Jessica Hjarrand is a 'soft infrastructure development' expert. She has been working to reform systems by building partnerships between people for over 20 years, mainly in the areas of education and early childhood development but also on freedom of expression and the empowerment of women. Most of her work has been focused on systems and people living in countries affected by conflict of all kinds, including war. Since this recording, she had been working with UNICEF in Ukraine. This is the 7th country affected by conflict that she has worked in. 

She was in the Middle East for the Arab Spring, in South Sudan after it got its independence and in Libya after the Revolution among a few of her experiences. 

Jessica says she is driven to leave the world better than she found it, and to have fun doing so, but also to leave behind something that inspires others to act as well.  

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