About Jessica Shortall

Jessica Shortall is a social entrepreneur with direct entrepreneurial experience in a number of start-up social ventures, as well as consultancy and advisory experience with a range of social enterprises and ethical and ‘green’ businesses. Her social investment experience spans business planning, capital-raising (ranging from grants to equity), and investor relations, and a 2008 role as a visiting lecturer in Social Finance at Saïd Business School, Oxford.

Jessica began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan, where she taught English in a rural school, opened a local library, and ran empowerment programs for teenage girls. She later co-founded The Campus Kitchens Project in the U.S., a non-profit organization now franchised in more than 20 cities. Jessica received her MBA (with honors) from Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK, where she was a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship.