For NBC Sports' coverage of horse racing, including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup World Championships, Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey serves as a commentator. Bailey has covered two historic Triple Crown winners while working for NBC Sports in this position. During a 31-year riding career, Bailey, one of the greatest jockeys of all time, rode horses... read full bio
Edmund Gerald Jerry" Brown, Jr.is an American politician who has previously served and is currently serving as the Governor of California. He is the son of Pat Brown, the 32nd Governor of California. Brown served as Governor between 1975 and 1983, and again from 2011. Both before and after his first two terms as governor, Brown has served in various... read full bio
Jerry Bruckheimer is a well-known name in the film and television production industries in the United States. He is extremely successful in the fields of action, drama, and science fiction writing. His most well-known work may be seen on the television shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Without a Trace, and Cold Case, as well as... read full bio
Jerry Jones is an American businessman who is currently the owner of the NFL team the Dallas Cowboys. Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, and he has earned his B.A. from the University of Arkansas where he also played college football. During his college football career, Jones was an all-Southwest Conference offensive lineman and was co-captain. He went on... read full bio
Jerry Mathers' television career began at the tender age of two. He then continued to work on many of the early ‘50's television shows and made his movie debut co-starring with Linda Darnell in This Is My Love. It was in 1957, however, with the debut of the series Leave It To Beaver that Jerry entered the hearts and homes... read full bio
Jerry Michalski is a pioneer in the evolving corporate, social, and cultural landscape being carved out by the technological revolution. The first Managing Editor of Esther Dysons groundbreaking publication, Release 1.0, he has shed light on everything from the birth of the Internet and the rise of Silicon Valley to the recent start-up venture frenzy and the latest innovations that... read full bio
Jerry S. Parr is a retired Secret Service Agent, who is best known for being one of the agents protecting President Reagan on the day of his assassination attempt on March 30, 1981.On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. opened fire on newly elected President Reagan as Reagan exited the Washington Hilton Hotel after giving a speech. Upon hearing gun... read full bio
Jerry I. Porras is an American organizational theorist, author, and educator who has been the Lane Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Change at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Porras has previously earned his BSEE from Texas Western College and went on to earn his MBA from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los... read full bio
Jerry Punch is an American sportscaster who currently commentates for ESPN, and is also a physician. Punch was born in Newton, North Carolina, and he began his career in broadcasting while in high school. He was selected to be a reporter at the high school and went on to study at North Carolina State University where he played football as... read full bio
Recognized worldwide as an industry visionary, Jerry Yang is the co-founder and Chief Yahoo of Yahoo! Inc., a global Internet media company that offers a branded network of comprehensive information, communication and shopping services to millions of users daily. Jerry Yang serves as an executive officer and is on the company's board of directors. A true Internet entrepreneur, Jerry Yang... read full bio
Jerry Zucker's early career work started with Jim Abrahams and brother David Zucker at the Kentucky Fried Theatre on Pico Blvd in West Los Angeles where they honed their comedic skills doing skits in front of a live audience. From there the three went on and together co-directed Airplane! in 1980 and then went on to do Top Secret! in... read full bio
Jess Ekstrom is the founder and CEO of Headbands of Hope and is also author of “Chasing the Bright Side.” As founder and CEO of Headbands of Hope, Ekstrom started the company when she was in college and sold headbands with every headband being sold, a headband was donated to a child with cancer. Since founding the company, it has... read full bio
Jess Morales Rocketto is the Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and is also Executive Director of Care in Action. She is known for her political advocacy campaigns that focus on sexual harassment, economic justice, immigration reform and the future of work for domestic workers in the United States. Apart from her work with the NDWA, Rocketto... read full bio
Jessamyn W. Rodriguez is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the award-winning Hot Bread Kitchen. Since its inception, she has led the growth of the organization from a visionary idea to a thriving bakery and workforce development program. Jessamyn combines her passions for baking and social justice for foreign-born women in Hot Bread Kitchen. Her efforts have also been... read full bio
Jesse Billauer is a well-known surfer from Pacific Palisades, California. Billauer suffered an accident at the age of 17 on March 25, 1996, hitting his head on a shallow sandbar after being knocked off his surfboard by a wave. The force broke his neck, severing his spinal cord at the C6 level and instantly rendered him a quadriplegic. Doctors told... read full bio
Jesse Brown is a Canadian digital media expert, journalist, businessperson, and futurist. Brown started Canadaland, a talk show podcast which most of his journalistic activity is channeled through. Brown was the investigative reporter that reported the story about the violence and sexual harassment that Jian Ghomeshi was giving women in the workplace. Growing up, Brown started an underground student newspaper... read full bio
Jesse Holland is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author, educator, and television personality. He is best known for being one of the first African American journalists to cover the Supreme Court full-time. Holland was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and he earned his bachelor’s in liberal arts with an emphasis in journalism and English from the University of Mississippi. He went... read full bio
Jesse Israel is known for being founder of the biggest meditation movement known as, The Big Quiet. Through his work, Israel has started a meditation movement that has gone on to hold mass meditations in some of the most well-known places in the world which include Madison Square Garden, the World Trade Center, and at the American Museum of National... read full bio
South Carolina native, Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is... read full bio
Jesse Klaver is a Dutch politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives and the Leader of GroenLinks. He has also previously chaired the youth union of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond. Klaver started his career as a member of the board of DWARS, the youth organization of GroenLinks. He has studied social work at the Avans University... read full bio
