Jessica has spent her career connecting and amplifying artists, institutions, and communities through her work as a performer, educator, labor leader, and advocate in the performing arts.

Jessica’s advocacy for musicians and the arts comes from the belief that classical music should be relevant, accessible, and inclusive. A member of the Grammy Award-winning Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2001, she is equally at home on the concert stage, in the classroom, boardroom, or the picket line.

She currently serves on the Graduate Studies faculty at The Juilliard School, and is a coach for New World Symphony's BLUE Project and Concert Artist Guild, helping emerging professionals develop the entrepreneurial and professional skills needed to thrive in an ever-changing field. Jessica is guest faculty for OPERA America's Leadership Intensive and the League of American Orchestras' Essentials of Orchestra Management, and is an alumnus of both programs.

Through her advisory work, Jessica focuses on organizational change, leadership development, and building resilient, equitable music ecosystems. A sought-after speaker, she has been a frequent presenter at the Sphinx Conference, Lincoln Center Conference Curriculum for Change, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, the League of American Orchestras Conference, Changing the Narrative: Young Professionals Leadership Development Program, the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Center for Innovative Leadership, Manhattan School of Music, and the Wagner Society, where she brings her passion for culture change, innovation, design thinking, and social impact in support of the future of the performing arts.

Jessica earned her MBA in Arts Innovation & Entrepreneurship from the Global Leaders Institute, where she now sits on its Admissions Advisory Board; she holds advanced certificates from Harvard, NYU, and Cornell in Social Impact Leadership, Labor Relations, and Nonprofit Arts Management. She graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a BA in Political Science and Music.

At the heart of Jessica's work is a commitment to radical collaboration as a catalyst for stronger communities and meaningful change in the arts.

In 2020, Jessica co-founded K+P Strategy, a collaboration with Miran Kim that was born of a shared desire to disrupt the perception of classical music as inaccessible, irrelevant, and high-brow. Their clients were exceptional individual musicians and arts organizations wanting to differentiate themselves from the status quo. Their bespoke consulting helped amplify their clients’ voices and their brands with strategic planning and innovative digital content creation.

Jessica co-founded MET Orchestra Musicians in 2014, a nonprofit organization through which the MET Orchestra gives back to underserved communities in and around New York City. Under her collaborative leadership, it developed into a groundbreaking online presence through innovative storytelling, relevant arts programming, and community-based collaborations.

In her advisory work, Jessica focuses on strategic planning, culture change, collaboration, and the power of the arts to forge deeper community connections. She cut her teeth as Chairwoman of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in the 2014 and 2018 negotiations, which produced ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting solutions to complex financial issues. The first woman to lead the orchestra, she was featured in The New Yorker's 2014 article "A Fight at the Opera."

Experienced in nonprofit management, labor relations, communications, and strategic planning, Jessica serves on the board of the League of American Orchestras, the national advocacy mouthpiece for the industry, and as part of the League's three-year Inclusive Stages initiative, she leads a national working group examining tenure and employment practices in orchestras.

She served on the joint steering committee which oversaw the collaborative creation of CounterpART. The two-year organization design and integration process merged two iconic NYC fiscal sponsor organizations, The Field and Pentacle. During the transition, Jessica was appointed Co-Chair of the Artist Services Committee, charged with empowering artists with much needed career infrastructure and skills.

She has previously held positions on the Governing Board of ICSOM (International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians) and the Executive Board of New York City’s Local 802 American Federation of Musicians, and the national AFM Steering Committee for Motion Picture Soundtrack negotiations in 2024 and 2026.

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