Meet our Speaker: Jessica Gerlach!

Tucson! We’re so excited to share that one of our own CM volunteers is our December speaker. If you’ve been to a CM Tucson event in the last 2+ years chances are you’ve been greeted and checked-in for the event by Jessica Gerlach. 🎉

Jessica is a designer, illustrator, and full-time wrangler of competing deadlines, scientific jargon, and—on particularly wild days—four cats. Based in Tucson, she holds an MFA in Visual Communications from the University of Arizona and currently works in-house at a land-grant university, translating complex research and outreach into visuals that actually make sense (and occasionally look great on a t-shirt).

A former design professor, Jessica has taught at multiple universities and previously led an arts-in-education program convincing schools that creativity is, in fact, essential. Her work is rooted in storytelling, nature, and just the right amount of chaos.