Jessica Hitt serves as the Associate Director of the Adaptation & Resilience program at ClimateWorks Foundation, where she focuses on mobilizing philanthropy to fund adaptation initiatives as well as growing ClimateWork’s adaptation strategy. With over 15 years of experience in climate adaptation, Jessica brings a wealth of expertise in assessing climate risks and vulnerabilities, prioritizing adaptation strategies, and building capacity to address climate impacts.

Prior to ClimateWorks, Jessica worked at Ogilvy as part of the Resilience Action Partners. She served as a principal technical consultant supporting FEMA’s strategic communications and integration of climate impacts into project design and implementation.  Before this, she was the Lead Scientist and Program Manager at EcoAdapt, a non-profit dedicated to climate adaptation, where she provided strategic support for various projects, trained adaptation practitioners, and facilitated knowledge sharing across sectors.  In this role, she was instrumental in developing and executing the first U.S. National Adaptation Forum, a bi-annual conference that has played a key role in advancing climate adaptation practices across the U.S. since 2012.

Jessica has advised and served on the United Nations Environment Program’s Global Adaptation Network (GAN) Steering Committee, the U.S. National Adaptation Forum’s Program Committee, the California Adaptation Forum’s General Advisory Committee, and the Interagency Land Management Adaptation Group.