Jess focuses on site layout and drafting for projects in the construction documentation phase at MVVA. She also has experience in research and geographic analysis.

Jess earned a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York, where she was named a National Olmsted Scholar and received the Hollander Design Award. She also received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies at New York’s Binghamton University. Before joining MVVA in 2021, she worked for the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in Brooklyn, and later for Yost Design in Pearl River, New York.