Jesse Mermell, President and Founder of deWit Impact Group, is a leading progressive voice with over twenty years experience fighting for equity and social justice. She has been on the front lines of winning campaigns including equal pay, paid family and medical leave, increases in the minimum wage, and reproductive health care in Massachusetts and nationally.
From her roles leading the Alliance for Business Leadership, a Boston-based socially responsible business organization, serving as Communications Director for Governor Deval Patrick, and heading up communications and government affairs for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Jesse’s background in both communications strategy and implementation for progressive causes is extensive.
Mermell is the former State Director of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She has also held positions as the Executive Director of FairTest and of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus. For over a decade she has been featured as a political analyst on NECN and WGBH.
Mermell is an active community member. In 2020 she was a Democratic candidate for Congress in the Massachusetts 4th Congressional District and was elected to the Brookline Board of Selectmen in 2007, serving until 2013. Upon her election she became the youngest Selectman in the history of Brookline, and created a female majority on the Board for the first time since the Town’s founding in 1705.