Jesse Reder grew up primarily in the State of Utah and has lived in California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Virginia, Texas, and Washington. He graduated from the Provo School District in 2001, and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Software Engineering from the University of Phoenix in 2017. He served as an LDS missionary in the Peru Lima Central Mission from 2001 to 2003. Jesse’s professional career started [as a Taco Engineer at Taco Bell in 1996] He has since had a 13 year career working in Advertising; 5 years as a small business consultant; 19 years in the United States Army Reserve, and over 10 years working in the Federal Private sector as a logistician supporting the Army Reserve or coding enterprise applications for the United States Air Force.

From 2006 to 2007 Jesse was deployed to the Provincial Reconstruction Team Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he managed foreign humanitarian assistance and stability programs for 6 Displaced Persons Camps along the border of Pakistan to prevent them from becoming Taliban recruiting Bases. From 2009 to 2010 he was deployed to another Provincial Reconstruction Team in Ghazni, Afghanistan where he was responsible for conducting economic assessments to identify sources of instability and corruption to improve alternative livelihood programs. From 2014 to 2015 Jesse was deployed to First Army Corps in Tacoma Washington to establish a Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team that would deploy to any of 36 Pacific countries to support the Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, Disaster Assistance Response Team, in the capacity of a Civil/Military Coordinator.

Jesse assisted with the Evacuation of 12 Afghan Families and 6 American Citizens during the US withdraw from Afghanistan

                   Alitha Thompson, President, Utah International Mountain Forum,