Jessica Edwards

Director of Impact & Partnerships (& The Flex Fund), Doc Society

Biography

With expertise bridging the worlds of creative media and non-profits, Jessica oversees a number a of Doc Society’s strategic partnerships. This includes the Flex Fund a new fund for social impact, working with the Skoll Foundation and the Ford Foundation to identify and support the most innovative and creative projects emerging from collaborations between moving image storytellers and social entrepreneurs.

Jessica has deep experience as working as an Impact Strategist on films such as Jennifer Brea's ‘Unrest’ and 'He Named Me Malala’ about the Pakistani education campaigner, Malala Yousafzai.

In addition, she has consulted for organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Cancer Research UK as part of the core team that brought 'Stand Up To Cancer' to UK television. Previously, Jessica was a documentary and factual television producer.