“I started out by chance; I didn’t know anything like this career existed,” said Jessica Alexander of her 15 years in humanitarian aid.
Alexander, who quit her marketing job at a young age to pursue humanitarian work, has held positions in Darfur, Sri Lanka and Haiti — to name a few — and the field has kept calling her back despite her best efforts to settle down or take a position at headquarters.
The humanitarian worker is also now an author, and published a book about her experience called “Chasing Chaos: My decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid.”