Jessica was born and raised in Southern California along with her two brothers. She ventured outside of California when she attended the Honors College at Ole Miss and studied abroad in Costa Rica to build upon her conversational Spanish. After her undergraduate, Jessica returned to Southern California where she was a behavioral therapist for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and an intern for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner/Coroner's Office during her gap year. She then moved to sunny San Diego for medical school at UCSD where she met her significant other, Kevin,  who is also in residency at Vanderbilt in PM&R. Between her third and fourth years of medical school, Jessica took an additional year off to earn an MPH with a concentration in child and adolescent health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Outside of medicine, Jessica enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing card and board games, traveling abroad, playing and watching sports, and exploring new restaurants and speakeasies.