Jess Ladd
Founder and CEO
Callisto
BIO
Jess Ladd is the Founder and CEO of Callisto. Jess has been honored as a TED Fellow, a Fearless Changemaker by the Case Foundation, and an Emerging Innovator by Ashoka and American Express. Most recently, Jess was the recipient of a 2018 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Before founding Callisto, Jess founded a series of online services for STD prevention and control in addition to The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore. She worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, as a Public Policy Associate at The AIDS Institute, and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. Jess holds a Masters of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.