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Jessica Graham

Community Relations Manager

Jessica is the Community Relations Manager for the Cisco Silicon Valley site. Giving back is her game, and data-driven community impact is her middle name. (Actually, it’s Camille).  Whether you have an hour once a year, or an afternoon once a week, Jessica’s role is to empower you (and 16,000+ Cisco employees) to get engaged in the greater Bay Area community. Jessica also leads Cisco’s participation as a founding partner of US2020, a STEM mentoring initiative that seeks to galvanize 1 million STEM volunteers to mentor and demonstrate the hip and cool relevance of science and technology careers to the next generation of scientists, engineers, and critical thinkers.

Jessica has been with Cisco for 2.5 years and brings to her role a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector around education and education reform, civic engagement and volunteer management, fundraising, and board management.

Jessica earned dual bachelor's degrees in English and Spanish from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, and a master's degree in education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  In her spare time, Jessica mentors a group of  youth entrepreneurs in East Oakland, and currently resides in San Jose, California with Max, a lively, 5-year old Pomeranian.

 

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Are You With Us on International Women’s Day?

Today, March 8, marks International Women’s Day, an opportunity to celebrate phenomenal women around the world.  This year’s theme, Step it Up for Gender Equality, encourages everyone to take the #Planet5050 pledge in support of a world where women are equally represented: in education, in civil rig…

Giving Tuesday Builds a Bridge to Help Those in Need

We have a day for giving thanks. We have three for getting deals. Then, we have #GivingTuesday, a day to donate to the causes that give voice to our values and contribute to a more equitable community for everyone. Cisco is a tech company that understands the power of connections, which is why we’ve…

Cisco and Techbridge Inspire Girls to Discover Passion for Technology

According to the Girl Scout Research Institute, more than half of all girls say they don’t typically consider a career in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM). At Cisco, we can change that – with the help of nonprofit partners like Techbridge, we can inspire girls to discover a passion f…

When Giving Gets Going: Cisco’s 48-Hour Race with Second Harvest

This week, Cisco was named the winner of Second Harvest Food Bank’s  48-Hour Virtual Race to End Hunger.  Raising money – just over $216,000 for this year’s race – to support our neighbors in need and at risk of food insecurity is now a signature part of our participation in the Cisco Global H…