Jess is PhD student in the Fenner School of Environment & Society, researching the development of a National Kangaroo Strategy. Since her Wildlife Biology undergraduate, Jess has gained 20 years industry experience in the veterinary, zoo and consulting fields. She is passionate about conservation, animal welfare and human-wildlife coexistence. She has developed and implemented management programs for a wide range of fauna including threatened, native contentious, overabundant, and introduced species in Australia and overseas. These programs have had demonstrated successful outcomes for local, state and federal governments, and the aviation and resource sectors. Jess has a keen interest in human-wildlife conflict resolution, landscape-scale wildlife management, One Health approaches and multi-stakeholder programs to best achieve common goals. She has facilitated various multi-stakeholder groups with a focus on coordinated and strategic wildlife management at regional and national levels, including establishing and co-convening the National Flying-fox Fox Forum in 2016 which has been an annual event since. These forums, sponsored by local and state government, are attended by delegates from all levels of government, non-government organisations, research and conservation sectors across Australia. Jess co-authored a National Flying-fox Strategic Vision with input from 2017 forum delegates. She has often been invited to advise on government policy, including as an expert witness in the 2016 Parliamentary Inquiry into the management of nationally protected flying-foxes in the eastern states of Australia.