Jess Sadick has over 25 years of diverse experience in Washington, DC, spanning the Federal government, non-profit, and political advocacy arenas.
Jess was a counterterrorism official at the U.S. Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and on the National Security Business Team at global technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton assigned to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On 9/11, Jess was one of the first U.S. Government analysts to review the flight manifests to assist in identifying the perpetrators. He received Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Assistant Secretary of State and CIA Director for outstanding analysis concerning the Israel-Palestinian conflict, state-sponsored terrorism, and the 9/11 attacks.
For a decade, Jess has run his own political advocacy and fundraising consulting firm serving non-profit clients seeking to inform and influence U.S. national security policy. He has documented the emergence of global violent extremism and the development of counter-extremism initiatives and has briefed policymakers on terrorists’ exploitation of the Internet, including social media platforms and interest in encryption technologies and cryptocurrencies. Jess has led hundreds of meetings with elected officials and their staff on Capitol Hill and served in the offices of U.S Representatives Bill Paxon and Jack Kingston and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.
Jess has served as a consultant to state emergency management agencies, helping them to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism through planning, training, and exercise development. Jess has an extensive network of contacts across the Federal government, legislative branch, law enforcement, think-tanks, academia, and U.S. Jewish communal organizations.
Jess earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government) and Political Science at American University, an M.P.P. at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute, and an M.B.A. at the University of Rochester.
