Jessica Asato is Acting Director of the New Labour pressure group Progress and one of Labour's candidates in St George's Ward, Islington for next year's council elections.

Jessica is a former Chair of the Young Fabians, the UK’s only youth think tank and now sits as an Executive Member of the Fabian Society. Jessica has also been a former Vice Chair of Young Labour and worked for the Labour Party during the 2005 General Election campaign.

In July 2008, Jessica founded the Gareth Butler History Trust, in the memory of her late husband, to fund history trips for disadvantaged young people.