Jessica Taylor is national director of One Million Black Women, the first-of-its-kind comprehensive investment in Black women to help drive economic growth, leveraging the firm’s commitment of $10 billion in direct investment capital and $100 million in philanthropic support to impact the lives of at least one million Black women by 2030.
Prior to her current role, Jessica was national director of 10,000 Small Businesses, one of the firm’s signature philanthropic initiatives that helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses by providing education, support services and access to capital. Jessica joined Goldman Sachs in 2014 as a vice president and was named managing director in 2021.
Prior to joining the firm, Jessica was an executive director at the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where she led commercial revitalization and disaster recovery programs during Mayor Bloomberg’s administration. While in this role, she was selected to participate in the
25th cohort of Coro Leadership New York. Before that, Jessica served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala. Earlier in her career, she led a variety of youth development and community health projects across US cities including Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, DC.
Jessica earned a BA in Foreign Affairs and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2006, where she was a four-year letter winner and two-time all-conference winner in softball. Jessica earned an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2012.
