Jennica is an evaluator and implementation scientist with over 15 years of experience working in public health and health care across academic, non-profit, and social enterprise spaces. She was born in Brampton, Ontario and has called Vancouver, British Columbia home since 2016. Her lived experiences of poverty, being a first-generation university student, caregiving, being queer, white, and having & witnessing loved ones’ mental health struggles all weave together to inform her work. Jennica’s guiding values include use, reciprocity, integrity, and justice. She holds a BSc (molecular biology and biotechnology), a Master of Public (epidemiology), is a credential evaluator through the Canadian Evaluation Society, and a PhD (interdisciplinary studies).

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As a methods nerd, Jennica loves “who” and “how” questions. How do we use data meaningfully? Who decides what is meaningful? How can we use our work to disrupt the status quo? She works with clients to answer those questions to help them implement strategic plans and evaluation frameworks. During your time together, Jennica supports learning and accountability through data and dialogue. Together, she and her clients help programs and organizations evolve toward their goals while staying accountable to communities, funders, and each other.

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Helping people to become proactive about data and then witnessing them have the information they need to make decisions when they need it is the best part of Jennica's work. People often reactively think about data when they must report to their boss or a funder, which is too late. Her job is to understand client data needs and comfort levels with data along with the organization’s existing data processes and available resources. Together, they create a system for collecting, analyzing, and using data that supports meaningful learning in a feasible and ongoing way. This proactive approach to data collection and use allows clients to do more with their data with less stress and resources. Jennica gets a lot of joy from witnessing these learning loops in action and seeing clients use data to drive decision-making (nerdy but true).