Jessica Jimenez
Systems Change Advocate, Women's Caucus Co-Chair, Speaker & Social Justice Advocate
jessica@dcrc.co
Jessica Jimenez works at the Disability Community Resource Cemter in West Los Angeles as a Systems Change Advocate and is the Women’s Caucus Co-Chair for the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL). She started doing her advocacy work in college with Californians for Justice an organization that builds youth power in cities like Long Beach, and San Jose to fight against racial justice and quality education. She also interned at Khmer Girls in Action an organization that is provides racial, gender and economic justice by southeast asisn american women, she was also apart of her college's La Raza Student Association and American Student Association. She has experience doing advocacy and policy work on reproductive and disability issues at several organizations at the State and National level. She was an intern for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice and campus intern Advocates for Youth in 2014 where she focused on reproductive and abortion issues within the latinx community. She is an alumni for YO! Disabled and Proud and the former Youth Caucus Chair for NCIL, where she focused on disabled youth such as education, gender and race. She started a disability Sex-Ed Project for NCIL. She was a 2016 Young People 4 Fellow. Jessica received a dual degree in the Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach in 2014.
Systems Change Advocate, Women's Caucus Co-Chair, Speaker & Social Justice Advocate
jessica@dcrc.co
Jessica Jimenez works at the Disability Community Resource Cemter in West Los Angeles as a Systems Change Advocate and is the Women’s Caucus Co-Chair for the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL). She started doing her advocacy work in college with Californians for Justice an organization that builds youth power in cities like Long Beach, and San Jose to fight against racial justice and quality education. She also interned at Khmer Girls in Action an organization that is provides racial, gender and economic justice by southeast asisn american women, she was also apart of her college's La Raza Student Association and American Student Association. She has experience doing advocacy and policy work on reproductive and disability issues at several organizations at the State and National level. She was an intern for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice and campus intern Advocates for Youth in 2014 where she focused on reproductive and abortion issues within the latinx community. She is an alumni for YO! Disabled and Proud and the former Youth Caucus Chair for NCIL, where she focused on disabled youth such as education, gender and race. She started a disability Sex-Ed Project for NCIL. She was a 2016 Young People 4 Fellow. Jessica received a dual degree in the Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach in 2014.