Dustee Jenkins

Dustee Jenkins currently serves as the Chief Public Affairs Officer for Spotify where she oversees government affairs, policy, global experiential productions, and external and internal enterprise-wide communications across the company’s more than 180 markets.

Since joining Spotify in 2017, Jenkins has played a key role in shepherding the company’s public listing on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as its evolution from a music streaming service to an audio platform that now also encompasses podcasts and audiobooks. She’s managed high-profile reputation-based issues and reimagined the company’s approach to public affairs and communications for employees around the globe, which includes having launched the brand’s external-facing content hub, For The Record and its accompanying Podcast.

Prior to joining Spotify, Jenkins was Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at Target. Under her leadership, she led the company through multiple headline-driving challenges such as its successful proxy fight against an aggressive, media savvy activist, a heavily publicized data breach, the retail chain’s exit from Canada, and a corporate restructure and global reduction in workforce. Additionally, she guided the rollout of Target’s first outside CEO and a multi-billion dollar transition of its pharmacy business to CVS.

Prior to joining Target, Jenkins was a director at Public Strategies, Inc., now Hill+Knowlton Strategies, specializing in crisis and financial transactions, where she managed issues such as bankruptcies, insider trading, executive shake ups, and corporate restructures. She also served as the director of communications of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to that position, she was Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Jenkins has been recognized in Mashable’s 10 Pioneering Women Changing the Field of Communications, 40 Under 40 in Marketing by Ad Age and PR Week’s 40 Under 40 in Public Relations. She has also been included in PR Week’s Global Power Book and Hall of Femme list, and Holmes Report’s Influence 100.

Jenkins serves on the board of Tech:NYC and is immediate past president of the board of New York Women in Communications.