Jessie has been with the Buffett Early Childhood Fund for 15 years, serving first as the Vice President for four years and then as President since 2011.  Across her professional career, Jessie has been an early childhood practitioner, Nebraska State Senator, Director of the Nebraska Governor’s Office of Children and Family Policy, Director of Health and Human Services in Nebraska, Director of Human Services in Iowa, and Director of Early Childhood Policy at Nebraska Children and Families Foundation.