Jesse Jacobsen

Jesse Jacobsen serves as senior director of gift planning in the USC Office of Gift Planning. Jesse uses his background in tax law and estate planning, as well as his USC experience, to help donors to the university achieve their philanthropic goals.

Prior to his work at USC, Jesse was a practicing trust and estate attorney in Century City. Having grown up in Southern California, he began his legal career as a tax attorney in New York before returning to SoCal to be closer to his family and to start his own. He now lives in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

Jesse attended UC Berkeley for both his undergraduate studies and law school.