Jessica deGraffenreid is a communications and media specialist, previously employed at America's Future Foundation as their Executive Director and the Eskew Strategy Group, LLC (now ViaNovo) in Alexandria, Virginia, where she provided vital support and communications strategies for high stakes public policy battles in industries such as telecommunications, aerospace, global health, and the environment. Before joining ESG, Jessica was communications director and subsequently acting executive director of Generation GOP, a nationwide grassroots youth activist organization. Jessica was also a political director for a southeast consulting firm, and she contributed to foreign policy research at the Center for Security Policy. She is a graduate of Furman Univeristy with a degree in political science, with a concentration in American foreign policy and national security.