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Jessica Ou

Technology enthusiast & youth action advocate

Jessica is a 22-year old technology enthusiast and youth action advocate. She is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied Business Administration and Social Welfare. Her interest in technology began when she started programming websites at six years old, and blossomed through her work at Uber, Euclid Analytics, and Greylock Partners. She has assisted in conducting research in technological innovation for Stanford University and explored the progression of crowdfunding for the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Passionate about social action, Jessica has served as a Youth Advisory Board member for organizations such as the American Association of University Women, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, UNICEF’s Chinese Children Initiative, and the Crisis Text Line (the world's only 24/7 text message hotline for teens). She has also served as a Youth Advisor for Facebook's InspirED initiative and Intel's Hack Harassment Coalition.

Jessica has been named "10 Campus Women to Watch Out For by the AAUW, a Woman of Peace by the Women's Peacepower Foundation, and was spotlighted as an "Inspiring Woman" by WomanLEAD Nepal.

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