[3][12][13] Powell Jobs co-founded Terravera, a natural foods company that sold to retailers throughout Northern California.

[14] Before business school, Powell Jobs worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income trading strategist.

[3][14] On October 5, 2011, at the age of 56, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, died due to complications from a relapse of islet cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer.

[20][21] In 2004, Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, a private company structured as a Limited Liability Company[22] that supports social entrepreneurs and organizations working in education and immigration reform, social justice, media, and journalism and conservation through partnerships, grants, and investments.

[31][32] Also in 2017, she backed the founding of the political organization ACRONYM,[33] which raised ethical questions for Powell Jobs for its creation of Courier Newsroom.

[34] In 2018, she stated that the book Small Fry by her stepdaughter Lisa Brennan contains false information about Steve Jobs as a father.

[37][38] During her visit, she adopted the Hindu name “Kamala” and participated in the traditional Kalpavas ritual, which includes daily baths in sacred rivers, meditation, and a strict vegetarian diet.

[42] College Track has facilities in East Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Watts, Boyle Heights, New Orleans, Aurora, Colorado, Denver, and the Washington, D.C., area.

"[42] In September 2015, Powell Jobs launched a $50 million project to create high schools with new approaches to education.

[53][verification needed] As of 2018, Powell Jobs sits on the board of directors of College Track, Conservation International, and Stanford University.

[61] A year and a half later, on March 18, 1991, they married in a traditional Buddhist wedding ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.