Jackie Pyke is director of development for the Reason Foundation.
She joined Reason in 2017 and leads the development team while also contributing to hiring, office management, and various projects across the organization.
Before Reason, Jackie spent most of the preceding 21 years at Capital One Financial Corporation, beginning as a business analyst and spending the last eight years of her career there as chief-of-staff in brand management and credit risk management. In 2000, Jackie took a three-year gap at Capital One to travel the world and then to work briefly at Cato Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, and Mercatus Center.
Jackie earned a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics at the University of Tulsa and a Master of Science in computer science from Duke University. During college and graduate school, she worked in nuclear weapon safety at Sandia National Laboratories in her hometown of Albuquerque, NM.