Jade Jasmine Hurley (she/her) is a Northern California native currently based in Chicago, IL. After an exciting early career in digital strategy and communications within the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement, Jade has returned to the written page. Now studying creative writing and gender & sexuality studies while freelancing, Jade hopes to bring levity, friendship, and hope to each space she occupies.

Jade is a Gemini sun, Cancer moon, Cancer rising, an ENFJ, and a passionate defender of Daniel Radcliffe. She is passionate about sexual health access, sweet matcha lattes, oxford commas, labor organizing, and global feminisms. Jade lives with her two-year-old Ocicat, Kismet, in Hyde Park, and enjoys reading, dancing, gossiping, creating art, writing bad diaspora poetry, and swimming in the nearest body of water.

- My Body My Festival (September 2023-Present): Serves as brand manager, spokesperson, and founding co-organizer of My Body My Festival: DC’s only multi-day, abortion access music festival. Jade helps to unite DC-local creatives, media, and abortion access supporters in smashing stigma while funding abortion.

- DC Abortion Fund (November 2022-May 2024): Served as the first-ever Communications Manager for the DC Abortion Fund, one of the largest and most important abortion funds in the United States. Jade managed, created, and spoke on behalf of DCAF through a full rebrand, a website redesign, a growing national profile, and the immediate aftermath of Dobbs, demonstrating a full slate of Communications skills during the most critical period for reproductive rights in recent history.

- National Women’s Law Center (November 2020-November 2022): Worked as a Creative + Digital Strategy Associate at the National Women’s Law Center, a foundational, feminist organization for the legal advancement of women and girls. Jade created a myriad of social media and digital content to support NWLC’s reproductive health and rights campaigns, as well as issues across the gender justice spectrum—most notably, her cross-platform education campaign, “Destigmatizing Abortion.” Jade also served on the bargaining team for NWLC United, the (mighty!) NWLC staff union under the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU).

Other past experiences include: Repro Rising VA (Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia), Repro Freedom for All (Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), GW Reproductive Access and Gender Equity (RAGE) (Formerly GW Voices for Choices), Foggy Bottom Plan B.

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Jade is currently a student of the Masters of the Arts Program in Humanities (MAPH) at the prestigious University of Chicago. With a dual focus in Creative Writing and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Jade is continually producing creative nonfiction projects about gender, power, Americana, and the digital age with the help of her interdisciplinary program and brilliant cohort. Jade’s Creative Writing thesis is forthcoming from the University of Chicago.

Jade got her Bachelor of Arts from the George Washington University in 2020, where she studied Political Communication and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Jade studied within the School of Media & Public Affairs, a competitive, holistic program within GWU which encourages top students to examine the interplay between politics, journalism, and communication. Never one to back down from an academic challenge, Jade paired the unique Political Communication program with a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies double-major. It is her SMPA professors who taught her the skills she offers to organizations and clients today; web and social media production, graphic design, media engagement and reporting, and data-based public relations strategy. However, it is her WGSS and Humanities pedigree who make Jade a natural synthesizer, collaborator, and aspiring Renaissance woman.

You can reach Jade at she@jadehurley.world.