Jessica Schumacher is Project Manager at CenterPoint. Her areas of expertise include fund development, conference and event planning, group facilitation, strategic planning, and research. Although Jessica officially joined the team at CenterPoint in 2005, she has been involved in the company’s work since before she could walk, helping her mother Katie, President and CEO of CenterPoint, with various projects. She has fond memories of supporting W.K. Kellogg Foundations meetings in Huston, TX and Buenos Aries, Argentina as well as interning at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria.

Jessica’s interest in nonprofits was further strengthened through volunteer work at YMCA Camp Duncan in Illinois, as a voice and piano teacher with Music Mentors -- a volunteer program at the University of Kansas, and serving as a Girl Scout leader for a Brownie troop in Lawrence, KS.

In addition to volunteering, Jessica chose a course of study at the University of Kansas that would prepare her for work with nonprofits and communities. She double-majored in Social Psychology and Community Leadership and Development and designed, conducted, and analyzed the data from a study of pro-social behavior.

Jessica is co-owner and trainer of Texas, a Chocolate Lab serving as CenterPoint’s Director of Interoffice Communication (mail carrier) and Official Greeter.

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E-mail:  jes@centerpointinstitute.com