Jessica Halverson

Jessica Halverson is a Grants Officer in Environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She works across the grantmaking portfolio on the foundation’s strategies in climate change, clean energy, and conservation.

Previously, Jessica was a senior manager at Ceres, a nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership in the private sector. She started her career in nonprofit consulting and has worked across a range of issues including youth, family homelessness, and reproductive health. From 2007 to 2012 she was Treasurer of the Board of Directors for Our Bodies Ourselves, a global women’s health organization.

Jessica graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Grinnell College and holds an MBA with concentrations in nonprofit management and strategy and innovation from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management.