Jess Blackshaw

Jess Blackshaw is the Executive Director of YCore, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that partners young professionals with local nonprofits for strategic volunteer projects. Jess is a facilitator who creates opportunities for people to explore their relationships to each other, to their communities, and to themselves. Previously, she ran sustainability and social impact design programming with Net Impact. When she’s not micromanaging gatherings, you might catch her running the East Bay hills or singing with her chorus.

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