Jessica GagnonProgram Manager, Food & Agribusiness InstituteJessica's work with the Food & Agribusiness Institute focuses on supporting the FAI MBA concentration and supporting the new undergraduate pathway, Food, Hunger, Poverty, and Environment. She also coordinates FAI's programs, events, and speakers. Before joining the Food & Agribusiness Institute, Jessica served as a staff member for the SCU Women’s and Gender Studies Program for almost four years. Her responsibilities included coordinating many campus-wide events each year. Under her management, attendance at Women’s and Gender Studies events greatly increased. Jessica helped to increase student enrollment for the Women’s & Gender Studies major and minor. She coordinated the Resource Room, a diversity-focused lending library and meeting space with a collection of over 1,300 books, while serving as advisor for the student organization Feminists United for the last two years. Recently, Jessica has served as the Vice President of Staff Senate and as a member of the Staff Affairs Committee. In addition to her governance roles, she has served as a Campus Advocate at Santa Clara University for three years. Jessica completed her coursework for her Master’s degree at SCU in Educational Administration and is finishing her thesis on the topic of vocational discernment of first-generation premedical students. In 2009, she and a fellow student placed third in a national graduate student case study competition. Jessica has served as the President of the Student Association for Graduate Education and has served on the University Council on Inclusive Excellence Student Advisory Council. She co-authored a paper with Professor Laura Nichols titled “Concerted Cultivation in College: Differences Between First and Continuing Generation Premed Intended Students," which they presented at the American Sociological Association 2009 Annual Meeting. |
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