Executive Director
Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP)
Washington, District of Columbia
Jesse Kohler has always been had big visions and wanted to make the world a better place for all people. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2016, he moved back home to the Philadelphia area and started his career at a Philadelphia public school with the nonprofit 12+. Seeing first-hand how education reform could improve outcomes across society, he pursued a master's in educational leadership from Arcadia University. While pursuing his degree, Kohler started as an intern for CTIPP in 2017, one year after the organization was founded, while also interning for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, working to develop the Pennsylvania Trauma-Informed Care Network.
As his awareness of the trauma-informed movement grew, so did his belief that it was a key to making the world a better place for all. After graduating from Arcadia, he became the director of development at North Light Community Center in Philadelphia and started his years-long journey through Lakeside Global Institute to become fluent in trauma-informed care. As a nonprofit fundraising professional immersed in the trauma-informed movement and a young adult with energy and time to contribute, CTIPP, as an unfunded organization at the time, voted to make him a board member. He enjoyed the opportunity to simultaneously work in the grassroots and at the national level, which has helped inform his work ever since. .
In 2019, Kohler developed the Lowering Overdose and Violence Epidemics (LOVE) Initiative at North Light, incorporating trauma-informed practices into the community center's existing programming and creating new programs to fill gaps, while simultaneously helping to launch the National Trauma Campaign to build the movement to influence the United States to adopt trauma-informed, resilience-focused and healing-centered approaches, practices, environments and systems. .
As CTIPP builds funding streams to build and sustain a team, Jesse serves as a consultant for the think tank, ANS Research, which loans him to CTIPP to help build the organization. ANS Research works to prevent developmental adversity and reduce the progression of adversity across the lifespan. The partnership between the two organizations has been an incredible opportunity to learn and grow and he is enjoying the opportunity to work in this field full-time.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
