2025 MATRIX HONOREE

DUSTEE JENKINS

Spotify Chief Public Affairs Officer

Dustee Jenkins serves as the Chief Public Affairs Officer for Spotify where she sits on the company’s executive leadership team overseeing government affairs, content moderation and policy, global experiential productions, and external and internal enterprise-wide communications across the company’s more than 180 markets.

Since joining Spotify in 2017, Dustee played a key role in shepherding the company’s public listing on the NYSE, as well as its evolution from a music streaming service to an audio platform with more than 600 million users that now also offers podcasts and audiobooks. She’s been a key contributor to the company’s incredible growth while also guiding it through high-profile reputation-based issues including content moderation challenges, a global reduction in force and the expansion into more than 100 new countries.

Prior to joining Spotify, Dustee 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. Additionally, she guided the successful launch of Target’s first outside CEO and the multi-billion-dollar transition of its pharmacy business to CVS.

Prior to joining Target, Dustee was a director at Public Strategies, Inc., now Hill & Knowlton (Burson), 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.

Dustee 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. She is also the recipient of the 2025 New York Women in Communications Matrix Award for her positive impact and inspiration to the next generation of female leaders.

Dustee serves on the board of Tech:NYC and served as president of the board of New York Women in Communications in 2022. She is active across the industry as a member of Arthur Page and served as the Jury Chair for PR Week’s 2023 industry awards. She lives in New York City with her husband, Justin, and two children.

Presenting the Matrix Award to Dustee Jenkins

BEATRICE YORK

Founder BY-EQ

Beatrice York founded By – Eq limited in 2022, an advisory organisation focused on adding more exceptional emotional intelligence in an age of artificial intelligence. She holds advisory roles at Afiniti Technologies, Scale AI and Liontree Asset Management.

Beatrice is a trustee and co-founder of The Big Change Charitable Trust, which identifies and supports charitable projects throughout the UK, reimaging education. Beatrice is a champion of women in leadership and has worked and spoken at a range of events across the world working to promote role models for positive leadership development. She is dyslexic and as such, is a champion for neurodiversity in the workplace as well a supporter of a range of originations working with dyslexia. Beatrice is also a Patron and on the board of various charities in the education and young person space including Opus, a next Generation Leadership body.