Jessica joined the Board of Cambridgeshire ACRE in February 2022. In her professional life,

Jessica works at Rose Regeneration where she undertakes projects on behalf of Government, Local Authorities, charities and community groups across the UK. She is also a senior research fellow at the National Centre for Rural Health and Care (NCRHC) where her work focuses on the impact of rurality and sparsity on the costs of delivering health care.

Jessica produces ‘rural words’, a regular policy briefing used by the Rural Services Network and RuSource (part of The Arthur Rank Centre). Before joining Rose Regeneration and the National Centre Jessica worked at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the New Economics Foundation.

She is a Chartered Geographer accredited by the Royal Geographical Society; a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce); and a member of the Institute of Economic Development.

As well as supporting Cambridgeshire ACRE, in her spare time Jessica sits on her local patient participation group.