- Class of 2021
Jesse graduated from the EPM program in 2021. Following graduation, he developed his planning skills as an environmental planner with Rincon Consultants. He focused on the intersection of housing and transportation as climate solutions and was a key part of the firm's active transportation planning team. Since 2024, Jesse has served as the Trail Development Manager for the Western Region for Rails to Trails Conservancy, based out of Oakland. He’s motivated by the need to support and develop bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in the wider six-state Western Region. In this role, he leads a coalition aiming to construct a 2,600-mile connected trail network in the nine-county Bay Area.
Before returning to school at UC Davis, he was enmeshed in New York City’s food and agriculture world as a farmer, butcher, local meat monger and farmland investment manager. Jesse graduated with a BA in economics and philosophy from Hamilton College in 2015.