<p>Jessica is Communications Officer for the Research and Policy in Development programme. She has expertise in developing communications strategies, production management, social media and digital communications, editing and delivering training in research communications.</p>

Jessica joined the Research and Policy in Development programme as a Communications Officer in 2012 after spending a year working on the Climate and Development Knowledge Network's online communications. Prior to joining ODI, Jessica was a Fulbright Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston, and worked as Campaigns Officer for the Fawcett Society and for a grass-roots women's empowerment organisation in Rajasthan, India.

Her work with RAPID covers delivering strategic communications for the programme and for individual projects (including the BetterEvaluation site), producing complex communications products and editing and advising on message and channels for individual pieces of research.