Jacqueline Scott-Douglas

VICE PRESIDENT

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Jacqueline Scott-Douglas is a Vice President at BSG. For the past decade she has advised clients across the political, advocacy, and tech spaces. Her work has helped elect Democrats in toss-up races, passed ballot initiatives that have improved life for millions of Americans, and kept young people safe online.  

 

In the political and policy advocacy space, Jacqueline has been on campaigns at every level, partnering with the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, The Fairness Project, The ACLU, Planned Parenthood, The New Venture Fund and The Sixteen Thirty Fund.

 

She is drawn to working in red and purple states, most of all when the research starts qualitatively. Her qualitative work, which engages voters where they live, is helping to make inroads in places that do not tend to vote blue or reconnect with groups who have moved away from the Democratic party. This includes research that continues to inform how Democratic leaders and advocates talk about jobs, work, and the economy in ways that resonate across race, gender, and geography.

 

In past election cycles, she drove the research and strategic analysis that informed messaging and turnout efforts in key Senate and House races in Montana, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, California, Utah, and New Jersey. She has also worked on winning ballot initiative campaigns across the country, which have expanded Medicaid, raised the minimum wage, cracked down on payday lenders, and protected abortion rights.

 

Jacqueline has extensive coalition experience, having helped lead values-based “state narrative” work – (commonsense) consensus-driven playbooks that use values like integrity, freedom, fairness, and hard work to highlight the motivation around progressive policies and develop the corresponding messaging that appeal to voters across party lines. To date, she has worked with narrative coalitions in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, Nebraska New Hampshire, Utah, and Wyoming.

 

In the tech space, she has helped lead pioneering research that has been used to build the products, establish the principles, and form the policies that will make the online world safer. She has also led research projects for companies, such as Microsoft, YouTube, and Google, to understand how voters and legislators think about AI, data security, content moderation, and tech leadership.  

 

Jacqueline has a master’s degree in economic history from Cambridge University and received a joint bachelor’s degree (First Class Honors) in political science and American history from McGill University.