membership/leadership organization of 250 Black and Latino education leaders seeking a less polarized, more inclusive movement to improve schools for low-income and minority students.

Jessica earned her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After October 7th, as the volunteer Vice President of Education for the new Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, she researched and co-authored a report on how Harvard’s educational program systemically planted and spread the seeds of hatred for Israel and Jews, starting well before October 7. She and her husband, now empty nesters, have three daughters.