ABOUT

Jessamyn Anderson was born in a small suburb of Syracuse, NY during the era of roller skating parties, tight-rolled jeans, and bangs that aspired to touch the sky. She survived, left the curling iron behind, and went to college at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY. While at UB, she obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Linguistics, and a Master of Library Science specializing in school media. She returned to Syracuse after graduate school where she went on to obtain an advanced graduate certificate from SUNY:Empire State College in Social Entrepreneurship and is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity online at Loyola University in Chicago.

A life-long experiential learner, she was (and still is) deeply attracted to help wanted signs. This curiosity created a path, which she followed concurrent with her academic studies. From the age of fourteen, she has amassed a list of over twenty-five different work experiences within a variety of settings. These work experiences include nannying, food service, stocking tires and selling automobile parts, selling hiking boots, janitorial, working the overnight shift stocking grocery shelves, youth coordinator at a community center, intern at Lockheed Martin, mortgage banking, legal secretary for the NYS Dept of Law, youth group leader, reception, construction, alternative health, waitress, landlord, volunteer at a soup kitchen, school libraries, ballpark suite server, volunteer at a CSA, web design, and academic libraries.

The intellectual capital represented in her academic pursuits converges with her working experience to form an empathetic, dynamic and comprehensive leadership style. As a consultant working with ideas focused on the greater common good, she partners with organizations to help them discover their ethos.