Center for Business and Social Justice

Jen is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice. She is a strategy development and implementation expert at complex health and humanitarian organizations with 20+ years of experience. She launched the Center in 2022 alongside Jarrid Green to illuminate a path for companies to shift from performative to transformational actions with a focus on public policy engagement and influence. 

Prior to joining BSR, she directed investments at the Tara Health Foundation to advance meaningful change among private sector employers on gender and racial equity, including historic progress on paid family and medical leave, reproductive health, and other workplace protections. Before working in philanthropy, she founded the corporate relations program at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to unlock advocacy, grantmaking and employee support to preserve access to reproductive healthcare nationwide. She also managed the disaster fundraising team at the American Red Cross, coordinating large scale efforts to responsibly raise and deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. She is frequently cited in business press on flashpoint topics and is an advisor to Gauge.ai and GoFundMe’s Compassion Leadership Network. 

Jen holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Washington, DC with her family, where she also plays cello in a community orchestra.   

Jarrid is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice.

Prior to joining BSR, Jarrid worked at Freedman Consulting, where he developed and managed strategic philanthropic initiatives, including donor coalitions and nonprofit initiatives focused on racial and civic justice issues, climate/sustainability impacts, and public health. Jarrid has also served in senior research and project management capacities at The Democracy Collaborative and The Center for Social Inclusion, where he led and supported policy research and advocacy efforts that aimed to dismantle structural racial inequities through community and economic development practices.  

Jarrid received his MBA in Sustainability from Bard College and his BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. He is also an alum of the Council of Urban Professional Fellowship Institute. 

Ashley is the Manager dedicated to supporting the Center for Business and Social Justice. Before joining the Center for Business and Social Justice, Ashley supported companies in equity, inclusion, and justice and advancing women’s empowerment through consulting, strategy design, research and analysis, and collaborative initiatives.  Ashley also supported industry teams in sustainability management with a focus on food, beverage, and agriculture members.  

Prior to joining BSR, Ashley worked primarily in agriculture and distribution, food service management, and hospitality. Here, she discovered her passion for social impact work as she developed programs to alleviate hunger for high-risk youth and increase access to basic needs.  

Ashley holds a MPS and BS from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in association with Syracuse University, with her Master’s focus in Sustainable Development and her Bachelor’s in Environmental Law and Policy. Ashley also holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies of Sustainable Enterprise from Syracuse University.