Jessica Feldman is a social scientist with a career advising leaders across the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors through the design and analysis of applied research. She is currently a senior research associate for Arts and Culture at the Mellon Foundation, where she has worked since 2018. She previously worked as a research and planning analyst at New Yorkers for Parks. She has consulted on research and evaluation projects to support programmatic development at organizations in the fields of arts and culture, and parks and open space.

Jessica holds a BA in psychology and Portuguese from Smith College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago, where she taught courses on urban sociology and social science research methods.