Jessica has been a teacher for 20 years and has her Ph.D. in special education and applied behavior analysis.  As a licensed intervention specialist and certified dyslexia specialist, Dr. Bennett trains and coaches our program managers on site at our Soccer and Literacy programs to ensure that our programming is consistently educating, inspiring, and engaging all of our student athletes. Jessica also provides ongoing data analysis and curriculum development alongside Dr. Groom-Thomas. Jessica was deeply impacted by her trip to Mombasa, Kenya in December 2023, where she got to see firsthand where F3 got its start. There she had the opportunity to train the coaches of LCFL so that they could start Football and Literacy for the kids in their community, which they did in April of 2024! 

As a former collegiate rower, she believes wholeheartedly in the power that sports has on a person’s overall development.  Outside of F3, Jessica is a literacy and mindfulness tutor for kids who are neurodiverse and is an author. You can learn more about her and her work at: https://mindfulliteracypractice.org/