Jessica is a creative research partner who sees research as a way to tell people’s stories, and she works to ensure community voices are at the center of her projects. She believes that communities should drive research priorities and methods, and that findings should ultimately benefit those most impacted by social policies and programs. Jessica joined Wilder in 2018.
Jessica has over 10 years of community-centered evaluation and data collection experience. She leads the planning, design, and implementation of mixed-method research and evaluation projects focused on a variety of topics, including public health, food access, and early childhood development. Jessica’s methodological experience includes community-centered evaluation approaches such as arts-based methods, story mapping, and Indigenous evaluation. She believes that integrating art and historical context into research and evaluation can promote healing and community power. She works in partnership with artists and community members to make learning and research visible beyond reports.
Jessica has a Master of Public Health degree from San Francisco State University and bachelor’s degree in international relations and a minor in women’s and gender studies from University of California, Davis.
Before working at Wilder Research, she was the evaluation manager at the Health Equity Institute of San Francisco State University. She led evaluation projects, in partnership with communities living in public housing in San Francisco, which focused on health equity, social justice, and addressing structural racism and harm experienced in these communities.
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