Jessica is an Anthropologist and has worked with non-profit service organizations serving community members experiencing food insecurity in New Zealand, and people living with HIV in Nova Scotia. She has also collaborated on work surrounding testing for sexually-transmitted and blood-born infections in Atlantic Canada. She is currently a Research Assistant at Saint Mary's University, and a Project Manager at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology; a collaboration of IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health Authority, and Dalhousie University, in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Miꞌkmaꞌki (Nova Scotia).