Jackie Rotman is the Founder and CEO of Center for Intimacy Justice (CIJ), a nonprofit that works to expand equity and wellbeing in people’s intimate lives.
Jackie led an investigation that was published in 2022 in The New York Times and 80 media outlets, illuminating that of 60 women’s health businesses interviewed or surveyed, 100% of them experienced Facebook or Instagram rejecting their ads. Within months of this investigation being published, Meta changed multiple of its global advertising policies toward sexual health.
Jackie holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and BA in Public Policy with University Distinction from Stanford. Jackie’s writing or investigation on women’s sexuality have been featured in The New York Times three times – including through an investigative op-ed she wrote in 2019, “Vaginas Deserve Giant Ads, Too,” which was the Opinion section’s display piece in print - and Jackie has also written creative nonfiction in Boston Globe Magazine.
Jackie founded her first nonprofit at age 14 (Everybody Dance Now!, now called Creative Network), and has headed three nonprofit organizations. Creative Network has offered free dance programs as a platform for self-esteem and community to more than 30,000 youth across the United States.
During her MBA, Jackie worked in women's health investing with Rhia Ventures (then called Reproductive Health Investors Alliance), and for a Silicon Valley venture capital fund - on investments in contraception technology and online sex education.
Jackie speaks around the world on topics including digital censorship of sexual and reproductive rights, and other topics at the intersections of sexuality, gender and technology. She regularly briefs US Congressional offices, state Attorneys General, and other technology and human rights leaders on the findings of CIJ’s investigations.