Jessica Minhas

CEO and Founder, I’ll Go First

Jessica Minhas is a human rights and mental health advocate, speaker, writer, podcast host, social entrepreneur, and the Founder and CEO of I’ll Go First, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing mental health and trauma-recovery resources for abuse and trauma survivors around the world.  She works internationally and domestically in sex trafficking survivor advocacy and empowerment, global mental health, digital storytelling, and technology-enabled psychosocial care.  I’ll Go First uses storytelling, education, advocacy, research, live storytelling workshops, and low-cost digital tools to support trauma recovery, secure documentation, survivor data ownership, and access to justice.  Everything Ms. Minhas does is inspired by a commitment to shed light on issues normally silenced in shame, and to offer hope to those without it.

“I believe that where your story begins doesn’t have to be where it ends.  There is hope, healing, and redemption for all of us.  The true power of abolition work is unlocking that for everyone.”