Jessica Hope, RN, MSN, WHNP

A women’s health nurse practitioner by training, Jessica Hope has always had a strong interest in public health research and policy. She studied mifepristone acceptability for the Population Council and spread awareness of the concept of emergency contraception for Princeton University’s Office of Population Research before completing her master’s at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She went on to be the head nurse at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, and a breastfeeding educator for Nursing Mothers Counsel.

At Stanford School of Medicine, she conducted clinical research in nutrition both at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and in the Division of Immunology & Rheumatology. Jessica is now a research scientist in the Humane & Sustainable Food Lab, where she examines which behavioral and educational interventions help people eat more plant foods. She has a particular interest in the public health consequences of corporate animal agriculture (factory farming). She also studies metastatic breast cancer treatment decision making in the Quantitative Sciences Unit. Jessica rowed stroke seat on Princeton Women’s Crew for three years, and has exercised nearly every day since. Now the mother of two endurance athletes and wife of a rowing coach, she has been following a completely plant-based diet enthusiastically for nearly two decades.