Jessica Seinfeld
Founder and President, GOOD+ Foundation
Jessica Seinfeld is founder and president of Good+ Foundation, a nonprofit combating multigenerational poverty with a focus on engaging fathers and families of color living on low incomes. Since the organization’s start in 2001, it has provided more than $112 million in products and gear to strengthen families and create opportunities for long-term economic growth. Seinfeld is an executive producer of “Daughters,” a documentary about a group of incarcerated men and their daughters as they prepare for a father-daughter dance, to be released on Netflix August 14. The film debuted at Sundance earlier this year and won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary and Festival Favorite Award. Seinfeld is the author of the cookbooks “Deceptively Delicious,” “Double Delicious,” “The Can't Cook Book,” “Food Swings” and “Vegan, at Times.”
Previously
From a father-daughter dance in a prison to playtime with incarcerated parents in a children’s museum, keeping families close has lasting ripple effects beyond bars. Hear from...
Our culture and policies have revolved around the myth of the "dead-beat dad,” but in many cases, low-income fathers face serious legal, economic, and other systemic obstacles...