We’re more than an agency — we’re a collective of experienced marketers with shared decades of results to prove it.

When you bring us on as your partner, you don’t have to worry about managing various digital marketing vendors. We work together, and we work together really well.

Meet Our Founder

Jessyca Dewey

Founder

Our founder Jessyca Dewey grew up in a small farm town in Central California where she learned about agriculture’s economic disparities and environmental impact. Jessyca’s first farm-to-table experience took place at her grandparents’ farm, where her grandmother harvested apples from the yard to make fresh apple sauce and often served meals with the fresh produce from her expansive garden. There she became aware of the importance of a better food system for all, and in the power of caring for our world, collectively.

Jessyca landed in LA for college, and while building her career also spent a decade volunteering to improve the circumstances of youth in foster care through CASA LA and other organizations. She’s also an active volunteer in the animal rescue space, which is how she adopted her current rescue pup, Petey.

Meet the team

Alli

Account Lead

With a background in marketing and a talent for verbal and visual communication, Skandia has worn many hats in her career as a staff & freelance creative. She's served industry leaders and grassroots movements, local businesses and major players creating work that is both thoughtful and innovative. With 12 years experience in hospitality and CPG, Skandia is an expert in food marketing.

Isa

Social Media Manager

Isabella Cortese is one half of The Y Collective's social media management team, an LA-based strategist, crafting social-first content for food and beverage, beauty, skincare, and wellness brands. She owns content strategy and daily execution for her share of the agency's multi-brand CPG portfolio, running everything from monthly brainstorms and concepting to copywriting, scheduling, and performance insights across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Reels, and Stories. Her track record speaks for itself: 10,000+ organic followers gained, a 50% follower jump on a key account, a 35% lift in engagement across brands, and an influencer-led rebrand that reached 1.48 million people.

Nina

Social Media Manager

Nina Yanez runs the other half of that social media management, bringing nearly a decade of brand and communications experience to the accounts in her care. A strategist at heart, she folds earned-media instincts, influencer marketing, and content strategy into the daily work of concepting, copywriting, and growing her brands across every platform. She's equally at home in a creative brainstorm and an executive planning session, translating each client's business goals into social stories that stick and results you can measure.

Robert

Head of Paid Media and Key Advisor

Robert brings more than 20 years experience in digital marketing to the table, having worked with Califia Farms, Headspace, Wella, Warner Brothers, Fox Studios and more. Robert has a breadth of marketing experience, including experiential marketing, paid media, organic social, influencer marketing, and beyond. When it comes to his work with The Y Collective, you honestly can’t get a more savvy paid social strategist to advocate for your brand.

Alexa

Community Growth Strategist

Alexa has spent nearly eleven years teaching consumer brands a hard truth: real communities beat big follower counts every time. As the leader of ambassador and creator partnerships at The Y Collective, she's built creator networks in the thousands, driven more than 10 million impressions through ambassador-led campaigns, and grown organic communities topping 120,000 followers across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. With experience on both the agency and brand side, plus a background in customer insights and national retail relationships, she's convinced that the best marketing is built on authenticity, trust, and the kind of loyalty that actually lasts.

Dominque

Marketing Coordinator

Dominique is a Marketing Coordinator at The Y Collective who keeps influencer campaigns, content, and brand partnerships moving across food, beverage, wellness, and lifestyle brands. She's executed creator partnerships and campaigns for names like Health-Ade Kombucha, Wonder Juice, and Dave's Gourmet, and even ran an experiential Uber Eats activation on college campuses, giving her real range across digital and in-person marketing. What drives her is personal: having seen firsthand how diet and nutrition shape families, she's passionate about helping better-for-you brands make healthier choices feel accessible, and she does it through creativity, community, and storytelling that actually connects.

Skandia

Creative Director