Jessica is an international student from Mexico pursuing an M.S in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. She assists the Environment, Peace, and Sustainability (EPS) program at AC4 in literature research and qualitative data analysis as a research assistant for the “Protected Area Management & Natural Resource Governance: Exploring Pathways for Environmental Peacebuilding” research project. Her professional interests include the use of environmental infrastructure solutions to achieve the preservation of nature and socioeconomic development, with an emphasis on developing countries