Jessica is a graduate of the Honours BSc. Kinesiology program at McMaster University. She is continuing her studies at McMaster by pursuing a Master of Science in Global Health. Her thesis with PERL will aim to understand trends in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and their associations with sociodemographic characteristics and clinical factors. During her undergraduate degree, Jessica worked as a research assistant on the FiNCH project, a study investigating neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants exposed to cannabis in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.