Jade Floyd is Senior Director of Communications for Revolution, a D.C. based venture capital firm, and the Case Foundation.

She has more than a decade of strategic communications experience at several leading D.C.-based public affairs firms. Her clients have included the American Dental Association, Center for Wine Origins, Champagne Bureau, Fields Family Foundation, the National Black M.B.A. Association, DuPont, U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and many more where she has supported government relations and public affairs initiatives.

Her early years included time as managing director for Cities United for Science Progress (CUSP), a partnership between DuPont and USCM where her responsibilities included administration and media efforts surrounding the “Lead Safe…For Kids Sake” grant program where she traveled the country coordinating the Science in the School Day initiative with mayors and member cities of the Conference.

A native Texan, she vows her allegiance to the state and worked for State Senator Leticia Van de Putte for two and a half years as her communications assistant on both the campaign and within the State Senate. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and received her Masters in Applied Politics from the University of Akron.

She served for nine years on the board of directors for the D.C. Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative (three as president), and is currently on the board of directors of Project Create and the Leadership Council of Sitar Arts Center. She is involved in a number of philanthropic projects related to arts and animal welfare.

Katerina Eva Matsa is a Research Associate at the Pew Research Center, a non-profit and non-partisan think tank. She researches and writes about the American media landscape, news consumption, news coverage and elections, the role of news in social media and she is the author of studies on network and local television, and the news magazine sector. Katerina is also a doctoral fellow at American University’s School of Communication. She graduated from Georgetown University, earning an MA in Communication, Culture and Technology. She also holds an MSc in Politics and Government in the EU from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Political Science and History from Panteion University of Athens, Greece. Katerina speaks English, Greek and French fluently.