Jaye is a development executive with over 25-years of experience working with nonprofits to advocate for social and economic justice.
Jaye is currently providing consulting services in the areas of assessment, campaign development, management practices, board engagement, and prospect pool development through Flourishing, LLC.
Jaye most recently led a team charged with engaging and inspiring foundations and donors to help advance Fair Food Network’s mission of growing community health and wealth through food as Senior Director of Development.
Previously, Jaye worked with the American Foundation for the Blind where she led development efforts to advocate for structural change to promote accessibility, equality, and opportunity for people who are blind or visually impaired. She also led development at Public Justice, which pursues high impact lawsuits to combat social and economic injustice. Her work also included development for UDC Law, one of only six ABA-accredited law schools at an HBCU. Jaye also held frontline development positions at the American Constitution Society and the Human Rights Campaign.
Jaye is a past president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Washington DC Chapter (AFP DC) and served on the board of directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP Global). She served as co-chair of the Virtual 2021 Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference. Jaye previously co-chaired the Bridge Conference in 2011. She is a current member of the AFP Washington DC and Greater Detroit Chapters and is serving on the AFP Ethics Review Task Force for AFP Global.
Born and raised in suburban Los Angeles, Jaye graduated from the University of Southern California. She earned her initial Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification in 2010. She lives in Northern Virginia with her spouse and two cuddly black Labrador Retriever mixes named Jack and Bella. She is a voracious reader, an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan, and enjoys travel and opera and especially pairing those two things together.