Jessica Wallace’s career has spanned many aspects of education, including working as a one-on-one instructor and tutor in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and SAT/GRE prep. She also taught for 13 years in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public School system, where she worked as a Mathematics Curriculum Team member setting county standards and pacing for AP Statistics, algebra 2, precalculus, AP Calculus. As a teacher in New Hampshire public schools, she brought her knowledge of precalculus, calculus, statistics, and computer science to the classroom.
Described as dynamic, whimsical, and encouraging, Ms. Wallace earned an ACFU Educational Foundation Grant in 2016 and 2017 to create an elementary school robotics outreach program, a Sigma Xi Research Grant in 2003 to support travel for astrophysics research, and a George Mason University Graduate Doctoral Fellowship in 2001 to support graduate education and research. Her research topic? Multiwavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei.
A rower in college, Ms. Wallace is the mom of two children and a rescue dog. She enjoys many hobbies, including gardening (irises are a favorite), cooking with an eye toward plant-based meals and a holistic approach to diet and nutrition, model trains and other crafts, and quilting and sewing. “I enjoy darning holes in hiking socks, and am working on a king-size quilt,” she shares. She also has a fondness for camping, where she likes to build and cook over open fires, saying, “I find a lot of peace in beautiful natural places.”
