A lifetime of working with children led Jessica to the realization that she truly loves children in the transitioning years - from toddlers to 5th Graders to middle schoolers (yes, even those buggers) to high schoolers applying to university.

Jessica has taken all of her real world knowledge from teaching in a K-8 parochial school just outside of Washington, D.C., working in both graduate and undergraduate admissions for the likes of Georgetown & Carnegie Mellon universities and professional nannying for high net-worth families up and down the Eastern Seaboard and recognized that she has a true talent for empowering little ones to believe in themselves and conquer the potty.

Jessica holds a Bachelors degree from Emory University in Political Science, minoring in Sociology & German Language and Culture. Emory’s Methodist ethos has had a profound impact on Jessica and radically altered and shaped her life’s path.

While teaching Jessica took graduate coursework in Secondary Education, covering Multiple Intelligences and teaching Literacy to children who are neurodivergent at Notre Dame of Maryland, where she earned a 4.0 GPA.

She is a certified potty training consultant through Jamie Glowacki’s “Oh Crap! Potty Training” certification program. Jamie’s book, “Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Do it Once and Do it Right,” forms the foundation for Jessica’s work with her clients. That being said, Jamie prefers working with younger kiddos and Jessica has found her best work to be with children who have passed the critical milestone of Individuation, which occurs sometime around a child’s 3rd birthday. Jessica’s clients generally range from 2 years old to those in their summer after Kindergarten.

During Summer 2024 Jessica published not one, but two children’s non-fiction books. They go beyond merely conquering the toilet and ditching diapers/PullUps for good and cover: self-esteem, internal motivation, love of oneself and the realization that learning isn’t linear and happens in fits and starts, no matter one’s age. Jessica’s books are entitled, “See Yourself Go!” and “Oopsies Happen.”

Both are available in Kindle form and in paperback on Amazon, in the American and 11 other Amazon stores across the globe.

In her spare time, Jessica enjoys hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and being a Catechist on Tuesday evenings. She wrapped her 5th year of teaching Confirmation - and 10th year teaching Sunday School overall - at church this past Easter where she had 66 middle schoolers for the ’23/’24 school year.

This upcoming academic year she will be teaching the adults in her parish wishing to join her faith community. Jessica is blessed to come from an Interfaith family and has been privileged to teach students ranging from Pre-K on up through senior citizens in houses of worship across two of the world’s major religions.

Jessica thoroughly enjoys doing research on her paternal grandfather’s multi-continent (and rather unlawful) emigration journey out of NSDAP-controlled Europe. A polyglot like her beloved Pop-Pop, whom was fluent in 5 languages and nearly fluent in 2 more, Jessica is a native speaker of English and is near fluent in Austrian German, having studied abroad in both Poland and in Austria. (She can also proudly count basic numbers in Spanish, Hebrew and French and is able to read baby books to children in English, German, French and Spanish).

This Fall Jessica completed collecting the necessary and required legal documents and will be applying for dual American and European citizenship as a result of more than half a decade of archival and database hunting for her Pop-Pop’s passports and myriad other legal documents, both lawful and forged. It’s quite the tale of escape and perseverance in the face of sheer terror to tell! Feel free to ask her about it!

In her spare time, she loves discovering consignment store gems all over Charlotte, spending time with her Bengal fur babies, Ellie and Francie, and traveling as much as possible. Hopefully, she will soon be traveling with two passports in hand.

Jessica strives to live each day of her life by these words of John Wesley’s:

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”