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But in 2016, while meeting with a prospective investor during what she thought was going to be a business meeting, Jess was brutally sexually assaulted.
Shocked, she reached out to her mentor – someone she had idolized for years – only to be told to turn the other cheek.
Against advice, and against the odds, Jess picked herself up and commenced a lawsuit against her high-powered attacker. After 18 months, she won. Now she wants to use her experience to change the law to work in favor of survivors.
In 2020, Jess joined forces with Hayley Evans, a global business, impact leader and tech investor who was responsible for building and scaling of the Tavistock Groups ($14B) tech investment portfolio across 3 continents and actively grown a portfolio of companies to employ 350 people.
Many women’s rights laws and sexual assault laws in Australia were established over 120 years ago. When women couldn’t vote or open a business, let alone start one to disrupt the legal industry. While laws in more recent years have been reformed to better reflect today’s societal values, these changes are made by underfunded lobbyists and not-for-profits who continue to be under-resourced and restricted to reach a point of scale.
The business model involves engaging with proven law reform experts such as Nina Funnell of #LetUsSpeak (Australia) a Walkley Award winning journalist and pioneer behind the #LetHerSpeak Campaign which developed the strategy and implemented the work to overturn the gag laws out of Tasmania alongside Australian of the year Grace Tame and The Giving Block the #1 crypto donation solution, which provides an ecosystem for nonprofits and charities to fundraise Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (United States), who has already contributed to funding organizations who have changed accumulative 30+ women’s rights laws out of the United States impacting 30 million people to date.
To learn more about Women Making Waves and its mission or secure your place on their pre-sale Allow List, visit https://womenmakingwaves.io/
Contact details
Jonathan Winslow
714-883-2073
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