Jessica is a leader in the software industry, who has focused most of her career on building digital tools for health systems in Francophone Africa. Jessica is a graduate of Stanford University, where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and M.S. in Computer Science. Jessica began her career at a rural hospital in Burundi, digitizing medical records and pharmacy inventory. She built her skills as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, as an early employee at Airbnb as well as an A.I. start-up that designed natural language categorization models. In 2016, Jessica moved to Dakar, Senegal to join Dimagi’s team of humanitarian technologists. She worked with Ministries of Health across West Africa to design digital health infrastructure at national scale. In Burkina Faso, millions of children have been treated with a tablet-based application that helps clinicians follow the IMCI clinical care protocol more precisely. In Senegal, availability of contraceptive products in public health centers rose 48% as a result of better tools to coordinate national pharmaceutical distribution. Today, Jessica is the CEO of a Senegalese software start-up, Maad (https://maad.io), that helps organizations in the health, water distribution, and solar energy sectors more effectively manage their rural field teams and last-mile distribution logistics. She is passionate about creating better real-life outcomes with innovative digital tools.