Jesse Raben serves as Chief Legal and Risk Officer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation,
Previously, Jesse served as General Counsel of The Insurance Trust, a provider of professional liability malpractice, financial security, and risk management programs for psychologists and related individuals nationwide, from 2021 to 2023, and, from 2018 to 2021, as General Counsel of The Common Application. As the Common App's first general counsel, Jesse focused on a wide variety of legal risks including IP, internet privacy, cyber security and technology, contracts, corporate governance, compliance, tax and general business and legal risk management.
Prior to joining the Common App, Jesse was Associate General Counsel with the American Psychological Association, where he had a general corporate practice. In the late 1990s, Jesse founded, owned and operated an internet company. In 1994, he clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and worked pro bono for an environmental watchdog group in Israel, before working as an associate at two large DC law firms.
Jesse was a Fellow in the inaugural Class of 2018 of the ACC NCR Leadership Academy, and was a chair of the ACC NCR Nonprofits and Associations Committee.
He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University and his B.A. from Tufts University.
