Jessica is the Hispanic Marketing manager at the Marianist Mission, creating and implementing strategies to engage Hispanic Catholics through the Mission’s card and prayer ministry.

A 18 year career in higher education that began at the University of Dayton as an admission counselor, as the perfect setting for students to explore their vocation, culminated in a new appreciationfor development and engaging volunteers and donors. Jessica recruited and trained alumni and donors to engage in peer to peer fundraising, launching an international alumni program and successfully increasing alumni participation rate (APR) through the Day10 Young Alumni program.

Jessica’s work experience includes Alumni Relations and Fundraising in St. Louis, MO, teaching Honors English at Colegio San José, in her native, San Juan, PR. Jessica is pursuing herdoctorate in transformational leadership, focusing her research in lay leadership in Catholic organizations. She is also a certified college admission consultant, through the University of California-San Diego.