Jessica Salinas

Jessica Salinas serves as Co-President of New Rising Ventures and New Media Ventures, impact investment funds supporting entrepreneurs who are innovating for social and political power, respectively.

Previously, she was a partner at a global impact fund, the founding Social Impact Lead at Headspace, and the founding Director of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Business Scaling Program.

Jessica serves on the board of Words Uncaged and StreetCode Academy, and the Advisory Board of Plug In Ventures and the Investment Committee of USC's Venture Fund. Jessica received her BA in Communication from Stanford and her MS in Social Entrepreneurship from USC Marshall School of Business.