Jess is the Director of Training and Consultation at Networks. With experience in low to high technologies, Jess continues to assist people to live the lives they wish at home, work, school, or play with focus on AT intertwined with Person Centered Planning and a variety of wellness modalities.

She is involved in all teams at Networks and is a reiki and reflexology practitioner. Jess continues to be enamored by the power of touch and the incredible effects wellness has in all scopes of life for everyone. More recently, she has been studying the captivating power of supporting people to tell their stories through a variation of Biographical Timelines and how this, and other Person Centered Planning tools, can establish new avenues of understanding surrounding a person for them and their communities of support.

Jess is also the “resident doodler” at Networks and provides support, assistance, and facilitation with graphic facilitation and organizational planning. She has presented and co-presented at national, regional, and local conferences and trainings on a variety of topics to include wellness, person centered planning, natural supports, and assistive technologies — all to assist people and their teams create meaningful, connected, and rich lives.

In her spare time, Jess enjoys creating, getting lost in nature, and having “Ah-HA!” moments throughout her day. She lives on the side of a mountain in central Pennsylvania with her partner, Pete and a menagerie of furry critters to include 3 German Shepherds with very big personalities who generally respond to their names of Maggie Mae, Sascha Louise, and Samuel Laverne along with particularly pesky cat who never respond to her name of Mamma.