Jesse Moss
2025-2026 Obama Foundation USA Leader

Director of Innovation, Experience Camps
Kingston, New York
Jesse Moss is the director of innovation and former director of marketing at Experience Camps, an award-winning nonprofit that transforms the lives of grieving children through innovative, year-round programs. Motivated by her own experiences with loss, Jesse has created platforms and programs that have reached over 80 million people, building a grief-sensitive culture online. She launched the first TikTok account for grieving kids, which now has over 185,000 followers, and developed the interactive site griefsucks.com, building a community for connection, belonging, and healing. Jesse aspires to lead a movement that reaches more than 6 million grieving children in the U.S. by creating connected communities to break cycles of trauma and build a generation of engaged citizens. Jesse served as a digital strategist at the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2016 to 2018, where she leveraged the power of art and culture to find common ground in unexpected places.
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