Join us to hear Jess Nahigian, State Political Director of the Sierra Club, speak about climate legislative priorities.
Jess joined Sierra Club in the fall of 2021 after being part of Sunrise Boston and Sunrise National, where Jess led partnerships work and helped steer the Mass Renews Alliance, as well as organize and support volunteer teams and coaches around the country. Before Sunrise, Jess worked with Indivisible Massachusetts, where Jess honed digital organizing and chapter management skills.
Jess also has electoral campaign experience as a high school organizer for Obama’s 2008 campaign, as an intern and campus organizer with Senator Warren’s 2012 campaign, and as the interim field director of Bob Massie’s gubernatorial 2018 campaign, as well as 2 years of municipal government experience in energy planning and policy with the City of Cambridge. Originally from Cambridge, Jess earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies and a Senior Thesis on the Massachusetts Bottle Bill campaigns of 1982 and 2014.