Jessica Williford

Senior Director, State Advocacy And Community Engagement at Boeing

Jessica Williford possesses extensive experience in community engagement and corporate communications, having served as Senior Director of State Advocacy and Community Engagement at Boeing from 2012 to 2022. During this tenure, Jessica led a community outreach strategy across 11 states, overseeing significant charitable investments and employee engagement programs. Following Boeing, Jessica joined Ronan Strategy Group as Principal, focusing on public relations strategy and stakeholder engagement, and also became Vice President of Marketing and Senior Advisor at Grant Philanthropic Advisors, assisting clients in developing philanthropic strategies. Prior experience includes serving as Vice President of Corporate Communications at South Carolina Federal Credit Union. Jessica holds a Master's in Professional Studies in Public Relations/Corporate Communications from Georgetown University and a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Maryland.

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Boeing is a leading global aerospace company that develops, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes, defense products, and space systems in more than 150 countries. Given the changes in customer needs throughout time, they are constantly adjusting their capabilities in designing and building service options for their customers. Boeing's headquarters are near Washington, DC. They employ over 140,000 people across the US. However, they operate all over the world in more than 65 countries. Boeing has three business units that they operate across: Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Boeing Global Services. The more functional organizations across the company are engineering, program management, technology and development-program execution, advanced design and manufacturing systems, safety, finance, quality and productivity improvement, and information technology. Boeing's Commercial Airplanes business unit is known for their 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 families of airplanes and the Boeing Business Jet range. 10,000 Boeing-built commercial jetliners are in service worldwide. Their Defense, Space & Security business unit is known for their KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft, AH-64 Apache helicopter; the 702 family of satellites; CST-100 Starliner spacecraft; and the autonomous Echo Voyager. The Boeing Global Services business unit works to deliver service solutions for commercial, defense, and space customers. They offer cost-competitive service solutions to make sure the aircraft is operating at high efficiency. Lastly, the Boeing Capital Corporation is the financial provider for Boeing customers. They make sure that customers have the financing to buy and take delivery of their Boeing products.