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 Cole, commonly referred to as "the guy in the yellow tuxedo," is the creator of Fans First Entertainment and the owner of the Party Animals, Firefighters, and the renowned Savannah Bananas. The Bananas' motto is "Fans First. Entertain Always," and they want to make baseball fun by putting on the Greatest Show in Sports. Since the team's first season in Savannah,... 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
Jesse Richardson is the co-founder of The Brothers Apothecary, a Portland-based company that creates CBD-infused teas, herbs, and remedies. Richardson's passion for natural health remedies began when he was searching for a natural way to manage his own health issues, and he discovered the benefits of CBD and herbal remedies. Together with his brother, Jon, Richardson founded The Brothers Apothecary with... read full bio
Shocking the political establishment, Jesse Ventura was elected the 38th Governor of Minnesota on November 3, 1998, the first-ever Reform Party candidate to win statewide office. Born in Minneapolis, Ventura joined the Navy immediately after High school and was trained as a SEAL. He served in the Navy for six years during the Vietnam era. He then went on to... read full bio
Jessica Bruder is an American journalist who writes about subcultures and social issues and has taught narrative writing at Columbia Journalism School. She graduated from Amherst College and received a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Bruder has contributed to outlets such as, WIRED, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more.... read full bio
Jessica Chobot is a presenter, host, gamer, actress and writer. Jessica gained notoriety in 2005 for a picture published by Kotaku of her licking a Sony PSP. She has hosted several shows for IGN (Imagine Games Network): Weekly Wood, IGN Daily Fix. Jessica wrote for “Daylight” a survival horror video game by Zombie Studios. Also, co-writing a... read full bio
Jess Clarke is a legend in women's sports, not only a football player. With an astounding 52 caps for her country, Jess has led the way in football brilliance. She scored the most goals for Notts County throughout a whole domestic season and has eleven goals for the England national team. Highlights of her career have included competing in two... read full bio
The stories and experience of meeting Jessica in person will touch every listener, every time. As a person who has never viewed herself as a victim of her condition, Jessica shares in her speeches humorous stories of struggles and success living in a two-handed world. She provides critical insight on how best to approach a challenge, redefining the... read full bio
It was not an easy path for Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill DBE to become an Olympic champion. She was the heptathlon favorite heading into the Beijing games, but she had a career-threatening injury that forced her to withdraw from the tournament completely. She was devastated to have to watch a tournament that she was supposed to win from home and she formed... read full bio
