Jackie grew up in the Bay Area, and attended college at UCSD. She then moved to Chicago to attend medical school at Rush Medical College, followed by a five-year combined residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate. She continued her bi-costal ways by moving to LA to complete the Harbor-UCLA EM POCUS fellowship. She has trained a wide variety of clinicians, including hospitalists, EM physicians, nephrologists, mid-wives, fellows, residents, and students. She obtained an MS in Implementation Science and a Global Health Certificate at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. She now serves as the Fellowship Director for the All Affiliated UCLA Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship and hosts the Cal-FOCUSED Western regional POCUS fellowship series. Jackie is faculty at the Olive View Human Rights Clinic, where she performs and supervises asylum evaluations. She co-leads the OVMC Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (EDIA) interdepartmental hospital committee. She also regularly teaches POCUS to border providers in Tijuana, Mexico.