Jess Tamayo is the founding partner and president of the Civic Operations Group, Inc (COG), a leader in providing quick and scalable aid during times of crisis. Combining two of her passions, peer-to-peer engagement and service to the community, COG’s focus is to connect the public and private sector to a wide array of constituents especially to those hardest to reach.

She brings over a decade worth of organizing experience in some of the hardest-to-reach places in North America and abroad where she has implemented massive statewide voter registration programs and executed successful community outreach campaigns.

Jess is a first-generation immigrant from Colombia and has a double BA in Diplomacy/ International Relations and Asian Studies from Seton Hall University and a MA degree in International Trade from Donghua University in Shanghai, China. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and Mandarin.