Jess focuses on project management and administration for the Port Lands Flood Protection project in Toronto, Ontario.

Jess received a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Fine Arts in Art and Ecology from the University of New Mexico, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Bennington College. Jess first worked at MVVA from 2005 to 2008, and she worked as a set designer in Atlanta and a freelance landscape designer and project manager on Cape Cod prior to rejoining the firm in 2020.