Jessica Cochran

Jessica Cochran serves as Assistant Director, Finance and Operations, of the Alliance Program. 

Prior to this role, Jessica was Administrative Manager in the Office of the Senior Vice Provost at Columbia University. Other previous roles include her service as Assistant to the Music Director of the Houston Symphony and Deputy Cultural Attaché to the Consulate General of France in Houston, where she oversaw the Education and French Language Department and chaired the production of the French Cultures Festival. 

She has a Master's Degree in Social and Political Sciences, and Economics from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence. As a student, she spent a year abroad in Bremen, Germany, interning at the Institut Français (French Cultural Institute). The first US city she lived in was New Orleans, where she interned at the French Consulate, working in University Cooperation. She's currently working on obtaining her Master's in Public Administration at Columbia.