Jake is the Portfolio Manager on Cisco’s Crisis Response team, focused on supporting non-profits with early-stage technology-driven initiatives to address issues around food insecurity, access to clean water, inadequate shelter, and disaster relief. 

Jake comes to these roles with a background in technology workforce development, community organizing and economic anthropology. Prior to Cisco, Jake was the Communications Director for Per Scholas, a national technology training nonprofit. Jake has a B.A. in Anthropology and French from Bates College and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He lives in Oakland where he enjoys watercolors and wetsuits (Oakland hills and Pacific Ocean, respectively).