Jessica now serves as Co-Vice President of Success Measures, leading the enterprise in partnership with Lynne Wallace. They guide the strategic vision and operations of Success Measures, ensuring the team continues to advance its mission by providing rigorous, community-centered evaluation and learning practices across the broad community development field.
A trained cultural anthropologist, Jessica brings extensive experience in participatory and mixed-method evaluations that incorporate diverse perspectives for collective insight. She directs tailored consulting evaluation projects and strategic learning engagements for national and regional funders, intermediaries, and funding collaboratives. She also oversees the research, development, and testing of evaluation frameworks and tools across multiple issue areas. These areas include financial capability, community engagement, health and healthy communities, and creative community development.
Before joining NeighborWorks, Jessica served as a research associate at the McAuley Institute. She also worked as a program coordinator at the Community Partnership Center at University of Tennessee directing the Participatory Research and Planning Program and as director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center at University of Florida. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida.