Jessalin Lam is the co-founder of Asians in Advertising, a non-profit focused on developing a community for Asians, providing opportunities and resources to elevate them to higher leadership positions, and creating recognition for AAPI representation. She is on the 3AF NextGen committee where she helped launch their 1st annual AAPI mentorship program in 2021.

She is currently the VP Member Development and Diversity at IAB. Previously, she was the Precision Marketing Academy Director on the Nissan United team at TBWA Worldwide leading a global employee training program across the agency and client. Lam is a DEI Champion, mentor, and people-oriented leader with combined experience across marketing/advertising, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, partnerships, business development, client management, and consulting. She is a connector who loves to cultivate learning cultures to allow others to thrive and seize their potential with a growth mindset. She graduated from Baruch College with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing and Advertising.

She was awarded with the 2021 3% Nancy Hill Award and Ad Club of New York selected her to participate in the 2018 I’mPart women fellowship along with being recognized as the Ad Club of New York Rising Star in 2015. Lam was selected as a 2016 ADCOLOR Futures and joined their advisory board in 2017 to continue to champion diversity and inclusion.