Amanda Jaffe

Amanda Jaffe is a Project Leader at Partners for Public Good (PPG), supporting the organization’s procurement transformation portfolio, where she leads projects working directly with governments to transform procurement policy, process, and practice to better serve communities. Prior to joining PPG, she supported procurement transformation projects in numerous U.S. cities, including Long Beach and Riverside, CA, while at the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab. She also has experience supporting both state and city governments in strengthening their procurement systems and solving operational challenges through her previous work as a government procurement consultant. Amanda holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy with Honors in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from Stanford University. 

Her favorite professional experiences include designing a data dashboard to easily track contracts and meeting small businesses who have contracted with the government and seeing how these projects have helped them grow.