Jessica Cordova Kramer
Jessica Cordova Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Lemonada Media, an award-winning podcast network. Cordova Kramer is also the executive producer of the Pod Save the People podcast, which has won multiple Webby awards. She began her professional career as a Wall Street lawyer who moonlighted on pro bono domestic violence and refugee cases, then worked for Teach For America and Teach For All for more than a decade. Cordova Kramer lost her younger brother, Stefano, to a long battle with addiction, subsequently co-creating Lemonada with Stephanie Wittels Wachs, who also lost her brother to an overdose. The network has gone on to create hit series, including Last Day, In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt, Our America with Julián Castro, the Good Kids series, and its newest show, Add to Cart with Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak. Lemonada’s goal is, Cordova Kramer says, “to make shows that help people get out of bed in the morning, that help people deal with the hardest sh*t in their real lives.