Cat Jacob
Senior Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer
Cat Jacob is the Senior Assistant to the Executive Director, where she provides principal support to IRG's Executive Director, Sam Oliker-Freidland. Before her role at Responsive Gov, Cat was a Program Associate at the Center for Effective Government. In that position, she managed a portfolio of strategic and programmatic initiatives, including the Center's Democracy Fellowship for senior-level civic leaders and the Democracy Reform Primers Series—a collection of succinct briefings on the viability of different institutional reforms.
Cat holds a B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University, with a minor in Chinese History. She is currently based in Chicago, Illinois.
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