Jackie Quinones assumed her duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary for House Affairs on March 28, 2021. Prior to joining the Department of State, she was the Senior Director of Government Relations for the ONE Campaign, an international advocacy NGO focused on international development programs. There, she led ONE’s direct government engagement in addition to collaboratively building strategies for grassroots volunteers, ONE board members, and digital engagement. Before that, from 2010-2015, she was a Professional Staff Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, covering the sub-Saharan African and UN Peacekeeping portfolios.
Jackie is from Colorado, has an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.