Jessica Hammond

Jessica is the Portfolio Manager for the Land Use Protection and Women for the Land Divisions of AFT. In addition to serving as the main point of contact and advisor for budget and operations for the LUP and WFTL Divisions, Jessica maintains oversight of workflow management procedures, tools, and systems, helping shape programmatic decision-making. As part of the Project Management Team, Jessica works in continuous support of improving and streamlining operations and management strategies across the organization. Jessica is from Washington, DC, and has lived and worked in many regions of the US, including California’s Central Valley, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. With a background grounded in ecology, her experience ranges from managing conservation projects in a range of scope and scale from endangered species monitoring and management and implementation of habitat restoration to land acquisition and protection. A scientist at heart, Jessica continually experiments with developing her own line of Cherry Tomato- with limited success but abundantly enjoyed. Her less rigorous endeavors include native plant gardening, birding, and making food for people with things she has grown