Projects

Jama is a builder who mobilizes people around shared values. Working across sectors, she has launched and grown organizations by translating vision and values into strategy and best-in-class results. Here are a few examples:

Battleground: Arizona

Client :
Harris-Walz campaign
Industry:
Democracy
Services:
Field Organizing

I want a President who is a role model for my children. So I've moved to the battleground state of Arizona to elect Kamala Harris.

Now is the Time and Arizona is Key: 80% submit ballots early. All roads to victory lead through Arizona (not to mention key U.S. Senate + House + AZ State Legislature races). In 2020, Arizona flipped red to blue - by just 6 votes per precinct.
Out of State Surge Team: I’ve been focused on recruiting volunteers as part of the Team Harris Walz Out of State Surge Team.
Speaking and VIP Rallies: I had the incredible honor of speaking at a rally for Arizona educators right after Dr. Jill Biden. I’ve helped organize inspiring rallies with Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Mark Kelly, and Gabby Giffords.

Take Action: 

Knock on Doors: Rally your friends or just hop on a bus and join us in Arizona! We've made it easy with free transportation and lodging. Face-to-face conversations are the single most powerful way to motivate voters. Sign up here: http://linktr.ee/gotoaz

Make Calls & Help From Home: Wherever you are, you can have a meaningful impact by calling voters, supporting volunteers, and helping ensure every ballot gets counted. Join us here: https://www.mobilize.us/jumpstartaz/event/612966/

Raise $1.8B for Fusion Energy

Client :
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Industry:
World changing startup
Services:
Values
Strategy
Fundraising
Partnerships

Project Highlights:

  • Commonwealth Fusion Systems (www.cfs.energy) will solve the climate crisis by commercializing clean, limitless fusion energy - a solution at the scale of the problem
  • Raised $1.8 billion in Series B funding in 12 weeks alongside the CEO
  • Advised the company since day one and helped define company values (Execution / Self-Critique / Integrity / Impact) to guide every strategy and decision (ex: hiring, communications, partnerships, fundraising)
  • Helped launch the Fusion Industry Association to build the nascent ecosystem, which has attracted $4+ billion in private capital
  • Educated policymakers about public-private partnerships, which led to two new multi-million-dollar partnerships

Build Responsible Innovation Labs

Client :
Responsible Innovation Labs
Industry:
Technology
Services:
Values
Strategy
Fundraising
Partnerships
Impact Measurement

Project Highlights:

  • Responsible Innovation Labs equips startup founders and investors to build and win with responsible innovation.
  • Scaled the organization, raised capital, and shaped organizational strategy and operations
    • Raised $1.85M raised from marquee foundations and HNWI
    • Created events for high-profile leaders and startup founders (1. Responsible AI launch with leading VCs and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo 2. AI policy roundtable representing $600B+ AUM 3. RIL's first Founders Summit with 500 global tech leaders in 20+ countries)
    • Led multi-sector working group of entrepreneurs, industry stakeholders, civil society, researchers, and policymakers that developed the startup ecosystem's first Responsible AI Framework (https://www.rilabs.org/responsible-ai)

Tech + Innovation Council

Client :
Global Giving
Industry:
Philanthropy
Services:
Strategy
Fundraising
Partnerships
Impact Measurement
Landscape Analysis

Project Highlights:

  • GlobalGiving's mission is to transform aid and philanthropy to accelerate community-led change.
  • The GlobalGiving Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (TIAC) provides expert guidance and support for the organization's digital transformation journey (AI, GlobalGiving Atlas, etc.)

Impact Measurement: Cleantech

Client :
LA Cleantech Incubator & Elemental Excelerator
Industry:
Incubator / Accelerator
Services:
Strategy
Impact Measurement
Partnerships

Project Highlights:

Created the first-ever impact measurement (financial, environmental, social) and management infrastructure and strategy for two major accelerators across the entire portfolio of cleantech / clean energy companies

Additional Info and Examples:

Fortune 50 + Social Impact

Client :
Google and GE
Industry:
Corporate
Services:
Strategy
Partnerships
Landscape Analysis

Project Highlights:

  • Conceived and articulated a vision for how to integrate impact into GE’s corporate strategy, with a focus on sustainable economic development in emerging markets
  • Interviewed and worked with senior leaders across all global business units to create case studies on multinational corporations engaged in impact measurement
  • Laid the foundation for alignment of resources between business units, GE Ventures and Foundation teams

Public-Private Partnerships

Client :
Accelerator for America
Industry:
Public-private partnerships
Services:
Strategy
Partnerships
Values

Project Highlights:

  • Shaped the organization’s foundational strategy to bring national scale to local problem solvers creating inclusive and sustainable prosperity
  • Leveraged networks in an intentional way to align the right leaders around a big problem, ask hard questions and come to a shared vision, then hold ourselves accountable
  • Created an Advisory Board of mayors, social entrepreneurs (The Arena and Echoing Green), union presidents (Carpenters and Operating Engineers), billion-dollar startup founders (Dollar Shave Club) and policy icons (Policylink, Brookings)

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