Jessica Quiason

Biography 

After spending 15 years supporting corporate campaigns through strategic research, Jessica joins NELP as deputy chief of impact. Previous to NELP, Jessica helped lead the research department at the Strategic Organizing Center, where she supported new organizing with unions including SEIU—most notably at more than 500 Starbucks corporate-owned locations across the country. Jessica also was deputy research director at the Action Center on Race and the Economy, where she anchored campaigns connecting corporate profiteering in tech to systemic violence against Muslims and people of color.

Jessica also has served as an in-house researcher at 1199SEIU and the Alliance for a Greater New York and has conducted research for 32BJ and Black Lives Matter Canada. In 2018, Jessica was a research fellow at Political Research Associates studying the intersection of corporate interests and publicly funded education in charter schools in Massachusetts.

Jessica was featured in Vice for a report she bottomlined that examined 20 years of expanding corporate power in tech since 9/11. Other projects she contributed to have been featured in Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, and AFP.  

Jessica loves to cook and bake for others and believes building community and solidarity is easiest when food is involved.

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Quoted in

Vice, Big Tech Has Made Billions Off the 20-Year War on Terror (detailing how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have profited from the global campaign of violence)