Jamie Sgarro is Co-Founder & Executive Director at AsylumConnect, a nonprofit organization providing the world’s first tech resource platform designed to facilitate the safe navigation of people fleeing persecution due to sexual orientation or gender identity. For their work, they were named to the Clinton Foundation’s 2017 CGI U Alumni Honor Roll, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow and to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2020 for Law and Policy. They have been a featured speaker on LGBTQ+ rights and public good technology, and their work has appeared in national outlets including The HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Forbes, The Advocate, The Hill, NowThis, and NBC OUT.

Jamie is also the co-founder and a current board member of ed-tech nonprofit UPchieve. They received a B.A. cum laude with distinction in Health & Societies from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. in Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.