Jessica Ladd is the founder of Sexual Health Innovations, an organization that uses technology to improve sexual health. SHI builds and rigorously evaluates tools that help empower people to make the sexual health and wellbeing decisions that are right for them and their community. SHI helps the organizations that serve them do what they do faster, better, and cheaper. A recent SHI project is the site So They Can Know which allows people to anonymously inform their partners if they may be at risk of infection of a sexually transmitted disease. Jessica lives in Baltimore and also works with The Social Innovation Lab.

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